Tech-enabled companies and enterprises save 30-50% of their Cloud development and modernization cost and time with BOS.
After building over 200 software products across industries spanning Clinical Research, HealthCare, Finance, Departments of Corrections, Defense, and Education in multiple geographies including North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, BOS CEO and Founder Sashank Purighalla found that tech teams find time to do things over but never right the first time. This creates enormous technical debt, both intentional and unintentional, and companies end up paying for it over a long span of time. Consequently, maintenance often monopolizes IT budgets and stunts strategic development. More importantly, technical debt introduces
vulnerabilities into systems resulting in cyber breaches.
This problem is exacerbated by the fact that no software developer does the same thing two times in the same way. This artisanal, inconsistent approach to software development creates broken architectures and companies end up paying for this.
Ironically, companies do not realize this as they have simply come to accept that software development is expensive and requires a lot of upkeep with many technical resources.
“Trained in the discipline and rigor of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering in Software was conspicuous with its absence. To me, the term Software Engineering is an oxymoron”, Sashank says.
Rooted in structured engineering thought and with the deep software development expertise and the patterns that were revealed to him over the 200 plus products that he built, Sashank envisioned a platform that is capable of providing a standardized foundation to software products that offsets the need for doing things over.
Over multiple engagements, Sashank worked with some of his best engineers to develop a Cloud and tech stack agnostic platform that may be used by dev teams to set up robust, secure, scalable products in the Cloud.
Cloud modernization is a strategic initiative. Companies fail when they take a tactical approach to an initiative that inherently requires a strategic, holistic treatment.
Sashank calls this a four-legged stool for Cloud development and modernization:
- Provisioning and Configuration
- Security and Compliance
- Observability and Maintainability
- APIs for baseline functionality
The platform is based on best practices and incorporates the recommendations presented by Mitre’s CVE [Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures] list and enforces guardrails for developers to build natively resilient and compliant applications.
Additionally, the platform supports microservices architectures with multitenancy, multi-cloud implementations, and is highly customizable for use both by growing startups as well as companies in the mid-market.
BOS brings together Cloud Provisioning and Configuration, Security and Compliance, and Observability and Maintainability into a single platform and makes it available via a single pane of glass.
By pairing the BOS Cloud Platform with a team of experts comprising of enterprise architects, security and compliance consultants, and senior CloudOps engineers, BOS delivers a comprehensive ‘soup to nuts’ solution to growing tech-enabled companies and enterprises for their Cloud modernization, digital transformation, and compliance initiatives.
BOS was initially used by the founding team to build products from a variety of projects in Clinical Research, SaaS, and FinTech. The
efficiencies that it delivered encouraged Sashank to float BOS as its own company with an investment from a California based Venture Firm.
For the first 3 years, BOS met with a lot of resistance and criticism from technologists who were cultivated into thinking of solutions as ground up build outs that would be custom framed by architects with their own choice of tools.
However, from mid 2020, the need for accelerating Cloud modernization initiatives, the exponential increase in cyber breaches, and the acute shortage of qualified/capable Cloud engineering resources made BOS a desirable Platform for two types of companies:
- Startups that had found product market fit and were worried about their future problems
- Mid-market companies that needed to accelerate their modernization initiatives while remaining capital efficient
BOS has seen an over 100% growth year-over-year since inception in 2018.
Over these years, the BOS Platform has grown substantially to natively support an increasing number of capabilities and use cases.
To make it more acceptable to a wider customer base, the Platform has also been enhanced to offer customizations based on architectural and instrumentation preferences of the tech teams using the platform.
As of late 2022, BOS is working on launching version 3.0 in Q223.
“The biggest problem that businesses have is broken architectures. You cannot inject nice tools into vulnerabilities and expect to achieve security. Resilience and integrity are the results of sound architecture.”
– Sashank Purighalla
