Krish Advani,
CTO and Co-Founder
CTO and Co-Founder
“The Enterprise Portal is a game changer. No longer do I have to communicate with the end customer saying, ‘Hey, you need to do XYZ. This is how you onboard the license… this is how you upgrade… this is how you patch.’ The Enterprise Portal takes care of all of that.”
Company Size:
40
Industry:
Integration and Automation
Overview
Quickwork is a fast-growing Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) company that helps enterprises seamlessly connect disparate systems—whether legacy, on-prem, or cloud-native. With a vast and extensible ecosystem of over 1,500 connectors, Quickwork caters to highly regulated industries like banking and fintech, where data integration and compliance go hand in hand. To serve customers with strict infrastructure and data locality requirements, Quickwork needed a secure and scalable way to deliver their product in on-prem and air-gapped environments.
Challenge
As a cloud-native startup, Quickwork initially hesitated to enter the on-prem market. Krish Advani, CTO and Co-Founder of Quickwork, explained, “We were really scared of going on-prem to begin with.” The team grappled with concerns over protecting their IP, managing dependencies across environments, and the sheer complexity of deploying a microservices-based application in a customer’s secure environment.
Their product included not only a robust core platform but also thousands of connectors, each requiring careful packaging and delivery. Dealing with software bills of materials (SBOMs), security patching, and drift between cloud and on-prem deployments made the idea of supporting enterprise installs seem nearly impossible.
Their product included not only a robust core platform but also thousands of connectors, each requiring careful packaging and delivery. Dealing with software bills of materials (SBOMs), security patching, and drift between cloud and on-prem deployments made the idea of supporting enterprise installs seem nearly impossible.
“We were really scared of going on-prem to begin with.”
Krish Advani,
CTO and Co-Founder
CTO and Co-Founder
Solution
Replicated provided the foundational platform Quickwork needed to confidently serve enterprise customers in private and regulated environments. From the beginning, Quickwork invested deeply in training and documentation, completing Replicated labs and receiving onboarding support from the Replicated team. As Krish noted, the team was “completely floored that the Replicated platform solves everything with on-prem that there is to be solved.”
Key Replicated features Quickwork adopted include:
- License management to enforce trials and commercial agreements
- Preflight checks with Troubleshoot.sh to avoid misconfigurations
- Compatibility matrix for future-proofing deployments
- Zero-vulnerability container images and security attestations
Additionally, Replicated’s Enterprise Portal became a crucial part of their enterprise deployment strategy. The Enterprise Portal is a self-service interface that empowers customers to manage licenses, deploy applications, and perform upgrades with minimal vendor intervention. It streamlines enterprise software delivery by offering a centralized experience for configuration, automation, and support. Quickwork’s customers install and manage their applications using Helm charts, and the Enterprise Portal supports Helm-based deployments. This allows customers to execute installs with precision, consistency, and full visibility, all within a controlled interface that reduces complexity for both Quickwork and their enterprise IT teams. Krish emphasized its impact, saying, “The Enterprise Portal is a game changer. No longer do I have to communicate with the end customer saying, ‘Hey, you need to do XYZ. This is how you onboard the license… this is how you upgrade… this is how you patch.’ The Enterprise Portal takes care of all of that.”
Quickwork customers also leverage CI pipelines directly on top of the Enterprise Portal, automatically applying updates in lower environments with minimal involvement—giving back valuable time to Krish and his team.
Key Replicated features Quickwork adopted include:
- License management to enforce trials and commercial agreements
- Preflight checks with Troubleshoot.sh to avoid misconfigurations
- Compatibility matrix for future-proofing deployments
- Zero-vulnerability container images and security attestations
Additionally, Replicated’s Enterprise Portal became a crucial part of their enterprise deployment strategy. The Enterprise Portal is a self-service interface that empowers customers to manage licenses, deploy applications, and perform upgrades with minimal vendor intervention. It streamlines enterprise software delivery by offering a centralized experience for configuration, automation, and support. Quickwork’s customers install and manage their applications using Helm charts, and the Enterprise Portal supports Helm-based deployments. This allows customers to execute installs with precision, consistency, and full visibility, all within a controlled interface that reduces complexity for both Quickwork and their enterprise IT teams. Krish emphasized its impact, saying, “The Enterprise Portal is a game changer. No longer do I have to communicate with the end customer saying, ‘Hey, you need to do XYZ. This is how you onboard the license… this is how you upgrade… this is how you patch.’ The Enterprise Portal takes care of all of that.”
Quickwork customers also leverage CI pipelines directly on top of the Enterprise Portal, automatically applying updates in lower environments with minimal involvement—giving back valuable time to Krish and his team.
Quickwork's Enterprise Portal, configured for an on-prem customer.
Results
With Replicated, Quickwork reduced the effort needed to support complex customer installs, streamlined their deployment processes, and opened up entirely new markets. “None of our competitors are even aware that they can offer their services on-prem. That gives me a competitive edge,” said Krish.
Quickwork has already deployed to large banks and, because the experience has gone so well, is in discussions with defense organizations that require strict air-gapped environments. According to Krish, the bank they worked with “had never had such a good experience installing an application with any vendor before.” The experience of onboarding their first highly regulated customer set Quickwork up to move faster and more confidently with the next.
Krish and the Quickwork team continue to monitor Replicated updates closely and plan to deepen their use of custom telemetry and licensing capabilities. He shared, “deploy anywhere was always something that we wanted to accomplish. Replicated lets us do that without compromising our cloud-native approach.”
With Replicated, Quickwork is no longer bound by deployment limitations and is free to grow its enterprise business wherever opportunity leads.
Quickwork has already deployed to large banks and, because the experience has gone so well, is in discussions with defense organizations that require strict air-gapped environments. According to Krish, the bank they worked with “had never had such a good experience installing an application with any vendor before.” The experience of onboarding their first highly regulated customer set Quickwork up to move faster and more confidently with the next.
Krish and the Quickwork team continue to monitor Replicated updates closely and plan to deepen their use of custom telemetry and licensing capabilities. He shared, “deploy anywhere was always something that we wanted to accomplish. Replicated lets us do that without compromising our cloud-native approach.”
With Replicated, Quickwork is no longer bound by deployment limitations and is free to grow its enterprise business wherever opportunity leads.
“None of our competitors are even aware that they can offer their services on-prem. That gives me a competitive edge."
Krish Advani,
CTO and Co-Founder
CTO and Co-Founder
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