Gauss

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I´m CEO and the Founder of the Company. We are a small size company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed a specific web application, which was done from scratch, with only few references in the world.

We needed to combine good parts with our ideas. Gauss followed us with understanding, passion and great collaboration.

Our goal was to receive a fully functional web app from the outside and inside, for the users, and for our employees.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We had a meeting where they understood our wishes and our goals, and we understood that we can work together.

They believed us that we know what and why we are doing the project, that is not our first time, and that we will trust them according technical tips and suggestions.

Also, we received the best developer (for us) even though he was young, he was amazing. Thoughtful, caring, fast, honest, skilled.

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

Gauss for us developed the web application in Laravel 8, with the My SQL database. From our messy database they made it simpler, faster and more logical. They developed an admin surface too, to be able to manage the users, subscriptions, crate coupon codes for discount...etc.

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

We had a project manager and one developer, and when needed designer (frontend). Everything worked smooth, using slack.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We were on time with the launch. They delivered what we agreed on and in time that we agreed with. The website is online, fully operational and working.

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

We had the project manager but mostly it was direct communication with a developer. We had a well prepared documentation in advance, as well as designs. We used slack, for bigger decisions Skype calls. Everything worked smoothly.

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

Goran's understanding, devotion, and commitment for the project were amazing.

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

The design team/frontend developer was little slower and not at the same level of interest as a backend developer. But since we had few thing to work on the design, it didn´t effect us.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as a Sales Director at TSP Ltd., company that patents, produces and distributes SMART products to customers around the world with mission of raising consciousness about necessity of healthy life style.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We partnered with Gauss Development for developing an E-commerce solution for selling our product HSC 5G Protect Smart Card. Our goal was to create primary sales channel for this and all future products.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We already did some of the projects with Gauss and were very satisfied with cooperation and results.

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

We had to go through several steps before finalising the project (concept and design, development, testing, launch and additional work in few iterations). We used their own ecommerce platform for developing the webshop.

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

Designer, project manager, CEO.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We launched ecommerce website in English, German and Croatian. It targets global market and we had purchases from multiple countries across the world.

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

Gauss is extremely fast in response to our inputs and helped us a lot in creative process of designing and implementing the website. We managed to launch the website within the schedule and continued improving it.

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

Their ability to successfully meet our requests and deliver was impressive.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a marketing specialist with a focus on digital marketing, we provide healthcare to patients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We had a webpage that didn't provide our needs and couldn't respond to user's needs, so we need a new webpage that would perform better, but we also need to displace our content from the old page to the new. We wanted a webpage that is easy to manage and that can respond to user's needs quickly and follow digital trends.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We got a recommendation and in the tender procedure, they were the best choice. Deciding factors were a time of providing service, price, quality and availability, trustful partners, and ensuring long term collaboration.

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

We had a meeting to discuss our objectives and some final details about our collaboration after that we communicated online but that wasn't a problem because the process was going on time.

Yes, we get wireframes, we agreed on a design, they made WordPress site ADIVA, prepared backend and frontend, fill with content, and published the page. I am not sure about the order of these activities but everything was properly how we agreed.

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

We had a project manager and developer in the team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After publishing our new improved site the result quickly came, we had more users and pageviews, we also could respond to our partner's needs quicker. The improved site is still bringing us results. And it so much easier to use and to fill our page. And most important, developers are quick in responding and resolving eventually problems or needs.

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

We communicate through mail, but also through some Gauss tools but as partners, we preferred email/phone calls/skype calls/ communication, so that was our main channel. When there was a need we communicate through our partner's customized programs.

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

The whole process was very simple they didn't make it harder than it should be, they were very patient with explaining to us all things that aren't in our fields. We easily understand each other which isn't so often when marketing meets the IT sector. And they were reachable and quick to respond.

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

At the beginning of using a customized communication program, we had some difficulties with the program but quickly we detected problems and resolved it.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm sales manager with background in IT and my main job is to digitalize our processes. Our company produce and sale workwear.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our old website was about 10 years old and as we wanted to move online we started to look what company should work on our new website. We hired Gauss Development for webshop design and development. Our main goal was to have a digital presence and a new and modern webshop is the key part.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We had interviews with six companies and after two rounds, we decided on Gauss Development because of the great team, knowledge, and great project examples.

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

We held the first meeting to discuss our goals, needs, desires, and the things we like. Then their team of designers made the first concept and after a few changes it moves into development, everything was done in Magento.

After four–five months, the website was finished in Magento but Gauss Development decided to show us their e-commerce platform (CMS) and after we saw it we decided to move on to their platform and that webshop is still in development.

All communication was in the Gauss Development project management app and design we reviewed in Figma.

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

We mostly communicated with the project manager who was constantly available to us. There were also four other team members.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The new version of the website is still in development but our close circle and in-house feedback are great.

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

Their project management style is great, quick, and proactive. Mostly we communicated through the Gauss Development project management tool, also there was Figma and some emails.

