Case Study: OpCalim slashes server provisioning to 3 days and deployments to 1 hour with BuildMaster

How Opcalim Reduced Server Provisioning Time From One Month to Three Days and Deployments From Two Days to One Hour

OpCalim, a French consultancy supporting government agencies in the agricultural sector, faced a slow, manual deployment process for a third‑party .NET application with just two Operations specialists and no dedicated Development team. Their in‑house automation effort stalled and Linux‑centric tools like Jenkins or Chef were unsuitable for OpCalim’s Windows environment, so they turned to the Windows‑first combination of BuildMaster and Otter to address pipeline and server configuration challenges.

Using BuildMaster together with Otter, OpCalim implemented one‑click automated deployment pipelines, pre‑configured server roles, and continuous auto‑remediation of configuration drift. Otter provisions servers and enforces desired state (auto‑remediating every 10 minutes), while BuildMaster handles environment‑specific .NET configuration and makes deployments repeatable and fast. The result: provisioning that once took weeks is now a three‑day platform initiation (2 hours to provision a server), deployments dropped from two days to one hour, and OpCalim reports roughly 10x faster server provisioning and 46x faster deployments thanks to BuildMaster.

OpCalim

Philippe Camelio

Systems and Network Specialist