Dreamix

Please describe your company and your position there.

Position - Head of Product Organisation - British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) Description - The BBFC is independent and not-for-profit, and we’re here to help everyone in the UK choose age-appropriate films, videos and websites, wherever and however they watch or use them.

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

Use machine learning and AI to optimise BBFC services

How did you select Dreamix and what were the deciding factors?

Impressed with their deep understanding of machine learning models and artificial intelligent solutions. Fantastic work ethic and worked hard to understand our organisations needs.

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

The scope of our project was to use machine learning models and techniques to make the most of our data to optimise our services. The project is largely confidential with a patent pending.

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

Hristo T. - Partner, Manager at Dreamix and Georgi Y. - Partner at Dreamix

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

Dreamix have kept us updated throughout the project, been open about any challenges faced, and gone above and beyond to deliver the agreed scope. They have worked with us to patent our solution.

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

Dreamix have been open about any challenges faced throughout the project, they have communicated well with our team, they've provided timeline estimates.

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

They have a deep understanding of machine learning models and artificial intelligence solutions.

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

We've been really impressed with Dreamix and look forward to continuing to work with them.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We re-platform Mainframe applications to the cloud. We have mainframe language compilers and runtime services to enable legacy languages, COBOL, PL/1, JCL etc to run cloud native.

I am Director of EMEA , with responsibility for Product Management, Sales, Partner Enablement

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

Developing our core compiler products and tooling and runtime around this. We create compiler technology with extremely complex technical challenges and we needed highly specialized 10x programmers to solve these challenges

What were your goals for this project?

To build a co-located team that could extend our current product set with new features. We also have a roadmap of new products and languages and wanted to build technical competence to be able to work in these new areas.

How did you select this vendor?

We had previous experience of working with Bulgarian companies and found the people to be of extremely high quality with great character. Our focus quickly narrowed down to Dreamix when we read some reviews and our initial contact points were incredibly efficient and just give us a confidence in their competence

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Our product is built in C and Java and we have a devops environment comprising, Jenkins, Makefiles, Git, Mercurial, Python, PHP. We also expect our people to work with modern languages but understand Mainframe systems and languages.

Dreamix supplied high quality people that could master the entire Stack of technologies. Initially starting with code fixes, the dreamix team quickly progressed to building out new features and suggesting improvements to not just our products but also our development processes.

What was the team composition?

We started with 2 people, quickly added a 3rd and have a plan to continually add people to the team over the next year

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

Our product was built to move z/OS mainframe applications to the cloud. The dreamix team added added a whole new mainframe environment, DOS/VSE, to our product in less than 6 months.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We communicate multiple times a day using slack and have daily scrum calls. We supplement this with occasional onsite visits to share and transfer knowledge. Heirloom has been built with a remote development workforce so there was very little change for us to work with a new team remotely.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Technical capabilities are a given, but the character and integrity of all the people that we work with and have met at Dreamix are of the highest order.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Dreamix have actually been a source/driver for improving our own internal communications and staff facilities.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We help insurance companies and insurance brokers to do data migrations, conversions and improve their data quality. I am the managing partner in direct communication with the developers in the role of product owner.

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

We developed the first version of our policy migration, conversion and quality improvement application ourselves. But getting further we needed more development capacity that was not available in our country.

What were your goals for this project?

The solution had to be flexible, so it could adjust to different customer needs and auditable, so that we could trace back all changes and why they were made.

How did you select this vendor?

We started by selecting companies near the good technical universities. Selected about 20 companies, that we wrote to have a discussion with a lead programmer, review some code that they made and evaluated their pricing model. Based on that analysis we created a shortlist of three companies that I visited. During the visit we interviewed the management team and the developers, which lead to the final selection of our software development partner.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

The Apollon application is a configurable application in which you can import and export insurance data in a flexible format. On the data in the system business rules can be executed to identify issues and update fields (also based on external data sources). The data can also be manually improved by users via a configurable user interface. The application is fully fuctional and working for multiple customers. We are currently working on improving our customer onboarding process and improving the way that the business rules can be defined by customers.

What was the team composition?

The development team consists of 4 developers, assisted by architects and subject matter experts within Dreamix that are external to the core development team. The core developmentteam consists of two senior developers, a medior and a junior developer.

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

For two months we are doing an active acquisition of new insurance broker companies. After 15 visits to companies, more than 80% of them are very positive and want to be onboard. The customers that we have currently got are very satisfied with the solution and especially with the speed that changes are implemented in the application.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The team is self-directing, based on the scrum methodology. Responsibility for the sprint items are not put on a single developer but are always the responsibility of the team. This has been proven very effective for me.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I would definitely say the culture that they implemented throughout the entire company. It's a caring and sharing culture that is managed internally as well as externally and to their customers (or partners as they like to call). The developers are all really motivated and are encouraged to dive deep, not only technical but also in understanding the customer processes and business needs.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I am very happy with the way that we are collaborating at the moment. Dreamix is always open to suggestions and is willing to put the effort into implementing the suggestions.

Please describe your company and your position there.

scheduling/automation of RSS feeds to Twitter

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

rebuilt backend; built new features

What were your goals for this project?

I initially hired Dreamix to fix a major bug that was causing Twibble web application to shut down every week or so. Moreover, the users were unable to log in. Massive db problems due to Elasticsearch. Basically nothing worked and the entire backend had to be rebuilt.

How did you select this vendor?

