HiveTech

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Aktivis d.o.o. has developed its own Document Management System (DMS). The company employs 20 people. It is part of the larger group King-ICT d.o.o. (500 employees). I'm head of development department.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Hivetech to help us develop our own DMS.

SOLUTION

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

We received a recommendation through a number of business partners and some private acquaintances. After the interview, we chose them because of the experience and knowledge in our targeted technologies.

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

HiveTech team help us with frontend and backend parts of system. They are all senior developers and theirs contribution to project was crucial. For frontend is used last version of Angular with another compatible frameworks witch enabled developing modern and rich frontend layer. Backend is developed with Java, Spring (SpringBoot, SpringJdbc, ...) and others Java-like frameworks.

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

Three senior developers are always involved in the project. Over time, members changed depending on the needs of the project (backend, frontend). During the project, we collaborated with 6 HiveTech developers. The cooperation with everyone was excellent and professional.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We delivered the first two phases of the project on time and on time which would not have been possible without the expertise and help of the HiveTech team. Our owners and customers especially emphasized their satisfaction with the quantity and quality of work done.

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

All members of the HiveTech team have adapted to all our ways of communicating and working. During the project, we had from sporadic to weekly and pre-delivery daily meetings. There were no problems communicating using various technologies (Skype for Business, Slack, Webex, mail ...).

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

The HiveTech team quickly mastered business and technological issues, as well as the business rules of DMS.

Furthermore, we were surprised by the quality of knowledge transfer when replacing team members, and when joining new members.

We are also thrilled to run the company itself, the attitude towards our own people, and the visionary direction of the company's development. We will definitely be collaborating with HiveTech on future projects as well.

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

None. We are completely satisfied with everything.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of Robotiq.ai, company which is building next gen RPA platform tools.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire HiveTech?

They have experience in building cloud solutions, and we needed experts to help us with the setup and the architecture of the cloud component of our platform.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to have secure and resilient microservice architecture setup for our RPA platform.

SOLUTION

How did you select HiveTech?

Saw their solutions that they have been implementing and talked to some of their customers for the feedback.

Describe the project in detail.

Once we selected them, we came to them with our problems and concerns. They organized several workshops to understand the domain. After that they did a research based on the input what we gave them and provided us with several

What was the team composition?

From our side there were 2 junior developers, me, and one senior developer. From their side there were 1 architect, 1 system engineer and 1 senior developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We managed to get new clients and platform is working seamessly.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The architect provided was very reasonable and he collected all the info from us. Then they came up with a solution, we challenged that solution in a wokrshop and they collected infos and polished that solution even more.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They have young team who has a deep knowledge how microservices work and how to setup the production for such a platform correctly.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There are always a ways to improve, but i'm pretty satisfied with how they managed the work and the speed of their delivery.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am co-owner of a company Alpha Capitalis - it was founded in 2012 with headquarters in Zagreb. The primary goal of the Company is to create a team of experts from different areas of finance who will provide support to clients throughout all stages of growth.

ALPHA CAPITALIS team has years of experience in investment banking, financial advisory services, audit, financial restructuring and management accounting.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

There is a lot of space in automation of reporting in finance and our idea was to create an application for digitalization of companies.

SOLUTION

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

HiveTech has good recommendations in digitalization products and what we liked the most was their platform OdinHR which has strong reporting system. Among the other things, they showed good knowledge of finance and adaptability.

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

HiveTech team helped us in defining final scope of the project. They clearly set goals and deadlines of the project and phases as well. They used modern technologies and frameworks for developing the platform with an emphasis on UX and friendly design.

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

There were a team of 4 people - analyst, designer and two full stack developers. Other resources (architect, etc.) were used as needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We launched project one month before expectations and started to test it with one of our clients. Results were outstanding and we reduced the time of our work for 60%. Our clients now have various reports in few clicks which is also great for our brand as a company in view of recommendations to new clients.

If the platform will be successful with other clients, we are planning to add more features.

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

HiveTech team did project management and meet all expectations. We had one meeting weekly where we discussed project specific stuff, for example if specific feature meets our requests, two-way communication regarding improvements, etc.

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

I was impressed with their flexibility and speed of absorbing the knowledge of financial reporting. HiveTech team was really adaptable and fast learning.

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

None

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

STI is company for trade, representation and technical support in the oil, gas and energy industry. I’m in charge in Sales and Marketing.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire HiveTech d.o.o., and what were your goals?

Since we have a great number of different location in region where we have engine services we needed some tool to help us with easier organization of our work.

SOLUTION

How did you select HiveTech d.o.o. and what were the deciding factors?

We found Hivetech on some IT site, had interview with several agencies and we choose them because they seemed knowledgeable right away.

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

We needed some tool which had to be connected to our internal system for electronic bid creation, and consequently and invoice creation. After the bid is accepted we wanted tool with alerting system to know when is time for which customer for engine service, mechanics check-in and check-out, reporting.

Also we got module for mechanics working hours for individual actions and automatization of invoices for that action. Technologies were Python, Django, Angular and G2.

