Challenges. We don’t just like them, we live for them. The thinking, the strategy, the planning, the implementation – the whole process.  Our engineers tackle them head on and generally get a thrill from finding the answer to a tough problem.

Three months ago our partner, Atlassian, came to us with one such challenge and true to Contegix form, we met it head on and worked around the clock make it happen.

The challenge:

Help Atlassian bring their application JIRA Studio to the public via Google Marketplace (Google Marketplace offers products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps).

For quite some time, Contegix has been providing the infrastructure and hosting that powers the JIRA Studio application since the product was created. JIRA Studio (for those  who haven’t had the opportunity to use this product) is a hosted software development suite that supports every role of a development team through each stage of the development process without worrying about tool infrastructure.

We worked closely with Atlassian to prepare the product for bulk provisioning through Google, and to enable Atlassian to provision either Google Apps or regular studio instances through their normal provisioning interfaces. Custom and intelligent provisioning is something that is unique to Contegix, and would have been unavailable to Atlassian through other cloud providers.

Not to toot our own horn, but our solution for Atlassian is pretty robust. Through our custom provisioning interface, Atlassian is able to provide customer-specific data which is automatically used to build the JIRA Studio instance.  This allows Atlassian to set customer licenses, provide custom usernames and passwords, or to conditionally build the customer a Google Apps-Enabled or a Traditional JIRA Studio instance.  In addition, our team manages all of the  virtual machines, monitors them, and automatically updates them according to Atlassian’s specifications.

The entire launch of the product went beautifully,  has opened many doors for Atlassian, and for our team in providing software provisioning as a service for our partners and clients.

Taking an application in 3 months to market? Mark that challenge as met and solved. We are looking forward to the next one that will be thrown at us. We live for this stuff…

Have a great weekend everyone,

The Contegian