Choosing Clever Cloud to help manage the association
Find out how this collaboration has helped to simplify the association’s management, improve the performance of its infrastructure and meet its data security and sovereignty challenges.
Simplifying management and automating processes with Clever Cloud
The Club Alpin Français Lyon – Villeurbanne organises a wide range of mountain activities, from mountaineering to hiking and skiing. Managing registrations, memberships and communications with over 2,000 members requires reliable, high-performance digital tools. In 2024, the migration to Clever Cloud enabled the club to automate a number of processes, including the backup of member data and the management of backups, thereby reducing errors, the risk of corruption and accidental loss.
Why choose PaaS?
The Club Alpin Français’ IT system relies on a part-time employee and volunteers. As a result, simplicity and intuitiveness are essential to encourage stakeholders to get involved, which was not possible with the AWS server previously used to host data. By opting for Clever Cloud, the club has been able to simplify the deployment and maintenance of its tools, facilitating the onboarding of technical volunteers and improving the responsiveness of the IT team.
Security and sovereignty: two major issues
For the Club Alpin Français, data security and sovereignty are key concerns. By choosing Clever Cloud, the association has opted for a solution hosted in France, guaranteeing compliance with European regulations. The automated management of back-ups, as well as the use of secure infrastructures, means that the club can concentrate on its core business: promoting and organising mountain activities for its members.
Clever Cloud was perfectly suited to our needs without the necessity of complex dependency management. What’s more, the implementation of continuous deployment has considerably reduced delivery times for new features or bug fixes, by a factor of 4, while ensuring more regular updates and a better experience for our members.
Kévin Liagre
Representative of the Club Alpin Français Lyon – Villeurbanne
Over and above the challenges, the transition to Clever Cloud has led to a number of notable improvements:
- Reduction in delivery times for new functions by a factor of 4, thanks to the implementation of continuous deployment;
- Improved availability of services, with simplified management of staging and production environments;
- Improved website performance, with reduced loading times and smoother navigation for members.
Aiming high for the future
The club has no intention of stopping there, and is considering new applications to make the association’s internal management even easier, such as solutions for accounting and equipment management. Clever Cloud, with its features such as auto-scalability and continuous deployment, has the flexibility to support these future developments.
Simplicity, reliability and French hosting
This is what Clever Cloud represents for the Club Alpin Français Lyon – Villeurbanne. Migration to this PaaS solution has freed up time and energy for volunteers, while providing a secure, high-performance infrastructure that meets the club’s growing needs.