Exposit

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Founder and CEO at Ereztech LLC providing world-class organometallic precursor R&D and manufacturing to our customers worldwide. Our experts work with a wide range of organometallics, metals, air-sensitive materials, rare-earth derivatives, ligands and other building blocks used in deposition precursors for the production of electronics, photovoltaics, and fine and specialty chemicals. 

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

We worked on our web application for selling chemical products and plugin for optimizing online catalog data management working in integration with this website. Services provided by Exposit within these projects included business analysis, software development and software testing.

Firstly, we aimed at global website upgrade with updating Wordpress CMS, changing layouts, analysing and improvement of our catalogue, creating smart search for chemical substances on the basis of chemical formulas, etc. Our second goal was to automate the processes of entering information and creating online-catalog pages, that accelerates adding new products to the site.

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

By reference of our mutual customer.

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

Exposit engineers updated the website of 2007, developed UI and integrated a search engine. It automatically searches for suitable chemical substances by the periodic table on the basis of chemical formulas that we enter or draw.

They organised dynamic generation of products pages and generation of PDF files with more product details. They have also developed a plugin for administering an online catalog of our chemical products, automated the processes of entering information and creating online-catalog pages.

This allows the administrator to quickly and easily transfer information without manual data filling. The plugin also can generate product specifications in PDF format allowing users to easily share product information. Exposit also conducted manual functional testing of the implemented functionali

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

Project manager, business analyst, three developers, two software testers. Currently one software developer finalises tasks within the project and another one supports.

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

We have successfully updated our website, added new functionality. This positively affected on its usability and the number of orders, but I cannot disclose this data.

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

Project Management was arranged from their side, that was very comfortable for our team. We communicated mainly via mail and Skype. They often organized intermediate demos and meetings as issues arose.

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

I appreciate their professional understanding of how Ecommerce platforms should work and how to make web applications user-friendly. By the way, they worked in a very organised way taking into account all our business needs.

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

Can’t think of anything, because our cooperation went smoothly. I will be happy to recommend them for web apps development.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as a Project Manager at Teamlead company, that provides consulting and software development around Atlassian solutions such as

• CRM for Jira - Customers & Sales
• Calendar for Jira - Plan Team Activities
• HelpDesk for Jira - Customer Portal &SLA.

Our website: https://www.teamlead.ru/

Apps by Teamlead: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/vendors/22223/teamlead

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

We cooperated on several projects related to business processes in JIRA. For our last project, Lead Management system, we needed a team of software engineers and testers with Project Manager from Exposit side. Lead Management System that our customer used before worked in integration with Comindware system and was obsolete and slow.

Taking into account that all their leads from all the sales channels were qualified in LMS and company business processes passed through the platform, it was decided to replace it with a more efficient solution - Atlassian JIRA. The main goal was replacing the used LMS platform with the Atlassian JIRA.

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

We considered several vendors, and the Exposit team offered the most favorable terms of cooperation and was open and easy to communicate.

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

Exposit engineers have tuned the entire workflow of the company in Atlassian JIRA, including the improving and addition of new business processes, plugin and gateway implementation, system configuration.

They fully customized JIRA for the processing company's business, improved functionality and integrated the developed system with various third-party systems including treasury.gov, MasterCard, JIRA, customer's ERP-system, etc.

All our project development we were also supported by Exposit Business Analyst that analyzed and managed requirements, groomed backlog and supported the team with effective communication. Exposit QA manager carried out UI, functional, API and stress testing.

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

Initially the team composition was two software engineers, Business Analyst, QA manager and Project Manager. The team line-up changed over time and in 2020 it consisted of four: PM, BA and two software engineers.

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

It’s confidential as our customer is a huge Fintech company. But our continuing cooperation with Exposit may indicate that we are satisfied with the quality of work.

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

Their Project Manager planned iterations and coordinated the team effectively. The production process was built on flexible Scrum methodology. We communicated mostly via Telegram.

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

The quality of the software being developed, expertise in JIRA and the level of communication. By the way, they always work proactively.

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

There is always room for improvement. It is worth working on the accuracy of estimating the scope of work and the speed of the team. Overall, everything went smoothly. I wish their team only growth and development of expertise.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Founder & CEO of a startup - Stock Tycoon

For what projects/services did your company hire Exposit?

