Algoscale Technologies, Inc.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive at Perceptronix Ltd

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Provides cutting-edge machine learning and predictive analytics solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Algoscale Technologies, Inc. to accomplish?

• Develop versatile and fully normalised SQL database architectures and applications
• Create a data visualisation tool to reveal the statistical relationships between features and target classes
• Scrape structured and unstructured web data about financial markets of interest

SOLUTION

How did you find Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

Online Search

Why did you select Algoscale Technologies, Inc. over others?

High ratings

What was the size of Algoscale Technologies, Inc.’s team?

Other

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

Python applications to scrape structured/unstructured data from various websites and to transform it in a manner that can be parsed by existing legacy systems and also stored in a SQL database Design and develop SQL database applications in MariaDB Design and develop data visualisation scripts to reveal the statistical properties of features with respect to different pattern classes Training materials for the above applications

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Quality and usability of scraped data
• Robust storage of scraped data in SQL database and ability to extract data using sophisticated queries
• Insightful visualisation and numerical evaluation of features for a data set given an insample and outsample

What was your primary form of communication with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

Virtual Meeting

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

Well-structured project management and timely checks made of progress and deliverables. Very flexible response times to our queries and met our needs very well on an on-going basis. They were Professional, courteous, helpful, and technically sound.

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

Willingness to go the extra mile to ensure quality of software products produced and to meet deadlines for the agreed deliverables

Are there any areas for improvement or something Algoscale Technologies, Inc. could have done differently?

There are always ways an individual or company can improve - at this juncture I am very happy with their approach and standard of work and so at this time, I'm not able to identify a specific area of improvement.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there?

I’m the CTO for a construction tech company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Algoscale Technologies?

We wanted to get our beta product developed into a web application.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Algoscale Technologies developed a Python web application; it hosts our central IT and gives access to our data company, providing feedback. The app allows users to upload building plans and other documents to digitize and automate their internal workload. A fully automated web crawler visits building product manufacturer websites and downloads product documentation, catalogs installation instructions, etc. After that, an old CR engine takes PDF drawings, building plans, and other materials to enable users to select the area they want to digitize. A PDF processing software feature allows users to upload PDF files, add mockups, highlight, write text boxes, combine things, and more to create a compilation of documents.

We provided requirements, screenshots of the intended UI/UX, and an entire storyboard for user interaction. They currently offer ongoing maintenance, as well as the support of future developments.

What is the team composition?

Initially, we worked with a part-time project manager, two frontend engineers, and two backend engineers. We recently added another backend engineer and someone to handle software architecture.

How did you come to work with Algoscale Technologies?

We reached out to several companies about our project. Out of the 3–4 that responded, Algoscale’s team offered the most affordable option.

How much have you invested with them?

We spend around $12,000 a month with them.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working together in August 2020, and the project is ongoing. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We’ve been happy with everything; deliverables, quality of work, and the team’s responsiveness — It is an excellent ongoing relationship.

How did Algoscale Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

They led project management in the beginning, but I recently took over. We communicate throughout the day on Slack and have daily meetings to discuss updates, progress, and priorities for the next day. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

They’re attentive to their clients — I can reach out to the owner or anyone on the team, and they quickly respond.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They could improve their communication and the accountability of individual team members, but it’s a good partnership overall.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

They’re strong regarding their developers, so having an internal project manager works best to ensure staying on a timeline and getting everything done.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO of an AI-based platform that helps businesses, of any scale, deploy machine learning-driven customer acquisition at scale.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

We were doing a full bottom-up review of our machine learning, data pipeline, and pre-processing operations. The scope involved building multiple models to test different outcomes and compare them against a set of existing KPIs. Once that was done, we’d make a decision on whether or not we wanted to deploy new models into production.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They did and continue to do quite a lot of work in terms of data cleansing and building different pipelines in order to accommodate our different data acquisitions. They combined those into a single user journey across a number of different channels. Then, they’ve built profiles and clusters against which we can target different behaviors on our customers’ sites.

