Erginous Technologies

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the owner of a software development company.

What challenge were you trying to address with Erginous Technologies?

We needed all kinds of PHP-related work, which could be anything from portal and dashboard creation to inventory systems.
 

What was the scope of their involvement?

We essentially work with Trello to centralize the requirements and the functional technical specifications. They develop wireframes for projects like a web page for a mobile app, where we’ll have a UI designer, and a front- and backend developer.

They’re one of the people I work with for specific projects, especially for transactional systems.

What is the team composition?

We typically work with about 4–5 team members.

How did you come to work with Erginous Technologies?

I’ve been working with them for six years, but I don’t recall how we got in contact with them — probably through a mutual contact.

How much have you invested with them?

I spend somewhere around $25,000 per project.

What is the status of this engagement?

The partnership started around October 2015, and we’re still working together for mostly maintenance stuff.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

If I can rate the quality of their work from 1–5, I’d give them a five.

How did Erginous Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

I work with them my way, so I skype them whenever I need them — but I still accommodate their hours because I’m a nice person like that. I’m a human being too and if I treat you with respect, I expect to get the same level back, and they’re very appreciative of that.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The best part about working with them is their communication. They let me know when things aren't going right, so I can resolve them.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There are always things you can improve on. As you go along, you set the standard and try to gain the ability to adapt. It’s okay to make mistakes, but it’s even better to actually fix the mistake and not charge extra.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

My advice would be to make sure that you have all the requirements that you can review with them. Explain what you need, so they can go ahead and come up with a solution and give you some feedback. That makes the process much smoother when you start developing with them.

Please describe your company and your position there.

The company is a Leading Recruitment Services Provider. I am Head of Operations Asia, Handling the IT Projects for my company and New Innovation.

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

We hired Erginous For Developing the Web Portal Customize Software for our daily recruitment operations. We have the following goals to achieve out of the developments which ergnious successfully delivered to us within the timeline provided.

Candidate On-Boarding Automation CRM Redesign Website Project Management All others Operations Manual Day-to-Day process they have successfully automated

How did you select Erginous Technologies and what were the deciding factors?

We got to know about Erginous from Google Search and after speaking to the Rajesh (Very Professional at this work and deliver within the timelines always).

We started with the small project they amazed us with the quality work then we decided to give them the Software development project which they completed within the timeline.

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

We decided to start the work by creating a POC ( proof of concept ) first so that we can showcase and discuss with our top management in Australia about the blueprint of the project. Erginous was very good in creating a prototype, and we finally decided to award them this long project which is going to be the backbone of the ozstaff automation process.

After finalising POC and high standard designs, we discussed in detail about the project plan for development and testing, for which they provided a marvellous professional document called Project Plan including milestones, dates, testing, delivery, UAT details. We went through each step what all mentioned in the document, and a week on week, month on month project was getting high speed. I would describe about key deliverables

1. Project Designs
2. Project Plan
3. Test Plan
4. Delivery Plan - staging server
5. UAT Plan
6. Delivery Plan - Production server
7. Security Plan
8. AWS Server

Plan One of the best part that our server cost is minimised based on their excellent coding standard and very less consumption of server resources ( technically based on their SQL optimised queries ) because we have thousands of user's database and security and speed both are very important to be handled, which they did. Technologies used - LAMP Linux , PHP ( Laravel ) , MySQL - Main HTML 5, Bootstrap , jQuery , JavaScript

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

We have hired 7 team members from vendor Project Lead - 1 Senior Web Developer - 2 Senior Mobile App Developer - 1 Senior Test Engineer - 1 Senior Web Designer - 1 Cloud Server Engineer - 1

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

The measurable outcome is our fantastic and robust web portal which is handling almost 5000 hits every day with strong admin panel to allow end-user to log in securely using the web and mobile apps both.

General Feedback out erginous team - they are professional having a thorough knowledge of technologies to deliver the client expectations as desired. No issues faced till date for timezone even our headquarters in Australia and they too enjoyed working with team erginous.

Special thanks to Mr. Rajesh Azad who is Program Manager, never lets us down in any situation till date. Thank you very much and I am really pleased to write this feedback/recommendation on the clutch for erginous.

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

Project management - should I rate them out of 10 ( 10 being highest ) 9/10 as they always overwhelmed us by professionally managed project using acute standards may it verbal or written.

We discussed many many points during the project making period and every time it was better than before , though there was a nice misunderstanding between us for a module but later it was beautifully resolved with mutual consent.

Communication tools were used - Jira, Skype, Phone calls Timelines - 9/10 - always on time with 1-2 exceptions

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

Well this company is impressive about their design and presentation which we liked the most, because in today's online world if you design ( UI ) is not attracting end user, no matter what bomb functionality you have built on the backend, no one bothers.