We got in touch with Exposit for the development of our Fintech product and API for the brokerage systems.

What were your goals for this project?

We aimed at creating a platform for the modern day investors, to help them keep track of their own and other investors’ progress, analyze results of investing, and increase capital with less risk.

How did you select this vendor?

Exposit contacted us and proposed to develop custom functionality for our solution. We conducted a number of technical interviews with IT providers, but as a result we selected Exposit team skills.

Describe the project in detail.

Exposit team has analyzed and proposed a technical solution meeting our requirements. Their engineers developed a Web platform and API for connectivity with all brokerages. The software receives user data and transaction history and analyzes trading community activity. Exposit also created an analytics engine and a real-time tracking of the most successful traders over the chosen period. By the way, this solution has a scalable infrastructure.

What was the team composition?

There were three engineers working from their side.

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

We scaled up our statement of work because they were able to develop additional functionality.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Project management was handled from our side, but our cooperation was very productive as Exposit engineers seamlessly integrated into our team. There hasn't been any omissions or miscommunications.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their understanding of complex enterprise apps and specific corporate security principles really helped us in building our Fintech product safe and marketable. We were especially impressed by their custom approach to our business, team flexibility and ability to quickly start development.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I can't say anything negative. So far, I’m pleased with their work.

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO at Whichwinery.com. We have a web application that helps people navigate wine country bu finding wineries that match their preferences.

For what projects/services did your company hire Exposit?

We contacted Exposit with aspiration to refactor our code for winery profile management, bug fixes, DevOps and additional functionality for travelling planning, search, DB backups and more.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to customize people’s wine travel experience by providing an online application that could help users make more informed decisions on finding wineries that fit their preferences. In addition, providing wineries with the ability to reach their segmented audience.

How did you select this vendor?

Our CTO had worked with them prior and he highly recommended them. We compared several offers of IT companies and Exposit’s was the closest to our expectations in terms of budget and cooperation model.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

The Exposit company was responsible for supporting and developing our web application. Their developers studied the source code created previously by a different team, wrote their own logic over the FB library and fixed errors to optimize the speed and flexibility of the application. A few of those features included implementing logic for database backups, Django CMS plug-in development, server performance optimization and "Consumer Travel Trip Planner" implementation.

What was the team composition?

A Team Lead and two software engineers.

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

As a result of our joint development, the whole project was refactored. The new functionality helps our users to create the most engaging travel experiences for which we receive positive feedback.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We didn’t use project management from Exposit - it was handled from our side. In general, communication with the Exposit team was very productive and timely (given the time zone differences). They were responsive and flexible to new coming requirements. Slack was our best form of communication.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their soft skills, such as their ability to communicate and responsiveness, were impressive. Their development process was transparent and clear for us and they were timely in their deliveries. Most importantly, which was not the case with our prior team, is that they think through the user experience and make recommendations during development, which has optimized our customer experience. They don't code for coding sake, they were a partner in collaborating with us to realize the best experience based on our architecture and product road map.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None. Highly recommend them!

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CEO and founder of Bruenok Solutions, a furniture company.

What challenge were you trying to address with Exposit?

I needed someone to develop my mobile app. My Android app was already developed but the previous developer didn’t have specialists for iOS.

What was the scope of their involvement?

They developed an iOS app for my CRM. The app allows my clients to track the status of their kitchen cabinets at the exact moment with status updates. They made prototypes, which we reviewed before development. They made it completely understandable.

Over a period of three or four months, we changed some features based on feedback we received from a client focus group. They also provided a testing period for one month with technical support.

What is the team composition?

We talked with the CEO and the architect. There were four or five programmers as well.

How did you come to work with Exposit?

They were referred to me.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent $15,000-$20,000.

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

They helped us to understand how it would work. We now need fewer personnel to call clients to give them status updates on where their kitchen cabinets are. Writing and calling into our offices has completely stopped.

How did Exposit perform from a project management standpoint?

The architect was our point of contact with the programmers. He explained everything to us. They delivered the app a week after our agreement, but that was because we were having them change a lot of things. They’re all great guys to communicate with even outside of work. We used Skype.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I can only rate them on convenience and money charged, but they’re very nice compared to the previous company I worked with.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, I’m considering asking them to help with our next project.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

They’re good to work with. They make good products.

