Ever wanted to serve your business applications directly through an internet browser? Do you want a powerful graphical computing and rendering environment directly accessible? AppStream 2.0 increases the possibilities while providing a secure, efficient and scalable environment for your users.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed non-persistent application and desktop streaming service that provides users with instant access to Windows desktop applications from anywhere on any device.

How AppStream 2.0 can help your team:

• Make a desktop app largely available with no rewrite by letting user access and run them through their browser
• Scale without infrastructure, as the service manages the AWS resources required to host and run the application, scales automatically and provides access to users on-demand
• Pay-as-you-go with no upfront investment and no infrastructure to maintain, as you only pay for the streaming resources that you use plus a small monthly fee per streaming user
• Each user’s experience is fluid and responsive because the applications run on virtual machines (VMs) optimized for each use case
• To create a familiar experience for the customers, the appearance of AppStream 2.0 can be customizedwith branding images, text, and website links

How AppStream 2.0 helps ISVs (Independent Software Vendors):

As a software vendor, you can accelerate the adoption of your desktop application by providing a SaaS version through VDI with no rewrite. Reach a faster Time to Market and increased customer reach, and benefit of the values of SaaS without incurring the overhead of a major refactoring of software. As Amazon AppStream is a fully Managed Service, ISVs don’t need to plan, deploy, manage, or upgrade any application streaming infrastructure, and instantly benefit of global availability and pay-as-you-go pricing.

To improve the software trials, demos and training experience for your customers, you can also provide software trials on-demand, with no local installs, or special hardware required.

How AppStream aligns with our cloud vision

With the increasing work-from-home situation for many companies, ensuring access to applications that require high levels of performance and compute resources can be critical to maintain business continuity. VDI solutions such as Amazon AppStream is the best way to do it, as it only requires the user to have access to a browser and an internet connection.

As an AWS managed service, AppStream is a great tool to initialize or accelerate a project, by giving access quickly to a desktop application through the user’s browser. The service provides a number of options to manage storage with home folders, personalize multiple user settings, choose between user pools or Active Directory for user management, and much more.

This flexibility lets us design the perfect solution around AppStream to answer the needs of our customers. By leveraging the additional capabilities of the AWS platform, we can build a custom and secure environment to meet the needs. Being fully managed by AWS, the technical level required to administrate an AppStream fleet boils down to monitoring its utilization.

How and why we use AppStream

Because the best way to help our customers design and build their solutions is to use the services ourselves, we have been using AppStream for multiple years.

After joining the TeamWork group in September 2017, Corexpert integrated its accounting within a few weeks in SAP. From January 2018, all of Corexpert’s management is operational in SAP: orders, invoicing, entry of time to invoice, monitoring of absences, expense reports, workflow, …

In order to allow our colleagues to use the SAP connection client (SAP GUI, pronounce “gooey” or G-U-I for Graphic User Interface) they therefore needed a client to install on their local workstation as well as an individual VPN account in order to access the group’s SAP infrastructures. As the Mac client is not native, a JAVA version is available …

Corexpert is “born in the cloud” and as far as possible we use resources in Amazon Web Services for our applications, or SaaS applications. We are not really used to deploying on user workstations and not seeing how to do this with Jenkins, we have decided to implement Amazon AppStream in order to accelerate this deployment and ensure that it is carried out without impact on our users.

Read more (in French) here: https://blog.corexpert.net/2018/03/17/corexpert-deploie-sap-gui-avec-amazon-appstream/

For any AppStream or other AWS-related projects, please feel free to contact us: https://www.corexpert.net/contact-us/

This designation recognizes that Corexpert provides a holistic approach to Devops implementation and that it has a proven track record of implementations of Devops tools.

This competency furthermore proves to our customers that the quality and calibre of our AWS-specialist consultancy is of the highest possible standard.

Corexpert has namely a proven customer success with specific focus on Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery, Monitoring Performance and Infrastructure as Code.

“This AWS DevOps Competency is an important achievement in Corexpert’s journey” said Alexis Dagues CEO.

