Software development for digital business
Codete is an IT consulting and software development company. Since 2010, we’ve been supporting businesses worldwide in gaining competitive advantage by means of modern technology.
10 + years on the market
100 + projects
150 + top IT talents
We advise on digitalization. We develop and implement high-quality tech solutions. We augment our clients’ teams with skilled IT specialists.
Offices in:
- Krakow, Poland
- Lublin, Poland
- Berlin, Germany
We offer a wide variety of IT services from consulting to supporting our clients with the best specialists.
Why Codete?
Two main reasons to choose Codete as your next business partners are time and quality.
1. SHORT TIME TO KICK OFF
2. TOP TALENTS
We focus on delivering the best solutions for our clients, not just writing code.
- Backend - We have the know-how to choose the right technology and construct efficient backend architecture.
- Front-end - Our front-end developers code out-standing interfaces in cooperation with UX and UI designers.
- Web and Mobile - We have vast experience in building well-designed, high-performing web, and mobile applications.
- Data Science - Codete data scientists can unleash the business potential behind company data.
- DevOps - We provide our clients with safe and scalable infrastructure, and implement modern cloud computing solutions.
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Portfolio
-Blinkist -BMW -Cisco -Dalia Research -Deloitte -Fattal Hotels -Flyt -Gelato -Heine -Helpling -Here -HSBC -IBM -Jodel -KIA Motors -KodakOne -Language International -Leonardo Hotels -Metrosoft -NFL -O'Reilly -Porsche -Prosieben -Sonnen -Spotcap -TATA -Voith
Web Development for Hospitality
Codete engineers selected a palette of IT solutions for digital performance optimization in several key areas. First of all, we ran a complete UX/UI audit in order to identify the conversion bottlenecks. Conclusions were then turned into several official booking website refurbishments visual drafts, aiming at a usability and conversion boost. After the mock-ups analysis, testing, and final approval, an implementation phase was launched, with the technologies dubbed the most effective: - RESTful API to integrate front-end and backend and enhance mobile booking funnel. - Symfony as a PHP framework and Angular for the front-end. - UI enhancement by enforcing compliance with widely recognized standards, such as Google Material. On top of that, the much-needed booking tools' scalability potential was unlocked with the application of AWS and cloud computing.
Our cooperation with Leonardo Hotels has been a long-term oriented, deep business partnership from day one. We set up a dedicated Development Center, comprising of hospitality industry business experts, battle-proven senior developers, and selected junior top talents. In the course of the deep, long-term oriented business relationship, our dedicated Development Center has stayed flexible, building custom digital solutions that respond to the ever-changing context of the global market. Leonardo dedicated Development Center, responding to the current situation, has been scaling itself down to a minimum determined by maintenance needs, awaiting the business challenges to come. Should new challenges emerge, Dev Centers quickly adapt to the circumstances, restore the previous staff or onboard brand new team members, review old solutions, provide updates, or pivot and build entirely new digital tools.
In order to identify the business process obstacles underpinning and causing low growth and poor scalability, preventing Leonardo from effectively competing in the global market, we ran a meticulous audit, lead by dedicated Development Center members with business expertise. The findings pointed mostly at the main page usability issues, which rendered it as a poor competitor to the third-party travel and hospitality aggregators. We crafted a roadmap of business and respective digitalization goals, highlighting the most urgent ones. We came up with an array of possible solutions across all levels of Leonardo's digital infrastructure that integrated UX and UI improvements, as well as front-end and backend code review and optimization. Following iterations of designing, consultation, robust testing and assessment phases, our Development Center engineers rolled out the full technological stack of all necessary updates, engendering a permanent digital booking funnel unblock. A brand-new, dedicated booking website engine was the sales funnel optimization mainspring. Our bespoke software replaced the former, generic solutions, which had been impeding the growth potential of the Leonardo Hotel website. The digitalization allowed full, customizable booking process automation - the feature crucial for Leonardo's growth strategy.
Automotive Data Science Project
Our data engineers developed a reference project for all the microservices of the Deloitte’s automotive industry client (several hundred). Our Vanilla Java-based microservices template served as the crucial part of collecting entry logs from the set of manufacture devices.
