The Calibo platform enhances your organization’s efficiency, regardless of your current set up. With adaptable solutions and expert support, we simplify the process. From self-service features to our comprehensive “Calibo One” package, we cater to your productivity needs, with our professional services team are ready to help.
By aligning with integrated tech stacks and collaborating with partners, we streamline implementation. Together, we’ll tackle any hurdles, ensuring your platform setup powers your future growth.
Calibo is a software and data development and orchestration platform, and how complex it is to set up depends on the skills of your current technical and project staff.
If your current staff isn’t highly technically skilled, or if you simply don’t have those resources – don’t worry. We can manage that by adding more skilled resources through Calibo’s professional services in collaboration with our partner companies.
There are 3 primary considerations:
- If it’s mandatory to integrate with any on-premises tech stacks or tools
- What platform use cases you are implementing
- How far along you are on your cloud journey
Let’s discuss them each one by one.
The Calibo platform simply facilitates the development process by enabling self-service capabilities and automating repeatable tasks. Yet, it does not prevent your developers from using their preferred tools (e.g. programming languages/frameworks, source code repos, IDEs, etc.)
Setting up the Calibo platform for this use case is straightforward if the platform teams are skilled in the cloud technologies and tools needed for self-service setup, CI/CD automation, and deployment organization for development teams.
Implementing a platform can be more complex if the platform teams lack sufficient expertise in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering. If they do, we do have a solution so not to worry, read on as we explain how.
Our recommendations
- Create a multi-discipline platform team that includes cloud/infrastructure engineers and DevOps engineers and augment (internally or externally as needed) with solution architecture and security architecture resources that have cloud-native software solution development expertise.
- This can be managed by adding more skilled resources through Calibo’s professional services, in collaboration with our partner companies.
- Platform teams should talk to software developers and product owners to get their input on preferred development tools and standards (like source code repositories, branching strategies, and containerized deployments) before creating governance templates. Skipping this step could lead to resistance and affect how well the platform is adopted.
- Development teams should leverage the Maturity Assessment capabilities and/ Agile metrics dashboards available on the Calibo platform to assess and monitor their maturity levels within various categories to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Platform teams should continuously seek feedback from the development teams to help influence platform enhancement priorities within Calibo.
The Calibo platform supports a proprietary data pipeline creation process, which makes building data products on the platform more complex than creating software applications.
The complexity of setting up the platform depends on the intricacies of the business use case. The more intricate the use case, the more complex the platform setup will be.
For more complex data product use cases, the data team (data engineers, data scientists, etc.) will need to learn and master how to build complex data products through Calibo to be effective.
However, since the platform allows users to continue using their preferred technologies (by integrating with Calibo), the time and effort needed to learn the platform can be minimized.
The Calibo platform offers template-based features to make learning and adoption easier. Higher skilled data team members (including those externally sourced from Calibo professional services), can create data pipeline templates and catalogs that less experienced staff can use to learn and speed up their work.
The self-service capabilities enabled through the platform engineering features supported by the Calibo platform acts as additional accelerators for the data teams.
It simplifies access to data sources and other data technologies needed for data product creation, thus reducing the business use case implementation complexity for data teams.
Our recommendations
- Start with a few simple business use cases to allow the data teams to incrementally adapt and learn how to create, maintain and run data products through Calibo.
- Select an initial set of business use cases that are dependent on data tech stacks and tools already integrated with the Calibo platform.
- Involve the higher skilled data team members in creating the initial set of data products and leverage them to coach the lesser skilled resources in future data product development. The higher skilled resources can also create re-usable data pipeline templates that lower skilled resources can learn from and reuse for their own data product development.
- Augment the initial data team with Calibo professional services resources to implement the initial data products to improve the knowledge transfer process.
This needs full use of all four product development stages in Calibo. The platform setup for this use case is simple, as team members just need training on the specific features relevant to their stage.
Delivery governance dashboards are centrally accessible and easy to read and digest. As a result, it only requires minimal to no training to use by the relevant resources across the enterprise.
Our recommendations
- Create a multi-discipline team that involves resources with the relevant skillset and proficiency in the integrated tech stacks related to the product development lifecycle stage(s) each resource is required to operate at.
- Select a business use case that’s simple enough but has a broad enough scope to demonstrate the “product lifecycle simplification and delivery governance” platform use case through the Calibo platform.
- Ensure the platform team is well trained on how to configure the platform to enable the effective use and implementation of all 4 product lifecycle stages.
- Where necessary, consider leveraging Calibo professional service resources to augment the team’s skillset to achieve the project objectives while providing hands-on training to relevant team members.
Onboarding team members is often challenging due to the complex processes and delays in getting new members access to the development environments, tools, and technologies they need to start their tasks.
This platform use case is straightforward and usually only needs training for the platform teams and product owners on assigning team members to products and features.
New team members will also need Calibo training focused on the product development lifecycle stage they will be working in.
Once a product owner assigns a new team member to a team linked to a specific product and gives them access to the relevant tech stack accounts, they can immediately access the development environments and tools needed to start their work.
Our recommendations
- To simplify and accelerate team member onboarding, platform teams should consider collaborating with relevant product owners to preconfigure teams for planned projects, even if the specific team members have not yet been identified.
