EchoGlobal

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am CEO of holding, which manages ERP software leader in Lithuania

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Echo?

We have needed very experienced CTO with multitenant SaaS solutions

SOLUTION

How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?

We have got recommendation from other Lithuania top software company

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

They provided very experienced CTO in two months

Describe the recruitment process in detail.

We have discussed our project in detail and the received about 5 professionals to choose from.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

We will release alpha version of our new ERP in three months

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Hired CTO has became our employee after 2 years

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are very transparent and communicate well.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Nothing particularly

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I hold the role of Executive Director of Business Operations within the Low6 business. Low6 is a leader in sports gaming technology that powers franchises with their own branded gaming experiences to engage and monetize their digital fanbases.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Echo?

Requirement for bespoke back-en development & expertise in dev ops / Android dev.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

From a wide search across the UK & Europe, Echo were recommended by various sources close to low6.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

The project is ongoing - scale to be the largest provider on free-to-play online gamification in the world.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

As above: 1x back-end dev 1x Android dev 1x Dev ops

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Ongoing success with scaling our dev environment, maintaining concurrent system usage and ensuring all existing and new developments are first in class.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We see Echo’s team as very much a part of our team - we are all colleagues.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

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Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

N/a

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are small custom software/IT consulting company. I am a director there

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Echo?

It was a project for medical studies management software for research group within university. They were managing everything via paper questionnaires and manual input into excel files which grew more and more problematic for them.

What were your goals for this project?

Goal was to produce software with heavy emphasis on user friendliness (end users are not really power-users when it comes to computers) to ease data gathering and study management.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

After research online, they were one of few companies that we found. Echo was chosen because they have been the best conversationists

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Since we were main delivery party for this project Echo supplied us one full time frontend developer.

What was the team composition?

On Echo's side we had only single frontend developer. On our side we had UX designer/analyst, backend developer and "product owner" like person that was in close contact with university

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Since we are in business of delivering software it didn't have any significant impact. Project is still ongoing, but frontend part is done.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Unfortunately entire's project management was too chaotic - customer was indecisive and requesting pivoting changes quite a bit. On Echo's side on the other hand I have nothing to complain given these circumstances.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Compared to their competitors we spoke to they seemed to be the most professional and mature ones. Looking back at the project, their professionalism and maturity were fully confirmed.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I think both we and Echo could have used more regular communication.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Kunai offers consulting services to Financial Services companies. We help them automate their back office and elevate their customer experience with our advisory and program delivery services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Echo?

We had several innovative projects with large Financial Services clients who needed full stack, backend, and frontend engineers.

What were your goals for this project?

There were several goals across the various projects. Each hire was able to help us reach our goals.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Echo was referred to me by my Supervisor.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

There were many financial services projects such as building dashboards, payments features, etc.

What was the team composition?

Teams consisted of PMs, business development, designers, and engineers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Echo helped us successfully staff various projects and we have a list of contractors we would use again from Echo.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Kunai handled project management.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They were always very quick to send us qualified candidates!

Are there any areas for improvement?

Improve clarity on non-US holiday policy.