Customer Success
CyberCX was engaged by Orbica to assist with the implementation of their geospatial data platform offered as an AWS cloud-native SaaS solution.
“Orbica is the first cloud-native Geospatial Platform that uses AI to help improve business efficiency, democratise data and enable solutions to be created that benefit both people and planet.”
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Orbica’s platform provides near real-time geospatial intelligence that enables their customers to make informed decisions. This data, combined with advanced modeling and visualisation tools, allows organisations to model and analyse their data to optimise processes.
CyberCX is established as a trusted AWS Premier Partner to Orbica through helping them develop a multi-tenanted SaaS solution. This solution follows best security practices and is deployed in an automated way to allow CI/CD of all components.
The heart of the solution runs on an EKS cluster which makes use of Karpenter as an auto-scaler to rapidly launch right-sized ec2 instances in response to changing application load. Many considerations have been processed to isolate the tenants that are using the service and these have been implemented using a combination of Kubernetes resource types which includes 3rd party plugins and AWS services. The infrastructure deployment is fully automated, and the platform’s cloud native architecture allows Orbica’s tenants to automatically scale their operations. We have also considered the commonly observed issue of limited IP address space in multi-tenanted SaaS solutions that utilise Kubernetes and resolved this through dual-stack Ipv4/IPv6 implementation.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council is an example of a tenant that has seen the benefits of utilising their data on Orbica’s platform. By hosting both data storage and the application on the secure AWS cloud infrastructure, BOPRC gained a cloud instance of the “flow of people and freight” tool, empowering multiple users to explore and query data. This project has displayed the transformative power of AWS Cloud and Geospatial technology and how organisations can unlock unparalleled data insights.
The challenge
The Orbica geospatial data platform is a complex, multi-tenanted SaaS solution that makes use of modern technologies and development practices. There is a large number of components in the solution and several vendors and 3rd party tools are involved. Whilst it can be quite daunting at times, CyberCX has adapted to this environment extremely well and is actively involved in large scale collaborations.
Outcomes
CyberCX’s relationship and collaboration with Orbica has been extremely successful and resulted in some great outcomes. Our continued success with our engagement has resulted in conducting a number of Well-Architected Reviews for Orbica in which we have completed with the assistance of AWS Software Partner, nOps. This combined partnership has allowed us to streamline the review process as well as provide an additional FinOps based service for Orbica to optimise their costs.
“The Orbica Platform passed the AWS Foundational Technical Review. What does this mean I hear you ask… it means that the Platform follows best practices for security, reliability and excellence as defined by AWS. This journey started late last year and has required a lot of time and effort to achieve. I would like to thank our partners at CyberCX – Nitin Yadav, Ginelle Cocks, Geoff Loh and Nick Yager. This is a huge achievement, I am super proud of what we have achieved and how we go about doing it.”
Gareth Levens,
Head of Product and Customer Success at Orbica
