To overcome these challenges, the company adopted Portainer as a centralized platform for managing its Kubernetes-based environments. Portainer provided a secure, consistent, and easy-to-use interface that gave developers self-service access while allowing platform teams to enforce governance, security, and operational best practices. With Portainer, the company was able to standardize application delivery pipelines across multiple teams and geographies, accelerate development cycles, and ensure compliance with strict data handling regulations. The platform’s intuitive UI and role-based access controls helped bridge the gap between development and operations—empowering teams to move faster without compromising control or visibility.

Deployment times have improved because the development team is able to deliver additional stories during every software sprint. The dev-team is running two-week sprints. The goal is to code 13 stories per sprint. The team's coders deployment times have been enhanced 10-15% as measured by the 2 additional stories they are able to deliver every two weeks. Given the developer and QA pay with benefits is on average US$170,000 per year the additional productivity is a significant $170,000 = $170,000 (pay with benefits) x 10 (7 developers and 3 QA) x 10% (lower level of the estimated enhancement).

The ability to scale is an even more important critical business issue. The new AWS cloud solution with containerized software managed by Portainer will reduce the cost to deploy new software and support existing field applications increasing profit from revenue by an estimated 30-40%. Portainer is only one piece of the solution required to deliver on this new capability. But, its an important component.

Blackrock, one of the company's investors was particularly interested in Portainer’s ability to address the scale problem. The present older desktop solution, which is being replaced by the new AWS containerized solution is currently 90% of the cmopany's annual revenue. Each desktop version was sold for an average of $70,000. But the margins in the 500 ORs currently installed were low because a installation expert had to be on sight for each installation. The Manager of Software Development estimates the new application will improve margins by 30-40%. The estimated enhancement to profit from revenue is $10,500,000 = ($70,000 (average annual software subscription) x 500 (the next 500 installations) x 30% (lower level of enhanced operating margin range).

“Life prior to Portainer, I was doing all of the triage “unblocking” of our software engineers. Now, if an engineer tries something out and it doesn’t work on Portainer, he can’t push it out. Portainer forces our developers to unblock and be self-organized. This means all eight of us can triage a problem – not just me.”

"We are better able to scale because Portainer has secure push-button to deploy capability streamlining version control and maintenance. And tomorrow when the new application is running live in every OR; we can remotely monitor our software because Portainer goes from green to red on the dashboard. This might sound simple and inconsequential but it’s not. We’ll know immediately if an OR isn’t able to run our application and we can immediately respond before a doctor arrives to perform surgery.”

“Because our dev is going so smoothly we are talking about an additional two use cases already. Robotics video review for training new doctors is the first. And we have a French Health insurance provider who insures 200,000 ORs. We are talking about them being able to offer lower premiums for all of their clients who use our solution in the OR.”