Boostern

Please describe your company and your position there.

The European Multiple Sclerosis Platform (EMSP) is a Pan-European umbrella organization with over 30 years of expertise. We work together with members and partners to ensure that the more than 1.2 million people living with MS in Europe, have a real voice in determining their own priorities. I am the Senior Communications and Membership Coordinator of EMSP.

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

We hired Boostern for our MS Barometer project, to design a layout for a 50-pager benchmarking report and 35 country factsheets which were also translated to different languages.

We also asked them to develop an interactive platform where the main data from the MS Barometer is showcased and where the national level data can be compared with each other. All this made future proof with a custom backend where the future editions of the barometer can be uploaded in a user-friendly format.

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

We run a tender among over 10 providers who applied and decided to select Boostern based on the quality of their portfolio and the reasonable budget they proposed for such a complex work.

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

Develop a hybrid server-side rendered web app with static and API driven pages. (Building a NextJS frontend connected to the project’s API hosted on Digital Ocean’s app hosting platform).

✅ MS Barometer report design following EMSP design scheme

✅ Design the user interface and distribute the contents in a user-friendly manner.

✅ Country factsheet design (35 country factsheets in English + translated version for each country)

✅ Twitter and Facebook picture frame

✅ Presentation Layout (5 slides)

✅ Unique social media post designs (10 posts)

✅ Design the user interface and distribute the contents in a user-friendly manner. 8 Page layout with Index, Acknowledgement, Advanced data, FAQ, Advocacy Toolkit, Login/Signup*, Privacy Policy, Admin pages

✅ Public layout accessible for all visitors

✅ Private layout accessible for logged-in visitors

✅ Admin layout for importing and modifying data

✅ GDPR policy-compliant cookie popup

✅ Google Analytics integration

✅ Schema Creation: Create the underlying data structure to store users, report data and country profiles.

✅ External User Authentication: Authentication method to facilitate the signup and login for external users.

✅ Authentication: Authentication method to facilitate the login for EMSP employees.

✅ Excel report reader: A function to read the excel data, and extract the relevant information following the established data schema.

✅ Admin API: The creation of an interface to interact with data on the app for EMSP employees to upload new data, or modify existing data.

✅ S3 Connection Layer: Connect a data storage unit to store all static data.

✅ Backend Deployment

✅ Static Frontend Deployment

✅ Configuration of the Backend Layer

✅ Database attachment to the deployed app

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

A full-stack developer was our main point of contact with several designers working behind the scenes.

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

We had dozens of positive feedback from our community regarding the new online platform. They were very happy about the user-friendliness of the online tool and we've been reported that it made quite a good impact at the national level in several European countries.

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

We had daily updates and weekly meetings with the contact point who was always very patient and helpful. If there was a delay, he always let us know if time, but usually it was us giving him short notices. He still delivered despite many tight deadlines. To communicate we used emails, Discord and Messenger.

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

Boostern developed a platform that can process and showcase extremely complex data. They even made it future proof for us, so that we can keep using the same platform with updated data in the future.

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

After the launch, there were some minor changes that needed to be made, but Boostern was extremely fast to reply and correct the mistakes.