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Inventive Launches crowd-sourcing portal to support equitable online collaboration

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Software
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	Inventive, a company committed to equitable, collaborative innovation, was looking to launch its fair-trade crowdsourcing portal. For this, it needed a flexible, cost-effective development platform and high-performance cloud hosting infrastructure. The company needed to ensure that the infrastructure was scalable to continue extending its portal solution as needed. The platform also needed to offer on-demand development capabilities to agilely support new projects. Read More
About Customer	Inventive is a company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Soisy-sur-Seine, France. The company is committed to equitable, collaborative innovation. Inventive's cornerstone platform shares technical and business challenges from leading organizations to help individuals develop and sell groundbreaking ideas. The company was looking to launch its fair-trade crowdsourcing portal and needed a flexible, cost-effective development platform and high-performance cloud hosting infrastructure. Read More
Solution	Inventive joined the IBM Global Entrepreneur program, developing its solution in an IBM Bluemix environment running on powerful SoftLayer cloud technology. After evaluating OVH and Amazon Web Services platforms, the company provisioned virtual server infrastructure in the SoftLayer data center in Paris to host its new portal. The SoftLayer technology provides the scalable infrastructure Inventive requires to continue extending its portal solution as needed, and the IBM Bluemix platform offers on-demand development capabilities to agilely support new projects. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Software

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

Inventive, a company committed to equitable, collaborative innovation, was looking to launch its fair-trade crowdsourcing portal. For this, it needed a flexible, cost-effective development platform and high-performance cloud hosting infrastructure. The company needed to ensure that the infrastructure was scalable to continue extending its portal solution as needed. The platform also needed to offer on-demand development capabilities to agilely support new projects.

About Customer

Inventive is a company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Soisy-sur-Seine, France. The company is committed to equitable, collaborative innovation. Inventive's cornerstone platform shares technical and business challenges from leading organizations to help individuals develop and sell groundbreaking ideas. The company was looking to launch its fair-trade crowdsourcing portal and needed a flexible, cost-effective development platform and high-performance cloud hosting infrastructure.

Solution

Inventive joined the IBM Global Entrepreneur program, developing its solution in an IBM Bluemix environment running on powerful SoftLayer cloud technology. After evaluating OVH and Amazon Web Services platforms, the company provisioned virtual server infrastructure in the SoftLayer data center in Paris to host its new portal. The SoftLayer technology provides the scalable infrastructure Inventive requires to continue extending its portal solution as needed, and the IBM Bluemix platform offers on-demand development capabilities to agilely support new projects.

Impact #1	Accelerated provisioning to flexibly and rapidly accommodate new demands
Impact #2	Global presence to target new markets worldwide, including Africa and North America
Impact #3	Scalable infrastructure to continue extending portal solution as needed

Impact #1

Accelerated provisioning to flexibly and rapidly accommodate new demands

Impact #2

Global presence to target new markets worldwide, including Africa and North America

Impact #3

Scalable infrastructure to continue extending portal solution as needed

Benefit #1	EUR800 in monthly savings anticipated with SoftLayer cloud hosting infrastructure

Benefit #1

EUR800 in monthly savings anticipated with SoftLayer cloud hosting infrastructure

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Inventive Launches crowd-sourcing portal to support equitable online collaboration

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