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Build enterprise software on Billet, with ETCON
Billet is an Australian platform for building enterprise software on Microsoft Azure. Its framework decides the architecture, and its harness plans, builds and releases the work, with a person approving every step. Your team writes the business logic; Billet provides everything around it, from security and infrastructure to testing, telemetry and the interface.
ETCON works in partnership with Billet. We lead the consulting, from deciding whether Billet fits to defining your domain, preparing your Azure environment and bringing your team on board, and we resell Billet licences, so you have one accountable partner.
Sound familiar?
Signs it's time to act
- Every team building applications with a different architecture
- Security, sign-in and infrastructure rebuilt by hand for each new application
- AI coding tools in use, without a controlled way to plan, review and release their work
- Slow delivery, with too much time spent on plumbing rather than business logic
- Limited visibility of how applications behave in production
- Quality and security checks that depend on who reviews the code
What changes
How we help
Teams focus on the business
With the architecture and platform decided by Billet, your developers spend their time on the rules and processes that make your business different.
AI-assisted delivery, under control
Billet's harness plans and builds the work, and a person approves every ticket before it's built and reviews each plan and delivery.
Security and quality built in
Every change passes Billet's quality gate, including security scanning, before it ships, rather than relying on manual checks.
In detail
What to know
What Billet is
Billet has two parts. A framework decides the architecture of your applications: delivery and enforcement, security and access, infrastructure, runtime, telemetry, data and messaging, contracts and integration, and the interface. A harness turns ideas into specifications, plans the work, builds it and releases it.
What's left for your team is the domain: the business logic, rules and use cases that are specific to your organisation.
From an idea to a released change
In Billet, a person describes what's needed in a conversation, which becomes a specification with stories, scenarios, edge cases and non-goals. Billet's planning agent, Forge, reads the code and writes a plan. A person reviews the plan and approves each ticket before it's built.
Approved tickets are then built, reviewed, released and checked against the original specification, and a person accepts the delivery.
- A specification for every change
- A plan reviewed by a person
- Every ticket approved before it's built
- Delivery checked against the specification and accepted by a person
Security and quality, built into the platform
According to Billet, requests are checked at three points: the browser-facing layer, the gateway and the service itself. Sign-in uses Microsoft Entra ID, secrets are held in Azure Key Vault, applications run with managed identities, and Azure Policy rules guard each environment.
Every change passes a staged quality gate before it ships, covering types, conventions, architecture rules, tests and security scanning, and Billet's interface components are built to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility.
- Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, with tokens kept out of the browser
- Secrets in Azure Key Vault, accessed through managed identities
- Security scanning that blocks high and critical vulnerabilities and exposed secrets
- Traces, logs and metrics collected for every service
Where ETCON fits
Billet provides the platform. ETCON provides the consulting around it: assessing fit, defining your domain, preparing your Azure environment, onboarding your team and supporting adoption. As a reseller, ETCON can also supply your Billet licences, so commercial arrangements sit with one partner.
- ETCON: consulting, onboarding, adoption and support
- ETCON: Billet licensing as a reseller
- Billet: the framework, harness and platform
Is Billet the right fit?
Billet suits organisations building their own enterprise applications on Microsoft Azure, where consistency, security and controlled AI-assisted delivery matter. If an existing product would meet your needs, that may be quicker and cheaper.
Because we resell Billet, we want to be transparent: our advice is still based on fit, and discovery is there to confirm it.
What we deliver
What's included
- Fit assessment: is Billet right for your applications?
- Domain and requirements workshops to define your business rules
- Microsoft Azure and Entra ID readiness
- Platform onboarding, coordinated with Billet
- Specifications and acceptance scenarios for your first applications
- Integration planning with your existing systems
- Support for your team in reviewing plans and approving work
- Change management and team adoption
- Billet licensing, supplied through ETCON
- Ongoing advice and support
How engagements work
Engagements start with discovery to confirm Billet is the right fit and to scope onboarding. Consulting is then quoted as a project, with Billet licences quoted separately.
Where we deliver
Billet consulting is delivered remotely for organisations across Australia, with onsite workshops where available.
Service areasOur approach
Five clear steps
- 01
Discover
Understand your objectives, users, systems, risks and constraints.
- 02
Design
Map the process and define a practical solution and scope.
- 03
Build
Configure, develop or procure the agreed components.
- 04
Deploy
Integrate, test, document and train your team.
- 05
Support
Maintain, monitor and improve under agreed support arrangements.
FAQs
Common questions
What is Billet?
Billet is a platform for building enterprise software on Microsoft Azure. Its framework decides the architecture, and its harness plans, builds and releases the work. Your team writes the business logic, and Billet provides everything around it.
Does Billet use AI to write software?
Yes. Billet's harness uses AI to plan, build and release changes. People stay in control: a person approves every ticket before it's built, reviews each plan, and accepts each delivery.
Which cloud does Billet run on?
Billet runs on Microsoft Azure, using services such as Azure Container Apps, Azure Service Bus and Azure Key Vault, with sign-in through Microsoft Entra ID.
What does ETCON do, and what does Billet do?
Billet provides the framework, harness and platform. ETCON provides the consulting around it, from assessing fit and defining your domain to preparing your Azure environment and supporting your team, and can supply your Billet licences as a reseller.
Can we buy Billet licences through ETCON?
Yes. ETCON resells Billet licences, so licensing and consulting can be arranged together through one partner.
Will you recommend Billet even if it isn't the right fit?
No. Discovery is there to confirm fit. If an existing product or another approach would suit your business better, we'll say so.
Next step
Explore Billet for your organisation
Tell us about the applications you're building or planning. We'll help you work out whether Billet is the right platform, and what getting started would involve.
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