They’ve really worked from the ground up in terms of building the acquisition of the data, deploying pipelines, monitoring them, and accessing the quality. Then, they built those into a production environment and ensured they were stable and scalable. They’ve pretty much been working exclusively in Python.

They had to do quite a lot of work to understand our business. They had to learn the user experience flow, connect that to the generated data, and then process that data in a way that makes sense (not only from a data science perspective but also from a real-world perspective). After we worked with them for a couple of weeks, we were confident that they understood what they were taking on.

This was partly an audit process as much as it was an R&D process.  We gave them a broad brief because we wanted to get a birds-eye view of the scope of the project. 

What is the team composition?

We’re working with two people, and we’re about to include a third person.

How did you come to work with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

For a couple of weeks, we spent a lot of time speaking with the CEO, their data scientists, and engineers. It was a process of us getting to know them and vice versa. Ultimately, we decided they were intuitive, committed, and definitely open to working on a long-term basis. Also, they wanted to take a holistic approach.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve invested between $25,000 and $50,000 so far. It will probably be a $50,000 per-year contract.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in September of 2019, and the work is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It’s all working so far. We’ve already deployed what we built plus the pipelines. We’ve also deployed the way of presenting them to clients. We’re be adding our customer acquisition tools on top of the existing work they’ve have done. We’re now into the production and application phases. 

How did Algoscale Technologies, Inc. perform from a project management standpoint?

Project management is going extremely well. They communicate, deliver on time, and work long hours. They’re accommodating and detail-oriented. They take guidance well, and they deliver insight along with high-quality outcomes. We use Slack and communicate constantly, every day for the last five months.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They managed to understand a business and product offer that they had no direct experience with. They’ve delivered and built pipelines that reflect not only what we need from a business case, but also real-world outcomes. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, we’ve had no issues with them.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Set aside a period of time to have a clear, open discussion about the project scope and complexity. Ultimately, it will enable them to get their feet wet and dig into the project. We found that once we actually started work, they were able to adapt quickly and intelligently to the problems.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Founder & CEO of Skalenow Technologies Pvt. Ltd. We are a SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) & IOT solution startup based out of Chennai, India. our product division is focused on building Logistics Asset Management platform around material handling at warehouses and manufacturing sectors using Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, cloud and big data analytics.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

We hired Algoscale to help us build a Logistics Asset Management platform around material handling at warehouses and manufacturing sectors using Internet of Things and Big data

What were your goals for this project?

To Build a logistics asset management platform where our customers can monitor the vehicles running in their warehouses. Extracting different metrics and providing insights out of it. Having a scalable infrastructure to handle any volume of data at scale.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We interviewed lo of vendors and Algoscale's expertise matched with our expectations in terms of problem solving, python Django and Kafka expertise, Hadoop/Spark expertise, AWS cloud expertise which helped us to go with them.

Describe the project in detail.

IGNI is our flagship product to track vehicles operational efficiency that are running inside a warehouse. Raw data will come from the GPS tracking sensors fitted on the vehicles where we need to transform the data to get us meaningful insights on vehicles operational efficiency, driver's efficiency, remote immobilizing and much more which will help production shift manager to plan his day and vehicle operator's productivity.

What was the team composition?

Initially, we started with a 3 member team and increased to 5 that includes 2 full stack developer, 1 business analyst and 2 quality engineers. During the project, we lost a scrum master from our side and Algoscale extended their help by taking care of running the sprint and ensured smooth delivery.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We are able to monitor 100+ vehicles inside our customers warehouse located in different location within India. Productivity insights such as vehicle's running time, stop time, idle time, ignition time, drivers attendance vehicles attendance, overtime and many such reports are developed flawlessly by Algoscale which helped us in winning customers confidence that in-turn helped us to grab more orders.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We connected with them through slack and their entire team is very effective in communicating and delivering on time. we used JIRA to run the sprint and track bugs which really coped up well with our strict timelines and developed the product and fixed bugs on time

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They have a quality and delivery-centric approach that impressed us. They always stand beyond our expectations.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Wish they have development centers close to Southern part of India.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the COO of Jakstat Solutions. We build analytic projects for startups.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

We were looking for a partner to support us with our various analytic projects.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Primarily, Algoscale Technologies, Inc. handles data. Their team categorizes and bisects test and training data, and builds machine learning algorithms. 

