Fynydd

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Sr. Director of a pharmaceuticals company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are an international company that offers a full spectrum of strategic commercialization services in the pharmaceutical and life science industries.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Fynydd to accomplish?

• Assist our team with product guidance.
• Assist our team with technical strategy and planning.
• Assist our team with Azure hosting infrastructure setup and testing.
• Provide leadership for an international development team.
• Provide dedicated, scalable development resources to meet project needs.
• Coordinate with the QA team to assure complete test coverage and remediate issues.
• Assist with and perform deployments.

SOLUTION

How did you find Fynydd?

Referral

Why did you select Fynydd over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Fynydd were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Created a technical strategy for the product platform, including options for future scaling, maintenance, and ongoing management.
Worked with international development and launch teams to build, QA, and deploy the platform as a series of interconnected services, including a real-time, fully responsive user experience.
Worked with our team on a product roadmap to evolve the platform.
Continued to support and evolve the platform, iterating on features and performance as the client base grows into new global regions.
Refined the testing and quality assurance processes. 
Build a platform that takes a modernized approach to pharmaceutical launch planning, execution, and tracking with our technology.
Useful for all life sciences launch engagements
Enables workflow automation, customizable visualizations and streamlined cross-functional project management with a flexible, dynamic and user-friendly interface designed to accelerate communication, transparency, collaboration and alignment in the cloud
Flexible and tailored for each client’s situation and evolving needs
Eliminates version control issues

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

SaaS web application/platform is actively being used by several clients that are renewing each year. 

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Fynydd does a fantastic job supporting our product. They are very responsive to any urgent reqests, have solid business acumin to facilitate a harmonious working relationshop. We trust them and enjoy co-creating with them. 

What was your primary form of communication with Fynydd?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Their flexibility and willingness to adapt with our organization. 

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

n/a

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Manager, Process Optimization of Pentec Health Inc.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Pentec Health improves healthcare by solving and simplifying complex care challenges not addressed by other providers. We understand the unique needs of patients and providers who rely on clinical nutrition or specialty care and pharmacy services for complex conditions. 
Rooted in empathy, clinical expertise, innovation and collaboration, our services respect patients’ and providers’ time, address their needs and help optimize outcomes through trusted, long-term relationships.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Fynydd to accomplish?

As part of the migration of a brand acquisition into the multitenant Umbraco platform Fynydd built, Pentec Health needed a payment microsite to securely handle patient payments for the brand. Fynydd built an integration with Cybersource that securely accepts payments while also identifying potential fraud using advanced heuristics.

SOLUTION

How did you find Fynydd?

Online Search

Why did you select Fynydd over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Fynydd were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

• Provide Zoia Health’s Patients with the ability to issue payments for service invoices via a web portal
• Provide Zoia Health’s internal staff with the ability to process payments for patients via the website
• Integrate the payment portal into the Zoia branding 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Process over 100 Patient Payments/Month
• Eliminate almost all spam transaction attempts
• Provide internal staff with the ability to process payments for patients via the website 
• Wells Fargo Bank contact asked through client how we managed to eliminate almost all spam transaction attempts

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

They delivered all of their items on time or prior to the established deadlines.  They were extremely cognizant and reponsive to all of our requests and needs throughout the project until its conclusion.

What was your primary form of communication with Fynydd?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Their level of commitment to assisting us with completing this project on time and providing an excellent level of support throughout the project to ensure it was completed prior to our established deadline.

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

None

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the membership director for The Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute. We’re a nonprofit, member-driven association that sells publications and documents detailing best practice standards for clinical labs. Our website brings in about half of our product sales and handles all of our membership. In total, we have approximately 2,000 members who bring in roughly $3 million in revenue.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Fynydd?

There is specific software for association management that we have to use. We decided to change our software platforms, which necessitated changing our volunteer management platform and website online store. We needed someone to rebuild a web store that could handle the complexities of our membership levels and our 200 products.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

We worked with a different company that has handled our SEO data for a while to design and develop wireframes. We brought those wireframes to Fynydd, and they executed the designs and built a backend solution that integrated with our new database.

We have 2,000 organizational members, but underneath them could be 100 employees. To accommodate that, we have different pricing tiers for each membership level, which means that our web store was not as straightforward as a regular e-commerce solution. The website they built using Umbraco, fully integrates with our new database and can handle all the complexities of layered or tiered membership. For example, they designed and launched an online membership renewal feature, which was not available before.

What is the team composition?

We had a team of four or five people—including developers and the product manager—that we communicated with directly.

How did you come to work with Fynydd?

We heard about them through other people in the industry. We had spoken with a few different agencies but decided to go with Fynydd because they listened to what we needed and had a good grasp on what the end product would be.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $100,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project lasted from May 2016 until July 2018. We have an ongoing maintenance contract with them, as well as separate initiatives to launch new website features.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Our users find the website much easier to use, and we’ve been able to easily launch features that we couldn’t before.

How did Fynydd perform from a project management standpoint?

They introduced us to Trello and Slack, which were tools that we weren’t familiar with. Now that we’re using them, we’ve found them helpful in keeping up to date with our projects and staying in communication with all of our vendors.