- Platform teams should work with product owners to predefine product roles for their planned products and pre-assign tool stack access to the roles. This will enable team members assigned to a role later to automatically inherit access to the tool stack – simplifying the new team member onboarding process.
- Product owners need to be given the relevant platform permissions to manage their team membership to reduce dependencies on IT operations teams and eliminate wait times.
When done right, this approach will be seen by development teams as platform teams offering guidance and empowerment rather than applying needless control that stifles creativity.
Using the Calibo platform, setting up and enforcing guardrails is template-based and easy to carry out. However, platform teams generally work with product development stakeholders and architects to decide on policy strategies (like which technologies to standardize, which branching strategies to use, and which approval workflows to adopt) to promote widespread platform adoption.
The defined policies are enforced at different layers – with each layer offering varying levels of flexibility and enforcement scope.
Product owners generally assign policies to specific products to ensure enforcement is limited to individual product teams, while still adhering to the broader guardrails established by platform teams and architects.
Our recommendations
- Platform teams are encouraged to collaborate with product development stakeholders and architects to establish strategies for what should be included in the policies.
- Development teams (including developers and DevOps engineers) should be consulted for their input during the policy establishment.
- Feedback should be continuously sought from the product teams by the platform teams to ensure the policies are working as expected, and not resulting in frustrations that inhibit creativity, innovation, and delivery speed.
- Leverage Calibo professional services to seek input or feedback regarding the guardrail policy decisions being considered.
Being familiar with technologies and tools already reduces the complexity of implementing the platform.
By prioritizing business use cases with tech stacks and tools already integrated with Calibo, you can simplify and speed up the platform’s implementation.
We integrate with over 150+ tools, so chances are high that you have tools that integrate with our platform. And if it doesn’t, we can find ways to work around that. Easy!
If you have standard security levels, the Calibo platform is configured to connect directly to tech stacks and in the customer’s technology ecosystem, which reduces implementation complexity.
If you have higher than standard security levels, the Calibo Orchestration Agent (which runs on AWS and requires an AWS cloud account to be procured if the customer is not already using AWS) will need to be implemented to facilitate a higher level of connectivity and access security between the Calibo platform and the customer’s technology ecosystem. This makes the platform setup slightly more complex.
Our recommendations
- To get going quickly, choose initial business use cases that rely on tech stacks already linked with Calibo.
- Collaborate with Calibo to gradually incorporate more platform integrations to support additional business use cases over time.
- Use Calibo’s professional services to set up an ochestration agent if enhanced connectivity or access security is needed to connect the Calibo platform to your technology ecosystem.
You can choose to adopt the tech stacks in the “Calibo One” offering – our fully managed platform offering.
If you choose “Calibo One”: Calibo will take care of procuring and setting up the tech stack and tools, which reduces complexity and burden on the customer’s platform team. Easy!
If you choose a self-managed platform: The time and complexity to implement the platform might increase, depending on:
If you choose to go with our recommended tech stack, there are a few factors that will impact how quickly we can do the set up. Such as, how knowledgeable your staff are with the tools, if they need any training, and if they’re open to collaborating with knowledgeable contracted staff to enhance their skills while developing use cases.
Our recommendations
- Go with the “Calibo One” offering.
- Start with a single, simple and straightforward business use case that only uses tech stacks and tools in the Calibo One offering.
- Use Calibo professional services to supplement your team for developing the first set of business use cases. This approach speeds up development and provides hands-on training for your staff.
If your set up requires us to integrate with any on-premise tech stacks or tools, it’s usually fairly complex to implement the Calibo platform.
The ease and speed of connecting the Calibo platform to the on-premises tech system depend on connectivity and security needs.
The complexity also hinges on the tech stacks involved. Does Calibo already integrate with them?
If you are going to be using our data product development solution, (Data Fabric Studio), it’s also good to consider how long you are planning to continue using your current operational/transactional systems that generate the transactional data.
Our recommendations
- Create a multi-discipline team involving experts from the cloud/infrastructure operations, security architecture, solution architecture, and enterprise architecture to work with Calibo professional services to develop options for connecting the Calibo platform to the required on-premises tech stack and tools.
- Start with one business use case that is dependent on the fewest number of on-premises tech stacks and use the implementation as a trial run to learn and inform the implementation approach for future use cases.
- Consider migrating from on-premises tech stacks and tools to equivalent tech stacks in the cloud to minimize implementation complexity.
- If migration is not an option, consider the evaluation and adoption of a hyper convergent infrastructure platform like Nutanix that removes silos between public, private, and hybrid cloud environments to simplify the connectivity requirements for the Calibo platform.
Starting with the Calibo platform offers a range of options to improve your organization’s efficiency and growth. Whether your setup is simple or more complex, Calibo brings flexible solutions and expert help to make the process easier.
From enabling self-service functions to using our all-inclusive “Calibo One” package, we’re here to increase your productivity. If you face challenges along the way, our professional services and partnerships are ready to guide you through.
By focusing on use cases that match with integrated tech stacks (we have more than 150) and working with our strategic partners, you can simplify complexity and speed up implementation. Together, we’ll overcome any obstacles and ensure your platform setup supports your future growth.
Let’s fully unlock your digital potential with Calibo!
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