CrossCut relaunches the Moskitos fire iPaaS platform.

Article published on November 12, 2019, by ChannelNews, relating to the journey of Crosscut, a software publisher relaunching the Moskitos fire iPaaS platform, and which relies on a 24/7 monitoring solution from SATELLIZ.

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Hybrid data exchange platform appreciated by experts, Crosscut almost collapsed definitively with its promoter, Frenchman Moskitos, swept away by a collective procedure this summer. It owes its salvation to the mobilization of Antoine Jacquier and Clément Marche, the two directors of one of its partners, the consulting company Nuageo, which had made CrossCut one of the essential cogs of the information system of a half a dozen clients. Concerned about the sustainability of their IS and convinced of the relevance of CrossCut - evaluated by Gartner in its Magic Quadrant - and of a market existence, Antoine Jacquier and Clément Marche bought the assets of Moskitos in August with the desire to ensure at least the continuity of this service for existing customers and, if possible, to relaunch the development.

Three months later, the first results are there and the prospects are encouraging. The platform is still operational and half of the ten active clients at the time of liquidation continue to use it - including Cafpi, Wojo (ex-NextDoor) and Tech Data. A number of clients in any case sufficient to ensure the sustainability of CrossCut - name of the new legal structure created in early September to continue Moskitos' work - in its current form, assures Clément Marche, its managing partner in charge of business development and service quality.

Because CrossCut places itself from the outset in a logic of immediate profitability unlike Moskitos which was in a logic of fundraising, he explains. As a result, while Moskitos employed about 30 people at the time of its failure, CrossCut had to operate with a much more collected team of three to four people at first.

To ensure the platform's service continuity and orchestrate its relaunch under the best possible conditions, Antoine Jacquier and Clément Marche naturally turned to the ex-Moskitos. Well done for them: their project has won the support of one of the most imminent of them, its technical director, Jérémie Devillard, who officially joined CrossCut as a partner in late October. Several independent developers are also in the process and a new hire is already scheduled within one to two months.

As part of its team, Crosscut has focused on optimizing its platform in its new resource-constrained environment. The publisher turned to SATELLIZ, a specialist in remote monitoring, to automate supervision and technical operations. In parallel, he's working to set up a multi-tenant instance of its platform, to reduce access costs, and is working on an as-a-service flow model integrating the flow design, its implementation and its execution.

Obviously, CrossCut had to make sacrifices, including pausing a number of developments (including API management) to focus on data exchange. The publisher has set itself the goal of being able to offer a stable platform, supervised 24/7 and deployable in less than 20 minutes by January. An objective already almost achieved. From then on, Crosscut will be ready to conquer new customers.

Source : ChannelNews