BrightMarbles

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

IBIS INSTRUMENTS is a private company founded in 1996. The company offers solutions and services in area software development, system integration, cyber and information security. With a portfolio of more than 300 satisfied clients, the company has become one of the leading system integrators in the SEE region.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?

Ibis was building an order processing solution for a regional telco. In simple terms, one use case scenario is when a customer buys a phone in their store, a clerk inputs all necessary information, an solution would integrate with other systems and activate a SIM card, create a user profile, and run all other predefined steps. The architecture used a universal The Information Framework (SID), mapping all information that goes through the organization to standardized definitions. Experts with domain knowledge in integration in telecommunications from BrightMarbles were hired to help the team Ibis to complete necessary project activities.

What were your goals for this project?

We needed experts with domain knowledge, who could quickly join the team and help us make the development process faster. In short, our goal was to accelerate development but still keeping the quality of our work at a high level.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

They were recommended by our partners, and we knew some of the members of the management in the company, so was assured that we will be good and efficient match.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Already described above.

What was the team composition?

We hired three integration and telecommunication specialists from BrightMarbles as an addition to our internal team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

BrightMarbles specialists integrated with the rest of the team well, and the work on the application was once again on the track.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We expected a good collaboration, we got a good collaboration.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Fair approach, flexibility and enthusiasm, of both the management and engineers.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Not that I noticed, we liked the overall collaboration, it all worked well for us, everything was as planned and expected, and that’s it.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

NF Innova is a part of New Frontier Group, Digital Transformation Leader, and a partner to more than 300 out of the Top 500 companies in Central and Eastern Europe.

Focusing mainly on the financial market, NF Innova provides software development services and comprehensive IT products and solutions integration. Thanks to the innovative iBanking platform and customer engagement business model the company sets the bar for the industry as a whole.

Vasa Šegrt - Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong business development professional, skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Banking, Enterprise Software, and Sales.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?

BrightMarbles was involved in the development and customization of the iBanking app as an extended team.

With the bigger team, holding high expertise in the field, without the need for recruitment, and therefore additional costs, the overall team was ready to tackle the problems and meet deadlines promptly.

The bigger team also meant a more diverse experience, which ultimately resulted in better security, since it was easier to follow up on the trends, and exchange opinions.

What were your goals for this project?

To expand the team with experienced professionals without a need to recruit new members. To integrate that expanded team to the original team seamlessly, and start delivering and meeting the deadlines as soon as possible.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

The team from Innova reviewed a few prospects and selected the one with the most trusted referrals.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

With a new vision of internet banking, NF Innova set off to build a unique, omnichannel B2B app. All channels: The Internet, smartphones, tablets, contact centers, ATMs were to work together to provide the best user experience, regardless of the device used.

.NET, C#, MsSql, Android Java were the chosen technologies. This solution was to be uniquely customized for every business client and financial institution.

What was the team composition?

The BrightMarbles team consisted of backend (.NET) and mobile (Android) developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The app was successfully developed and customized for major banking institutions.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

As expected, the team blended successfully, and we’re satisfied with the collaboration, communication, and delivery. It was done in agile methodology provided by NF Innova.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

First of all, I liked the way their team clicked with ours, they showed a great deal of professionalism and flexibility. Based on that, it was really easy to entrust communication with direct clients to them.

The second thing, they brought a unique and valuable perspective and experience to the team, which I believe leveled up the overall user experience.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There’s always room for improvement, without a strive to be better, we wouldn’t grow. BrightMarbles is still a small company, they need to work on improving some of the processes, but my overall experience regarding the collaboration is more than positive.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the COO of Concorde Health

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Live coaching + habit-tracking technology to help your employees become healthier, happier, and more productive.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BrightMarbles to accomplish?

• Build our mobile application
• Help design our systems architecture

SOLUTION

How did you find BrightMarbles?

Referral

Why did you select BrightMarbles over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from BrightMarbles were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

We tasked Bright Marbles to build our application, a multi-sided platform between coaches and users. Bright Marbles provided the designs, built the mobile application for users to track their habits / access content / chat with their coaches, and a web portal where coaches could manage communication with their patients (users).

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They designed the full mobile/web architecture, created all the UX designs, and built the application - managed the process well every step of the way and helped us iterate our way to a beautifully-designed and highly-functional application.

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

Very responsive through-and-through. They had a team leader (Dunja) assigned to us to help manage communications and keep things on track. We made a pivot halfway through the timeline (based on preliminary user feedback we received), and Bright Marbles responded quickly and effectively. They moved from rapid development to agile development to meet our needs, and completed the new project ahead of schedule and at the originally proposed budget.

What was your primary form of communication with BrightMarbles?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

High quality work, great communication, positive culture - you can tell that the team enjoys their work and company, which translates to higher quality work product.

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

They are extremely organized, proficient, and communicative. We hit several roadbumps along the way (which is to be expected), but they handled them all professionally and felt like true partners through and through.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CFO of a financial services company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Cryptocurrency trading platform

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BrightMarbles to accomplish?

• Increase development velocity

SOLUTION

How did you find BrightMarbles?

