BOCASAY

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

AVISTEL is a fully integrated company providing leading R&D Multimedia Solutions and dedicated to optimally satisfy our different customers in various enclosed and constrained environments.

The equipped sites are spanning domains - but not limited to - such as Health Institutes. I'm in charge of the company subsidiary in Vietnam.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BOCASAY?

To develop a payment service

What were your goals for this project?

Improve our customers' experience

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We contacted several companies and chose Bocasay for its technical knowledge, price range and reactivity for the project.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Bocasay handled the entire technical scope of the project: conception & development

What was the team composition?

A project manager and a PHP developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We replaced our old service with a more reliable service quickly.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Communication was clear and reactive with Bocasay. We followed the development of the project on daily basis.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Technical skills and reactivity along with good communication was key to the success of this development.

Are there any areas for improvement?

So far so good, the project is still subject to evolutions

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company is a web development start-up which has built some of the most popular websites in New Zealand including neighbourly.co.nz and grabone.co.nz. I'm the Development Manager.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BOCASAY ?

Bocasay augments our in-house development team with a team of web developers dedicated to our projects.

What were your goals for this project?

Our two on-going projects require a mix of maintenance development and new features built. For our e-commerce platform, we're building an alternative to Shopify with has a better subscription purchase experience for customers.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I contacted many off-shore development companies in Vietnam, India and the Philippines. Had meetings with them and ultimately chose Bocasay because they felt like the most technically capable company and were small enough that meant they were more available to us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Bocasay is building subscription purchase features which customers use directly when purchasing on our platform. Most of this functionality is built in PHP/Symfony using React on the frontend.

What was the team composition?

We have 3 developers helping us build our e-commerce platform and 4 developers helping us build a social networking platform. The Bocasay developers work as though they are members of our existing team of around 7 developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

For the Neighbourly (social network) project, they have helped build large parts of the platform which helps 800,000 people across New Zealand connect with their neighbours.

This has allowed us to meet our business goals and grow the platform. Our e-commerce platform is also now live and was delivered on time despite tight deadlines thanks to their support.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We manage the projects from New Zealand. However, Bocasay have senior developers who mentor others in the team and help make technical decisions where needed.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their technical ability. They are invested in the wellbeing and careers of their staff.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None that I can think of. Bocasay has done a good job of taking any previous feedback we have had in the past and changing processes to improve their service.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Openergy is aiming to develop the first SaaS platform for energy simulation, perfectly adapted to the needs of people who are willing to take engagement for building energy consumption

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BOCASAY?

We hired Bocasay to help us develop the front-end of our new platform.

What were your goals for this project?

The platform is very complex, and has many pages. The goal was to accelerate our speed of development and have a good code quality

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We knew someone who worked with Bocasay and who recommended it to us, and the pricing was very attractive. We also looked at other companies (in France) what they can offer. For the first month, we worked with another company in France, and then we switched to Bocasay.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We were in charge of the backend, and Bocasay was developing our front-end (with the help of one person of our company). Each week, we provided them mockups and detailed tickets, which they estimated with our front-end developer and then developed during the sprint.

What was the team composition?

In Openergy's side :

• 2 back-end developers
• 1 front-end developer
• 1 project owner In Bocasay's side
• 2 front-end developers
• 1 scrum master

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We were able to develop many pages faster than if we were on our own. We were aiming to launch the project within 8 months, which could not have been done without exterior help.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management was really effective. Each week, the team could give its feedback on the last sprint in order to improve our work for the next sprint. The team listened closely to our needs and the deadlines we could have during our collaboration.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their team listened closely to our needs and could adapt quickly if we had changes to make.

Are there any areas for improvement?

The main difficulty we had was that the team was not completely autonomous, they often needed the help of our front-end developer. This might be due to the fact that when we started working with Bocasay, the project has already started, so they did not handle everything since the beginning. For the next project, if they start since the beginning it would be great to understand the whole project in order to be more autonomous