Its flagship product, Fiche-Paie.Net, helps managers to effectively manage their employees' pay and their own, guaranteeing simplicity, compliance and savings.

However, like many companies, DOTNET was facing technical and strategic challenges with its previous hosting, before migrating its payroll software to Clever Cloud.

Find out from Stéphane Alligné, CEO of DOTNET, how migrating to Clever Cloud gave DOTNET peace of mind.

A need for sovereignty and scalability

Before migrating its infrastructure to Clever Cloud, DOTNET was experiencing limitations on several fronts:

• Lack of availability: Recurring micro outages were disappointing on a daily basis, both for DOTNET and its customers;
• Lack of scalability: The increase in workload during critical monthly periods, such as payroll management or nominative social declarations (DSN), slowed performance considerably;
• Storage and management of sensitive data: Hosting critical information such as national insurance numbers and tax data, DOTNET needed a solution that would guarantee complete data sovereignty, with servers located in France.

A successful migration to Clever Cloud

The migration of DOTNET's infrastructure to Clever Cloud went off without a hitch, a first for the executive with 20 years' experience in tech. This fluidity enabled the team to concentrate on improving their applications without being held back by interruptions or technical complications.

The benefits of Clever Cloud

Stéphane Alligné and his teams have seen significant improvements since the migration:

• Optimised performance: thanks to the scalable infrastructure, seasonal load variations no longer compromise the fluidity of services;
• Enhanced security: Critical data management is simplified and secured, with strict compliance with European standards;
• Responsive, human support: The DOTNET team appreciated the responsiveness of the teams during the incident on 2 August 2024 and the direct communication with Quentin Adam, CEO of Clever Cloud.

Why Clever Cloud?

DOTNET chose Clever Cloud's PaaS solution because, for Stéphane Alligné and his teams, it fulfilled three key requirements: 

• Sovereignty: Hosting in France, guaranteeing the protection of sensitive data;
• Scalability: An infrastructure capable of adapting to load peaks without compromising performance;
• Support: a responsive team ready to anticipate and resolve problems before they affect operations.

Find out how this collaboration has helped to simplify the association's management, improve the performance of its infrastructure and meet its data security and sovereignty challenges.

Simplifying management and automating processes with Clever Cloud

The Club Alpin Français Lyon - Villeurbanne organises a wide range of mountain activities, from mountaineering to hiking and skiing. Managing registrations, memberships and communications with over 2,000 members requires reliable, high-performance digital tools. In 2024, the migration to Clever Cloud enabled the club to automate a number of processes, including the backup of member data and the management of backups, thereby reducing errors, the risk of corruption and accidental loss.

Why choose PaaS?

The Club Alpin Français' IT system relies on a part-time employee and volunteers. As a result, simplicity and intuitiveness are essential to encourage stakeholders to get involved, which was not possible with the AWS server previously used to host data. By opting for Clever Cloud, the club has been able to simplify the deployment and maintenance of its tools, facilitating the onboarding of technical volunteers and improving the responsiveness of the IT team.

Security and sovereignty: two major issues

For the Club Alpin Français, data security and sovereignty are key concerns. By choosing Clever Cloud, the association has opted for a solution hosted in France, guaranteeing compliance with European regulations. The automated management of back-ups, as well as the use of secure infrastructures, means that the club can concentrate on its core business: promoting and organising mountain activities for its members.

Over and above the challenges, the transition to Clever Cloud has led to a number of notable improvements:

• Reduction in delivery times for new functions by a factor of 4, thanks to the implementation of continuous deployment;
• Improved availability of services, with simplified management of staging and production environments;
• Improved website performance, with reduced loading times and smoother navigation for members.

Aiming high for the future

The club has no intention of stopping there, and is considering new applications to make the association's internal management even easier, such as solutions for accounting and equipment management. Clever Cloud, with its features such as auto-scalability and continuous deployment, has the flexibility to support these future developments.

Simplicity, reliability and French hosting

This is what Clever Cloud represents for the Club Alpin Français Lyon - Villeurbanne. Migration to this PaaS solution has freed up time and energy for volunteers, while providing a secure, high-performance infrastructure that meets the club's growing needs.

