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ACTi Case Study

Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
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Applicable Industries

Electronics

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

The Customer

ACTi Corporation

About The Customer

ACTi Corporation, founded in 2003, is a provider of end-to-end IP video surveillance solutions with products that deliver both security and business insight through big-data analytics. Historically, the company’s main markets have been in a centralized su

The Challenge

ACTi recognized the potential for cloud-based IP video surveillance and realized that cloud technology could help customers avoid the cost of deploying large physical infrastructures and maintaining a team of security professionals. ACTi wanted toseize these opportunities and make cloud-based solutions available to companies of all sizes. The company started developing a cloud-based surveillance and big data analytics system, but ran into technical difficulties. These challenges disrupted the company’s own plans to switch its internal systems from on-premises to a cloud-based platform. It had no option but to find a cloud-service provider since the situation limited growth potential and the organization’s ability to reduce operating costs. Peter Wu, sales director at ACTi Corporation, says the company was dedicating an increasing amount of budget to support a 20 percent increase in data per year. “We wanted a cloud-based solution to reduce our IT overhead, but the priority was to develop our cloud-based IP video surveillance solution to drive our market share worldwide,” he says.

The Solution

ACTi approached Amazon Web Services (AWS) because stakeholders were already aware of the number of successful businesses worldwide using AWS and were familiar with its core services. Still, Wu says he was impressed with the breadth of the offering. “The AWS services service offerings were very strong,” says Wu. “The business cases were strong and each service was well documented, enabling us to make our decision easily.”

ACTi successfully migrated its internal systems to the cloud in about two weeks. This included the company website, business intelligence portal, and sales performance data, as well as its customer demo environments. After the successful migration, the company then moved its Cloud NVR, a cloud-based video surveillance solution, and its Market Application Suite (MAS) platform, a big data analytics platform for various vertical applications, to AWS.

Operational Impact

[Data Management - Data Analysis]
The AWS-based services offer “great revenue potential” for the company as it combines surveillance with big-data analytics, especially with accelerated development cycles.
[Cost Reduction - Procurement]
Customers no longer have to face the costs and time required to deploy, test, or construct a large physical infrastructure that is traditionally not only the biggest overhead, but is often very hard to estimate in a big IP video surveillance project. Aside from the cameras, the rest of the hardware is able to work immediately in the cloud.
[Product Improvement - Customer Satisfaction]
Solutions can support the development of the Internet of Things and provide valuable information to our customers about the people utilizing their products and services day to day.

Quantitative Benefit

Development time is reduced by 30%, and testing and quality assurance can be done 40% faster.
ACTi has also lowered the cost of product development by around 30 percent, while IT operating costs have been reduced by about 20 percent by moving internal systems to AWS.
Reduce customer costs by 40 to 50 percent with AWS