Deployment times have improved as the development team is now able to deliver additional stories during each two-week sprint. The team typically aims for 13 stories per sprint, and with Portainer, they now complete 2 additional stories - a 10–15% improvement in output. Given an average fully burdened cost of $170,000 per developer or QA engineer per year, this enhanced productivity across a 10-person team (7 developers and 3 QA) translates to a significant ROI: US$170,000 per year the additional productivity is a significant $170,000 x 10 (7 developers and 3 QA) x 10% (lower level of the estimated enhancement) = $170,000 in annual productivity gains.
The ability to scale is a critical business priority. The company’s new AWS-based cloud solution, powered by containerized software managed through Portainer, is expected to significantly reduce the cost of deploying new software and supporting existing field applications. This is expected to increase profit from revenue by an estimated 30-40%. While Portainer is just one part of the overall solution, it plays a key role in enabling this new capability.
Blackrock, one of the company's investors was particularly interested in Portainer’s ability to address the scale problem. The present older desktop solution, which is being replaced by the new AWS containerized solution is currently 90% of the cmopany's annual revenue. Each desktop version was sold for an average of $70,000, but the margins were low due to the need for on-site installation by specialized technicians. The Manager of Software Development estimates the new application will improve margins by 30-40%. The estimated impact on profit from revenue is significant: $70,000 (average annual software subscription) × 500 (next installations) × 30% (lower level of enhanced operating margin range) =$10,500,000.
“Life prior to Portainer, I was doing all of the triage 'unblocking' of our software engineers. Now, if an engineer tries something out and it doesn’t work on Portainer, he can’t push it out. Portainer forces our developers to unblock and be self-organized. This means all eight of us can triage a problem – not just me.”
"We are better able to scale because Portainer has secure push-button to deploy capability streamlining version control and maintenance. And tomorrow when the new application is running live in every OR; we can remotely monitor our software because Portainer goes from green to red on the dashboard. This might sound simple and inconsequential but it’s not. We’ll know immediately if an OR isn’t able to run our application and we can immediately respond before a doctor arrives to perform surgery.”
“Because our dev is going so smoothly we are talking about an additional two use cases already. Robotics video review for training new doctors is the first. And we have a French Health insurance provider who insures 200,000 ORs. We are talking about them being able to offer lower premiums for all of their clients who use our solution in the OR.”