The challenge

Augmenting a busy team to support a key customer

The team at Autodesk had a requirement from one of their enterprise customers for a new feature that fell outside of their usual product roadmap. They needed a partner who could augment their busy team, allowing their people to maintain their focus and pace whilst delivering an important feature for a key customer.

Embedding production videos into a secure website

For this project, Autodesk's client wanted to be able to embed their production videos into a website. Doing this securely is complex as there are risks that need mitigating, such as click jacking.

The solution

Deep dive

Our team deep dived into Autodesk's very specific problem statement and proposed a solution involving iframes, abiding the partially adopted Storage Access API standard when available, isolating the authentication process from potential attackers, and maintaining Autodesk's world class security.

Proof of concept

We then delivered a proof of concept for the Autodesk's development team to better explore the problem, understand the technical challenges and get a feel for the proposed solution – enabling them to make a fully informed decision.

Bringing the feature to production

Our team supported Autodesk with the following phase of the project which was bringing the new feature to production. This was a collaborative effort as it required taking the refined proof of concept and integrating it into the code base, ready for release.

The results

Going the extra mile for a VIP customer

Autodesk has been able to demonstrate their flexibility and willingness to go the extra mile for a VIP customer by quickly creating a bespoke solution to solve a specific problem.  

Hassle free new feature  

At the same time, Autodesk has received a new product feature that can be released to all their customers. With the feature being developed by Lancom Technology, the Autodesk development team has been able to maintain their focus on delivering their product roadmap.