Usually, the team comes back at the end of the project with an API we can use for future deliverables.

What is the team composition?

I work with about five people, as well as Neeraj (Founder, Algoscale Technologies, Inc.). The team includes a lead engineer, full-stack developers, and data scientists.

How did you come to work with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

We found Algoscale Technologies, Inc. on Upwork. We interviewed several candidates, but Neeraj mentioned some of the analytic work he’d done in the past, and we felt his team was best suited to handle our project.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent about $60,000 during our partnership with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with Algoscale Technologies, Inc. in February 2018, and our engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

One of their key metrics is Algoscale Technologies, Inc.’s time of delivery. 100% of the deadlines set by Algoscale Technologies, Inc. have been met.

How did Algoscale Technologies, Inc. perform from a project management standpoint?

The team updates us on their progress every day. We’re always able to reach out to Neeraj if the project needs to change directions or be otherwise adjusted.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Algoscale Technologies, Inc. has the most experience developing analytics projects. Whenever we come up against a challenge, the team always knows how to adjust. They have an excellent sense of the industry standard.

Are there any areas they could improve?

The only thing I wish they would do is expand. Hopefully, Algoscale Technologies, Inc. will hire more people so we can do more projects with them. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Be willing and ready to discuss the project on a daily basis.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company is a Digital Advertising Platform that focuses on increasing our clients revenue through superior optimization. I am the CTO of this company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

We hired Algoscale to build a scalable reporting and data tracking infrastructure. The technology that they built handled millions of requests per hour and operated at a global scale. It was critical that this infrastructure was able to scale without downtime and Algoscale was able to ensure that it was able to.

What were your goals for this project?

The goals of this project was to increase efficiency and performance with our product and within the organization as a whole.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I interviewed and/or worked with at least 5 other vendors before Algoscale. After those did not work out I created a more rigorous interview process in which I gave Algoscale a small project to ensure that they could effectively complete it in a timely manner. The succeeded and in doing so showed a high level of professionalism and attention to detail. This convinced me to use them for the larger project.

Describe the project in detail.

The scope of this project was to create a big data capturing engine as well as create an analytics platform to synthesize the data. This data synthesized so that it could be presented to clients externally as well as used internally for optimizations and tracking. My role was to facilitate the project by working with the development lead from Algoscale. We contributed rough design docs and project requirements. Algoscale assisted in determining the best and most cost effective solutions and technologies to use. Algoscale was responsible for maintaining the platform after the build was complete. This was mainly for platform additions and changes

What was the team composition?

The entire team for this project was provided by Algoscale. There was one project lead and then a core of 3 engineers. The team fluctuated from there based on the workload and expertise needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The platform a built on time and met the specs that were originally laid out. Over the course of the build some of the requirements were changed as we started to fully understand what we needed. Algoscale was adaptable to these changes and helped guide us to the best possible solution for our needs.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We had a pretty seamless workflow. Most of it was guided by the algoscale tech lead. Code was tracked through a share git repository and tasks and changes were tracked through Jira.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their ability to research and develop domain knowledge in areas where they had not previously operated in. Additionally Algoscale is unwilling to settle for anything less than full customer satisfaction. There were times when the changes/missteps were our fault but Algoscale stepped in and made changes without negotiation or back and forth. Their ultimate goal is a truly happy client and it shows.

Are there any areas for improvement?

It would have been nice to have a US based project lead at times however Algoscale made a great effort to be available at all times.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We are a marketplace for the healthcare supply chain. Our software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform brings providers (hospitals) and suppliers (manufacturers, dealers, and distributors) to the same place, enabling them to do business with each other. The big difference about our solution is that, unlike others, it provides buyers as well as sellers with the ability to manage their day-to-day operations using cloud and big-data analysis.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Algoscale Technologies?