Our role in the process was to label the data before it gets further to the data lake. The intention of the entire application was to create a huge repository of logs and build data intelligence.
Codete operates globally in a variety of business verticals such as Fintech, E-commerce and Retail, Travel, Healthtech, Advertising and Marketing, Automotive, Media and Entertainment. Our customers are global corporations and tech scale-ups from Europe and the US. We are partnering with top technology universities in the area of Data Science R&D.
AI building blocks project for automotive
The project focused on AutoML and DevOps Engineering (Containerization, AWS) for Computer Vision use cases.
Our goal is to create a labeling self-service platform for Deep learning applications within the manufacturing area. The core of the assignment concentrated on the implementation of containers around the DeepLearning Stack and platform services to support the model deployment lifecycle (build, train, deploy, retrain) and UI components to enable users to select their required services like AI Hub).
Blockchain Application
With KODAKCoin tokens, payments will be simplified and faster. All stakeholders involved in the licensing process worldwide will receive their share simultaneously according to the terms of the smart contract saved on our Licensing Blockchain. Additionally, it is the driving force behind our marketplace where photographers can purchase almost everything they need in order to succeed in their professional life. (e.g.: Hardware, Software, Travel, Logistics, etc.)
Blockchain
Our digitized, decentralized blockchain ledger will make it easy to store and access information without the need to go through a central authority such as a distributor. You will have much more control over your licensing and most importantly could earn a much higher share of the license fee. It establishes proof of ownership and enables our platform to process license fees in real-time using Smart Contracts - lending both trust and ultimate control to copyright holders worldwide.
E-commerce platform
Home24 is the top-class e-commerce platform for the finest household items, furniture and accessories. The huge selection of remarkable home and garden products with fast and free delivery make Home 24 the ultimate market leader in Germany and across Europe.
Our challenge was to deliver a cross-functional team able to take the biggest furniture e-commerce platform in Germany up to the next level. We were supposed to design, build, and implement robust scaffolding and testing tools to optimize the ongoing development process. Our drive was to enhance and substantially upgrade the quality of the final product. Capacity required to serve huge amounts of data, expectations towards optimization and strict quality assurance standards made the project a unique opportunity to prove our quality.
In order to maintain flawless communication with the client, we frequently visit Home24 Headquarters in Berlin. Working together with the German team, and being close to the customer's ethos and workflow keep our cooperation successful from the very beginning. Codete Team keeps on delivering major improvements to e-Commerce solutions for German furnishing and interior design market leader. Home 24 platform stands for the finest quality, accessibility, perfect customer service and flawless data transfer. To keep all these requirements in mind is our attitude.
Network Application / Marketing Automation
Our client, Gelato, is a Norway-based company that aims to disrupt the printing industry by providing customers with a portal through which allows managing print jobs centrally, but print and distribute locally. Our team is involved in developing two products for the customer.
GELATO NETWORK APPLICATION
We helped Gelato to develop and fine-tune their core application that enables management and work optimization for print houses. The app manages the entire workflow of the unit, including the preparation of print sheets and manual work organization.
MARKETING AUTOMATION
Our team created a marketing automation tool called Autopilot to equip Gelato with a sophisticated customer experience and retention suite. Our developers built the entire system from scratch, using innovative technologies that combine quality and scalability.
AUDIT & CONSULTING
We also helped Gelato optimize one of the products in its portfolio, Optimalprint. The product had an obsolete frontend application that wasn’t responsive to mobile devices. Our team revamped the technology stack to improve aspects such as mobile, SEO, multilingual support, and performance-related matters. One of our fronted experts compared different solutions and eventually chose to React with Redux because of the ease of implementation and superior performance. We then created mock-ups of the frontend structure in a new technology stack that could be used within these changing technologies.
Language courses application
Language International delivers the most complete web comparison for language courses around the world. Our partner is a rapidly growing startup with over 50K of unique users per month from 165 countries and two locations in Boston and Berlin.
Our challenge was to deliver an improved and enhanced web application that helps to easily attend dozens of thousands of language courses. The key requirements our customers had to increase overall performance and enhance the platform.
