Here at Cemplicity we run a SaaS platform. But every now and then we're asked about PaaS. So what's the difference? What we consider 'the cloud' these days can be broken into several layers. At the bottom level, there's the Infrastructure. This includes virtual machines, networks, servers, storage units, and even the physical data centres themselves. One layer ...
Here at Cemplicity, we like to keep things simple. In fact, we're so keen on simplicity that it's one of our core values. Yeah, I know. Corporate values. We've all worked at places with carefully curated mottoes and philosophies hung in prominent positions that bear no relation to what really happens. But we really do strive for simplicity ...
Here in New Zealand we're about to move from spring into summer. People don't bother with their winter coats when they walk out the door to work and they're starting to think about abandoning their umbrellas. Which could be a mistake, especially in Auckland where there's always a chance of rain. Out in the suburbs people are getting ...
I really like buddy cop films. You know the ones - two mavericks who have always gotten results by doing things their own way are teamed up. Riggs & Murtaugh, Tango & Cash, Angel & Butterman. Maybe they rub each other the wrong way at first, but in the end they crack the case, get the killer, defuse ...
There's a wall in the Cemplicity office behind where the development team sits that is covered in Post-Its. Every post-it represents a new feature, configuration change or, occasionally, bug that has been analysed, built and deployed to our production systems. It's a monument to the achievements of our small, but mighty, team. Like many organisations that take an ...
At Cemplicity, we’re a SaaS (Software-as-a-service) platform. There are many practical advantages for organisations to use SaaS including reduced cost-of-ownership, simple in-house IT capability requirements, low maintenance effort and a streamlined procurement process. I’m not going to talk about this well-documented list today but instead will focus on a more subtle and harder to quantify aspect often overlooked in ...
