Infoleven GmbH

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

The company is a leading digital service provider in Germany and combines strategy, creativity and technology in data-driven marketing with analytical and technological know-how.

I was Managing Director.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven, and what were your goals?

We’ve partnered with Infoleven to build a web-based event management system that allows a fast and easy way for managers to organize events. The end users have the opportunity to find and take part of an event based on their location, organization, interests, etc.

SOLUTION

How did you select Infoleven and what were the deciding factors?

I know Boyko for a while and we successfully developed a few projects together.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

The event management platform allows organization and management of events. Admins in the system can create and edit the events and participants. On the other hand, users can search and register for the selected events.

The platform also offers educational materials and videos on different topics for industry professionals.

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

System architect, Backend developer, Technical project manager, Quality assurance specialist, Account manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The tool makes the training process in the company easier and faster and provides everyone with easy access to training courses, seminars and other events. This helps us increase quality of our work and decrease staff turnover substantially.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

The project management was very well organized. We had pleasant and effective communication both with our account manager and the tech guys. Our account manager was German-speaking, which made the synchronization even easier for us.

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

I have worked with Infoleven for multiple projects. They have proven to be a supportive partner, who keeps their promises and delivers on time. I am mostly impressed with the honest communication and attention to details.

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

Happy to work on new projects wit them.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Talent Tree is the digital personnel consultant and headhunter for innovative startups as well as agile technology company in Munich. The special focus is on C-level position for scaling tech startups. We offer a holistic recruiting solution. I am the Founder and CEO of Talent Tree

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven, and what were your goals?

Infoleven helped us design a prototype for our recruiting app, which provides guidance for user ́s career choice and candidate selection, based on an individual analysis of strengths and weaknesses. The app includes fun games to identify personal competencies and potentials, in order to take more conscious and satisfying career decisions. The goal of the project was to create a basic app prototype, which we could present to our initial users and investors to collect market data.

SOLUTION

How did you select Infoleven and what were the deciding factors?

We know Infoleven from the start-up scene in Munich. When we needed a software service partner, they were recommended to us from common partners.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Infoleven was responsible for the prototype concept & design. The concept includes the user register & login functionality, a simple quiz-like game, a user profile with score and statistics and web admin panel.

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

We had a team of a UI/UX Designer, Frontend Developer, Backend Developer, Account manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The prototype was a good foundation for the overall app. We managed to present the app during an event and get first users’ feedback.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

The collaboration with Infoleven was great. Our account manager spoke perfect German and she managed the team communication very well.

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

Infoleven’s team is very professional, providing both high-quality software development and friendly communication. They gave us useful advices for the further development of the app.

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

They managed every issue very well, so we are content with the partnership. We will be happy to work again with Infoleven in the future.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

UDG United Digital Group is a full service agency for digital marketing. We develop digitisation strategies for smart brands, implement unique brand experiences and lead them to a measurable success. UDG United Digital Group is developing a fully integrated, digital customer experience for international corporations as well as for leading medium-sized companies. In the company I was Managing Partner & CIO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

We worked with Infoleven for multiple projects (both front- end and back-end). We had two teams working for us – one was focused on Java Backend and the other on TYPO3, CMS and Frontend technologies.

What were your goals for this project?

We needed additional dedicated development teams , as we didn’t have enough capacity to develop on time by ourselves or where more and specific knowledge was required. Infoleven was recommended to us by one of our partners. The test project was successful and we continued our collaboration for upcoming projects.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Infoleven was recommend to us by a businesspartner of us. We started with several test projects and continued into an more intense relationship.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Both teams were doing a good job. The Java team was working on a long-term development of a backend purchasing system and was working together with our backend team. The TYPO3 CMS Team worked with us on different projects. They developed some custom themes and added specific functionalities we required (e.g. locator feature for the contacts page).

Moreover, they helped us develop modern and sophisticated corporate social network software which includes features like user profiles, groups, messaging, notifications, etc. In the backend, Infoleven developed a CV and document management server app, that finds and extracts predefined e-mail attached files and sends them to an external smart system, where they are processed. They used PHP and dependency manager, based on pure back-end technologies as well as Ubuntu.

What was the team composition?

Java Team – 1 Technical Lead, 2 Java Developers, 1 Account Manager TYPO3 CMS Team – 1 Technical lead, 2 Front-end developers; 1 Full-stack developer, 1 Account Manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our cooperation with Infoleven was very helpful in terms of additional software development capacity we needed. For example, the TYPO3 CMS dedicated team upgraded multiple Typo3 systems for our partners to a higher version of Typo3. Some of these projects would be delayed or declined if it wasn’t the additional developer’s team provided from Infoleven. We will happily work with them again or recommend them to our partners.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We used a dedicated team model; we communicate mainly with our Account manager and the Tech Lead for the more complex issues and they distributed the tasks to the team.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They are flexible and adapt quickly to new technologies and different projects. Working on multiple projects for us at a time is not a problem. We had frequent iterations and strong communication, that’s why they delivered on time and in high quality.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Any issues we might have had were discussed promptly. The Infoleven team was always very responsive and reacted immediately to resolve the challenges.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Managing director of Volopa, a London-based fintech company, which operates multi-currency prepaid card programs and foreign exchange currency transfer services for consumer and corporate clients We’ve built the Volopa platform which provides card management and foreign exchange transaction capability.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

We partnered with Infoleven for the development of our new mobile payment applications. The platform offers commercially attractive, fast and secure cross-border money transfers between users (peer-to-peer money transfers).

