Centuria

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the owner of fashion e-commerce and we are already 8 years on the market.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

Before working with Adminotaur, we were assisted by a contracted freelancer, he was responsible for supporting IT systems. The support was of a good level, but the availability and turnaround time of assignments was not satisfactory. We decided to use a professional partner to help us handle our IT needs.

SOLUTION

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

We searched fot the company like Adminotaur few years before we started our cooperation. At that time we could not afford it because of our budget but we were satisfied from contact with Marcin Migacz (owner of admiotaur) - he made profesional impression so we came back few years later.

Describe the project in detail and walk through their service package.

Even at the initial (sales) stage, Adminotaur spent considerable time getting to know our business and talking about what we needed and what our challenges were. After the initial recognition and acceptance of the offer, we moved to the next stage, where Adminotaur technical team planned with us the next steps of our cooperation. The entire process was transparent and thoroughly described. Adminotaur team perfectly outlined the next steps and processes. As a result, our confidence grew and we approached the project with peace of mind, knowing that we were in good hands. All stages went smoothly and according to the roadmap that was laid out.

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

In the first phase (choosing the right company), we talked to the business developer. Then the technical department performed an audit for us, and proposals were presented by the business developer. After agreeing on the terms of cooperation, we smoothly moved on to working with the Admin/DevOps department.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We have worked with different IT companies, but Adminotaur was very well organised and communication was smooth. We had the feeling of safety during the whole cooperation with them.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Communication was very efficient, fast and professional.

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

It's difficult to find IT company with good workflow process and knowledge - both of these were good in Adminotaur.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a company, which deals with the distribution of finishing and interior design products as well as garden equipment. We are one of the largest online furniture stores in Poland.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

Several years ago, we struggled with a huge infrastructure performance problem. We needed specialists to help us not only solve current problems, but also to propose infrastructure expansion to solve traffic scaling issues. Of course, we also needed 24/7 care.

SOLUTION

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

Adminotaur was recommended to us by people from the software house that supports us.

Describe the project in detail and walk through their service package.

Initially, Adminotaur carefully analyzed the environment documentation and performed an audit of the infrastructure. As promised in the next step, we received a description of the implementation and launch of the project in AWS and a quote for the work. Then we signed the documents and the work began. The implementation went smoothly, despite the fact that it was stretched over time. The whole process went according to plan, and every step was consulted with us.

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

The entire implementation process involved several people from Adminotaur's side and ours, and the entire implementation went smoothly and seamlessly.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The project was completed on time, and we moved to AWS, and our performance problems ended. Now we can take care of business with peace of mind.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The implementation and management of the project went smoothly. We rarely encountered obstacles or errors. We met all the objectives within the deadline, and our teams worked efficiently. It is worth highlighting the excellent communication with Adminotaur.

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

The quality of Adminotaur people has always been very high. The DevOps, who was in charge of the migration was always willing to help, despite changing needs.

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

I can't imagine that the migration process to AWS could look any different/better.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as an IT Project Manager.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Centuria?

We wanted to create a reliable and highly scalable infrastructure for our e-commerce business by switching from PrestaShop when this solution proved no longer sufficient for us. We knew that, due to the kind of traffic on our site (large sales files related to seasonal discounts on products), we are a challenging client.

At the same time, we wanted to maintain continuity of business to the greatest feasible extent, as well as problem-free customer service in the busiest periods. We needed the expertise of specialists from Centuria on how to correctly scale Magento and ensure its reliability. We were looking for a solid partner for years to come.

SOLUTION

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

Having analysed this sector of the market, we concluded that Centuria is the IT infrastructure implementation partner that is recommended the most frequently by Polish Magento agencies. It was because one such agency’s recommendation that we’ve decided to start working with Centuria.

Describe the project in detail and walk through their service package.

We asked Centuria to design and implement the infrastructure for our e-commerce environment. They handled the network, physical machines, virtualization, and the configuration of operating systems as well as services for our applications. After the period of implementation and final migration of the solution, they also provided 24/7 support.