We've put a major focus on adjusting the development process to match specific project life-cycle. Codete aimed to deliver the ultimate product and bring the final success to the promising startup company.
Together with the Language International Team, we carefully set a project road plan with regards to the customer's business value. Code and architecture review sessions held by our development team dramatically increased the performance of the platform. From the very beginning of cooperation, we constantly ensure website maintenance along with a dedicated server environment (staging) and cross-functional team. Apart from developers this also includes dedicated sysadmin and SEO specialists.
Our administration and maintenance services stimulated the rapid growth of the
website performance. We also delivered multiple features to the platform and took its usability to the next level.
UI/UX and visual design
Wells Fargo is a multinational banking and financial industry leader across North America and internationally. According to Global Finance, Wells Fargo is the best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank Overall in the United States. 70 million customers around the world and overall assets estimated to be above $1.6 trillion testify to the brand's quality.
Our challenge was to create a fully functional web boutique for the biggest transaction in the real estate sector in 2014. Wells Fargo required the highest quality of front-end code, remarkable design, and UI/UX solution. We were supposed to deliver a dynamic and efficient web platform with a high level of data-flow capacity.
Keeping in mind the core business values of our customers, we delivered flawless, functional, and user-friendly website. We also put the major focus on efficient project delivery, based on one-week iterations. Our Team was working within tight time-frames and needed to prove project management capabilities. From the very beginning of cooperation with Wells Fargo Team, we were involved in creating the concept. As a result, we were able to transform customer’s business value into the final product.
Blockchain Application
With KODAKCoin tokens, payments will be simplified and faster. All stakeholders involved in the licensing process worldwide will receive their share simultaneously according to the terms of the smart contract saved on our Licensing Blockchain. Additionally, it is the driving force behind our
marketplace where photographers can purchase almost everything they need in order to succeed in their professional life. (e.g.: Hardware, Software, Travel, Logistics, etc.)
Blockchain
Our digitized, decentralized blockchain ledger will make it easy to store and access information without the need to go through a central authority such as a distributor. You will have much more control over your licensing and most importantly could earn a much higher share of the license fee. It establishes proof of ownership and enables our platform to process license fees in real-time using Smart Contracts -- lending both trust and ultimate control to copyright holders worldwide.
Reviews
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Mobile App Development for Cleaning Service Marketplace
"We particularly appreciate that Codete takes the effort to understand their client’s perspective."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I’m the CTO at a company that runs an online marketplace for booking cleaning services in several countries on three continents. We’re based in Germany and currently have 120 employees worldwide.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
Our marketplace is available in different countries as a web and mobile apps platform. We hired Codete to speed up the development of our dedicated mobile application for one of our target markets. Time was of the essence, and we couldn’t find relevant specialists on our own fast enough, so we decided to opt for extending our team with external engineers.
What were your goals for this project?
Our goal was to arrive at a made-to-measure app for one of our target markets that up to this point can only use our online marketplace through the web platform. The project also included improving the functionality of our page for ordering cleaning services. We wanted to create a more efficient, but also a more user-friendly funnel.
How did you select this vendor?
We were looking for a trusted software company that could quickly provide us with software engineers with hands-on expertise in project-relevant technologies.
Describe the project in detail.
At the beginning of our collaboration, we held a couple of meetings to discuss our business objectives and expectations, and to work out the best solution. In the end, we settled for hiring a full-time frontend developer for our team.
Project management was on our side, and the tech stack of the project included React Native, Redux, and PHP. Throughout our collaboration, the vendor kept their finger on the pulse and asked us for frequent feedback to ensure their work meets our expectations.
What was the team composition?
