Extrapreneursindia

Our Platform development and digital transformation services encompasses the process of leveraging a rich stack of technologies to deliver cutting edge cloud native and Hybrid digital platforms for B2B, B2C, B2B2C and Marketplace business models. The key tenants of our Platform delivery framework covers:

Security
Dynamic Scalablity
High Throughput
Real Time Event Based Processing
Straight Through Processing
Adherence to Applicable Compliance e.g. PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR
Workflow Automation

Insightful Analytics
Seamless Integration with Legacy Systems
Integrated Deployments
Integrated Monitoring and Alerts
Test Automation
Load Based Infra Usage

Technical Highlights of the Digital Platforms we have Implemented

Cloud native and Hybrid deployments.
Web Apps: Responsive and PWA.
Mobile Apps: Hybrid and Native.
Container based micro services.
SQL and NoSQL databases.
Message Brokers for queue based processing.
Streams for real time data processing.
Data Caching for performance.
Big Data, Data Lake, Lakehouse, Data warehouse, Datamart implementations.
Object Stores.
Content store and caching.
BI and Analytics.
AI and ML models.
Devops for CI/CD automation and monitoring.
Batch processing.
REST APIs services layer and integration.
AD/SAML integration/SSO integration.
OWASP security.
Serverless and container based deployments.
RPA solutions.
Seamless Integration with complimentary cloud platforms e.g. SSO, CRM, Accounting, ERP.

Our Customers have accrued multiple benefits by virtue of operating these Digital Platforms

The key ones include:

Increased customer engagement using Omni channel experiences.
Expanded sales volumes and revenue share by customer.
Reduced TAT to launch new products and services.
Increased operational efficiency across all key processes from sales, service, back-office and support.
Reduced cost by cutting down on manual workforce required for catering to increasing business volumes.

Our Digital Platform Tech Stack Covers the Following Technologies

Cloud Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, GCP, Private Clouds
Core Languages for implementing Microservices
Python, NodeJS, Java, Go
Web Apps
React, Typescript, Javascript, HTML5, Flutter
Mobile Apps
React Native, Android, iOS
Databases
PostgresSQL, mySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB
Caching
Redis, Memcache
Message Brokers
RabbitMQ, SQS
Streaming
Kafka, Spark
API Gateway
Kong, Zuul, AWS API Gateway
Containers
ECS, EKS, Docker, Kubernetes
Test Automation
Selenium, Appium, jMeter, Postman Collection, Saucelabs
Devops Automation
GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, Docker, Terraform, AWS Code Pipeline
Devops Monitoring
Slack, Sentry, ELK, Nagios, Prometheus, New Relic
BI Tools
Tableau, Domo, Power BI, Metabase
Big Data
Hadoop, Hive, AWS EMR, Redshift, Athena, AWS S3
Object Stores
AWS S3, Azure Blob
Data Engineering
Oozie, Airflow, Dbt, Talend, Sqoop, Spark
Search Engines
Elastic Search

Banking and Finance

Our Platform Implementation Framework: THOR

About THOR

THOR provides pre-built platform API based service components that are needed to build, implement and operate Business Platforms.
Built using open source tools and software for enterprise scale and security to run B2B, B2B2C and B2C businesses with in-built multi-tenancy features.

Objective

To use the delivery component as an accelerator for platform building.
Ability to use it across various business domains.

Problem Statement

Business platform needs standard features like security, authentication, audit, logging, notification etc. which takes up a lot of upfront effort to build.
Reusability and centralization of common features.

Challenges

High degree of functional / product roadmap ownership.
High degree of configurability and flexibility to customize yet very simple to implement.
In-built multi-tenancy, localization, multi-currency, multi-language support.

Solution Implementation

It provides a productivity leverage of more than 1000+ person months of effort.
Scalable, Secure, Service Based, Maintainable, ...
Build and deploy multiple Business Apps.
All Apps works as services and can be dynamically scaled to cater to concurrent user load.
Centralized Management and Monitoring.
Strong Adherence to Best Design Principles, Practices and Patterns.
Services built and deployed using proven industry standard best practices.
Flexi Deployment (Single to Multi-server scalability).

Print and Publishing

Print & Publishing and Digital Transformation Platform (USA)

About Organization

Fortune 2000 organization.
3 billion US$ revenue.
Traditional Print and Publishing industry in US.

Objective

Re-position from traditional print and publishing only player to multi channel communication player.
Provide a new Go To Market offering.
Integrate and Operate a platform with best of breed niche functional solutions.
Speed of response and operate as a start up within a large organizational setup.

Problem Statement

Configurable & customizable Storefronts aligned to B2B and B2C models.
Multi-channel capabilities: Direct Mail, Web, Packaging, Labels, Envelopes, Print, Digital.
Seamless Integration with internal and external service providers.

Challenges

Working as one team across 5 time zones and owning the technology platform.
Built the first version of the platform in 3 months.

Solution Implementation

Best of Breed solutions integrated into one cohesive platform using REST APIs and real-time processing.
Implemented a complex routing engine to push orders for fulfilment to various plants across the US by integrating into respective ERP.
Implemented a cloud based data warehouse and BI solution for order tracking, KPI and TAT metrics and reporting.
Integrated the best of breed digital design composition engines to automate the artwork creation, review and approval workflows between customer and in-house design teams.
Implemented multi-tenant (SaaS) store-fronts that can be co-branded and white-labelled to each business with Single Sign-on for merchandise ordering.
Migrated multiple legacy store-fronts to the new store-fronts and sunset them seamlessly.

DATA PLATFORM FOR ONLINE TRAVEL BUSINESS

Leading Travel Business: Data Platform for Analytics &
BI (UAE)

About the Company

One of the largest Online Travel, Hotel and Flight Booking Platform in UAE.

Objective

Deliver KPI Dashboards by implementing a Data Lake inline with long term goal for customer segmentation and targeted marketing campaigns automation.

Problem Statement

Lack of one view of Customer Info and No consolidated data view for products and services including reports.

Challenges

Multiple sources of unstructured data with no one data owner and fixed requirement. Extensive Testing and Data Validation for Quality Assurance.

Solution Implementation

Building common connectors for identified structured/semi-structured and unstructured data sources using FilePull, Mongo Connector, FB Connector, GAd connector, Adjust Connector.
Complete Configurable Control by changing JSON transformation and adding new source account/campaign with ETL workflow.
Scalable Data Platform Architecture using Hadoop, HDFC, Hive, mySQL for data storage, transformation, data aggregation and complex KPI calculations using Map Reduce.
Rich KPI Dashboards with very strong visualizations and widgets for key stakeholders – Management, Operations and Sales/Marketing teams.
Strong Monitoring of scheduled and real-time ETL processes and data ingestion pipelines.
Selenium based Test Automation for data validation.
Two generations of the platform – 1st implemented On premise and next migrated and implemented on AWS.