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

We worked with Norbert, who was our Project Manager. Additional involvement on the part of Centuria’s management helped satisfy our business needs with regard to the project in full. The technical team from Centuria included many DevOps/SysOps.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We were able to reach the goals we had set with regard to the implementation by Centuria on Magento 2. Thanks to our business partners, we achieved satisfactory performance and bulletproof quality of the website, which allowed us to start breaking sales records.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

All works have been completed in time. Any issues have been communicated to us and solved adequately in advance. The communication was smooth: in addition to direct and close contact with our Project Manager (email, phone), we could use a 24/7 ticket system as well as a dedicated chat to discuss technical matters.

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

Centuria is run and managed in a sensible manner. Employees have no problem owning their mistakes, and they learn from them. We are treated fairly and as a true partner.

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

There isn’t

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO of Pacific.org. Pacific.org is a Polish FinTech startup. Our main product is a mobile application named Pacific.org. The app offers functions such as

• Pacific Mastercard with free currency exchange
• marketplace and making purchases directly in the app and through social media (by means of QR codes)
• dedicated friends chat enabling easy money transfer.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Centuria?

We were looking for professional support in terms of DevOps. We wanted to create a Kubernetes-based, flexible and safe launch environment for our application that could operate as part of the Google ecosystem. After the implementation, Centuria was to maintain the implemented system on a 24/7 basis in line with our requirements.

SOLUTION

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

We decided to seek Centuria’s support, because we had been recommended this company by a trusted business partner. They recommended Centuria as SysOps/DevOps specialists.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

Using best security practices and Google technology supporting the creation of software and app maintenance, Centuria prepared the infrastructure in Google Cloud.

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

The PM division was represented by Norbert, and the DevOps team included Paweł, Dawid and Kamil.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Thanks to Centuria, we could deliver a working app environment to our partners in time. What is of great importance as well is that the stability of the solution developed helps us continue to improve the application and promote it in the market.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Effective like Roger Federer in wimbledon between 2003-2007

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

The list of Centuria’s qualities is long. Among the key ones are: reliability, quick reaction, absolutely problem-free communication and, above all, impeccable implementation quality.

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

There are none

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am CTO and co-owner at Sensi Labs, software house based in Poland. I am responsible for technology, projects of ours and our customers.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

Adminotaur team provides ongoing DevOps support for our developers. The admins are taking care of our infrastructures, making sure there are no unresolved issues, day and night. They also helped with growing our environment and they are making sure our new infrastructures are set up smoothly and securely.

What were your goals for this project?

We needed to increase the stability and performance of our clients’ infrastructures that are located in various data centers. The goal was to make the environments highly available and well balanced.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We didn’t want to build our DevOps team from scratch, so we were looking for a partner who could take over this part of our business needs. The deciding factors were high responsiveness, individual approach to projects, and the meeting, during which we could honestly talk about their team and capabilities.

Describe the project in detail.

The project aimed to redesign and update the environments with the emphasis put on efficiency and resource usage optimization. As a part of the project, Adminotaur team prepared the solutions that improved our developers’ work.

What was the team composition?

There’s always one person from Adminotaur team assigned to the project as a project owner. They seem to have a well-designed system of team sharing, which allows the person on-call to be prepared for any problems that might appear outside of business hours.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

I’d say, the success, in this case, was increased stability and availability 24/7 in case of issues. We didn't need to hire admin of our own and want to keep it this way.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We used emails and occasionally phone calls. In those projects it works. Depending on importance of task, it was resolved in 20 mins or if wasn't important - in 2-3 days.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

One of the strengths of Adminotaur is their responsiveness, no matter what time of day or night. Their approach is always professional, and by now we’re already used to getting more than one solution to each problem, which allows us to pick the one most applicable to our current business needs.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, I don’t recall anything.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CEO of Gamehag.com. We are gaming network connecting millions of gamers worldwide.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

We wanted to create a secure, scalable infrastructure for our business and be sure to have great maintenance services.