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

Beside two colleagues from our side there were UI designer, Tech lead and 3 full stack developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Speed up of administration process, faster response to the customers, ordering engine spare parts is reduced to minimum time loss and finally we know what action lasts for how long.

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

Since we both have offices in same city often we would go for a quick meetings, other was by phone or mail. All things were done in time and we had no problems with that.

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

It was interesting for both sides to see how other works, we work with big engines and it’s new to most of the people. Here was interesting how this young team was interested how it works, how is done and this will for learning new things it’s always nice to see.

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

We were satisfied because everything was done how we wanted, with their suggestions, of course. After the tool delivery, they were also correct and answered all our calls.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Ruris exists for more than 25 years, we started with agricultural pharmacies and beside that, we are now one of the leading tomato growers in country. I’m CEO of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire HiveTech d.o.o., and what were your goals?

Considering we have several businesses in Ruris - agricultural pharmacies, greenhouses, purchase of cereals and oilseeds we needed something to gather those businesses and ease our everyday actions. In and out invoices, compensations, segmentation of business and clients – we needed all in one place.

SOLUTION

How did you select HiveTech d.o.o. and what were the deciding factors?

We needed a reliable partner for long term and they offered a competitive price. I also found them to be the most professional because they came to us with on first meeting with PM and lead developer.

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

First they sat with us to monitor the processes, after all documentation was written they created a plan to deal with each business individually. They created an estimation function that could calculate the return on repurchase of cereals and oilseeds.

For accounting part of the platform for better control of in and out invoicing, client’s records of grain repurchase, compensations. For agricultural pharmacies plan stock status and purchase. At the end centralized place to manage all business with its features specific for different actions.

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

Not sure completely, but there were 2 or 3 full stack developers, architect and designer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Accounting department is very satisfied with their part, they manage to process about 20% more invoices because we speed up the process. Generally it’s easier for our employees because we have one platform so they spend less time to find some documents and information.

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

It was a dynamic collaboration, we didn’t have much time to sit with them and go through all processes as much as we wanted because of every day job assignments, but we try to make them understand as much as we could.

Communication was by different communication platforms and meetings. About timeline, we had several milestones and they were mostly in time, no significant delays.

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

Despite our scheduling challenges the team was attentive and flexible, with fast response on some scope changes, they adjust their workflow to accommodate any of our requests.

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

The more all participants pay attention to details, the more specific the product's going to be to, perhaps I would give more time to details...

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Vase vrijeme is consulting company for IT Project Management and Human Resources. My position is Project Manager.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire HiveTech d.o.o.?

What we needed was help with running large number of job applications for open positions, also some custom modification on that product.

What were your goals for this project?

Goal was to speed up our process of finding the right candidate and to get better view what kind of candidates we have.

SOLUTION

How did you select HiveTech d.o.o.?

We had several agencies in selection process, including Hivetech and than we got recommendation for them from our partner who had great experience with them.

Describe the project in detail.

We needed application with several filtering options and possibility to mark candidates for further selection process. Application had to meet also potential of connection with some social media platforms. Next step was to make some kind of internal candidates archive.

What was the team composition?

Hivetech team was composed of one Full-stack developer and designer, from our side just one project manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

What we got from this was improvement of employee experience and improved and faster process of selection.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Hivetech had one team member who was our contact and we communicated only with him about our requirements, everything about workflow went smooth and without any problem. He was available to us any time we needed some change or something to take care of.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They showed great flexibility in handling different types of requirements during our project and that’s something that was impressing to us.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am IT and development specialist that worked with this company on building our custom CRM and ERP for our needs. Our company has around 100 employees and we serve corporate clients in whole country.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Hivetech d.o.o.?

We wanted to upgrade our Customer Relationship Management softwere (CRM) and try out new Enterprise Resource Planning softwere (ERP). We do not have in-house engineers that could do this much work so we needed to outsource the entire project.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to have faster and easy to use CRM for better customer support and better response time of our team. We had an old ERP softwere and we needed an upgrade.

SOLUTION

How did you select Hivetech d.o.o.?

My team searched online for IT companies in our city and compiled a list of 5 based on case studies on their websites. We contacted each company and narrowed it down to one after meetings. This company offered fair price, good time frame and post-launch education.

Describe the project in detail.

Once we selected this company ,we had a series of meetings to discuss our needs and wants for this project. Whitin the first three weeks we received initial designs for ERP and CRM. After a few discussions and changes, first part was done. After that, a lot of coding was needed.

Afer a month, we received a first verion. Soon after that we received beta verion of ERP and CRM. We had to upload dana from our old ERP and CRM to the new ones. We had full support of hivetech team with this. Final step of this project was to educate our team, which was done with full support of hivetech team.

What was the team composition?

We were assigned a project manager to support us and to serve as the main point of contact through the project. I was a project manager for our company and I usually spoke with assigned project manager. I was made aware that there were 2 frontend and 6 backend developers working on our project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Within a month we saw better team response. Less time was needed for administration. Team was able to process more tasks and respond to them quicker. Quality of our customer support was better

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The project manager that we were assigned was easy to communicate with and provided us frequent updates. We connected over the phone a few times a week and used Teams for all other communication. I was impressed by the timelines of the team and their organisation.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I was suprised by the knowledge that this team had about ERP and CRM programs, as well as their organisation and speed. They helped us a lot with user interface optimisation a lot and made it better. Overall, it was really positive experience and we would like to work with this company again.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Everything can always be done faster, but we were very satisfied with their work every step of the way. In the end, quality is more important than speed and we ended up with a great product.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Combis is a regional high-tech ICT company focused on development of appliacation, communication, security and system solutions and provisioning of services.