AmphiBee works on a variety of projects, from audits to site redesigns to WordPress maintenance services. What sets AmphiBee apart is its ability to analyse its clients' issues, make relevant recommendations and transform them into effective design and technical solutions, enabling its clients to maximise their online impact.

Challenges before adopting PaaS

Before migrating to PaaS hosting, AmphiBee faced a number of significant challenges.

• The agency frequently experienced service outages that required servers to be restarted, disrupting the continuity of their activities. These service interruptions affected not only project availability, but also customer satisfaction.
• In addition, the lack of flexibility to add storage or customise solutions led to frustration.

Faced with these obstacles, AmphiBee decided to look for a solution better suited to its growing needs.

Why Clever Cloud?

The decision to choose Clever Cloud was motivated by the search for a more stable and scalable infrastructure. AmphiBee appreciated Clever Cloud's ability to offer a reliable, scalable solution capable of reducing downtime and facilitating the necessary adjustments without interruptions. The migration of projects to Clever Cloud went smoothly and without a hitch. With the help of the support team, the AmphiBee team was able to make the transition smoothly, without any major interruptions or technical complications. This positive experience reinforced AmphiBee's confidence in its choice.

The benefits of migrating to Clever Cloud

Since migrating to Clever Cloud, AmphiBee has seen significant benefits. Application performance has been optimised, with loading times impressively reduced, often three times faster. For example, for the Hippocketwifi project, launched at the start of the second half of 2024, custom checkout load times, which were in excess of 6 seconds, have been reduced to one. This improvement has not only resulted in a much smoother user experience, but has also contributed to Google Pagespeed scores of over 90/100, ensuring an excellent user experience and improved SEO.

Another crucial aspect of this migration was cost control. Thanks to Clever Cloud's optimised infrastructure, AmphiBee was able to keep server maintenance costs relatively low. This has enabled the agency to provide a high-quality service to its customers without overburdening their budgets, making their offerings more competitive on the market.

Future projects with Clever Cloud

The agency aims to become a top partner and a benchmark in the field, while continuing to optimise and develop its services. Their objective is to offer the best to their customers while strengthening their collaboration with Clever Cloud.

In choosing Clever Cloud, AmphiBee has found a hosting solution that perfectly meets its needs and those of its customers, enabling them to concentrate on their expertise while benefiting from a robust, high-performance infrastructure.

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Simplicity and efficiency

Pappers Politique' s use of Clever Cloud has marked a marked improvement in application deployment and management for our team. Thanks to its intuitive plug-and-play approach, we've simplified our deployment processes, automating them and making them both more accessible and straightforward. The ability to work with different technologies without worrying about complex installations is a welcome benefit. For example, starting up a MongoDB instance has become a simple process, without the need for local installation.

Furthermore, the integration of deployments via GitHub has proved to be particularly practical, ensuring that applications are constantly updated in an automated way, provided that updates are made on the appropriate branch. This feature is crucial for ensuring consistency between our development and production environments.

The level of security we needed

When it comes to security, Clever Cloud's regular updates give us peace of mind. The automatic management of backups with Elastic Search and Cellar object storage accentuate this serenity within Pappers Politique.

One of the points we'd like to emphasize is the digital sovereignty offered by the Clever Cloud solution. As the servers are in France, and operated by a French company, they ensure that we are protected against extraterritorial legislation such as the Cloud Act. This is vital to protect our customers' data.

Responses and ongoing improvements

In the past, we have encountered a number of challenges, notably in the recovery of front-end logs. Clever Cloud has been able to react quickly by developing new solutions for optimized log management. There have been a few availability incidents in the past year, but Clever Cloud's migration to a new datacenter has considerably boosted the reliability of their service.

In conclusion, Clever Cloud has become an essential part of Pappers Politique's infrastructure, freeing up our teams' time and enabling them to concentrate on their core business. The platform, combining ease of use, security and innovation, has become a valuable tool for our developers.

The history of Brumaire.io

Brumaire.io, a development studio, has rapidly established itself as the technology partner of choice for startups, Web3 companies and open source projects. Specializing in both back- and front-end development, Brumaire.io excels thanks to its in-depth mastery of a multitude of technologies. The company stands out for its business-objective-driven approach to each development, adopting an agile method to remain flexible and efficient. This approach has earned Brumaire.io the recognition and appreciation of its customers.

