TEAM International partners with icomasoft® to support system administrators in issue analysis and problems solving.

The Client
icomasoft® AG is a Swiss manufacturer of software solutions for intelligent datacenters. Its flagship product opvizor® is a SaaS platform for automation and management of VMware environments. It allows for predicative analysis and issue prevention in virtual IT infrastructures.

The Industry
System administration, administration of virtual IT infrastructure.

The Challenge and Solution
The development effort is distributed between two development centers: icomasoft® team in Switzerland and TEAM International team in Ukraine.

TEAM International is involved into the development of 3 modules of opvizor®:
1. Agent Module. TEAM created new anonymization rules to meet strict security requirements.
2. Processing Module. New data processing approach was implemented by TEAM.
3. Platform Module. Several external systems integrations were performed including payment and reporting systems.

The project is very dynamic and uses a lot of new technologies. Our team members frequently conduct technical research to decide which technologies to use and how to integrate external systems into opvizor®.

Scope of Project
• Development of opvizor-agent
• Development of front-end application (Platform)
• Development of back-end application (Processing)
• Integration with third party systems
• Automated Testing

The Engagement Model
Dedicated Development Center (DDC)

Number of Resources
• Developers: 7
• Testers: 2
• BA/PM: 1

Length of engagement
• DDC since July 2010

Methodology
The project uses SCRUM/Agile development methodology and is following best practices of SCRUM

Technologies
• Java 6
• GWT
• Amazon Web Services
• RESTful application services
• Automated testing (unit and integration testing)
• Hibernate
• Spring Framework
• JUnit
• JMock
• VI Java

Software
• Ubuntu JeOS
• Apache Tomcat 6.x
• PostgreSQL
• Selenium
• JasperSoft
• FusionCharts
• Jira, Wiki
• SOAP UI, Oxygen

Result
icomasoft® launched several releases. First public beta release was launched after 5 months of development on December 6th 2010. The 1.0 version was launched on 14th April 2011. TEAM and icomasoft® continue to expand the team in terms of scope and resources.

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