COUNTRY FOCUS: ITALY
Businesses in today’s modern world are
transforming rapidly and it is therefore
imperative that they can depend on
reliable vendors to help deliver their
services to customers. Coopservice
Group utilised a Red Hat solution to
improve performance which accelerated
delivery times and contributed to a more
efficient way of working.
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Coopservice Group standardises
and accelerates application
development with Red Hat
C
oopservice, an Italian company
specialising in designing, provisioning
and managing integrated facility
services for businesses and communities
worldwide, struggled to manage its
many custom-written applications. By
standardising on Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform for application hosting
and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application
Platform for development, the company has
accelerated delivery times, helped staff work
more efficiently and reduced costs.
services to companies in Italy and worldwide
– including cleaning, energy and facility
management, security, logistics and staff
leasing and recruiting. Its customers include
hospitals, public and industrial groups, banks,
airports and shopping centres. JBoss, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat
– every type of application server on the
market. We had a very complex environment
and didn’t have a standardised platform for
our development teams,” said Gianfranco
Scocco, CIO at Coopservice.
“We also needed to move towards an agile
methodology because we have to get
many solutions into production in a very
short time.”
Complex IT environment lags as
services business accelerates To manage its specialised services and
staff, Coopservice develops many of its own
applications including human resources
(HR), field management and workforce
planning. However, as business accelerated
and partner companies demanded more
custom applications, the company found IT
management increasingly difficult. Founded in 1991, Coopservice Group
provides a wide range of outsourcing “We had many applications and we were
using Red Hat and community versions of
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Enterprise platforms unify
application development approach
Coopservice researched available options –
specifically container-based solutions – then
chose Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
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