Brumaire.io's added value

What sets Brumaire.io apart is its ability to understand its customers and integrate their business challenges and deadlines into every project.

Choosing Clever Cloud

Faced with the major challenges of infrastructure management, automatic scalability and maintenance, Brumaire.io opted for PaaS hosting with Clever Cloud. This decision was motivated by the promise of simplified management, automatic scalability, and a reduction in the time spent on operational maintenance, enabling the team to concentrate on innovation.

The benefits of Clever Cloud

The partnership with Clever Cloud has transformed Brumaire.io's approach to application hosting.Indeed, it has enabled Brumaire.io to significantly improve its efficiency, speeding up development cycles and strengthening security.

This is why Clever Cloud was chosen to work with Brumaire.io on one of its customers' projects. This is a revolutionary blockchain data analytics solution, designed to offer users the ability to monitor user typologies, assess market sizes and gather insights on adoption, elasticity and retention time in the blockchain domain. Developing this application involved managing and accessing huge volumes of blockchain data, renowned for its complexity and difficulty of access.

The main reason whyBrumaire.io chose Clever Cloud for the project was its strong ability to handle the scalability and automation of resources required to efficiently process and analyze these vast volumes of complex data. Seamless integration with over ten external data sources and on-chain scripts, as well as optimized synchronization management and secure data delivery via API, directly addressed our crucial need to process a multitude of data points in real time. Clever Cloud provided us with 

What are the main advantages that made Jolicode choose Clever Cloud?

Well, a robust platform that works without any headaches or maintenance requirements on our side. It's quick and easy to deploy in production, without any downtime, which is essential. Secret Santa is a Symfony application with PHP 8, and Clever Cloud's infrastructure meets our needs perfectly.

What do you appreciate most about our solution?

What we like most about this hosting solution is how easy it is to use. All you have to do is specify the webroot directory, and that's it - the PHP version and Composer dependencies are detected automatically! There's also an interesting list of addons. Clever Cloud is the perfect platform for most web projects.

How does the app work?

It simplifies the organization of your Secret Santa. How does it work? By automating the assignment of a person to whom to offer a gift for each of the participants. The app can be connected to Slack or Discord, and now a beta version for Zoom is also available.

The Data Inceptio story

Data Inceptio is a training and consulting company that helps customers organize their data, determine which data is valuable and how to use it to achieve the desired result (RPA, AI, decision support, etc.) Their identification methodology, called "Inceptio," enables customers to map out the beginning of their data and AI strategy.

The added value of consulting at Data Inceptio

Data Inceptio distinguishes itself by creating an ecosystem conducive to innovation from the earliest stages of projects. Their ability to bring out innovative ideas, supported by data and AI technologies, is at the heart of what appeals to their customers.

"We have developed tools and a method for bringing out valuable data and processes that can be automated by RPA or AI. We apply ourselves to implementing them with care for our customers!"

Data Inceptio is convinced that the success of a data and AI strategy hinges on the quality of data preparation, a mantra summed up in one phrase: "Without data no AI!"

"Data preparation can be long and tedious, but it's a real added value in the long run!" explains Olivier Lagrandeur.

The choice of Clever Cloud

When it came to choosing PaaS hosting, Data Inceptio opted for Clever Cloud for reasons of simplicity, speed and infrastructure robustness. What's more, the Clever Cloud platform gave Data Inceptio the autonomy it needed to manage its customers effectively. In addition, Data Inceptio's customers were concerned about data sovereignty, and wanted to be hosted in France. Clever Cloud was the perfect answer.

"We chose Clever Cloud for their ease of administration and the robustness of their infrastructures, which are well suited to our customers' business applications and business needs."

The benefits of Clever Cloud

Data Inceptio highlights the advantages of Clever Cloud in the creation and administration of customer accounts. The ability to scale up on demand offers valuable flexibility to meet evolving business needs.

"The flexibility and autonomy of creating and administering its customer accounts, with scalable power to boot, make Clever Cloud a compelling choice."

The collaboration between Data Inceptio and Clever Cloud is much more than a partnership; it's a synergy that fuels innovation. The transition to the PaaS' model has been easy, with concrete results such as reduced costs, increased flexibility and improved performance. Clever Cloud is the trusted partner that enables Data Inceptio to grow its customers through data and AI.