In the end, we augmented our project team consisting of 3 people with Codete’s frontend developer. He was the only frontend developer in the team, worked for us full-time, and proved to be a skilled specialist whose knowledge was much broader than we expected (he provided us with fullstack expertise). The project manager, backend developer, and QA engineer were our employees.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
The COVID-19 situation forced us to alter some of our plans, so it’s hard to say that we’ve met our initial goal. But, for sure, Codete’s services and know-how helped us to progress with our application.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
We’re very satisfied with the workflow that we established. For daily collaboration, we used Confluence and JIRA. Overall, the Codete team and the engineer that we worked with on a daily basis are very communicative and easy to get along with.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
We particularly appreciate that Codete takes the effort to understand their client’s perspective. Our collaboration took place in a difficult time, in which understanding and certain flexibility were especially important. Their client-first approach is phenomenal. We’re satisfied with their technological expertise, agility, and openness.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Nothing to add, Codete met all of our expectations.
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Backend Dev & Testing for Leading Car Manufacturer
"The company was interested in our success."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
We develop IT solutions for a mobile and interconnected world on the basis of an in depth understanding of technologies and markets.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
Critical project for our most important customer. Schedule of this project was a main challenge.
What were your goals for this project?
Help our main customer to deliver a high quality solution on time. Success of this project may lead to next projects in the same area.
How did you select this vendor?
We had a list of vendors, this vendor was selected as was able to provide strong candidates in a short period of time.
Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.
They designed, documented, developed and tested new backend solution for a leading car manufacturer. Two-week sprints were used.
What was the team composition?
More than 25 team members and team is growthing. We had 2 persons from the vendor. We used our customer processes, based on agile development.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
No, sorry. Confidential.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
Project management was provided by us, not by the vendor. We had a distributed team, using Webex, JIRA and Confluence as main tools.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Very open communication, the company was interested in our success, quick feedbacks.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Not really.
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Engineering Support for Print-on-Demand Provider
“They see that we’re all in this together as one team, so they’ve truly blended in with our organization.”
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the HR director and head of research of a global on-demand printing platform. We offer cost-efficient and environmentally-friendly print solutions for global companies.
What challenge were you trying to address with Codete?
We were looking for good engineers to support our platform and contracted Codete.
What was the scope of their involvement?
They complement our internal engineering capabilities, dominating the B2C part of our organization. We mostly have Codete engineers, several of whom have been with us for several years.
What is the team composition?
We have approximately 15 people from Codete, including junior and senior resources.
How did you come to work with Codete?
This was before my time, but our procurement department looked over several tenders, speaking with each company. Since we have offices in over 10 countries, we collected local recommendations, too. Ultimately, we decided to go with Codete.
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working with them in 2015, and it’s an ongoing relationship.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
We’re very happy with them, which is why we’ve continued to hire engineers from them for years. We view them more as team members rather than contractors.
How did Codete perform from a project management standpoint?
I only have positive things to say about them. We’ve worked tightly as a single team, and all are satisfied with their project management, from their admin roles to the corporate functions. In terms of communication, we use Slack, Basecamp, and Jira.
What did you find most impressive about them?
They’ve really taken our culture on board. Our company doesn’t just speak about our culture but lives by it. That has sometimes been a point of difficulty with other contractors but not Codete.
From a leadership and recruitment perspective, they’re able to find people who are a good cultural fit with us. It’s their spirit — they see that we’re all in this together as one team, so they’ve truly blended in with our organization.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I’m sure each engineer’s direct manager or hiring leader might have individual feedback to give, but, as a whole, I’m very pleased with how professional they are. Not only do they understand us, but they also see when we don’t understand something.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Our teams work so well with each other because we’re all very transparent and respectful. If we have an issue, then we just talk it out, find a solution, and move on. So, don’t be afraid of speaking honestly with them because they’re good-hearted people.
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Website Development for Hotel
“The quality of their work was impressive and well-tested.”
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the former director of e-commerce and digital marketing for a hotel group. We were responsible for selling rooms online and running digital advertisements.
What challenge were you trying to address with Codete?
They were responsible for creating a digital ecosystem for our group.
What was the scope of their involvement?
Their main responsibility was to rebuild our entire technical environment. We wanted to lift the website to more modern, updated technologies as well as implement an agile development methodology across the company. They handled everything from infrastructure design to UI/UX template creation to development and project services.
What is the team composition?
They’re a large team, but we interacted with six of their teammates. Four were with us on a full-time basis, while two were part-time.
How did you come to work with Codete?
