AdvantISS

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Product Manager of Docugami.com

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

documents. Applying breakthrough artificial intelligence to unstructured and semi-structured information, Docugami enables organizations to radically improve productivity, compliance and insight.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Design and implement customizations for customers
• Integrate with customer's workflow applications
• Develop internal tools

SOLUTION

How did you find AdvantISS?

LinkedIn

Why did you select AdvantISS over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from AdvantISS were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The main goal was to design and implement customizations for customers and integration with their existing workflow. Data extracted from documents (using AI) needed to be parsed, validated and normalized to meet the schema requirements by each customer. The project included the developments of a set of heuristics for data normalization and error detection with the goal of increasing the quality of data provided to 3rd party applications. 

The AdvantISS team developed all necessary code and integration with Azure DevOps infrastructure (for building, testing and deploying the code) with good documentation to explain all component of the system and onboarding docs for new team members. 

In addition the AdvantISS team showed very good project management skills with the team keeping detailed track of work items, bugs and additional feature requests to ensure a smooth execution.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• designed and developed the required integrations, no major issues or bugs after initial testing, quick turnaround time for bugs, quality bar consistently good/high
• Develped some challenging heuristics to fix some inconsistencies in the output data. Worked independenly to find the best technical solution
• Identified some areas of improvements in the initial architecture, overall improving the quality of the solution

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

• good project management overall, bugs, work items and additional feature requests tracked consistently
• Delivered major milestones on time. Good quality with no major issues caused by blocking bugs. Issues investigated quickly and fix in place soon after. 
• Proactive in producing good documentation for key decisions and additional documents to help onboarding new team members

What was your primary form of communication with AdvantISS?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

• Team members come with a good work sturcture, self organized, keep track of work items and discussions, follow up on issue and are always open to discuss and keep into account feedback.
• No major oversight needed, AdvantISS can work independently and produce the expected results on time. Proactive in communicating unexpected issues

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

I didn't notice any area where the AdvantISS showed significant areas of improvement.