FOR PEOPLE BUILDING APPS ON THEIR OWN DATA
Your app's backend, already in the workspace.
Data storage, sign-in, access, an API and billing are all capabilities you switch on in OpenX, with your data in your own Azure. Build your app in the framework you like, and let OpenX be the backend it calls.
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THE BACKEND · SWITCHED ON, NOT BUILT
- Data
- Cosmos DB containers with their own routes
- Sign-in
- Your own Entra or B2C directory
- Access
- API Manager rules on card rights, checked by the server
- Queries
- Saved queries as API routes
- Billing
- Plans on your own Stripe account
One workspace. Your Azure. Your app.
WHAT YOU WOULD OTHERWISE BUILD FIRST
Every piece of the backend, on one API.
A database per app
Cosmos DB containers in your subscription, each publishing REST routes with paging, ETag writes and batch transactions.
Sign-in for your users
Your own Microsoft Entra or Azure AD B2C directory, set up step by step in App Identity.
Access you can read
API Manager rules, judged on access cards, decide what each signed-in user reaches. Any caller can ask the API what it is allowed.
Answers as endpoints
Save a warm query over live data and it is a parameterised API route.
Plans and payments
Sell plans on your own Stripe account. A subscription grants the plan's rights, and a lapsed one removes them.
Identities for your jobs
Background jobs and integrations get their own identities, with certificates or federated credentials.
IF THE BACKEND IS THE SLOW PART
For builders who want to ship the part users see.
Internal app teams
Build the inspection app, the lot tracker or the supervisor view without a backend project first.
Software makers
Turn a tool into a product with sign-in, plans and access already wired.
Teams building with AI
Your AI reads the same API your app does, and proposes changes for a person to accept.
NEXT TO A BACKEND-AS-A-SERVICE
Not a separate backend. The workspace your data already lives in.
Backend services give you a database and an API, usually in their cloud. In OpenX the app's data, its users, its rights and its billing sit in the same workspace as your operational data, in your own Azure.
- Store, sign-in, access, queries, billing and AI access on one workspace API.
- The same access rules and AI-proposal review for the app as for everything else.
- A query can filter live sensor data by keys from your app's own data.
APPS TEAMS BUILD
From an idea to a paid app.
A complete app backend
- 01A Cosmos container holds the app data.
- 02App Identity signs users in, and API Manager rules set their reach.
- 03Licenses sells the plans.
A data product
- 01A warm query becomes an API route.
- 02Buyers sign in through your directory.
- 03A plan's rights open the route.
A supervisor app
- 01An OEE query runs over live line data.
- 02Supervisors sign in with their own accounts.
- 03API Manager rules on their access card decide which lines they see.
APPS ON OPERATIONAL DATA
The app, next to the data it serves.
MANUFACTURING
Inspection and work-order apps beside machine data.
LIFE SCIENCES
Sample and lot apps with their writes on the record.
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Tenant dashboards and billing apps over meter data.
Skip the backend. Build the app.
Switch on the capabilities your app needs, in your own Azure.
MORE OF OPENX
AI governance →
Over MCP, AI proposes and a person accepts. Only a person deploys.
OpenX MCP Server →
A few tools let any MCP-capable AI read your workspace and propose changes to it.
API Manager →
Your workspace is already an API. Decide who may call it and what each caller reaches.
Warm queries →
Save a question over live data and serve the answer to dashboards, apps and AI.
Provenance →
A record you can prove, kept in your own cloud, with corrections and signatures.
Your cloud →
Connect your Azure, build the landing zone, and the rest of OpenX runs inside it.
Databases →
A Cosmos DB store in your subscription, with a governed API for each container.
App Identity →
Your own sign-in directory, identities for your jobs, and access in one window.
Licenses →
Sell what you build on your own Stripe, and turn a subscription into a plan's rights.
IoT →
IoT Hub and Data Explorer in your Azure, feeding queries, APIs and AI.
Communications →
Send mail through your own relay, with the password in your vault and sends on record.