Altabel Group

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Senior software developer of Neate AS

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Neate AS builds SaaS applications (software solutions).

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Altabel Group to accomplish?

• Assistance on frontend development on two different projects.

SOLUTION

How did you find Altabel Group?

• Online Search
• Referral
• Other

Why did you select Altabel Group over others?

• High ratings
• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from Altabel Group were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Assistance on frontend development on two projects, written in TypeScript with the React framework. One of the projects was an onboarding application for the construction industry, with a focus on being used on mobile phones. The other project aimed at building a 3D rendering solution of optimizing packaging of containers. Both solutions were frontend development, using React TypeScript.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

A very constructive and result oriented culture. Their assistance aligned well with our development approach which is highly trust based, and more focused on results rather than hours spent.

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

Yes, a very constructive and consice feedback during the development on the hours spent, with a continuous feedback on how the development was going. We highly recommend Altabel Group.

What was your primary form of communication with Altabel Group?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Altabel Group was always on time, with a high solutions oriented focus. They also gave constructive feedback when other solutions was necessary to consider, which we highly value. In summary, we found Altabel Group to be resourceful, solutions-oriented, and experienced both for development and project management.

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

All in all, we think Altabel Group delivered well.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Owner, Managing director of lowercase productions

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

lowercase productions is a graphic design and visual communications agency

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Altabel Group to accomplish?

• Provide programming support for updates and changes to the OCII website
• Provide regular, ongoing website maintenance support for the OCII website

SOLUTION

How did you find Altabel Group?

Referral

Why did you select Altabel Group over others?

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

How many teammates from Altabel Group were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Finalize programming and launch the site

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

A complete lack of technical issues or service requests now that Q&A is completed.

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

There were a few times when communication was disrupted. This was partly due to our firm being here in SF while Altabel is overseas, and some language miscommunication. However, these issues were resolved successfully.

There is a front PM who makes sure client relations are working. Once the project was established, our team worked directly with the programmer assigned to the project. There were a few notable times when deliverables were late. However, the issue was resolved after discussion and the client is very happy with the work they accomplished.

What was your primary form of communication with Altabel Group?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are always willing to communicate and not work in a black box by themselves. We appreciate their spirit of collaboration.

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

It would be nice if their English were a bit more polished, although that's just the circumstances. It's not an important negative since their work ethic and quality were very high.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Vice President of Client Services of Cylogy

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Cylogy is a San Francisco-based digital agency dedicated to building effective, agile and modern digital solutions for our clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Altabel Group to accomplish?

• Find available contractors
• Find contractors with specific skillsets
• Find contractors who would work long term, exclusively with Cylogy

SOLUTION

How did you find Altabel Group?

Other

Why did you select Altabel Group over others?

Good value for cost, Company values aligned

What was your primary form of communication with Altabel Group?

Virtual Meeting, Email or Messaging App

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

We requested Altabel Group source and pre-screen developers and QA testers that had professional experience with the specific platforms we support. We expected senior level experience with advanced communication skills. As a small team we seek entrepreneurial engineers who are resourceful and independent thinkers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Quality of work
• Duration of employment

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

They have grown to understand our unique hiring needs and are able to pre-screen candidates to save us time.

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

They treated us like long-term partners. We hire contractors as if they are our employees. We need to work with a staffing agency that understands this and doesn't just staff short project durations. They understand the quality we demand and value the growth we offer our new hires.

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

I think it is partly our own responsibility to convey our company culture and specific needs so they can find the right matches. We chose to schedule twice monthly meetings to communicate about staff performance and upcoming needs. It helped tremendously.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

uQualio is a SaaS based video eLearning platform designed to be simple to use and able to work on all devices. I am the Chief Product Office and am responsible for product development, product support and product market fit in cooperation with Sales and Marketing.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Front- and back end development on our video eLearning platform.

SOLUTION

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

Based on 10+ years with off-short development we went through a number of earlier trusted partners. Altabel as usual came with qualified candidates and were able to offer attractive timing and pricing.

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

Altabel supplied us with the needed resources during the project. Most elements were managed by us so the developers worked as an integrated part of our distributed development team.

The work was made in our development stack with Angular front end, C# back end on a PostGreSQL database. All deployed on AWS.

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

Between 1 and 3. Mainly fullstack developer and some support from QA Automation Engineeers and UX designers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our video eLearning platform was launched into Production February 2018 and has been continuously updated ever since.

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

We work agile with two weeks sprints in a flexible backlog.

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

Their ability to find the best resources with short notice was great. And a simple and effective administration.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Operations Manager and Consultant for Brogdon Energy, we are a Engineering and Consulting firm that specializes in energy management solutions for all types of a facilities and industries.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to upgrade our current software to a SAAS and have a more modern and appealing dashboard view for the end user that was simple and easy to understand. We needed to take all the granular data and roll it up to a more "top down" view.

SOLUTION

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

Lots of research and talking with many other vendors, Altabel was the best fit for us.

