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grep -i is the original open source consulting firm that shows you how to take control of your IT and free it from vendor lock-ins and huge recurring bills. We also show you how to achieve high performance computing using efficient tools without the huge bills. We are not your regular SIs', we know what we are doing.

grep -i hinges itself on an IT with maximum automation, scalability and efficiency. We have over 8 years of experience in automation technologies working with large financial institutions, international telecom players and working closely with research analysts like Gartner.

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IT Automation

grep -i has several years of experience working along side very large enterprise organizations to automate their IT. grep -i's experiences include large public sector banks, stock exchanges, private multinational banks, national IT system integrators and Insurance companies.

grep -i can help you automate activities around the following areas:

  • Service Desk automation
  • Maintenance workflows
  • Self-healing or remedial workflows
  • Disaster recovery automations
  • Devops activities

IT process automation

IT process automation involves providing a service catalogue of automation activities from IT to its end users. This helps customers develop a self service portal that will automatically engage end users to do typical service desk activities like password reset, adding a new user etc.

  • Typical service desk replacement portal
  • Integrate end to end with Service desk portals, asset management software and other IT tools.
  • Automations that are triggered off from tickets, IVRs, HTTP calls, Mobile apps. custom applications
  • Maintenance activities like patching servers, network devices etc.
  • Provisioning/deprovisioning assets
  • Employee onboarding or service/system (e.g. NFV, Compute) onboarding.

grep -i automation platform

grep -i Automation Platform is a suite of automation tools that provide you with a single pane of glass view of your IT. See your logs/events across your applications. This helps in much more effective monitoring, better application performance tracking and overall significantly higher machine learning enabled problem resolution.

grep -i helps you deploy an automatable infrastructure using the various tools in the grep -i automation platform.

  • Log aggregation for Storage, Network and Compute
  • Automation Framework for Linux, Unix & Windows
  • On Prem & Cloud interoperable & safe

Large Scale SaaS Deployment

grep -i consultants have over 8 years of experience in large SaaS application deployment with some of the largest SaaS enterprise customers in the world.

  • Redundant horizontally scalable models
  • Automated deployments (& CICD)
  • Automated test execution frameworks
  • Commit to production deployment automation (including test results)

Deployment Architecture

Picking the right deployment architecture can go a long way to simplifying deployments, responding to hot fixes or p1 bugs and to theoverall agility of the engineering team. grep -i has several years of experience in deploying large scale SaaS applications that face heavy loads. We will help you make the right decisions along the way. We will also make sure your deployment end to end is executed and ready to run.

In today's world with a plethora of on-premise and cloud based infrastructure it is important to choose the right solution that will minimise your total cost of ownership. grep -i has over 10 years of cloud experience. grep -i engineers have helped deploy aws infrastructure for large organizations and understand the cost-benefit of such solutions. Engage us to ensure your TCO remains under control.

  • Infrastructure decisions
  • Deployment architecture
  • Infrastructure budgeting
  • Deployment automation.

Building your Engineering Team

Building your engineering team, or hiring to your tech stack can be a challenge. We will help you develop the right organizational capabilities to hire the best engineering team that you need.

  • Picking techstack skills for your applications
  • Developing team requirements
  • Developing the right JD for your positions
  • Hiring and developing your engineering leaders
  • Hiring Engineering Leads to take over and run a good engineering team.
  • Setting up good development practices and Engineering processes.

IT Infra & DevOps

IT infrastructure management, the way it is supposed to be - automated, data driven, constantly learning and "fix once, repeat forever"!

Our devops approach, aims at minimizing headcount & maximizing automation.

Infrastructure Integrations

  • Datacenter project management
  • Planning computing capacity
  • Multivendor management
  • Process management, Service desk automations e.g. password resets, storage allocations etc.
  • Automation of maintenance activities on Networks, Compute, Storage

CICD

  • Continuous Integration
    • Sprint / Bug / Milestone tracking
    • Backlog reports for milestones
    • Build tests on every Pull request & Unit Test
    • CI Platform deployments
  • Automated Testing
    • Test suite framework development & Test automation
    • Sanity and Periodic environment tests. Functional periodic tests
    • Nightly build tests for regressions
  • Automated deployments
    • Automation framework
    • Redundant fault tolerant deployments with zero downtime
    • Configuration management
    • Infrastructure as Code.

Dashboards and Monitoring

  • Server, Service Metrics
  • Monitoring integration
  • Messaging & Notifications
  • Alerting infrastructure integrations

Case Studies

"A major insurance player improved issue resolution times to under 2 hours by moving to a uniform single logging infrastructure."

"Health Checks at a national financial institution improved from once a day (manually) to once in every 18 minutes (machine driven)."

"Warehousing activity for the core banking data of a major national bank was reduced from T-6 to T-1 by eliminating manual errors."

"Overall FTE savings of over 30% at a global bank along with a 60% decrease in workforce processing the automated tasks."

"Complete replication based production failover at a national payments gateway reduced from 2 hours to 10 minutes."

Contact Us

If you are looking for guidance or help with the execution in any of the above areas, please feel free to reach out to us.

  • Phone: +91 484 2976703 | +91 9980091185
  • Email: sales@grep-i.com