"Clever Cloud is the best tool in the world, because it's scalable on demand and Sovereign!"

What does Kuartz do?

To keep pace with constant business change, it's essential for companies to have effective tools to manage their activities. Kuartz enables managers and decision-makers to take control of their business through a highly customizable web-based platform.

One of the key features of the Kuartz platform is its flexibility. Designed to
respond to a variety of use cases, it can easily integrate the specific business logic of each company. This flexibility translates into the ability to rapidly add new functionalities. This enables the platform to adapt in real time to changing customer needs.

What do your customers like?

In addition to flexibility, Kuartz customers also appreciate the platform's robustness and ease of use, as well as the expertise demonstrated by the Kuartz team. It offers a pleasant user experience, which facilitates the onboarding of new users at customer sites and the rapid resolution of company-specific issues.

What are the platform's future functionalities?

In the ongoing development of its core platform, Kuartz has set itself several key objectives.
One major objective is the development of a public API, which will enable seamless integration of the platform into customers' software ecosystems. This evolution is designed to meet increasingly complex needs.

The platform already ensures an international user experience, thanks to its translation into French, English and Spanish.

Another major strength of this platform is the advanced integration of time series. This feature makes it possible to address specific use cases such as real-time energy production management or financial market data analysis.

Why choose Clever Cloud?

Kuartz's decision to work with Clever Cloud as a hosting provider was based on several key factors. Firstly, Clever Cloud is a French player, which guarantees very good French support and compliance with French data protection regulations. In addition, Clever Cloud's scalability enables Kuartz to quickly adjust its server capacity to meet customer needs.

Finally, Clever Cloud's technical expertise is a major asset. It ensures the smooth running of Kuartz's applications and enables smooth collaboration to resolve specific technical issues.

In short, with its approach focused on flexibility, robustness and simplicity, Kuartz enables companies to run their business efficiently and agilely, while adapting to the ever-changing challenges they face. Its collaboration with Clever Cloud reinforces its commitment to technical excellence and data security, making Kuartz an ideal choice for companies seeking to thrive in an ever-changing environment.

A solution for fast-growing devs

The developers and recruiters who use WeLoveDevs.com appreciate above all that they have the best possible conditions in which to meet. In other words, both parties feel valued, listened to and considered. And this leads to a number of specific features in the software product. For example, the solution is deployed several times a day, so that it can evolve as developers use it.

Today, WeLoveDevs is a recognized media and job site, visited by over 90K techies who reflect on their careers every month. Their main challenge now is to offer them even more job offers by meeting and registering new companies one by one.

Data hosting in France and performance:

To meet the needs of their customers, WeLoveDevs needed to have servers in France, and with good performance. However, they were not satisfied with the containerized PaaS offer proposed by Heroku, for example.

Being in France means keeping the personal data of many developers, who are very demanding and deserve it. And for performance, it's also important for SEO.

0% admin sys, 100% agility:

Not wanting to burden himself with system administration, Damien has always used PaaS services. So, following the same logic, WeLoveDevs has mainly adopted SaaS or serverless tools.

You don't want to get up in the middle of the night to SSH a machine.
If it works on your machine, it works a few minutes later on the PaaS.

His challenge is to keep his tech team as small and agile as possible. The objective: to be able to put a feature into production within a day, after talking to a customer, and thus maintain this proximity to their customers. As a result, a solution that allows them to dispense with backend devs or ops, suits them very well.

Why did you choose Clever Cloud?

Damien: "CleverCloud is the only player that meets our performance requirements and allows us to deploy continuously via Git. Also we didn't need to make any particular effort to adopt the platform, our NPM build worked from day one. I think we come for the deployment, but we stay for the quality of customer service. It's technically competent, human and accessible."

"At Clever, we know better what machine we're going to have in front of us, and we're on bare-metal: an application that's at Heroku, it's bound to go twice as fast at Clever."

How did the migration go?

Damien: "GIT PUSH… That's it! Then we piled things on one by one. The biggest change was adding Cloudflare, and that really changed the performance of our Node server and Wordpress."

Why use Clever Cloud?

Damien: "If you're already on another PaaS, your application will surely be faster by migrating it to Clever. And if you already have a build/deployment that's continuous and automated, you'll have no effort to migrate. It costs nothing to try!"

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