So I would give 10/10 rating for the impressive designs. And if I have to mention about uniqueness, they always come up with creative suggestions, reducing server cost, free maintenance for 1 year after the project went live and many more which any customer would like to have at any time.

Though their hourly rate is not cheap however we always experienced the value for money paid to them and we are more than happy to continue work with them in future too.

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

Yes I would like to recommend some of the points below to ensure the overall improvement for the company:

1. 24 Hours Tech Helpline should be provided to the Customer If any emergency assistance required by the client
2. Project Management CRM should be provided So the client can easily communicate through a web portal (This will help customer to reminded about the Important stuff about the Project)
3. Survey Should be conducted every quarterly to ensure the business is meeting the needs of customer and identify the area for Improvement
4. Responsive time needs to be Improved there should be a minimum time company needs to put as standard to ensure customer get the timely response
5. After Project finish a completion survey needs to be sent to the customer to ask them about the Journey during the Project and area for the Improvement.

Overall I am very much happy with the company communication and Internal operations process but there is always a room for Improvement. I wish them luck and looking forward to working with amazing and Improved team again.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO of a tutoring corporation.

What challenge were you trying to address with Erginous Technologies?

We wanted to build a mobile and web platform that would be utilized to order tutoring services.

What was the scope of their involvement?

They were assigned to launch a white-labeled appl that could be used for other purposes down the line to enable our business to scale. The deliverables were a web and backend component of a mobile platform with a separate tutor and student interface. The tutors and students would log into separate apps in order to make this process work. 

It’s built for iOS and Android, so they built a total of four apps during this engagement. Along with the web platform, there are over 100 APIs built into the PHP backend. They were responsible for pretty much the entire platform. The native apps were produced using Swiss and JavaScript. We’re currently using a MySQL database.

What is the team composition?

My initial point of contact was their principal, but we were passed to a project manager for the vast majority of the development.

How did you come to work with Erginous Technologies?

I initially found them on Upwork. We received hundreds of bids within hours of posting the job. Most of the involved a standard cover letter, and they were the only ones who had clearly looked through the requirements before contacting us. They asked substantive questions and inquired about our work. That’s ultimately why we selected them. 

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in May 2018, and the project was completed in August 2019.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We haven’t launched the product to the public yet, so I don’t have user feedback on the platform. Anecdotally, we’ve received very positive feedback through user testing on the ease of use and UI. People seem to like the features that we included in the product.  

How did Erginous Technologies perform from a project management standpoint?

During the engagement, I made two separate trips to India to collaborate with them in-person. As with most development projects, the scope changed. They were very accomodating in that process. We used Basecamp and Trello to communicate. They were willing to utilize methods of communication that I recommended. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

I appreciate that they were accomodating and willing to adapt to changes. They were willing to work with others. If there was a feature that didn’t fall within the range of their competencies, they were willing to collaborate with external development teams to get the job done.  

Are there any areas they could improve?

They could improve a bit on deadlines and deliverables. There’s always room for improvement in those areas.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Have a clear understanding of the requirements early on. That was helpful in helping the scope of the project and allocate the appropriate resources to various tasks.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder of a non profit company located in Pune, India.

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

Our existing app had a clumsy interface that only a developer would like. We were looking for a company to replace it with a more modern, professional UI.

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

Shiffa at Erginious immediately grasped our requirements and was able to explain the process to us very clearly and succinctly. She also was able answers to the developer's questions.

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

1. Review of original app.
2. Recommendation for enhancement of the user interface.
3. Provide detailed mockups of the required screens.
4. Deliver a package containing all the components needed to build the interface.

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

One. She handled both the requirements and product delivery.

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

We were able to substantially reduce the projected time line for launch of our product.

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

Project manager was an excellent communicator and extremely prompt in replying to our requests.

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

After looking over the app they delivered a solution that required very few changes to our existing code while meeting all our requirements.

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

None that I can think of.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the owner and operator of a landscape photography business

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

Wordpress website development.

How did you select Erginous Technologies and what were the deciding factors?

Found Erginous Technologies through Upwork. Custom wordpress development experience, responsive site design, design optimized for speed, custom child theme, SSL, blog, knowledge of hosting and domain topics, affordable costs.

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

Entire wordpress website using X-Theme (with cornerstone) as a basis. Selection of various plugins were made by Erginous.

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

Rajesh has been the primary point of contact and developer.

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

Website has been operational and functional since 2016. Periodic maintenance has been performed, keeping the website functional & updated with the latest plugin versions and theme version.

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

Project deliverables are track on Basecamp, communication over whatapp and email has been used.

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

They are able to get quality work done at an affordable cost.

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

Communication could be clearer and more thoroughness of completing a list of deliverables without being reminded would be appreciated.