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

Speed from which we switched from Magento to their own CMS and will to develop this great tool.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nope.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Our company is a photography and videography production studio. I am the owner and CEO.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We worked with Gauss on a complete overhaul of our multimedia website. Our specific needs (a lot of photo and video galleries) required a professional approach.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We had worked with Gauss on other projects and seeing how good they were, they were the logical choice for us.

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

We explained all of the issues we had with our previous web site and all of the ways we wanted our new web to function on various devices. Because our web is very media-intensive, we knew special attention will have to be given to media management, organization, tagging etc. We also wanted integration with our social media accounts.

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

We worked with a project manager but also discussed a lot of the details with their web and database designers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We advertised our new web site and received a lot of positive feedback both from our fans as well as clients. We feel that it has significantly improved our overall public image.

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

The project was split into different phases with various people handling backend and frontend tasks. After each phase we would discuss the progress with the teams and move to the next step.

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

They have a very professional approach to the development process. They took our inputs and considered them very carefully and the end results were exactly what we needed.

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

There were a few bugs that were resolved quickly and efficiently, so really no. We can highly recommend Gauss.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO in company which counts 18-20 employees in three different departments.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Since we are having three departments (IT support, web development and marketing) we wanted a custom solution which fits them all. Differences in making tasks/projects/budgets made hard to track all activities so we were looking for premade solution.

After consulting with Gauss Development we found out that our case no "out of the box" solution will cover. We decided to go with custom solution and it was a great approach. Gauss was hired to design, develop and implement our new project management - planing (mini ERP) system.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

Their approach in terms of business analysis and scanning of our needs together with reasonable price were deciding points.

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

After kick off meeting there were couple of calls/meetings about design and solution concept/structure. After their first preview we were sure that we found a good mutual understanding and that final product will be a good fit. Functionality development was lead with contact persons from each department so no noise in communication occurred.

First beta was prepared on time and made clear that all gathered info was solvable. Each department leader took a test and gave a feedback on with Gauss responded actively. On the other side some issues or details which we couldn't predict were solved proactively on their side. PHP in combination with JavaScript as client side technology was used in cloud hosting solution.

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

Four people. CEO, project manager, development lead, test lead,

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After first good impression we started to use software. After first month we realized that all departments gained additional time invested in client communication.

Just that approved this project since now we can say that almost 10-15% of less time is consumed in time/project tracking activities. Clients are also aware of that which gives us additional value on whole story.

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

Every meeting, call and appointment was in relaxed atmosphere. However, results were on place and time. Online meetings were held via Teams and Zoom platforms. Timelines were clear, understandable and easy traceable. Open communication with all vendor employees made us feel safe and aware that good pick was made with their choose.

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

I'm impressed with the relaxed atmosphere, their hard work, and their ability to deliver results. We find them as family now and definitely there will be additional mutual projects in future.

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

We can also find some details which could be solved differently. However, none of them would influence in our ERP stability and scalability which were two main points. All other details will be under continues development which we agreed after first implementation and testing.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

BebeNova are specialized baby equipment stores, owned by the family company Inter-Trade d.o.o., which has been selling children's equipment, clothes, and toys for over 20 years. Our goal is to provide the best possible service to our customer, from a wide range of products, high quality and wide range of prices, pleasant and relaxed atmosphere when buying and professional staff, so that our customer is satisfied with the time spent in our stores and website quality and safe products that will satisfy and provide a pleasant first day of the life of their loved ones. I am executive manage at company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

The main goal of the project was to design and develop an E-commerce solution. Our first E-commerce has been developed on the Magento1 platform, second on the Magento2, but we are currently in the development phase of a new E-commerce on the Gauss Box platform and can't wait to see the end result.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We have been collaborating with Gauss since their beginnings. Professionalism, quality, and suggestions for improvement are something we really appreciate about them.

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

The first and second E-commerce was on the Magento platform but the new E-commerce will be as I mentioned earlier on the Gauss Box platform. The process is always similar, first, we started with the development of the design, defining what we want to achieve with the new E-commerce, and then comes the development and finally the test phase.

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

Two or three developers, one project manager, and a tester.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Increasing online sales is one of the results, as well as greater recognition of our brand.

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

Project management is done via email. phone, and through a collaboration tool.

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

The team was easy to work with and communicate with. And the ease of finding appropriate solutions.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Always, and we want to achieve that with a new shop.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of a custom development and consulting company focused on delivering innovative consumer experiences to the top retailers in the US and Canada

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We have contracted Gauss to provide know-how and SW development services for a project involving a complex network of interweaved e-commerce solutions, mainly for US and Canada markets. We needed a company who not only understood Magento, but how to deal with a heavy amount of customization.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

I have found an open approach from Gauss CEO ( and later other Gauss employees ) assuring, as they clearly understood what needs to be done. The technology was Magento with heavy customization and integrations with external service providers.

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

I cannot go into details due to contractual obligations with our end user client. I can say it concerned the development and management of a network of interconnected e-commerce solutions for some of the top market US and Canada leaders.