“This latest competency alongside our accreditation to deliver Well Architected Reviews and the SAP Competency is a statement that our team is dedicated to helping companies achieve their technology goals by leveraging the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

About AWS

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

About Corexpert

Corexpert is a cloud-native company with 14 years of experience. AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and Value-Added Reseller. The company joined TeamWork Group (in 2017) and deploy AWS competency in all of its 18 locations world-wide. With a strong expertise on SAP workloads, Big-Data, Web stacks and massive migration to AWS, Corexpert and TeamWork can deliver globally.

Corexpert which sustains and integrates solutions on AWS Cloud Platform since 2010 is pleased to announce the new APN Training Partner agreement with AWS.

As IT professionals with high AWS cloud skills we have a proven and reliable history in technical trainings. We are now proud to further expand this training and learning opportunities through the APN Training Partner Program.

We will thus convey our expertise to give companies the opportunity to learn best practices and provide them with live feedback from our expert instructors AWS Approved Instructors. These trainings will also help learners to prepare AWS Certification exams, which validate technical skills and expertise.

We also aim to provide the top learning resources and deep knowledge learners need to innovate and build the future using the AWS Cloud. AWS Training content is built on native AWS knowledge and gives learners a path to advance their careers and transform their organizations.

A free of charge virtual webinar will be held on the 29^th September 2020 at 10AM (CEST) on the theme: AWS Discovery Day – An introduction to AWS.

Please register here: https://go.aws/2FXAytB

More information : https://www.corexpert.net/contact-us/

How do you verify the competency for building, deploying and maintaining the infrastructure offered by the platform ?
With the certifications proposed by AWS ! 

Categorized in competencies, these exams reward counseling the right services, promote a well architected framework and check the knowledge of the candidate based on deep professional hands on experience. 

Today, TeamWork and Corexpert have reach a milestone in the total number of certifications obtained : our team has 50 certifications. This commitment in the AWS cloud is a testimony of adaptation and capacity to answer at a large panel of requests from customers. Our experts are ready to be challenged by your interrogations and will guide you to success on AWS projects. Cost optimization, migration from on-premise, tasks automatization are some problematics (and many more !) which our team can help for your journey to the cloud.  

TeamWork and Corexpert have also a competency in the integration of SAP on AWS and are a priviledged partner for AppStream 2.0.

Their Ad-serving technology is optimized for user experience, and is integrated in over 450 mobile and web applications. They serve more than 1 billion ad requests every day to millions of users with a minimal latency. They embraced the Cloud-First spirit by being 100% hosted on AWS from the beginning and they are using over 50 services to create a cutting-edge technology solution.

The challenge

Nowadays, Ad Tech companies have to handle huge traffic volumes to deliver Ads. They focus on high quality Ads by controlling traffic and bidding on partner programmatic platforms. This strategy reduces the payout per Ad request and therefore limits the revenues of the company. Learning user behaviors and optimizing traffic quickly became inevitable, so they gathered a R&D team to build Machine Learning algorithms.

The solution

User data is processed using an Amazon EMR cluster, running every month and processing tens of billions of user events. Amazon S3 is the primary choice for storing raw data (hundreds of terabytes). An Amazon EC2 instance, packaged with Machine Learning libraries, uses the monthly generated dataset to update the currently trained model and prepare a blacklist, that is loaded in Amazon DynamoDB for high traffic reads.

The benefits

• The ML algorithm detects and filters 60% of total traffic being not relevant. The R&D team continuously improves its accuracy.
• AWS infrastructure costs are reduced by 45%. The company is reinvesting this money into new services and quality improvements.
• Ads get rendered 7x more often, meaning users have a better experience while watching ads in mobile applications.
• Higher Ad partner trust and Ad revenues. A direct impact is a visible growth in partner integrations and market visibility.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing pioneer, provides a wide range of services enabling all types of customers to accelerate the deployment of their infrastructures and business applications. It is also the only cloud computing provider meeting all performance and security requirements to be SAP-certified. Thus, project deployments are accelerated and customers benefit from agility and flexibility, so far reserved for the web industry.