They were recommended to us by a mutual connection. After two introductory meetings, we knew they were the right team for us.
How much have you invested with them?
We spent between $100,000–$200,000 on their services.
What is the status of this engagement?
We’ve been working together since around April 2017.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
Since working with them, our company has become much more flexible and agile in our development methodologies. Additionally, they implemented much more cost-effective technological solutions that have modernized our company.
How did Codete perform from a project management standpoint?
They’re everything we could want from a project management standpoint: agile, flexible, and transparent. There aren’t any surprises when working with them, which is ideal. We communicated through Jira and Confluence.
What did you find most impressive about them?
The quality of their work was impressive and well-tested.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I can’t think of anything.
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Data Science Workshop for Business Leaders
"We were astonished by Codete’s know-how on Data Science, their collaborative mindset, and team engagement."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Stun and Awe is a Berlin-based growth company helping startups and scaleups build sustainable businesses through design and smart growth. I’m Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor at Stun and Awe and was the lead on the project with Codete.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
We worked with Codete on a private event designed for business leaders looking to leverage emerging technologies.
What were your goals for this project?
We worked together to increase our brand awareness as well as enhance our reputation for tech-related events.
How did you select this vendor?
We knew Codete from previous events. We decided to partner with them given their solid track record with workshops on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Big Data. In addition to being experienced with events across Europe, they had very strong technical knowledge internally.
Describe the project in detail.
We organized an event in Berlin to educate business leaders on the advantages of using Data Science to improve their business performance. We worked with Codete to develop an interesting, and organize a high-quality experience for the participants.
What was the team composition?
We worked with Codete’s Managing Director, CTO, and their Workshop and Marketing teams.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
We had a full venue during the event with high-quality speakers. Also, we managed to get good public relations coverage via Berlin Valley and Orbanism.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
Working with Codete is a real pleasure. The team always truly listened to our ideas and needs. We had weekly calls to track our progress on the project, exchange ideas, and plan the next steps. It didn’t feel like working with a vendor, but rather working as one team.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
We were astonished by Codete’s know-how on Data Science, their collaborative mindset, and team engagement. Working with Codete has been a top-notch experience. They’ve been a true strategic partner for Stun and Awe.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Nothing comes to mind. Communication within the team was very transparent and open to feedback. I’ll be very glad to work again with Codete.
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.NET Dev & Support for Sales Management SaaS Provider
"We found a proper rhythm pretty soon and the communication has been smooth."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
WeSuite offers a suite of powerful sales management software products. I led the development and operations teams for the portfolio of applications and hired Codete to help address staff augmentation with senior technical developers and QA specialists.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
We were able to leverage Codete's tech expertise for replatforming and refactoring of legacy .NET Framework applications. The legacy code, critical from a business prospective, needed to be modernized to improve maintenance, testability, resiliency and overall product quality.
What were your goals for this project?
We needed to increase developer velocity, introduce CI/CD pipelines in conjunction with test automation and restructure the code base to be maintainable and expandable. We aimed to reduce errors in deployed products, reduce the time and personnel for the deployment operations, increase agility and overall quality.
How did you select this vendor?
The contact was passed by people in my network.
Describe the project in detail.
I was managing the IT department of development and operations. The vendor was engaged in providing senior software developers, architects and testers to help scoring and executing. Codite provided training and formation on Agile/Scrum methodologies.
What was the team composition?
Senior software developers, architects and testers and senior project manager.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
The training and the quality of the artifacts were excellent!!
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
The time shift was a bit of a challenge at the beginning, but we found a proper rhythm pretty soon and the communication has been smooth.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
The expertise of each member of Codite team has always been solid and they set an high bar for any members of the group. Codete created an nice work environment providing intellectual challenges and fairness to their employees.
Are there any areas for improvement?
.
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Python Dev for Marketing & Technology Agency
"The projects were well received by the client."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Uhura is a marketing and technology agency that enables brand conversation through content strategies, platforms and story driven campaigns that reach and involve your audience. We combine the strategic excellence of consulting company with the agility of a digital agency.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
We hired Codete to enhance our development unit for a new project to cope with a much higher need in developers as expected. After this project we kept working with the developers from Codete on a long term basis.
