Bit Zesty

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Director/CTO Occupational Health and Safety Management software as a service provider for chemical and property industries

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Upgrade/rewrite of 2 existing applications, add new functionality and provide support for the existing applications until decommissioned.

SOLUTION

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

Their agile approach to development made a big difference as we had many changing requirements from our customers which needed a flexible team to work with. Other vendors were less flexible in their approach.

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

Rewrite of 2 ruby on rails applications. Initially take over support of legacy applications and then create a development plan for upgrades to include new requirements as well as report generation, rest api and mobile application. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails Ruby, Python, Javascript, Java Couchdb Postgresql Elasticsearch SOLR DocX4J Linux/Freebsd Docker Vmware AWS

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

We worked closely with Biz Zesty for over 10 years and dealt with project managers and developers including regular catchups with their CTO and CEO.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Both legacy applications were fully supported during their rewriting and decommissioning even though Bit Zesty had not been the initial developers. We had made on boarding commitments to a number of customers by a certain date and Bit Zesty allowed us to deliver on our promises.

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

Email, slack, trello, assana, telephone calls, meetings. For any urgent issues we were able to contact them quickly.

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

Ability to quickly change focus in order to tackle any urgent issues or change of priority. Managment/CEO/CTO took time to understand our company and goals.

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

They could have pushed back more against our internal company thoughts on hosting. For example Bit Zesty encouraged us to use AWS rather than Vmware machines be we disagreed. As time has passed we now realise we should have followed their advice.