I met Stoyan Mitov in San Francisco who introduced me to the team and I became convinced they were a great dev team.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

When they joined, they started debugging, scrutinizing through the code and system. It appeared that Elasticsearch was used as a database which was a problem because Elastic doesn't support ACID transactions. In short, it led to no guarantee that Twitter's authentication token will be available when someone wants to login.

We fixed the many memory issues one by one, moved the database to MySQL and the web app started to operate smoothly. After the fix, Dreamix team started working on new features and was responsible for the support.

What was the team composition?

2 Senior Fullstack Devs

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

The backend rebuild was a success; Twibble grew to 5x its original revenue within 2 years of their work; ended up in the top google search results for RSS to Twitter and similar

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

heavy reliance on slack, asana

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They were dedicated, and they had raw talent. They also had a personal passionate interest in our company

Are there any areas for improvement?

Heavier reliance, and stricter adherence to, Asana project management; implementing Trello or similar would have been helpful as well

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of Art & Craft Company, our company is manufacturing handmade decorative, toys and household items since last 9 years. Our products are 100% hand manufactured and of high quality.

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

We had designed the website for online presence and we got very good response but now we need a mobile application for our store which should be easy to use, which makes people addicted to seeing our products and get involved in their daily life.

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

I found this company on the internet, I visited their website and I was very impressed to see the variety in their services.

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

The project was completed very systematically, we had a long discussion before starting the project especially on the user interface, product listing gallery and useful features. They also built the admin configuration tools for the app and worked on our algorithm.

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

About 6 to 7 people were working on our project, the project manager, tester, frontend and backend developer were involved in the project.

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

We haven't spent much time on testing this application, we will test it on different systems and at different phases, then we will be able to say something but we are very impressed and excited by the initial phases of testing and are sure that this application will be effective in the market.

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

The project was very well managed, we also got some changes done on the final product which they did with great pleasure. They also shared their ideas with us which we found appropriate and implemented it in the application, overall our experience was very good.

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

Their team was very professional, and everything else about them was impressive.

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

Nothing, according to me

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Marketing Manager in our law firm and our law firm provides the best lawyers, advocate or experts in property, RTA and consumer protection as well as other legal matters. We have a team of about 490 Advocates and Lawyers who provide necessary legal aid to the needy in different cities.

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

We got a local company to develop the solution for our law firm but we could not get the quality we wanted in our application so we thought of adding more new features to our application for better development and we came to Dreamix with this challenge. The user interface should be simple yet attractive and at the same time it should be flexible enough to meet the various needs of our clients. We wanted to have all the necessary options on one page but it should not look too heavy loaded.

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

We found this company on LinkedIn, but after doing research on the Internet, we had prepared a list of 9 companies, out of which we found Dreamix as a very flexible and reputable company.

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

Our company provides services on a variety of legal issues, which they plan to divide into our application, making the solution very flexible. By modifying our application, they had a plan to create categories for all kinds of legal matters but the big task was to make the UI simple and attractive, a form was also added in it, from which we used to know the need of the user directly.

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

I don't know much about it but the project manager was accompanied by 2 developers, designer, and analyst who analyzed the needs of the clients and shared the necessary data with the developers so that the required features could be adjusted in application

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

If we compare our old application with the application that Dreamix has modified for us, then we can easily measure its effect, this modified application is much more simple. We took feedback from the new clients we got through this application and we are glad that they are happy with our solution. Our Clients have also increased by 40% which we have got through this application.

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

The team managed the project very well, 2 developers were included in the team for the perfection in the application and for our specific need means UI a special designer was hired and before doing the work, there was a good discussion with the team and the project was completed on time, for this they divided the work among different experts, the management is very commendable.

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

Their reasonable price, punctuality, availability of experts, and the result-oriented team are amazing.

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

I can't say because everything seemed best to me.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are working on a new venture in the healthcare sector and I am the project lead there.

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

We hired Dreamix to build the web-application for our healthcare venture and our goals were from the minimum viable product to a fully fledged application.

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

We had worked with Dreamix on other projects before. We had found them through a referral, also evaluated them against others and then we decided to work with them.

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

Dreamix has done the software development as well as the project management of our new venture. The technologies used are Angular in the frontend, php in the backend.

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

With had a product manager, a technical lead and four senior developers.

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

We were able to launch the project on time and ensured usability. With this, we were able to collect feedback from our users and after that, we had multiple fast iterations to further improve the web-application.

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

The project management was great. There was good and regular communication via Google Meet or Slack. Timelines have been communicated clearly and transparently.

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

I found it very impressive how everyone in the team took ownership over the project. For Dreamix’s team, it’s not just a job. It feels like they are working on their own project.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the co-founder and president of PLOTAGRAPH, Inc. We build digital imagery tools for artists, brands, and agencies.

For what projects/services did your company hire Dreamix?

My company hired Dreamix for the continued development of our SaaS platform and iOS apps.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to develop our software and add more features.

How did you select this vendor?

After an extensive interview process with many vendors, Dreamix was by far the best choice for us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Dreamix develops our SaaS and app offerings.  

What was the team composition?

We work with multiple teams on various projects.

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

Our software and apps required a lot of clean up, and Dreamix took immediate action. They have handled everything.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Dreamix has exceeded our expectations in every way.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their customer service is by far the best we have ever seen. An added bonus is their impeccable English.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There isn't anything that comes to mind.