What were your goals for this project?
The goals for the initial projects were to create a complex extranet with a high secure login process and database structure. After the initial project, the backlog had to be worked on as well.
How did you select this vendor?
Recommendation
Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.
Codete gave us developers over a long period to cope with the amount of tasks our development unit could not handle alone.
What was the team composition?
We worked with up to 4 different front- and backend devlopers.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
The projects was well received by the client and the functionality and accessibility together with the high security measuremtns were overall great.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
Project Management was taken care of by us
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Very quick reaction time. Fast onboarding of developers. Friendly and experienced staff in general.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Project Management would be an addition that could be vital
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Enterprise App Dev for German Middleware Provider
"They have an excellent understanding of customers' needs."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Our company was founded in 1995 and is since then engaged in consulting services and development around the HCL Notes/Domino platform.
We were one of the early partners of BlackBerry in Germany and has been developing middleware to bring enterprise data and processes to mobile devices. I am one of the founders and managing directors and still active in development.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
Our company developed a mobile application builder bringing enterprise data to mobile devices. Our development focus had been on BlackBerry devices (Java OS and BlackBerry 10), but BlackBerry in 2015 decided to switch their own branded smartphones to Android and let their own OS phase out.
In order to fulfill customers demand, we needed to port our application builder to Android and iOS. Due to limited resources, we decided to keep Android development in-house but searched for a reliable partner to do the iOS development and maintenance for us.
What were your goals for this project?
Porting the feature packed mobile client from BlackBerry 10 into a native iOS app that reliably replicates data from a Domino server via SOAP web services and stores this data securely on the device. The new app should interpret the existing XML used to define a custom application and display views and forms without the need to redesign web for iOS. The time schedule was tight.
From business negotiation, first workshop in Kraków and a stable beta it took only six months. For us it was important to work with the partner long term as we expected new features to be implemented in future as well as necessary adaption to new versions of iOS and new Apple devices.
How did you select this vendor?
A partner in our network of companies did extensive research to find suitable partners for near shoring and outsourcing development services in Poland. Poland is known for highly qualified software developers with great knowledge in mobile development.
English skills and work ethics similar to ours make Poland the ideal destination for our plan to outsource parts of the development. We decided to work with Codete as they offered broad range of services and their business was set up for long term partnership as ours is.
Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.
After a packed two-day workshop in their offices in which we gave an insight into the current client and the documentation of our web services and XML based application, they started work immediately.
Codete was responsible for the whole development process including suggestions for UI. Developers had to find a solution for securely communicating with our SOAP based web services, storing data in a secure was and find out workarounds for some restrictions the iOS platform had.
Especially the generation of dynamic forms and views at runtime based on a XML definition had been a challenge. In the last couple of years Codete implemented change requests and new features at least once a year.
What was the team composition?
Team composition depends on the phase of development. Usually one senior developer had been assisted by a junior developer and/or a UI designer.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
The cooperation with Codete allowed us to concentrate our limited resources to Android development and advancing the functionalities of our solution on the server/backend side.
We were able to present a functional iOS client to those customers actively seeking alternatives for their BlackBerry 10 devices in 2015.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
Because of the very technical nature of this project with lots of micro decisions, we are providing the project manager.
The direct communication between our head of development and Codete´s senior developers worked fine for us. Tools were Trello, Skype, our own ticketing system.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Broad range of knowledge. They have an excellent understanding of customers' needs.
Are there any areas for improvement?
We all should constantly improve. Estimations are always an issue in development.
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Engineering Support for Energy & Hardware Supplier
"Their team is open to our suggestions and wishes."
the reviewer
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the VP for R&D in the digital area of the leading manufacturer of residential storage batteries. We’re also an energy utility that operates worldwide, selling hardware and energy contracts to private homes.
What challenge were you trying to address with Codete?
We wanted to ramp up our engineering headcount and QA speed to build digital products.
I found that Codete was quite good in this regard, so I signed an agreement with them for several people from their team, working on our projects within our existing teams.
What was the scope of their involvement?