Please describe your organization.

We are an IT services company that provides software development, mobile app development, and cloud infrastructure support services for our customers.

What is your position?

I’m the CEO of the company.

What business challenge were you trying to address with Exposit DS?

The business model of our company is that we have consultants here in the DC Metro Area, and we use Exposit DS as our software development office. We do a little of our own development work but we primarily outsource it to Exposit DS.

Please describe the scope of their involvement in greater detail.

We’ve been working with them since 2012, and the projects have ranged widely since then. Recently they built a web and mobile app for our client, who was a startup company that was looking to build an app that would allow their users to send out electronic gift cards with some customization. Then, over the course of the last year they built a web application that was used as a platform that enabled fashion designers to work online. They’ve also worked on several projects around building out a company’s cloud infrastructure.

How did you come to work with Exposit DS?

I am from Belarus, and I knew the management of Exposit DS for a while. We knew it would be a good relationship from the first few projects we gave them and have been working with them ever since.

Could you provide a sense of the size of this initiative in financial terms?

Usually the projects are in the $10,000 to $50,000 range.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them in the summer of 2012, and the relationship is ongoing.

Could you share any statistics or metrics from this engagement?

One of our recent projects was with Social Tables. With Exposit DS’s help, we were able to propose scalable cloud architecture for their infrastructure servers. The outcome was that users stopped having to deal with timeouts and outages during peak hours, so it pretty much stabilized their platform in terms of the infrastructure.

What distinguishes Exposit DS from other providers?

The number one thing is the quality of communication and quality of work. I’ve been doing business with them for the last three years, and so far there was no business-related issue that we could not work out by just talking. In terms of the technical experience, I want to say that they are probably one of the best IT providers in Eastern Europe. They’re more than just coders. They have experienced senior developers and architects who are really useful whenever we try to come up with out-of-the-box solutions for our clients.

Is there anything Exposit DS could have improved or done differently?

Improvements would probably go along the lines of communication. The majority of their senior staff has great English communication skills, but when we talk to their mid or junior level developers, it’s not as good, which can be a problem if we try to connect them with our US-based clients.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center is a non-profit organization, which mission is to promote awareness of the rich Belarusian-Jewish cultural heritage within the national and global context, to preserve and enhance this heritage, aiming at the creation of the Jewish Museum in Belarus. Founder and Curator

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

VR tour and reconstruction of the Great Synagogue of Slonim is the first of its kind project in Belarus that brought researchers, artists, conservationists and IT engineers together to remake and preserve an important piece of Jewish heritage.

The team utilized historical archival information in conjunction with high-tech modelling to establish an interactive visualization solution and has managed to virtually renovate the synagogue to the ideal historic appearance at its height.

An immersive 15-minute VR session allows visitors, after putting on VR glasses, to fall into the past and take part in a guided tour where they can get acquainted with the history of the synagogue, see its original appearance, see all the painting and hear the sounds that used to be there several centuries ago.

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

Selected by tender. Factors - expertise, terms and price.

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

Exposit took part in the Belarus Shtetl project as a Unity development team and implemented VR visualization of the Great Synagogue of Slonim for an interactive exhibition.

The team began the development by visiting the historical building in Slonim to better understand the architecture and create a 3D model of the synagogue as realistic as possible.

Exposit explored the real object, saw elevation plans and historical materials, took photographs of interior and exterior details as well as made photographic materials for creating a 360-view inside and outside the synagogue.

The company chose the Unity technology for the 3D model development to allow the project creators to quickly adapt the solution for other devices (for example, as a smartphone app), if necessary.

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

We worked with 5 people from Exposit: Customer Service Manager 3D Artist Unity Developer Project Manager QA Engineer

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

Currently, the project is finalized and being readied for launch and presentations.

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

Working with the Exposit team was very comfortable. The deadlines were met.

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

Colleagues plunged into the complex context of the project, related to history and heritage, demonstrated a caring attitude towards socially significant projects.

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

The result fully met our expectations.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company builds collaboration software and I'm taking care of product partnerships.

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

We needed assistance with the development of an integration. The timeframes were short, hence we looked for outside help and we were happy to find Exposit.