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to achieve two things; a re-design and rebuild of an existing App to make it more attractive for our users. We also had the opportunity to build a new payment app from scratch for a very specific market, tailored to our customers needs.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Infoleven was recommended to us from common contacts. We followed up with our own due diligence, compared with other suppliers, reviewed previous projects and contacted them to further discuss our needs.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Infoleven worked on the front-end and developed a completely new native mobile app for iOS and Android. They worked on the login and entire sign up and on-boarding process, transactions scheduling, the location map with nearest cashback partners, etc.

What was the team composition?

Frontend Developer, Technical PM/ Senior lead, QA, Account Manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have some more work on the app, but we are hoping to achieve better UX and therefore more users. Early feedback from beta testers is very positive.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We worked using a flexible, iterative process based on sprints. Infoleven’s developers integrated very well into our existing development team. The well-structured communication with open and direct dialogue, regular but focused meetings helped us avoid bottlenecks and ensure the relevant stakeholders were kept informed while not losing sight of the goal.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Infoleven are fully engaged on our journey. We were looking for a partner that could understand and work with us, to be an extension of our in-house team rather than simply a transactional service provider.

The team plays a huge part in the overall success of the app and, therefore, the overall product. We’ve developed good teamwork together with very open and transparent communication.

Are there any areas for improvement?

The team have a common approach to our own which we like and value. The dialogue is open, direct and respected by each party. Given this, there are no specific improvements I can add.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Atracsys designs, develops, certifies and industrializes real-time image processing systems for embedded applications and optical metrology. Our products are integrated into a variety of other end-user systems such as medtech, industrial, quality control, reverse engineering, biomechanics or natural user interfaces. Atracsys solutions are used whenever utmost measurement accuracy, speed and reliability are required. I am the Global Technical Director of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

We hired Infoleven, to help us develop further the internal ERP system we are using. With their assistance, we managed to introduce a few new modules, which our team uses to get information across faster and generally improves the workflow.

What were your goals for this project?

The idea was to build a tool, to help every department in the company, for which we decided to use Ruby On Rails with the goal to improve information flow and optimize certain processes.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We got introduced to Infoleven on an event and after a short testing period, decided to work with them in the long term.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Infoleven helped us build our internal ERP system. By implementing a few new modules and optimizing existing ones – training module, resource planning, accounting, HR, etc, we improved our workflow and information distribution. We use the new modules to track employees schedule and vacancy days, to analyze their workload. In the project planning we benefit most of the Gantt Charts Infoleven developed.

What was the team composition?

A Technical Project Manager and a Full Stack Developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Most noticeably, the project planing module with Gantt Charts, which help the team manage better the dozens of internal projects and assist them make progress on deprioritized ones, that would otherwise fall behind.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Initially, we used a simple Time and Material process with a Kanban board. Currently, we are transferring to a Sprint based workflow, given we have a full-time developer on board.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Infoleven is extremely reactive, very friendly and they feel in general as an extension of our own company rather than a subcontractor; the tone during discussions is always constructive and supportive. We’re positively surprised by the fact that from day one everything works smoothly, there was practically no adjustment necessary on either side.

Are there any areas for improvement?

… Learn to speak French in 2020 ☺

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO of City Stories - an interactive native IOS/Android app (GO Game) about completing quests in real-life environments

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

We worked together with Infoleven from the beginning of the project. CityStories is a new generation urban quest that combines a high-quality game scenario, love for the most interesting corners of the city and modern technology. The game consists of series of puzzles, which you have to solve to continue to the next level

What were your goals for this project?

The app is created with a focus and attention to the users, who will play the quests. So, the most important thing for our product is to react fast to user’s feedback and change the app accordingly. Infoleven’s designers and programmers managed to achieve that and gave useful ideas to improve the app. As technologies we used Java for the API and the backend and Native Android & iOS (Swift 4.1) for the mobile app development

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

The vendor was recommended to me by mutual partners. After our initial conversations the team showed to be very professional

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

The project has four parts – an Android App, iOS App, API and Admin panel. We needed the users to be able to register and log-in in the app to discover and buy quests. The quest has geolocation-based puzzles with Google maps implementation, which Infoleven team did for us. Another interesting feature is the Augmented Reality. It works in two directions: - As a separate task part of the quests – you scan the searched object (described in the specific quest) with your phone. It is registered, recognized and verified so that you can continue to the following task - AR button with a free clue – for some tasks you may receive free hints via AR functionality. You are directed to a specific location or to a defined object. When you scan the object with your phone it is replaced in real time by the promised clue (picture, text etc.) for the task

What was the team composition?

