CASE 01
Manufacturer M
We removed the VPN appliances
at all seven sites
A software development company had built and delivered a fully custom inventory and order management system to Manufacturer M. Seven sites — head office, four branches and two warehouses — were linked by VPN, with 30 people using the system. That entire environment was moved to applippli DX Pro as-is, without being rebuilt.
Results
Every VPN appliance at all seven sites removed
Every VPN appliance across the seven sites was taken out — not one remains. The hardware cost and the annual maintenance fee disappear from the quotation entirely. We are told this was the single biggest reason the customer decided to go ahead.
The ransomware entry point itself is gone
VPN appliances are a well known weak point targeted by ransomware. Rather than reducing the number of appliances, the appliances themselves were eliminated. This made a clear contribution to the security improvements the customer had asked for.
Night-time incidents handled without going on site
Until now every scheduled maintenance visit meant travelling to the site, and night-time incidents were especially hard going. Today the engineer connects from the office or from wherever they happen to be, checks the system and restores it. With the travel time gone, the customer waits far less.
No more standby set kept so production never stops
A manufacturer cannot afford to stop production, so a second on-premises server and router were kept on standby. Once the move to the cloud was made, that standby equipment was no longer needed at all.
The fully custom software runs exactly as delivered
The inventory and order management system was developed from scratch and delivered as a custom build. It was installed on the Windows server unchanged, and 30 people use it over RDP. The minor revisions that come round every three months — usability tweaks, report layout changes, backup checks, Windows updates — have all become easier.
are tied up maintaining and replacing VPN appliancesWhere your customers removing the VPN altogetheryou can propose . The hardware cost and the annual maintenance fee drop out of the quotation, and it also serves as ransomware protection. Business software you delivered as a full custom build keeps running exactly as it is, with no rewrite.
CASE 02
System Developer A
Setting up each vendor's system
and running integration tests
Development testing called for an environment separate from the one used for daily business. Other providers imposed configuration restrictions that made them unsuitable for testing, so the system test environment was set up on applippli DX Pro instead.
Results
The team can use it freely as a verification environment, cleanly separated from the production business environment.
It also serves as the environment for integration testing with other system vendors.
Getting to the point of testing is now very quick, because all that has to be handed over is a desktop icon. (Previously it meant procuring physical machines or building out virtual infrastructure.)
On customer projects, the customer can try the system and give feedback, which has cut down on rework during development.
This is how a software development company uses it for itself. With no physical machines to procure and no virtual infrastructure to build, handing over a single desktop icon is all it takes to stand up a verification environment.
CASE 03
Construction Company S
Reported from the site,
seen at HQ in real time
Crews reported only after returning to head office, so the wait for those reports delayed every round of consolidation. Sites move every three to six months, and building a network each time cost both effort and money. The company was looking for a simple way to share folders and the software its site staff use — and applippli DX Pro matched the requirements.
Results
Information now flows smoothly from the sites to head office. Because access hours are limited, the site data is complete by a fixed time each day.
Crews enter data into the software directly from the site, so re-keying at head office has disappeared.
As long as there is an internet connection — a pocket Wi-Fi router is enough — site management can start immediately, which has greatly reduced the setup work for each new site.
move sites every three to six monthsWhere your customers doing away with building a network each timeyou can propose . All that has to be arranged is phone tethering or a pocket Wi-Fi router.
VOICE
In the words of the partners who offer DX Pro
Accounts from companies that propose applippli DX Pro to their own customers.
We can no longer propose a server
Even when a server is due for replacement, the parts simply are not available.Ask the manufacturer and the only answer is "we cannot give a delivery date for the server itself". Memory alone runs to over one million yen.
We cannot propose something to a customer when we cannot say when it will arrive.Servers are not obtainable — that is where things stand. The result is that
the cloud is the only proposal left. For our customers too, there is no option but to move to the cloud.
We were uneasy about how much we could guarantee ourselves
Customers told us they wanted to use the system we had delivered from outside the office as well. We spent years experimenting with building a cloud environment ourselves, and we did get as far as confirming the system ran.
But we were uneasy about how much we could guarantee ourselves, security above all, and we could not bring ourselves to release a cloud edition.