Raving Bots

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are group of data science consultants for whom data tells a story. This approach translates into an end-to-end process where we provide value at each step. Some of the industries we work with include but are not limited to Finance, Healthcare, Logistics, Retail and Real Estate.

On one end, we deliver automatized data acquisition and business validation. This flows into model creation which is the crucial part. At the end, we deliver beautiful and responsive Shiny dashboards as stakeholders need a way of interacting and understanding data.

Appsilon delivers the most advanced R Shiny apps, data science consulting services and support with R Shiny and Python Dash technologies. We have impressive experience in machine learning in image recognition and predictive analytics for enterprise.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Raving Bots?

We hired Raving Bots to work on two products for our selected core clients: load balancer development for custom R Shiny apps and a information scrapper from websites.

What were your goals for this project?

To develop a load balancer that would allow scaling a Shiny app to hundreds of users.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

They reached out to us and had a good skills fit for our needs.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They designed and developed Ansible scripts based on HAProxy and Docker to run many instances of Shiny server.

What was the team composition?

Bartek and Piotr worked with us. They have good experise in programming in general, and in infrastructure engineering, in particular Ansible, HAProxy etc.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It allowed us to successfully deliver and put into production a product we built for our customer.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project was managed by us. Cooperation was effective.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I was impressed by their skills and knowledge about infrastructure engineering. 

Are there any areas for improvement?

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of a firm that develops games and applications in Unity for other companies.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Raving Bots?

We hired them as support developers for one of our VR mobile projects.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to create a prototype for an application using VR and a heartbeat sensor.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We've known each other since we were in college.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They did software development in Unity according to our project specifications.

What was the team composition?

We worked with two developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Their development support helped us deliver a unique project.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We handled project management on our side and found the workflow effective.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their dedication to the project stood out.

Are there any areas for improvement?

They perhaps could have communicated better, but other than that, we have no complaints.