Case Study: Advansolar achieves 60% faster time-to-market and 30% development cost savings with IBM Cloud Garage (IBM)

Moving up a gear to bring innovative solar charging solutions to market ahead of competitors

Advansolar, a designer and manufacturer of turnkey solar charging stations, needed to move fast to launch an electric bicycle sharing and rental solution before competitors. The company partnered with the IBM Cloud Garage and leveraged IBM Cloud services — including the IBM SDK for Node.js, IBM Watson IoT Platform and Compose (MongoDB) — to build a hybrid cloud platform and responsive web application for booking, fleet management and station monitoring.

IBM implemented the hybrid solution that connects Advansolar’s solar charging stations to a cloud-based MongoDB (Compose), uses IBM Watson IoT for telemetry, and applied IBM DevOps practices to accelerate delivery. The result: Advansolar brought the product to market up to a year earlier (about 60% faster) and cut development costs by roughly 30%, freeing capital for sales and enabling easier international expansion.

Advansolar

Raphael Brière

CEO