We were working on the analysis part of our solution, bringing in various sorts of structured and unstructured big data, normalizing it, making it analyzable, and using various methodologies in order to create a prediction engine. We wanted to use that engine as a means of making cost-saving recommendations.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Algoscale provided software development. There was a lot of work with the data itself, both structured and unstructured. We needed the ability to understand it since the data were coming in from over 200 sources. Making it analyzable meant doing various operations connected with the ETL [extract, transform, and load] process in an easier way. There are regulatory and product data coming in from various manufacturers. We call this the curation engine internally, and it was a big part of the whole exercise.

We used various technologies, including Python, JSON, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch. There were multiple development sprints, and we used the Agile Scrum methodology. The team fluctuated between anywhere from 6–9 people at different parts of the engagement.

How did you come to work with Algoscale Technologies?

Neeraj, their founder, was actually a former colleague of mine. He’s been involved in many big-data analysis and predictive intelligence projects. We knew about other companies, but this was why we decided to use Algoscale.

What is the status of this engagement?

We have been working with Algoscale Technologies since around July of 2014. We continue to use them as a partner.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Could you share any evidence that would demonstrate the productivity, quality of work, or the impact of the engagement?

The database for which we’re creating the curation engine is the core of our business. It’s being used for multiple sets of analysis for order management and in a variety of other ways. I wouldn’t say that we couldn’t have done this without Algoscale, but they were helpful in speeding up the process. We had started the development, so they came in as an auxiliary resource.

How did Algoscale Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

They performed well and worked with us in a collaborative fashion. Algoscale was responsive to our requests and brainstorming sessions, either coming up with interesting ideas and out-of-the-box suggestions or challenging the concepts we already had in place. They responded to our emails in a timely fashion. We also used Skype, Cisco WebEx, and other communication tools.

What did you find most impressive about Algoscale Technologies?

I appreciated their ability to come up with certain ideas involving newer technologies.

Are there any areas Algoscale Technologies could improve?

No, they’ve been a great partner and have helped us whenever we needed it. They continue to grow and have tried to be a true partner, bending over backward to meet our deadlines. There is always room for improvement in some areas, but I have no specific recommendations for Algoscale.

What tips or recommendations could you share that might increase the likelihood of success with Algoscale Technologies?

Clients need to have a vision when partnering with anyone. Be prepared for different kinds of contingencies. We crafted our own model neatly, which wasn’t Algoscale’s responsibility.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Principal - HEADWAY TRANSPORTATION of Headway Transportation

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Traffic Engineering, Transportation Planning, Construction Support, Peer Review, Bicycle Planning, Multi-Modal Planning, and GIS

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Algoscale Technologies, Inc. to accomplish?

• BI & Big Data Consulting & SI

SOLUTION

How did you find Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

Online Search

Why did you select Algoscale Technologies, Inc. over others?

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

How many teammates from Algoscale Technologies, Inc. were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

we hired Algoscale Technologies inc to improve Traffic turning movement counts at several intersections

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

we have moderate traffic count

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

they deliver our project on time and they respond to our needs

What was your primary form of communication with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

Virtual Meeting

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

We are impressed with their good communication skills.

Are there any areas for improvement or something Algoscale Technologies, Inc. could have done differently?

there is no problem with the project

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the stagehand at dow event center of The Dow Event Center

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

we provides a variety of entertainment including concerts, sporting events, Broadway musicals, comedy shows and much more.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Algoscale Technologies, Inc. to accomplish?

• we hire Algoscale Technologies, Inc to develop a website for our event center

SOLUTION

How did you find Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

• Online Search
• Referral

Why did you select Algoscale Technologies, Inc. over others?

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

How many teammates from Algoscale Technologies, Inc. were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

we hire them to develop a website for our event center to help our event center to reach more people through social media and to help us get more customers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

the website really help our event center to get more customer and it make us standout from others

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

they respond to our needs quickly and they really helped us with their skills

What was your primary form of communication with Algoscale Technologies, Inc.?

Email or Messaging App

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

they did a great job

Are there any areas for improvement or something Algoscale Technologies, Inc. could have done differently?

we are okay with the project they did a great job