We used a dedicated team, consisting of 1 Android/iOS developer, 1 Web Front-end developer; 1 Backend Developer, 1 UI/UX Designer, 1 QA, 1 Technical Project Manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The programmers and designers of Infoleven are always very reactive to our changes. This is really important for us, because the success of the app depends on how fast we can react to the feedback we receive from our users

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We worked with a dedicated team of developers and designers for this project. We had a Technical Project Manager who was responsible for the task distribution to the team and the time frame. We were given the chance to communicate directly with the tech guys when needed. This made the communication much faster and we could get their feedback for the game features

What did you find most impressive about this company?

For us it is how adaptive they are to implement the needed changes from user feedback. Also, that they are very dedicated to the project - they are not only doing the technical feature development, but they give us useful ideas and a different point of view

Are there any areas for improvement?

There is no project, that goes smoothly from start to finish. Usually there are complications throughout the development, but the most important thing is to communicate the issues directly and suggest solutions. Infoleven manages to do that really well

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

DLD (Digital, Life, Design) is the international conference and innovation platform of Hubert Burda Media. DLD Media organizes Europe's leading digital conference DLD in Munich as well as DLD New York, DLD Europe in Brussels, DLD Tel Aviv, and DLD Berlin. I am the Digital Project Manager.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

We hired Infoleven for support of our current event management system. They make some changes and optimizations of the system.

What were your goals for this project?

As a development technology, we are using Ruby On Rails and we have the goal to constantly improve and optimize the event management system.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Infoleven is an official digital partner of Hubert Burda Media, which we are part of. After discussing our project with them, they seemed like the right partners for us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Infoleven helped us migrate the existing system to a new one. We count on them for crucial bug fixes and their response on server issues, downtime. Infoleven also supports us in important events such as DLD Europe, DLD Singapore, and DLD Boston.

What was the team composition?

• 1 Full-stack Developer
• 1 System administrator
• 1 Account Manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Infoleven makes the job much easier for me as Product Owner. I would totally recommend Infoleven.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We use the Time and Material process; we communicate mainly with our Account manager and she distributes the tasks to the team.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They have an open ear for questions. In addition, they were able to familiarize themselves quickly with our special system and provide prompt assistance. The price / performance ratio is also excellent.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Infoleven is doing a great job!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

regiocom is one of the leading companies in Europe providing IT systems, technical support and customer service to businesses in the field of energy supply and telecom. I am the Product Manager for Digital Service Solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

The project is an end user portal for the real estate sector, aiming to make the whole process of renting and managing a residential properties easier for everyone involved in the process.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goal was creating a MVP, with the basic but most needed functionalities in a short time frame. The portal was developed with Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, React JS, Redux.

There were two major integrations with an Internet platform for heating billings and software for reading and transfer of energy consumption data.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

They were recommended to us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Infoleven developed the whole portal. There are three types of users of the application:

• tenants – people who rent a property
• owners – people who own a rental property
• care takers – people who manage the rental properties.

The main functionalities included in the MVP are:

• login
• accounting (includes changing the tenant for a property, lists of costs for utilities and services and adding bills for utilities like water, heating, electricity, etc.)
• property overview, where basic data about a selected property is shown (especially of the type/number/calibration term of the meters and whether they transfer data)

What was the team composition?

Account Manager, Technical Project Manager, Software Architect; 2x Frontend Developers; 1x Backend Developer; 1x Quality Assurance

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We already launched the initial phase of the product, have a pilot-customer and are negotiating terms and conditions with a few more customers.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We used a Scrum Sprint based workflow, with regular team meetings for planning/demos and backlog grooming. We supplied the business needs and relied on Infoleven for the technical architecture and guidance.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Definitely the time in which they managed to understand our processes and give structured technical advice was good.

Are there any areas for improvement?

We enjoyed a lot their visits to our office and as they were very productive, we would have liked, if we have more of them.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder and managing director of an innovative and conceptual marketing agency in southern germany.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Infoleven?

the challenge was to get a tailor-made system based on wordpress. this system should not only meet the usual requirements of a CMS, but should also manage the direct marketing and online sales. therefore this service provider was our choice. connections of databases and external API's did not present any problems. also the translation of the design went smoothly.

What were your goals for this project?

tailormade websystem used as: marketingtool, website, e-commerceplattform, job-plattform - an all-in-one system.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

after the first contact, we quickly got into conversation. competence and sympathy were quickly available. after a visit to the infoleven office, it was clear to me that this would be my service provider. good structures and good hardware. a place for creative design of complex software requirements.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Websystem combined with several already existing tools. E.g. Wordpress, Typo3, Javascirpt, Java, HTML

What was the team composition?

one TPM took care of everything. i had no contact to the 5-man team. that was also all right with me. the TPM took over the planning and control of my wishes.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Done. Customer satisfied. Me, too.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

One face to the customer.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They made short and fast decisions.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None. keep the work as it is.