# Accelerated E-Commerce Platform Development with Container8 > Self-service for developers: fast, secure and cost-transparent access to cloud resources. Container8, based on Jira and Jira Service Management. Source: https://www.xalt.de/en/innovative-platform-for-ecommerce-companies/ Are you a provider of **e-commerce solutions**? Whether shop, ERP and fulfillment platforms or marketing and rating tools: in the world of e-commerce, the challenges are diverse and demanding. With our Developer Experience Platform, we offer you an innovative IT solution that sustainably strengthens your competitiveness. ## Container8 – Your IT Solution for Efficient and Reliable Business Processes With our Developer Experience Platform Container8, you receive a robust and strongly integrated Atlassian platform technology tailored specifically to the needs of e-commerce providers with software development. ### Your Benefits at a Glance - Accelerating development cycles through automated provisioning of cloud resources - Secure-by-design, audit-proof and cost-transparent app development - Flexibly adaptable platform that grows with your business requirements ## Your IT Challenges Our Developer Experience Platform Container8 solves your specific IT challenges and provides a robust foundation for efficient and reliable business processes. ### Innovation Pressure on Developers? ### Innovation Pressure on Developers? **90% of developers say that developer experience is very important.** E-commerce platforms must continuously evolve and integrate innovative software features such as artificial intelligence (AI), 3D commerce and virtual reality to remain competitive. Container8 helps you relieve your developers of unproductive tasks such as debugging, giving them more time for innovation. ### Guarantee of Stable Operations? ### Guarantee of Stable Operations? **$100,000 per hour is the cost of downtime for critical systems.** IT operations teams must ensure that infrastructure is highly available and flexibly scalable. At the same time, they must guarantee a smooth exchange of product, price and shipping data across numerous APIs. Any downtime can incur significant costs due to existing SLAs. With Container8, you guarantee availability and scalability. ### Efficiency Pressure on Support and Development? ### Efficiency Pressure on Support and Development? **1 to 3 hours are wasted by developers on manual and recurring tasks.** Especially expanding e-commerce companies often reach their limits with traditional ticketing systems such as OTRS, because support tickets have to be copied into Jira manually. This costs valuable time and increases the risk of errors. With Container8, you minimize support effort and enable a more efficient use of developer resources through seamless integration and automation. ### Rising Requirements for Security & Compliance? ### Rising Requirements for Security & Compliance? **$4.45 million is the average cost incurred due to security breaches.** E-commerce processes must be compliant and auditable, as they handle credit card and personal data. Compliance with high security standards and current regulatory requirements is essential. Container8 ensures that your processes meet strict security and compliance standards, so you always remain audit-proof. ## Our Solution: Container8 The heart of Container8 is a self-service platform that enables developers to access cloud accounts and cloud resources quickly, securely and cost-transparently, so that software and new features are developed and operated more efficiently. Our Container8 solution is based on Atlassian technologies such as Jira and Jira Service Management and provides your developers with ideal conditions to increase their productivity and shorten innovation cycles. ### Your Benefits: - Be productive from day one on new development projects. - Estimate your project costs with 99% accuracy. - Reduce recurring tasks and give your developers more freedom. ## Shorten Your Time-to-Market by Automating Recurring Tasks That Cost Your Developers Valuable Time ## A Platform That Grows With You At the same time, Container8 grows together with your business requirements and can also be extended for other application areas. The extension through new modules is always fully integrated with the base technology, guaranteeing you smooth workflows, maximum system availability, and thus uninterrupted productivity for developers, IT platform and support teams. ### Knowledge Base for developers & support teams ### AI Self-Service for standardized access to AI resources ### IAM Self-Service for automated access management (IAM – Identity & Access Management) ### Atlassian Ecosystem Integrate all your Atlassian products into Container8 – Developer Experience Platform. ### Software Catalog and Monitoring Atlassian Compass ### Plan and Manage Products Atlassian Product Discovery ### IT Security for Atlassian Cloud Products Atlassian Guard ### And Further Individual Integrations and Apps Integrate applications and services into Container8. ## Your Advantage as an Atlassian Customer Many companies already use Atlassian technologies such as Jira, Jira Service Management or Confluence in different business areas. Since Container8 is also based on Atlassian products, introducing our Developer Experience Platform lets you increase the ROI of your Atlassian licenses. The added value of a Developer Experience Platform with Jira and Jira Service Management for software development is: ### One-Stop-Shop for DevOps Manage all requests regarding access to cloud accounts or other resources on the same platform – in Jira Service Management. ### Scalable Service Through Automation The provisioning process for cloud accounts and resources is fully automated, reducing the effort for platform teams and shortening wait times for developers. ### Standardized and Secure Cloud Environment Standardized, secure cloud accounts and templates support cost-transparent, secure and policy-compliant cloud usage. ### Accelerated Innovation Cycle Employees are empowered to work independently and quickly and to collaborate seamlessly with colleagues. This supports a faster time-to-market for new applications. ### Discover how BSH transformed and revolutionized its process for provisioning cloud infrastructure. [To the Success Story →](https://container8.io/success-story/bsh-cloud-provisioning/) ## Develop the Features Your Customers Love. Starting Today! ### Thank you! Your request has been received. We will get back to you shortly. --- *This version is for AI agents. Every page of this site is available as Markdown: append `index.md` to its path. Index of all pages: [llms.txt](https://www.xalt.de/llms.txt)*