We consult, develop, implement, integrate and maintain comprehensive information, application and communication solutions.

We have proven our expertise and adaptibility, proactivity and customer dedication in more than a thousand projects in Croatia and abroad. I'm leading team in Combis with focus on Routing and switching technologies, Service provider networking and monitoring solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Hivetech d.o.o.?

We were looking for monitoring as a service solution for our company and decided to use Zabbix as a platform for this service. Zabbix is open source platform for performance and fault management used on network and datacenter infrastructure.

Combis had lack of resources with good competence and understanding of Zabbix, therefore we approached Hivetech Hivetech had networking specialist with Zabbix professional certification therefore they were great match for our needs.

What were your goals for this project?

Goal was to have unique monitoring solution for our enterprise network, and also dedicated solution which we can offer to our customers to monitor and maintain their network.

SOLUTION

How did you select Hivetech d.o.o.?

As mentioned before, we liked Zabbix solution, and Hivetech had expert on that field. Also we they had references from our partner companies.

Describe the project in detail.

In cooperation with Hivetech, we divided project in 3 phases.

• 1 phase was preparing high level design, securing needed resources and providing them access to our infrastructure.
• 2nd phase was implementation of Zabbix instances (collectors, database, frontend) on virtual machines, configuring of basic monitoring templates, building testing environment, discovering of network and datacenter devices and appliances.
• 3rd phase was preparing advanced templates for monitoring all sorts of devices, SLA reporting, custom graphs and reporting, integration of zabbix with other solutions, implementation of solution to first clients.

Also their engineer provided us education needed to work with solution and whole knowledge transfer.

What was the team composition?

Hivetech provided us Network engineer with Zabbix certification, and we provided 3 of our network/datacenter engineers as support. I was responsible to manage this team as a head of networking division.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

With having this solution fully working, we finally had good insight of our network. Also, since previous solutions were pretty much limited, vendor managed and very expensive, this new open source solution opened us new opportunities.

Not only that we reduced cost of licensing and support, now we can offer fully customized solution with really good price to our customers.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Workflow has been very effective. They dedicated us on-site engineer, also that engineer already did some projects for us with his previos company so he was well known. Most of the time project lasted, he was like a part of our team fully focused and dedicated to our project.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Company full of young and talented engineers with really large set of technologies covered (developers, network engineers, automation engineers).

They are only 3 years in business and from 4 friends who started everything they grow to 30 employees in just 2 years. They are really professional, hard working guys who will do their job in deadline.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There is always room for improvements, but we were very satisfied with this project.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

NIL is a globally recognized provider of advanced data center, network, cloud, and IT security solutions and services for business and industry environments, state institutions, public organizations, and telecoms.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Hivetech d.o.o., and what were your goals?

NIL were missing the expert bandwidth in the Cloud Automation area. The goal was to provide a solid and secure automated private cloud to our customer.

SOLUTION

How did you select Hivetech d.o.o. and what were the deciding factors?

Hivetech was selected based on a referral. The main driver was the speed (in time delivery) and quality of the delivery.

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

Hivetech was taking part in the steps of automating the Cloud Provisioning based on VMware automation suite. Hivetech part was the development of the back-end automation.

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

3 people were engaged. All 3 were senior developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Project was delivered successfully and it propelled the continuation of our business with the end-customer.

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

Hivetech was considered as part of NIL development team and was managed by NIL PM. Hivetech was using NIL standard collaboration suite as external subcontractors.

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

Hivetech is very flexible and they are fast learners. On time delivery of quality code is also their strong point.

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

There are always areas for improvement. With Hivetech it would be a need for more juniors (or engineers at lower cost) for simple projects.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Euro-Galant is a company for reparation of damage asphalt roads or surfaces, we are also in charge of representation, service, and support in the program of heavy machinery. I’m the owner of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire HiveTech d.o.o.?

We needed something to connect spare parts base with the procurement department.

What were your goals for this project?

The goal was to reduce the number of errors and make a process more digital.

SOLUTION

How did you select HiveTech d.o.o.?

We got recommendation for them.

Describe the project in detail.

We needed some tools that will connect with the database of spare parts of our partners that we represent in our country. My procurement department has to go manually to this database and by hand-writing numbers of spare parts. This process demanded a lot of time and often with some mistakes and wrong numbers – we needed something to reduce that.

What was the team composition?

The HiveTech team was composed of one developer and designer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The outcome was great, there was no more hand rewriting of part numbers so we reduced the number of mistakes to a minimum.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Since we were a small team there was no trouble in the workflow. They had experience with this kind of development so it was a fast and productive partnership.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

How fast they understood that has to be done and done it.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Everything was professional.