We’re building digital products for our B2B and B2C customers. We have mobile apps and web portals for end customers and installing companies.
Our batteries are high-tech products, and they get installed by electricians and professionals. There’s a triangle consisting of our company, end customers, and B2B partners. The best customer experience can only exist if there’s constant information flow between all parties.
We’ve built those apps and portals to assist with installations and servicing. Codete was involved with the backend development through APIs, and they made product recommendations for end customers.
The engineers took care of test scenarios and QA.
What is the team composition?
Our project involved around 100 people, but we’ve worked with three people from their team.
How did you come to work with Codete?
I met their CEO at the Intersolar fair in Munich two years ago, and we had a great talk about technology.
How much have you invested with them?
The cost of their work has been €100,000–€200,000 (approximately $112,500–$225,000 USD).
What is the status of this engagement?
Our engagement with Codete started in the first quarter of 2019.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
We were looking for a company that could not only deliver products but provides QA engineers that could write test case scenarios to ensure efficiency. Our sales depend on that, and Codete delivers.
Since we’re selling internationally, the services we provide have to be highly available. Codete’s job is to make sure that the team’s output is at a high level.
How did Codete perform from a project management standpoint?
We have monthly management meetings, which I call our “second line of defense.” The engineers work agilely within their team. The teams have dedicated channels to report challenges and different topics to others.
During our monthly meetings, we report on what’s going on, what’s good, and where we have room for improvement. This works out well when someone is struggling, so we can come together and discuss how to overcome challenges. We communicate with the engineers, but we have also established a way for management to speak with each other, to align if there’s room for improvement.
What did you find most impressive about them?
Everyone I’ve met from Codete has been encouraging, open, and caring about our business relationship. They understand what we’re looking for as a company, and they’re always asking if they can do more or get better. Their team is open to our suggestions and wishes.
Are there any areas they could improve?
There’s nothing I would mention. There’ve been things we’ve talked about, but we were able to figure out and overcome challenges together.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
It’s essential to have different lines of communication within any business relationship where we’re working across different companies. Clients shouldn’t just buy time from engineers but have a healthy business relationship by speaking with each other.
If a problem arises at one end, there should be different roles and people there to help with various insights and abilities. This advice relates to all contractors, not just for working with Codete.
the project
Web Platform Dev for Corporate Education Company
"They're very reliable at all times, and they hold to what they promise."
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the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
We are a leading online education provider, focusing on corporate education for employees. We provide an efficient solution to train employees critical skills for digitization.
For what projects/services did your company hire Codete?
The Codete is working as embedded part into our web development team (Backend, Frontend, DevOps, iOS).
What were your goals for this project?
We are, as a fast growing startup struggling to accelerate the development of our platform. The Codete team helps us to scale our development effort dramatically. The Codete team has been working on platform maintenance, bug fixes and the development of new features.
How did you select this vendor?
We have worked with many different partners before Codete but never were happy. We usually terminated the other companies affect 2-4 months. As you can see from the length of the partnership with Codete this is different. Codete really fullfills our needs.
Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.
Web development: Frontend, Backend, DevOps. iOS App Development. Services rendered are from conceptual support (e.g. for a new platform infrastructure) throughout feature definition (incl. UX design), feature implementation (some of the major releases in the last years were developed by Codete) all the way to bug fixes and maintenance tasks.
What was the team composition?
The team size has changed over times, depending on our need. We have had between 2 and 6 full-time developers working for us and usually have 2-3 resources that support us part-time or on an hourly basis.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
The cooperation with Codete has fulfilled and exceeded our expectations. The length of the engagement (and no end in sight) speaks for itself. We are a happy customer.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
We alway had clearly defined, very responsive counter parts at Codete to discuss changes and (if it happened - rarely does) problems. All perfect.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Good quality of engineers. They're very reliable at all times, and they hold to what they promise. Flexible to cater to our needs.
Are there any areas for improvement?
At the moment the model works perfect for us. So not sure what to improve.
Because of the circumstances with COVID-19, the app has yet to launch but the company is satisfied with the current progress of the project. The team had technological expertise, agility, openness, and a client-focused approach.