Aphelion: Reliable and Affordable Azure Based Solution Provider

While casually sipping coffee with a colleague at a Tim Hortons on a summer morning in 2009, Jahangir Alam, Principal Consultant of Aphelion, received a call from a former colleague inquiring about companies that could develop a website to share documents among vendors. The young entrepreneurs jumped at the opportunity and Aphelion was born after the successful delivery of a dynamic document management system at a low cost. The Canada based company has since been focusing on small to mid-size firms that are looking to move away from paper-based procedures to seamlessly consolidate their processes from various siloed systems. “Aphelion turns manual functions into highly efficient automated processes based on workflows we define with the vendor’s input,” says Jahangir. “Our customers from various sectors have seen dramatic increases in efficiency and productivity when their tedious manual processes were converted into effortless automated processes.”

Talking about how Microsoft Azure has redefined IT infrastructure for modern organizations, Jahangir says, “Businesses are switching to Azure as it eliminates physical resource limitations, provides geo-redundancy of data, and virtually eliminates data loss.” He adds, “After Aphelion we saw this as the future of business and immediately jumped on it.” The company hosts their application on Azure, uses Azure SQL server, storage, mobile services, and Azure Active Directory for single-sign-on capabilities. “Now, our entire product initiatives are Azure dependent, it can be said we were born with the Azure cloud,” points out Jahangir. Oftentimes, the company takes over client projects that are struggling to adapt to evolving technology, and Aphelion helps clients with their unique requirements by seamlessly transitioning and adopting the required technology using Azure’s language agnostic capabilities. For each project, Aphelion leverages Azure’s Virtual Machine capabilities to build three environments—Development, Quality Assurance (QA), and Production—mimicking the customers’ environment. “We commit and share code using Visual Studio online,” he explains. “This methodology gives more comfort and transparency to our clients. In return we earn their trust and long term business.”