Enabling an Agile, Service-Oriented "Business Operating System" for Rapidly Growing Manufacturer on Cloud Technology

	The real magic is in the transparency of the CloudIQ Platform. All of the sudden, applications are reliable, they can scale, and our developers can do everything that we've told them they can do with Appistry CloudIQ Platform without having to learn a new product or language.
– Barry Wright, Denovo, LLC

About Force Protection

Force Protection, a fast-growing manufacturer, is the world's leading producer of ballistic- and blast-protected vehicles, which have been used to support armed forces and security personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and other hot spots around the globe.

Value Proposition

Force Protection, Inc. (FPI) working with Appistry partner Denovo, has built a unique cloud-enabled "Business Operating System." The "Business Operating System" allows FPI to optimize its manufacturing operation at each step of the process through an inventive suite of Web services hosted on Appistry CloudIQ Platform.

• Faster Time-to-Market: Appistry allowed Force Protection to implement their "Business Operating System" without an up-front investment in custom-developed application "scaffolding", reducing time-to-market while lowering maintenance costs as well.
• Web Services Reliability & Scalability: Appistry eliminated the need for application developers to "code around" unreliable infrastructure. Appistry created a fault-tolerant environment that automatically healed around failures and scales linearly without changes to code.

Key Data Points

• Use of Appistry products has cut application development time by an estimated 50%