Magedia

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CTO for a clothing retailer. Our company produce and sell women’s clothing worldwide, offline and online.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We had an expansion plan to put in place, the goal was to develop, release and maintain websites in different areas of the world. Eas very important to not just create modules and write code, but to have a dev team 24/7 focused on bug fixing too. Launching new websites and getting support at any time.

SOLUTION

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

We used to test developers with specific tasks. We found out Magedia team had a very good spectrum of skills in theirvteam and we also wanted one of them as team leader/mentor for developers coming from other partners.

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

• - developing magento following specifications given by designer and project managers
• - developing headless theme following our specifications
• - developing external apps following our specifications
• - code review
• - code release on stage
• - testing software
• - code release on production
• - following with bug fixing etc

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

At some point of the project we had at least 20 people from Magedia.

• - team leader
• - developers with different skills

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

In one year we launched in several new territories, including China. We saw a 80% increment of sales just in one year. Plus we had an execptional support in place, with people ready to fix issues at any time of the day or night.

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

Daily stand ups to estimate time to delivery and check the progress of tasks. We used Slack, Jira and Hubstaff

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

We built a deep trust in Magedia over the years, and their team leader was acting as part of our company.. Bringing a lot of knowledge, experience, always available and with an incredible strenght and stability during stressful times and emergencies.

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

We sometimes found that youngers developers weren’t expert as expected. But they worked hard to find a replacement.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CTO of Promenade Group

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We provide software to help SMBs run and grow their business.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Built new features for our partners.

SOLUTION

How did you find Magedia?

• Referral

Why did you select Magedia over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from Magedia were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

They built custom e-commerce components for us.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They hit timelines consistently and within budget.

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

They were very attentive to feedback and were easy to communicate with.

What was your primary form of communication with Magedia?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They have great e-commerce expertise.

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

Not that I can think of.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a Director in a logistics, fulfilment and supply chain software solutions company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

To develop bespoke solutions based on our customers changing requirements and offer ongoing support services assissting our team with improvements in our software and helping design new innovative features to assist our operations.

SOLUTION

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

The vendor was selected for a specific complex development project based on their previous record of creating bespoke software modules and the effective solution they proposed.

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

Enhance legacy software using php and zend frameworks create apis to current ecommerce and shipping software. Development was done using Scrum.

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

Director and Senior developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Features added value within operations and solved some complex routing issues. Imporved efficiencies on client sites

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

Scrum framework used with daily communication and regular reviews. Teams and Devops used.

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

Attention to detail, timely responses, guidance in bringing concepts to reality .

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

Worked well with our team, their process is good.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I was the CTO of a fintech company with two major projects.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Softera Solutions?

Software built a slew of different web applications for us, both front and back end development. They also helped with some major devops projects for us, including a migration to AWS.

What were your goals for this project?

On the product side we needed to build a stable marketplace of financial services, accept payments, build a stable chat interface, move money around. On the technical side we were shifting things to Docker/Angular/Python/AWS.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We tested Anatoly and his team for a bit and made them full time after seeing how well the performed.

Describe the project in detail.

We had a series of project of increasing complexity and Softera executed all of them fantastically

What was the team composition?

One main point of contact/tech lead and 2-3 other software engineers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We completed our AWS migration on time, integrated with multiple payment providers, and added feature after feature while keeping our product stable.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The workflow and communication was great, we had frequent checkins and they were easily reachable via chat.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I thought their attention to detail and velocity was fantastic.

Are there any areas for improvement?

At the time they didn't have much experience on the mobile dev side but I'm sure that's changed by now.