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

They were able to integrate our old software to the new SAAS platform they created with ease.

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

There were 3 main team members.

• Business Devoplment Manager
• Project Manager
• Software Engineer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have been very pleased with the product and the continued supported as we are still developing small things as we grow.

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

I could not have asked for anyone better. The communication and turn around time have been outstanding.

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

For me it was the fact I have absolute no software knowledge, so being able to communicate what I would like to have, and them understanding, and producing to exceeded my exceptions every time has been so amazing. Very thankful

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

Honestly. No. I have been very pleased with everything they do.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the founder of the Knowie, which is a SAAS that allows teams to strengthen relationships and collaboration.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed to continue to develop a MVP to make it ready for market. The goal was to improve the general quality of the code and secure future scalability. We also needed to add crucial features to be able to go to market.

SOLUTION

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

Altabel was recommended to us by a member of our advisory board. The deciding factors was, price quality and flexibility. Also, we where looking for a software development company that could supplement my limited experience in software development. After several interviews with developers, we selected an experienced developer within our tech stack that also had experience in project management.

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

Altabel have continued the work initiated in JavaScript (Node.js and Vue.js. We have used an agile approach to develop which has been very helpful in the early stages of our company, where we continuesly learn more and have shifting priorities.

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

1 developer and 1 project management - both senior.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Altabel has been a perfect match for Knowie during our startup phase and will continue to be so going forward. Their big effort to understand our code, our team and digital teambuilding product quickly created a high degree of trust that allowed for early value creation. It also made it easy to match Knowie with the best suited developers that could both code and provide advice. Altabel have been pivotal for Knowies development as a startup and our high customer satisfaction, through their flexibility in scaling the provided development resources up and down, with short notice and their ability and willingness to jump in and put out urgent fires, to secure the best possible experience for our customers.

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

The vendor easily adapted to our agile approach and fitted right in with our project management tools such as Slack, Trello and even suggested new tools to improve flexible sharing and updating of mockups and wireframes.

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

As a startup we know very little about our future and our budgets are very fluid. They impress me with their understanding of our situation and finding excellent solutions for tricky situations.

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

In the beginning of the collaboration, the project could have benifitted from challening the brief, in case of unclarities. However, this was rather quickly adressed and functions very well today.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of R&D of a software company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Physical systems simulation software development.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Altabel Group to accomplish?

• Automated deployment of cloud infrastructure for SaaS offering

SOLUTION

How did you find Altabel Group?

Contacted by mail from sales

Why did you select Altabel Group over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit

How many teammates from Altabel Group were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Design and implementation of automated procedure for infrastructure deployment and software configuration on Azure utilizing AVD. Delivered as scripts and documentation.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Uptime for deployed solution

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

Project management was handled by us, they are very responsive and flexible. Deliveries always on time and excellent quality.

What was your primary form of communication with Altabel Group?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are very flexible and provide reliable services.

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

In person meetings with the persons involved initially would have been nice, but the pandemic prevented this.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the HR Business Partner of 1NCE Latvia

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

1NCE provides connectivity and software for IoT offering fast, secure, and reliable cellular connectivity and software services in 150+ countries worldwide.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Altabel Group to accomplish?

• To develop products and services for IoT purpose
• To ensure IoT connectivity

SOLUTION

How did you find Altabel Group?

Online Search

Why did you select Altabel Group over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget

How many teammates from Altabel Group were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Support with the development and/or implementation of the HotSpot service infrastructure for usage in cars Solution deployments Support with the troubleshooting Elaboration of documentation

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Tasks accomplished within deadlines, significant work progress, high management/customer satisfaction.

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

Excellent collaboration in providing appropriate specialists and solving staff issues. They exhibit a pleasant and effective approach to communication.

What was your primary form of communication with Altabel Group?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

The expertise that covers a wide range of technologies starting from Java, .Net, Web, PHP (+various frameworks and CMSs) up to Big Data and IoT. Advantageous prices.

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

There's nothing they need to improve on.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of VALiZO ApS

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Various luggage porter services for tourists and cruise guest. Off airport check-in.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Altabel Group to accomplish?

Get a professional order take platform

SOLUTION

How did you find Altabel Group?

Referral

Why did you select Altabel Group over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Altabel Group were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The deliverables from Altabel was a complete platform the for ordering flow, based on a given design. Web development, vuejs code, create api to export orders to our backend order management system.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The final measure was we had a platform that is easy to use for customers, for booing our standard services.

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

Good and fast response during development.

What was your primary form of communication with Altabel Group?

Virtual Meeting

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

They had the competence to resolve any issue.

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

There was nothing they needed to improve on.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of software company in US.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Feature development for various software modules - mobile, web, and kiosk applications.

SOLUTION

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

We evaluated their staff and started with smaller projects to assess their performance.

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

Mobile, web, and kiosk application development.

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

4

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The projects were completed on time and on budget.

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

We provide project requirements and Altabel staff provides weekly updates.

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

Their staff met our expectations.

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

none