Enterprise Platform Engineering
Engineering for software you sell as a service
Brihat Infotech takes a product from discovery to a first release that customers can sign up for and pay for, then keeps it running. It suits a company whose product serves other businesses.
From idea to a sellable first release
- Product discovery
the customer, the first use case and the smallest release worth selling.
- A product spine
the core data model and flows that later features hang on.
- Design system and release management
a shared set of screens and parts, and a versioning plan so customers are not surprised.
- Compliance-aware delivery
controls your customers' buyers will ask about are built in during the project.
- Telemetry from the first release, so you see which features are used.
- A runbook for operating the product.
A product lead, a designer, a team of engineers and an architect carry the work.
What a paid multi-customer product needs
- Multi-tenant architecture
customers share one set of tables, get a schema each, or get a database each (3 models). Sharing costs least to run; separate databases isolate hardest. We help you choose by customer size and contract terms.
- Billing and subscriptions
plans, trials, upgrades and invoices through Razorpay or Stripe.
- Usage metering
charge by seats, records or calls.
- Self-serve onboarding
a new customer signs up and starts without a call.
- Tenant isolation and data residency
each customer's data stays apart, and in the region their contract names.
- Reliability
service-level targets, a public status page and on-call.
- Product analytics and feature flags to release to a few customers first.
Choosing the tenant model
The shared-table model is cheapest to run and simplest to update, because one release reaches every customer. A schema per tenant gives cleaner separation and per-customer backups. A database per tenant gives the hardest isolation, which large buyers and regulated sectors often ask for, at a higher running cost and a heavier release process.
Many products start shared and move their largest customers to separate databases later. We design the first release so that this move does not mean a rewrite.
From first release to steady running
A first release usually carries one use case, sign-up, billing and a status page. After launch the same team can stay on to operate the product: respond to incidents, ship fortnightly releases and read the usage figures with you. The runbook gives your own people the same procedures, whenever you want to take over.
Security controls
We design to ISO/IEC 27001 controls, and Brihat Infotech holds ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. SOC 2 is a report that your own auditor issues after launch; we build the controls it tests.
Related work
Benchmarking. A product that gathers public bank data and compares banks, built to be sold back to banks. See the Benchmarking case study
For the full project path, see how we engage. If the product also needs links to payment rails or accounting, see systems integration and APIs.
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