SOLUTION

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

We decided to choose Adminotaur based on our business partner experience.

Describe the project in detail and walk through their service package.

We had a series of talks to specify our needs and the way we wanted to implement the new infrastructure and migrate our current infrastructure. Adminotaur helped us to define the requirements of our infrastructure. We’ve chosen a very cost-effective way to achieve our goals.

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

We’ve been working with a dedicated consultants and administrators who have managed the whole process and cooperation.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We scaled our services to growing user base and traffic.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Adminotaur is one of the fastest and most reliable teams on the market. Every one of our requests is solved in a professional manner

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

Great expertise of Adminotaur - solutions prepared specially for us and great quality of communication.

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

Hard to say because everything was fine.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm E-commerce Specialist responsible for project and sales implementation.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

We were looking for a stable and reliable partner for our e-shop project. Adminotaur looked after our servers and supported our development team at every stage of the store implementation.

SOLUTION

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

Adminotaurs were recommended to us by our partners. Their portfolio includes interesting and large implementations that made us choose them as our partner in the care of servers.

Describe the project in detail and walk through their service package.

Admins helped at every stage of the store's development - they helped with development environments, updates and were a constant support for our IT team (they received answers at almost any time at lightning speed)

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

Our project was handled mainly by one supervisor. The relationship was stable and we did not notice a frequent change in our service. I can mention my co-workers by name - apart from their competencies, they have a great sense of humor!

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

For months of cooperation, our store was always available and properly configured - in case of problems, we knew about it beforehand. Currently, our store is stable thanks to the Adminotaur service.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

I can assess the response time at any time of the day or night as sensational. A very clear panel made easy and very fast communication between us.

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

Working with the Adminotaurs is the best way to get a good night's sleep - whenever something starts to happen to our project, the Adminotaur team will come to the rescue.

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

I do not see such fields for improvement.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a marketing manager at Data Space. We are a data center specializing in custom IT environments for medium and large clients and in cloud solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

We cooperate with Adminotaur in providing DevOps services for clients of our Data Center.

What were your goals for this project?

We needed an experienced DevOps partner who with our administrative team, will take care of the high quality of customer service and ensure the continuity of their IT environments.

SOLUTION

How did you select Adminotaur?

We were looking for the best DevOps team to work with us. We made dozens of calls, but when we found the Adminotaur team, we knew after the first conversation that we were looking for them.

Describe the project in detail.

Due to sensitive data, we cannot disclose project details.

What was the team composition?

We work with 3 DevOps Engineers from Adminotaur.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Close cooperation with Adminotaur allowed us to increase the level of our services and thus the safety and satisfaction of customers who lease our IT environments.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Adminotaur employees are available 24/7/365, the basic tools we use are mobile phones, slack and Jira, and other notification management programs.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Speed of response. We are confident that the IT environments under the care of Adminotaur are 100% safe.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, it is great cooperation, and we want to continue it.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CTO of software house in Poland. We help corporate clients reach their goals.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Adminotaur?

We hired Adminotaur to plan, create, manage, and secure a multi-server infrastructure.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to create a secure, scalable infrastructure for our business.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We researched many companies that provide suitable solutions. We decided to choose Adminotaur based on their experience and communication skills.

Describe the project in detail.

We had a series of calls to describe our needs and the way we wanted to implement the new infrastructure and migrate our current infrastructure. Adminotaur helped us to define the requirements of our infrastructure. We’ve chosen a very cost-effective way to achieve our goals.

What was the team composition?

We’ve been working with a dedicated consultant who has managed the whole process.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We reduced the downtimes of our apps and increased the speed of introduction and modification to our infrastructure.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Adminotaur is one of the fastest and most reliable teams on the market. Every one of our requests is solved in a professional manner.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They are willing to help and explain every technical detail of how things can or should be implemented to reach the maximum security and scalability of their solutions.

Are there any areas for improvement?

It's hard to say because everything is working just fine.