It was great working with Fynydd. They listened to what we needed and went beyond providing a basic solution to really identifying and solving the base problem. They delivered solutions that will help us in the future and can adapt to potential challenges.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They made an effort to understand the uniqueness of our business and customers. They identified ways to implement long-term solutions, instead of just meeting the scope and building a website.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Nothing immediately comes to mind.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I would recommend adopting the project management tools that they use. That will help the project move smoothly, and could help your organization in the long run.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the VP of operations and analysis for an advisory services firm that serves pharmaceutical companies.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Fynydd?

We hired them to develop two websites: one that would represent our business accurately and another that would serve a specific customer market.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They’ve developed a couple of sites from scratch for us using Microsoft ASP.NET. One site provides an overview of our business and the other is more customer-oriented with an online portal. The Fynydd team handled all of the wireframing and design work, as well as UX optimization. They also worked with us to find the best way to represent our brand online. Once all of that was in place, they performed all of the development and implementation of the new sites. They’re also our ongoing hosting partner.

In terms of site features and functionality, our customer-oriented site educates visitors about certain business aspects that appeal to one segment of our market. Visitors can browse sample report content and sign up for guest access to the customer portal to see if they’re interested in our services.

What is the team composition?

We worked with a project manager, a developer, and a UI expert. One of the owners was also periodically involved with our project.

How did you come to work with Fynydd?

We got a referral from someone who’d worked with them before. After we reached out, they offered to come onsite and give us a presentation. We ended up choosing them over several other companies that submitted proposals.

How much have you invested with them?

We probably spend around $50,000 per year, so about $150,000 in total at this point.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them in December 2015 and they’re still working with us.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The new sites have enabled us to meet our goals, which is why we’ve continued to work with their team for so many years. We see significant user traffic and regular engagement by guests on our customer portal.

How did Fynydd perform from a project management standpoint?

We use a tool called Asana to provide specifications and keep track of project timelines.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They have a really good sense of what the latest trends and web capabilities are, so they’ve done a great job of keeping our site current. They’re also great with UI/UX design. Our sites are intuitive to navigate and easy to understand.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There’s good and bad about working with a small company. We get a lot of personal attention, but on the other hand, they’re short on coverage for our project if one of their employees isn’t available.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Be very specific with your business goals and your timeline and treat the job as a partnership that goes both ways. You need to be willing to commit your own time and resources to the project in order to maximize their potential. Make sure you provide feedback in a timely manner and keep the project moving.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the Director of Operations at WIN Home Inspect. We’re a franchiser of home inspection services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Fynydd?

We were having some challenge with our website provider—for both WIN corporate and our franchisees. We wanted someone to migrate us off a WordPress platform and fix and advance our website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They stepped up, responded, and transitioned our old website from WordPress onto Umbraco. When they were trying to fix some of the bugs, we realized that the previous provider had done some custom coding that was causing problems. At that point, Fynydd did an analysis based on our requirements, and we determined that we would create an entirely new site.

We provide them with some of our initial thoughts—maybe a few wireframes—and they would come back with their own wireframes, and then we’d collaborate to come up with a solution. They designed and developed the new site and introduced both an advanced search functionality and a third-party scheduling software integration.

What is the team composition?

For the initial project, there were four to five people on their side including a UI expert, a technology expert, and a project manager. On a day-to-day basis, I primarily interact with two people: their lead developer and their managing partner.

How did you come to work with Fynydd?

Our previous marketing manager had worked with them before, and he selected them. I’m not sure what his selection process was.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent low six-figures.

What is the status of this engagement? 

We started work together in January 2015 and the engagement is ongoing. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Our clients have liked the improved, modern look and feel, and any issues we were having previously have gone away. Our franchisees love that its easier for customers to find them, and that they can go into their scheduling software in one click. Going with Umbraco has given us a lot more flexibility than we had with WordPress. It lets us be much more responsive and give our franchisees more ownership of their own websites.

How did Fynydd perform from a project management standpoint?

As we were both learning at the beginning of the project, they were highly responsive. If we needed a more detailed schedule, they got it for us. I wouldn’t call it over the top project management by any means, but it was the right level for us. We didn’t need a lot.

We did use email, but our primary communication was through their support or ticketing system. If we needed bug fixes or enhancements, we could capture the request, track it, and then have a place to get feedback before testing them and closing it out. We also had several face to face meetings. On a day to day basis, I primarily interacted with three people: our project manager and two developers.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Fynydd has definitely become a trusted partner; we actually call them a vendor-partner. While they’re providing a service for us, they’ve done things for our company that previous vendors weren’t able to do. Their responsiveness, capabilities, and willingness to go above and beyond has been fantastic.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I can’t think of anything off the top of my head.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am a partner of Blue Sequoyah Technologies LLC

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Accelerating business results through design and cutting-edge technology utilization.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Fynydd to accomplish?

• Create an SAAS LXP
• Ensure that the platform is secure
• Integrate SSO

SOLUTION

How did you find Fynydd?

Referral

Why did you select Fynydd over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Fynydd were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

LXP Platforrm with full SSO integration with responsive design for mobile phones, tablets, laptops and desktops.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Successful completion and passing of security audit from end client inf pharmaceutical industry

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The leveraged appropriate level of project management tools and their development team were alll at a high level that they inter-coordinated and worked to ensure the best outcomes in the timelines that were set. They often were able to pull out all stops to ensure exceeding schedules and mofications required by our end clients.

What was your primary form of communication with Fynydd?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

The most impressive and useful skill exhibited by the team was the ability to intuit undefined requirements and avoid potential gaps in features

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

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