Referral

Why did you select BrightMarbles over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from BrightMarbles were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Flexible scaling layer on top of our own development team to increase development velocity building our new platform

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Increased development velocity

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

The developers were included into our own team

What was your primary form of communication with BrightMarbles?

Virtual Meeting

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

They listen to the needs of their clients and come up with the most suitable solution in team members they can add to reach the company/project goals

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

Not that I can think of at the moment

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

 I am the Director of a real estate company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Introducing a new chapter in the real estate industry with a new marketplace and mortgage model.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BrightMarbles to accomplish?

• Accelerate product development
• Add more seniority to our back end team

SOLUTION

How did you find BrightMarbles?

Referral

Why did you select BrightMarbles over others?

High ratings

How many teammates from BrightMarbles were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

From A to Z, front to back end development of our core product.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Product development accelerated by 60%.

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

Yes, they're consistently responsive.

What was your primary form of communication with BrightMarbles?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting

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

We appreciate their adaptability whenever it's needed. Within a week we have new engineers onboarded when needed for example.

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

No, there's nothing they need to improve on.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an Executive of Financial Development

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We provide professional finance and accounting service, offers an ideal combination of knowledge and experience in financial, accounting and tax consulting area, also in the application of standards in those areas.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BrightMarbles to accomplish?

• Penetration testing of our application

SOLUTION

How did you find BrightMarbles?

Referral

Why did you select BrightMarbles over others?

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

How many teammates from BrightMarbles were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Application penetration testing - practice of simulating attacks on a system in an attempt to gain access to sensitive data, with the purpose of determining whether a system is secure.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Report

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

Everything was fine.

What was your primary form of communication with BrightMarbles?

Virtual Meeting

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

BrightMarbles' proactivity was most impressive.

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

No.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Product Owner of 2525 Ventures BV. 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Cryptocurrency broker active in the European market

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BrightMarbles to accomplish?

• Software Engineering
• DevOps
• Software System Architecture

SOLUTION

How did you find BrightMarbles?

Referral

Why did you select BrightMarbles over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from BrightMarbles were assigned to this project?

25

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

We worked together with various people from BrightMarbles for many years with their engineers directly integrated into all our teams. They helped us to create and maintain our mobile app written in Flutter, our website build in React/NextJS, and our back-end services and API's using PHP and C# on the .NET Core Framework. 

Additionally we also worked with their DevOps and platform engineers to maintain our infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Over the years we have build out our architecture from a monolith to a micro-service infrastructure with the help of BrightMarbles.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We moved away from our monolithic legacy platform to new micro-service architecture with the help of BirghtMarbles.

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

Their engineers were embedded directly into our teams which consisted of internal engineers and a product owner as well. This helped both sides to align quickly and deliver on time.

What was your primary form of communication with BrightMarbles?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

I was impressed with their ability to attract the best teammates and deliver on hard-to-find roles. Alongside high standards for technical requirements all of them speak English at a high professional level and fit culturally into our organisation which helped us to truly make them part of our teams.

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

We've worked with them from an early stage when they just started and it has been incredible to see the growth in both companies. They have always maintained and should continue to hire only the best people so you can be at ease knowing everyone you work with lives up to these high standards.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

 I am the CEO of an it services company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Event management SaaS platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire BrightMarbles to accomplish?

• Mobile App Development
• Quality Assurance
• Marketing

SOLUTION

How did you find BrightMarbles?

Clutch Site

Why did you select BrightMarbles over others?

• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from BrightMarbles were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

BrightMarbles provided consulting services and development asistance during the mvp development of our platform. Their experts provided invaluable insights in cybersecurity and system architecture. As well as providing software development services in the realm of front-end development.

They also led our marketing activities and helped us successfully position our brand online in a matter of weeks.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Successful MVP release.
• Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter pages with several hundreds of active followers and engaged community. 

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

BrightMarbles pays great attention to their delivery procedures. Their stuff is highly skilled with scrum and agile development. They were responsive and the communication was very transparent and clean.

What was your primary form of communication with BrightMarbles?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

BrightMarbles has a wide range of services and highly skilled professionals for any of these types of services.

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

Not at this time.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of Hadrian, a digital security company building an Attack Surface Management tool.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

BrightMarbles integrated their senior developers into our development teams.

SOLUTION

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

Brightmarbles has an excellent track record of attracting the best talent. Our vision on how to build technology was a perfect match.

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

Any details on the work is considered confidential.

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

4 people, all of them were senior developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Any details on the work is considered confidential.

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

They're fully integrated into our development processes.

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

They are an active partner in the development process.

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

We need to have more developers from them!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of a cyber-security and compliance startup located in The Netherlands and the UK.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our goal was to develop an MVP of our cyber-security and compliance web app.

SOLUTION

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

Brightmarbles understood the problem immediately and executed solutions within our strict budget.

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

AWS hosted web app written in .net/c# using a serverless architecture. Brightmabrbles also provided the UI design.

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

4 devs, 1 UI designer and 1 scrum master.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our MVP was incredibly successful allowing us to raise funding. Brightmarbles are still working us to develop the next version of our app.

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

PM and SCRUM master was excellent and very professional.

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

The ability and intelligence of developers. All members of the team worked with us to develop the best solution opposed to just blindly following requirements.

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

Nope :-)