The solution was developed through multiple simultaneous projects. The companies that used our client services and solutions were, among others, in fields from retail food services, event ticketing, large retail store chains, all were nationally recognized brands with very large scale usage.

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

During the project, we have changed the number of persons involved according to the project needs. Sometimes we would boost frontend, on other times, backend developers or QA or management personnel. It was mostly 3-4 backend/frontend developers, always a project manager and QA team from 1-3 persons.

At times system architect from Gauss also collaborated and proposed optimizations with the client's counterpart.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The deliverables were on time. In unexpected situations and changes to the market environment Gauss team always, without exception, made additional steps to get the job done no matter the time zone difference. This “extra effort“ was very well recognized and received by our end user client.

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

Gauss effortlessly followed our client's agile/scrum management with active participation from their project manager with the project and other managers from our client.

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

A mixture of technical and business expertise from the team and proactive participation in client's business activities is something that I would really point out. A friendly approach with high professional standards results in the client accepting the Gauss team as their own.

Also, the Gauss team had no problem introducing and tutoring other external development teams to the projects when needed.

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

Our client, in few cases, wanted Gauss to switch to US work times. However, Gauss managed to organize the communication and delivery so that the client recognized it was not necessary. I wouldn't point this as something that needs improvement as Gauss did the job without any interference to the process.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Ericsson Nikola Tesla d.d. - see https://www.ericsson.hr/en/ericsson-nikola-tesla My position - Site Manager (location Osijek)

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Gauss Development has been engaged as development support in area of mobile Android development app for one of our products.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We choose Gauss because of their experience and portfolio of projects they have done in the past. We were also impressed by their work with clients outside Croatia, in big markets like USA and UK. Their previous experience in developing Android applications was more than acceptable for us.

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

Project details are governed by NDA, unfortunately I can't share the details. Project was about native Android mobile application development using Java and Kotlin programing langages. Scope of work was related for changing application arhitecture, supporting app for newest Android OS releases, 10 and 11, support for app usages with 5G NSA and SA.

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

One Senior developer from Gauss Development Team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

All deliveries were delivered in time and in expected quality. There was no excalations with tasks assigned to Gauss Team, and also developer has actively worked and proposing new features for application development.

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

Project management was done from our end because of the complexity. Gauss team had no problem fitting in our management style and communicating with our team employees. We felt like they were part of our company, following our procedures and processes.

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

Their ability to get familiar with our processes, to get into domain detail, to work with other team members, to understand requirements quickly and start working on development fast.

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

We are still working together and most likely will continue in the future. I would recommend their service in the area od Android mobile development.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

BROCANDO was born out of the desire for improvement and simplification. In 2017, no one should have to wait days for contract documents to deal with paperwork. On BROCANDO you can compare health insurances (initially the basic insurance, in the future also supplementary insurances) and change within 5 minutes with a few clicks of the mouse or in the app - online, without telephone advice and completely paperless.

This is new in Switzerland! The personal conversation and telephone advice for all other insurances will of course still be offered, but they are finally no longer necessary for a change to the basic insurance.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We have contracted the Gauss team to develop a solution that will enable the digitalization of the insurance policy sales process. We used some of the existing tools available on the market, but none were created with Swiss insurance sales in mind and took a lot of customization effort but did not deliver as expected.

SOLUTION

How did you select Gauss Development and what were the deciding factors?

We have heard of Gauss from some of our business partners and decided to contact them. I was expecting another development company but was pleasantly surprised that Gauss has a significant number of business experts in their team.

Some of them had quite a bit of experience in the insurance field. It was very easy for me to communicate with them without explaining everything in detail as they were already familiar with the process. They had few questions for me as well and immediately gave an optimization proposal at the first meeting. In the end, this saved me much time during the project.

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

The solution completely covers and digitalizes the insurance sales process – employee management, document management, lead and sales opportunity management, post-sales process, advanced commissioning system, KPIs, teams and target tracking, reporting, dashboards, and analytics.

Additionally, it can be integrated with existing or can host web sites as well that can hook to the system. Some of the technologies used are Node.js, Angular, MySql, Elastic, Redis.

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

The team consisted of a designer, a project manager, and two full stack developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have found that the solution resulted in time savings concering digitalisation of the process and having everything needed in one application. Our controling has also significantly increased which allowed us to pin point bottle necks and optimise our process in the whole. Team terrain coordination and tracking has also significantly increased. Overall we have gotten added value with this project.

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

Gauss used agile methodology with user stories. Collaboration and project management was done through Gauss own system where we tracked and documented task as well noted comments that we had for each part of the project. We had few physical meetings and mutliple online short coordination calls.

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

As said before, Gauss backed us up with both business knowledge and not only software development. What Brocando got delivered from Gauss was not only software solution but process optimisation as well.

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

I am completely satisfied with how the project was managed start from finish, I wouldn't change anything at all. They are friendly, open and expert people. I am certain that for our future projects Gauss will be the first one on the list.