Platform.sh provides a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows for automation, consistency, and continuous deployment of applications. It reduces unplanned work for development, operations, and live services. For development teams, it improves productivity by allowing testing in copies of the live environment and automated testing. For operations, it provides fully automated DevOps processes. For businesses, it allows thinking differently about product offerings and cost models by providing high performance, deployment confidence, and the ability to continuously optimize based on analytics.

1. The Business Value of a PaaS
or even better
Platform.sh gives you wings
eZ User Conference, Paris, October 2016
Kieron Sambrook-Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, Platform.sh

2. Platform.sh gives your organisation wings
IT is central to value creation & customer acquisition
Regime change across development-operations-live
has serious effects on your business service
Overview

3. 1. Who we are
2. What is the Platform.sh PaaS doing ?
3. Development team value
4. Operations value
5. Business value
Agenda

4. Who we are
Fast growing scale-up
Global business
Enviable partnerships

5. 6 years old, and we know quite a bit about mission critical
2,000+ customers in 110 countries, growing at 300% yoy
We’ve won quite a few awards
Many well known brands & strategic partnerships
Who we are
OK that’s neat

6. What is Platform.sh
doing?
Automation
Consistency
Continuous Deployment (CD)
High Availability (HA)

7. Automation & consistency that just allows code to run
Clone live running services & web-sites in seconds
Good for production, great for development
Repeatability inspires confidence to change everything
High availability (HA) & performance
Containers and triple redundancy
Stack is engineered for performance and highly suited to mission critical
We let code run
“Develop, Deploy, Rinse and Repeat”, Damien Tournaud, CTO Platform.sh

8. The difference between Managed Hosting & a PaaS
Application lifecycle management

9. What is Platform.sh doing?
Business process point of view
3 types of work: Planned work, Changes & Unplanned work
Platform.sh reduces unplanned work, and makes it all quicker and safer
Development Operations Live Service
Agile development
Testing
UAT
Systems &
environments
Servers & hosting
Security of data
Marketing
Services
Sales
Support

10. Development team
value
Development workflow
Testing
Agile
UAT

11. 1. Fast onboarding for developers, contractors & 3rd parties
2. Developing & test every feature in a copy of live
3. See how it deploys, and then how it works
4. Automated testing in the background
5. No more tickets and no more waiting to get things, or to change things
Development workflow
It’s everything we’ve ever wanted. We just didn’t know it until now…..
Development Operations Live Service
Support

12. 1. Push back the point where requirements need to be known in full
2. Delay the need to make irreversible design commitments
3. Produce usable business value earlier
4. Deliver projects to requirement, on time and under budget
Supporting agile
Platform.sh makes agile even more agile, and faster too….

13. “I’d say overall developer productivity has improved about 20%”
“We’re now saving the time and effort of 4-5 full-time technical staff (£300,000 p.a.) to do what the
developer can do now at the touch of a button.”
“Code review, functional approval and UAT between the 10 strong distributed team, design agency
and management improved dramatically overnight”
“The entire UAT problem has gone away now, I’d say the whole process is about 7 times faster.”
“We issue 80% fewer tickets than we used to, and most of those are knowledge sharing opposed to
issues.”
“Our deployment cycle used to be twice a month, and only during low traffic. We now release daily,
whatever the site is doing!”
“Coding accuracy and design velocity improved by over 20%. Downtime has been virtually
eliminated…..”
What customers say
Reiss, TES Global, Studio Aqua

14. Operations value DevOps
Support

15. These days IT is present in nearly everything we deliver as a business, so all the processes that exist
between the developer and the live system - development to operations, or DevOps - are significant
to the customer experience. So it stands to reason that better DevOps can impact the live service in
many different ways, and much of this can be turned to competitive advantage.
“DevOps are defined as a set of principles and process management practices that aim to
make software building, testing & release management fast and reliable”
Operations value
Automating the entire DevOps process block…..
Development Operations Live Service

16. 4,600 professionals interviewed.
What are Puppet Labs saying
2016 State of DevOps Report

17. Operations value
And this is what Platform.sh does

18. “Perfect consistency between environments allows us to deploy to live at any-time without worrying
about errors, I don’t think we’ve ever had an issue with the production service.”
“We don’t need DevOps anymore, nor do we have to wait hours or days for the vendor to respond to
our tickets”
“Tickets in QA have disappeared”
“We no longer pay for massive permanent resource allocations to meet unknown future peak traffic,
because we know we can rely on a robust stack which scales seamlessly in minutes when needed.”
“Platform.sh scaled us up and performance was great right through the peak 5,000 concurrent
users.”
“We upsized to a PE96 during the summer sale and performance was phenomenal. The old
architecture needed way more hardware during this period and it still used to fall over”
What customers say
British Council, Canadian Football League (CFL), Reiss

19. Business value Live running services
Product offering
Case Studies

20. 1. Deployment confidence & speed allow you to think differently about your service offering
2. No more change freeze during peak periods
3. React to real-time analytics to optimize revenue
4. Change your cost model
5. High performance & competitive advantage
Business value
Let’s start thinking differently about hosting….in fact let’s not think about it at all.
Development
Operations
Live Service
Far better productivity Fully automated Competitive advantage
Risk free Continuous Delivery

21. Thanks.