Cloud App Development Services
Cloud app development implies building apps that run in the cloud and may leverage cloud features and services offered by cloud vendors. In cloud computing since 2012, ScienceSoft quickly and reliably delivers cloud-native and cloud-only apps that efficiently employ all cloud capabilities.
Seeking to empower already existing apps with cloud benefits?
We also help our clients move their legacy applications to the cloud – doing it gradually and with minimum disruption to the ongoing business processes, please see our legacy cloud migration offering.
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9 years in cloud development, including SaaS development and building large distributed enterprise systems. |
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Adherence to the principles, practices, and tools defined by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). |
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In-house Cloud Center of Excellence. |
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Robust quality and data security management, backed by ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certificates. |
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Strong security and HIPAA, GAMP, FDA, PCI DSS compliancy. |
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8 years in big data. |
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Microsoft Gold Partner with 8 Gold Competencies. |
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10 years in IoT consulting. |
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AWS Select-tier Consulting Partner. |
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8 years in DevOps consulting. |
Why Do Businesses Increasingly Opt for Cloud?
THE SCOPE OF OUR CLOUD APP DEVELOPMENT SERVICE
We cover all aspects of cloud application development and offer a flexible set of service components that can be assembled into your personalized cloud application services.
Ideation
- Structuring and elaborating on your high-level software idea.
- Suggesting innovative feature ideas based on the analysis your needs/software idea.
Cloud app planning
- Drawing up high-level functional and technical requirements to software.
For corporate apps:
- Eliciting business needs and concerns regarding existing and desired business process flows.
For products:
- Defining a “killer feature” for an MVP to get an advantage on the market.
- Defining OOTB functionality.
- Deciding on a customization and integration approach.
Business case
- Estimating the expected TCO of your сloud application and exploring ways to optimize it.
- Estimating the expected ROI of your cloud application.
- For products: mapping features to subscription plans and different product versions.
Cloud app dev project planning
- A product development and management roadmap with a release plan and a prioritized features list.
Cloud app architecture design
- Detailing cloud app architecture that meets availability, performance, security, portability, etc. objectives.
- Choosing an optimal tech stack.
- Ensuring compliance of the app’s architecture with industry regulations (HIPAA, FDA, PCI DSS).
- Designing a cloud infrastructure.
Cloud app UX/UI design
- Designing UI mock-ups.
- UX research.
- For products: planning UX with a view to higher conversion from trial or free version to paid users, better up-selling services and subscription options, higher retention.
- Designing/redesigning UX.
Cloud app dev
- Back-end development.
- Front-end development.
- Integrations with other software.
- Designing a CI/CD pipeline for cloud deployment.
Cloud app QA & testing
- Test planning.
- Regular code reviews.
- Unit testing.
- Conducting functional, integration, regression, exploratory, performance, usability, compatibility, security testing.
- Test automation.
- Release testing in case of iterative development.
Cloud app maintenance, support and evolution
- Cloud application administration.
- Cloud application monitoring.
- L1 - L3 cloud application support.
- User behavior/transactional data analysis.
- For products: experimenting with features to find what really works (using A/B testing and other fact-based methods).
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Ensuring seamless scalability and portability of cloud apps via splitting an application into services/microservices and getting them containerized. |
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Eliminating the possibility of app failure escalation via using hierarchies of services, message queues, dynamic scaling and automated recovery, etc. |
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Fast and stable cloud app development due to:
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Ubiquitous cloud app security via:
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Leveraging value-adding cloud services to minimize efforts, timelines and costs to develop and operate an application. |
How Much Will It Cost to Build a Cloud-Based App?
Major cloud app development cost factors include:
- The number and complexity of app features.
- The dev method for app features (developed with ready cloud services or coded from scratch).
- The number of user roles.
- The complexity of the application logic and workflows.
- The number and complexity of integrations with other software systems.
- UI design uniqueness and complexity (including the number and complexity of screens).
- The number and complexity of government and industry regulations to comply with.
How ScienceSoft Helps Optimize Cloud App Costs?
ScienceSoft’s consultants can offer you an efficient cloud resource utilization plan due to:
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Comparing cost and capabilities of different clouds for each specific cloud app dev project.
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Keeping up with unique cloud cost optimization opportunities from the most popular cloud vendors.
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Designing an auto-scaling cloud app architecture and dynamic resource orchestration to achieve up to a 37% decrease in cloud hosting costs.
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Introducing proven application performance management practices to achieve a 19% increase in app performance.
It Looks like You’re Still in Doubt about Cloud Development…
Is it because you think that:
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“We’ll be forced to use services of a single cloud vendor forever” ScienceSoft designs applications in a way to avoid complexity and infrastructure dependencies, giving you the freedom and flexibility to switch vendors of some cloud services if needed. We can also apply a multi-cloud approach or build a cloud-agnostic app. |
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“Cloud can be more expensive than hosting locally” With the cloud-native applications that are correctly adapted to the optimal resource consumption at the architectural level, the companies usually experience 30-60% cost savings from what would normally be required for local hosting. In addition to the proper design, our cloud consultants will provide the resource consumption optimization plan, and help with its implementation and continuous management on-demand. |
Technologies We Work With
Clouds
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Cloud databases, warehouses and storage
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Real-time data processing
Databases / data storages
SQL
NoSQL
Back end
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Front end
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Mobile
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DevOps
SaaS platforms
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Cloud app development
We plan, design and deliver scalable, portable, reliable and secure containerized cloud apps (including based on services/microservices). On demand, we:
- Assess development project feasibility, provide cost & time estimates.
- Power the app with advanced services (AI, VR, data science, IoT and more).
- Integrate the app with third-party systems.
- Provide continuous cloud app support and maintenance to meet new business needs.
Application migration to the cloud
We cover:
- Application and/or DWH migration to the cloud with all-around modifications (if necessary).
- Integration of cloud and on-premises environments into a hybrid infrastructure (if required).
- Data migration.
- CI/CD implementation.
- Cloud infrastructure configuration.
- Cloud application testing.
OUR SELECTED CLOUD DEVELOPMENT STORIES
Custom Billing Software for a Leading European Marketplace
An automatically scalable (from 2 to > 50 app servers) and fault-tolerant cloud-based custom billing platform replaced a billing-as-a-service solution, utilizing cloud storage, publish-subscribe messaging and other services.
The World’s Largest PLM Software
A unique cloud-based product lifecycle management solution, powering 20,000 retailers, manufacturers and suppliers in 110 countries. The cloud-based platform helps the industry players conjoin their efforts, knowledge and clients, and provides users with full analysis and reporting capabilities.
The Back End for an Innovative Hotel Self-Service App
A microservices-based solution deployed in the Google Cloud environment serves dozens of hotels in Europe. The utilized technologies and architecture ensure that it stays fast and responsive even in the context of multi-userness and high-volume data processing.
The Data Analytics Platform for a Telecom Company
The solution measures the engagement, identifies the preferences of a particular user, spots trends in the user’s behavior, bills advertisers, and more. The use of Amazon Spot Instances allows the company to reduce the costs of AWS computing resources by 80%.
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