Known as an expert in consulting, designing and building AWS Cloud infrastructures, Corexpert brings its expertise, experience and DevOps approach to TeamWork. Certified AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Corexpert technical team develops, deploys and maintains in operational condition solutions for their customers, based on the most innovative managed services from Amazon Web Services, while continuously optimizing TCO.

TeamWork, a strategic partner in digital transformation, operates in four core businesses: Business Consulting, SAP Business Solutions, Technology Platforms and Data Analytics. Recognized by its clients for its expertise and experience, TeamWork supports both major international accounts and SMEs. TeamWork’s 15 international locations allow it to guarantee 24/7 technical and functional outsourcing support services and geographical proximity to its customers.

“Corexpert has allowed us to accelerate our deployment on the AWS Cloud and the Time to Market of Orinox’s SaaS Graphics Workstation (OCWS) offer. The synergy between TeamWork and Corexpert confirms their ability to support us in our client projects (large French and American energy companies) both internationally and with 24/7 support services” Maxime Fourreau, founder and CEO of Orinox.

The acquisition of Corexpert by TeamWork is part of a strategy to develop an AWS Cloud competence center to address emerging new needs, such as IoT, Big Data and Blockchain, which are growth levers for digital transformation. The collaboration with Corexpert, started several months ago, also enabled TeamWork to consolidate its position as an SAP integrator on the AWS platform.

« The acquisition of Corexpert by TeamWork Group was obvious for two main reasons : our development and partnership with Amazon Web Services, which started with SAP on HANA projects, and the values shared by our two structures. The perfect complementarity of our expertise will allow our customers to pursue or accelerate their digital transformation, in particular with the adoption of the AWS Cloud. » Philippe Rey-Gorrez, CEO of TeamWork Group

« Majority participation of TeamWork Group in the capital of Corexpert is a strong signal to all our local and international customers. Cloud computing projects are increasingly ambitious and require larger and multidisciplinary teams. Corexpert proves its technological and innovative value daily, and joining TeamWork will enable a faster and more structured development to meet a demanding market with intermediate-sized partners. » Alexis Daguès, Co-founder and CEO of Corexpert

TeamWork and Corexpert will discuss their partnership at the USF convention on 4 and 5 October at the Lille Grand Palais and during the Transformation Day on November 8 at the Salle de la Mutualité in Paris.
TeamWork and Corexpert will also be attending the AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas from November 27 to December 1st, 2017, bringing together more than 40,000 Amazon Web Services customers and partners.

About TeamWork

TeamWork, international group, founded in 1999 in Geneva, is an independent company involved in four core businesses: Business Consulting, SAP Business Solutions, Technology Platforms and Data Analytics. Recognized by its clients for its expertise and experience, TeamWork is a strategic partner in digital transformation, accompanying both major international accounts and SMEs. With more than 420 employees and 15 international locations (Switzerland, France, Vietnam, Singapore, China, India, Canada, United States), TeamWork stands out with its ability to guarantee 24/7 technical and functional outsourcing support services and geographical proximity to its customers. The competence, the taste for the challenge, the human values and the talent of its teams allow TeamWork to achieve linear growth and strong customer loyalty. For more information, visit www.teamwork.net

About Corexpert

Corexpert, a pure player of the AWS Cloud, was founded in 2006. Cloud Native company, its team of 20 collaborators consists of Developers, DevOps and Cloud Computing Architects. They have built their expertise on multiple customer success projects, in particular with the Amazon Web Services Cloud that Corexpert has been using since 2010.
AWS Partner since 2014, then Advanced Consulting Partner in January 2017, Corexpert assists its customers in the usage of Cloud computing with a constant support, and ensures the skill improvement of customer teams in the daily usage of AWS managed services. Actors of the transformation of IT organizations, Corexpert team develops the best AWS Cloud strategy with their customers, accompanies them in the adoption of DevOps, automates their cloud computing infrastructures and offers dynamic and proactive supervision.
www.corexpert.net

Press Contacts

COREXPERT
Alexis Daguès
a.dagues@corexpert.net
+33 (0) 6.67.45.38.35

TEAMWORK
Daphne Savoundiraradjane
daphne.savoundiraradjane@teamwork.net
+33 (0) 6.38.46.07.40

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