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

We've made a short list of companies able to deliver the required results. Exposit ended up being our choice based on their prior projects, communication and their flexibility.

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

Upon agreeing on the scope, we scheduled a kickoff meeting with all stakeholders. This kickoff meeting laid out the steps, Exposit proactively explored all APIs, came back with a prototype and we iterated to the end result.

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

We spoke to about 5 people throughout the process and have been working closely with two Exposit team members.

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

The integration was delivered within a very impressive timeframe and does everything we imagined it'd do.

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

It has been a pleasure working with Exposit, the communication was easy and Exposit's flexibility was delighting. We've communicated per email, Zoom and opened up a Slack Channel.

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

Exposit's quick turnaround and skilled team were impressive.

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

I have no areas of improvement based on this interaction.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Product Owner at It Works GmbH, a provider in the field of public media. We specialize in consulting, optimizing and purchasing all classic and special advertising media for outdoor advertising.

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

We needed Frontend engineers to develop the client side of our corporate web platform for drawing up trading offers for the sale of advertising space in Germany. The main destination of our platform is providing a full cycle of preparation of advertising campaigns: from setting goals and choosing advertising space to visualizing available advertising statistics. All that to easily generate advertising presentations for our clients.

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

We started our cooperation with the trial period, that showed expertise and reliability of Exposit.

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

Frontend team of Exposit has been working on our project since Jan 2019. The web application helps our managers to prepare advertising plans, save them and create a map visualization with suitable advertising points in Germany. The Frontend part is built using JavaScript, Vue.js.

Among already implemented functionality:

• Planning of advertising campaigns: the ability to choose campaign period, budget, locations, types of sites, their visibility and much more.
• Filtering advertising space by various characteristics, including type of advertising campaign, borders and rating.
• Displaying available (not yet booked) ad points.
• Ad points visualization - the ability to see how the advertisement will look in a real location.
• Graphical presentation of the saved advertising campaigns with cartographic and statistical data.
• Ability to import external files, e.g. of a .KML, geoJson, CSV and other formats to display additional geographical entities. Export of documents in .PDF and .PPTX formats, ready for presentation to end customers.

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

The team consists of two Frontend engineers from Exposit’s side. Initially, we started with one specialist but expanded the team for further needs.

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

Our presentation with our customers in Hamburg was very well received. Thank Exposit especially.

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

Project management is arranged from our side, but Exposit specialists are always in touch, they answer all inquiries asap as well as deliver completed tasks as planned. We handle weekly meetings to discuss the project status.

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

We are generally satisfied with the results of our joint development because of their commitment to the project. They totally exceeded our expectations in terms of code quality, timing and level of communication.

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

Nothing comes to my mind.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work at Noveo LLP as an Account Manager. Noveo has representative offices in Russia, France, UK, USA and provides a full range of IT services for different business domains. Our key activity area is software development, testing and support.

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

Exposit is our outsourced partner that adds talent to our project teams. We worked mainly with their Java, PHP, React and fullstack JS software engineers via Dedicated Resources model of cooperation and have already developed three web projects together. We needed to extend our project team within several projects to fasten development and deliveries to our end customers. The projects scope included finalization of the backend and frontend part of web and mobile applications, bug fixes, migration of web applications using open source frameworks and support.

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

They initially contacted us and marketed themselves to us. We received a number of proposals from other companies, but after various interviews and research selected Exposit. They seemed to truly understand what we needed and provided resources quickly.

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

Can not disclose details due to NDA. Briefly, Exposit team was responsible for developing server and client parts of our web and mobile projects, their full code refactoring, rewriting legacy code, migrating it to open source Java. Then they covered the code by integration and unit tests and provided timely support. The design and concept came from our side.

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

There were six technical specialists from Exposit totally involved in these projects. Team composition varied depending on the technology that’s having problems. I usually interacted with 3-5 different teammates, including an account manager.

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

We have successfully completed all projects and delivered them to our end customers. Exposit team approach in working around our schedule to minimize our downtime, and the whole customer service experience were good.

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

Noveo managed all the projects. The engineering team worked according to our plan, but recognized and troubleshooted issues proactively. We used mainly Skype, email and Jira for communication.

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

Their response time, transparency during our work, and technical expertise impressed us.

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

No, we’ve worked very well together.