Garwan

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Built by scientists and tech entrepreneurs, HypherData’s innovative R&D Data Matchmaking platform is the connective tissue between Data Providers and Data Consumers. We’re part of the movement to bring more pragmatic solutions for data dissemination among scientist in the Life Sciences ecosystem.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Building an secure online platform within Life Sciences sector bring a whole lot of complexity, regulation, privacy, and security with it. Garwan is a strong software partner for us, with the right skills and expertise to help build such a digital platform.

SOLUTION

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

After going through various cycles of interviews, and talks with different vendors we came to the conclusion that Garwan is the right partner for us to build this platform. Following factors played a crucial role in the decision making process that led to choosing Garwan as a reliable partner: - Communication and Interaction, soft skills

- Technical skills

- Experience in Security, Data privacy, digital platforms, and Cloud

- Tooling and Agile experience

- Efficiency and insight into software projects

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

Together with Garwan we started with few rounds of estimation, planning and scoping. The result provided a perfect groundwork for further setting up the project plan, define timelines, and milestones. Applying the Agile methodology and the right tooling we were able to create a perfect flow of project/software development together with Garwan.

Keypoints:

- Agile process

- Cloud-based platform development

- Modern tech stack (microservices architecture with Angular as FE tech stack)

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

A small and very effective team of developers from Garwan teamed up with us to create the agile and lean team. With our experience in agile project management and scrum, this resulted in a strong team of Agile practitioners, developers, architects, and designers that formed a very strong and efficient team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project and milestones are met in full range. With 2-week sprints we were able to deliver all deadlines sprint after sprint, pinpoint the pain points and hurdles on time, and come up with the right strategy te resolve the issues without delays.

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

As practitioners of Scrum and Agile methodology, we stayed true to daily stand ups, demo days, retrospectives, and refinement sessions. Staying focused on how Agile works we were able to get the most out of time we spent on each step of the way.

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

- Agile mindset

- No non-sense mentality

- Always ready to help when issues / risks seemed to rise up

- Helping proactively with us, more like a partner than just a software development team

- Willing to go the extra mile with us to help bring the product to a better version

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

none

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am in the Management Board of a SME IT company. We are developing an ERP solution as well es eCommerce applications, running a Datacenter an do trading with IT hardware.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Garwan?

Regarding mobile development we are partnering with Garwan as we lack of special know how in this area.

What were your goals for this project?

The project is an individual development for an important customer of ours. It was crucial to understand the business background of the various processes the app covers.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Garwan was suggested to us and by the beginning of the project, we already gathered the first experience with them in the area of maintenenance of other apps.

Describe the project in detail.

The project was the compostion of an android app to run on ZEBRA MDE devices. Following requirements had to be met: - offline solution - portrait mode - ability to take photos - synchronisation with erp data - > 20.000 products and > 10.000 b2b customers - geoinformation

What was the team composition?

Garwan was the implementation partner. They covered the technical and visual design, as well as the coding of the project. As the project is finished now, they became the maintenance partner for the solution. One of our responsible business consultants for the customer took the lead in the requirements elicitation process as he had a long year experience regarding customer processes.

The users of the app are is the delivery personnel of the customer. It supports the following use cases: - login - selection of vehicle - display of daily route/ tasks - handling unplanned tasks - status of every single stopp/ tasks - loading goods - delivering goods - picking up return shipments - payment - task completion - problem/ cancellation handling - documentation via photo

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project met the key requirements for time, quality and budget. As a result of a very professional requirement engineering process, the go-live of the app was straightforward. The staff of the customer picked up their new working tool very fast thanks to a well elaborate user experience concept.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Although ERP development and mobile development are very different areas the collaboration worked very well. In our view this happened because of the following reasons: - the customer had a clear idea of the fuctions and features of the app - Our Business Consultant could take care of all business relevant implications of the customer requirements.

Garwan was fast learning and very eager to understand the background of the requested features. Although most of the time we they were working remote, there was a constand progress. - The alignments were conducted very professional and efficiently.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

To sum up there were three things: - Besiede the technical experience they also picked up the business content very fast. - During the whole project we were confident to have a professional technical partner. - Garwan was eager to deliver a great product and meet the high expectations of the customer.

Are there any areas for improvement?

none

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Wholesale and retail of specialized chemicals and chemical products for the stone crafting industry and for stone maintenance. I am the CEO of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Garwan?

To resolve and grow our business activities we needed a specialized webshop and therefore an experienced IT-solution provider to offer us a custom solution to fulfill our vision of the e-shop.

What were your goals for this project?

The goal was to design and implement a reliable state-of-the-art webshop solution for us, which would be also attractive to our customers and boost our sales and market standing.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We did a market research and asked several agencies/software houses for offers, from which Garwan came out as the best choice considering both technical and financial aspects.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We had a clear understanding of the products and product categories we want to sell via the e-shop, but were not versed in the technical aspects.

We had two workshops with Garwan which resulted in wireframes and mockups and from then on Garwan was able to implement the shop with ease and became our trusted partner for the maintenance and change requests of the webshop.

What was the team composition?

The project team had about three people, depending on the phase of the project, as the works started with design and consulting and went through technical implementation to the current support phase.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

For us Garwan was an enabler, as we did not have an e-shop before this project and the work of Garwan opened us to the whole market.

With the good experiences we had during design and implementation, we've never considered entrusting anyone else with our shop's development and support needs. We would do this project again with Garwan.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management was very impressive - very responsive and timely, but also helped throughout the project to save resources by staying lean and agile.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

How much understanding they have of the issues of the customer and how much they obviously love what they do.

Are there any areas for improvement?

We don't honestly see where Garwan should improve, we are very satisfied and can only recommend them.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We're offering a proven business concept in real estate industry and a flexible brand with successful market presence that is constantly evolving.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Garwan was our IT partner of our new start-up project.

SOLUTION

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

market research and recommendations

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

technical design and custom development

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

>5

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

positive feedback

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

effective

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

Garwan brings professional, timely and what is most important fully functional result. Precise work, detail oriented to avoid any future issues.

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

nothing yet

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

External Software Developer

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Audit Information System

SOLUTION

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

We found them through a refferal. We are looking for vendors.

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

We have an old system that runs on IE. The goal was to enable it for Google Chrome.

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

One developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Garwan successfully finished the project. They met all time requirements. Project management and software development was very professional and efficient. Pleasant basis for conversation.

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

Phone, Microsoft Teams, email Any kind of communication worked very well.

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

Their price, efficiency, and communication were amazing.

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

Nothing

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the COO of a digital shop based in Vienna

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We asked Garwan to support us with developing the UI for our workflow Tool.

SOLUTION

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

One of our freelancers had connections and suggest to work with Garwan. Our contact person Juraj convinced us with his open and supportive appearance.

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

Supporting our team with developing Frontend and integrate it into our PHP Framework. We worked on an agile basis with sprints, daily StandUps etc. Worked like a charme.

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

1 Frontend Developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Project is still ongoing, but we managed to reach our milestones in time and budget.

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

The developer was integrated into our team and had no problems with our toolset (Jira, Confluence, Slack & Bitbucket).

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

They are very professional and solution oriented on every level. It felt like a partner.

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

Errors happen all the time - but we found solutions on a level as partners.