Impressit

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CTO of a software support service in the healthcare sector.

What challenge were you trying to address with Impressit?

I was looking for a nearshore app development partner so I integrate into our normal development team.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We didn’t have any mobile applications before in our portfolio. Impressit is our mobile app development staff augmentation partner for two projects.

What is the team composition?

For our first project, we had two developers from their team. For the other project, we continue to work with one model.

How did you come to work with Impressit?

I looked online and asked my professional networks. I did some onsite visits in Ukraine and Macedonia. They had very good candidates for the interview when we had the visit schedules.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent €120,000 ($142,000 USD) on the first project. For the ongoing project, we’ve spent €70,000 ($83,000 USD).  

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in May 2020, and our work is ongoing.

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

One of my concerns was onboarding developers remotely; a metric we tracked was the time it took for them to get fully ramped up. That was about two weeks, which was the same amount of time that we needed for our internal team. They also have the same development speed at a more competitive cost.

How did Impressit perform from a project management standpoint?

We lead project management on our end in a SCRUM setting. We have our own product owner, and they run on tickets. We have daily meetings and regular calls. They’re super responsive. Even if it’s a late email, I always get a response.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The main reason we stay with them is their flexibility. Their CEO and CTO are very supportive. We had to cancel one project for business reasons on our end; Impressit was very flexible and helped us to ramp the team down much faster than we had initially put in the contract. If we need a replacement developer for any reason, they’re really fast at finding talent that fits the team.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, they deliver high-quality staff augmentation. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

What helped us is integrating team them into our team and communicating effectively. If there are any problems or issues, raise them to management as quickly as possible.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CTO and co-founder of a startup that makes remote patient monitoring software. Our products help manage the chronic conditions of patients who have diseases such as hypertension, heart failure, and diabetes.

What challenge were you trying to address with Impressit?

Competing within the US is quite difficult, especially with big corporations right next door, so we looked offshore, specifically to Impressit, to help us scale our core development team.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Impressit brought senior and principal-level backend engineers and architects to our team. They helped us with developing the API and network infrastructure of our overall platform. We also enlisted their support for our CIPD (Chrome Infrastructure Package Deployment) and for the improvement of the efficiency, optimization, and scale of our other systems.

What is the team composition?

We work with a senior engineer who’s focused on backend development and a principal engineer who is acting as a technical lead. 

How did you come to work with Impressit?

Impressit was recommended by a bunch of other folks in the startup world. We chose to work with them because they already knew our technology stack pretty well. It was easy to get them on board.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent somewhere around $100,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We first engaged the team in February 2021. We’re planning to bring in 1–2 more engineers from their team.

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

Impressit has really helped us in terms of optimizing and speeding up our development workflows. They’ve done a phenomenal job at organizing that whole effort.

How did Impressit perform from a project management standpoint?

They work closely with our technical lead who manages them directly. We have no complaints about their performance.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Impressit has been really good at documenting and explaining what they’re doing. There’s a proper handoff from the planning phase down to the development process because they work so well, whether that’s independently or with our own team. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

They communicate well, but the team could benefit from providing us with information proactively rather than waiting for us to request information. Other than that, though, everything is pretty solid. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Make sure that Impressit understands what you're trying to do and what you're trying to accomplish. Provide them with the requirements both from the business side and from the technical side. 

Please describe your company and your position there.

Simplify Change is a change management consultancy, changing the world of change, through expert change management services. We specialist in change management focused on rolling out IT products and similiar projects.

For what projects/services did your company hire Impressit?

We hired Impressit to create a prototype of our virtual business change manager tool Simplify IT.

What were your goals for this project?

Create a prototype we could demonstrate to interested parties.

How did you select this vendor?

We reviewed the market, spoke to contacts and used a detailed comparison matrix to select the best fit for us.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Simplify IT was a detailed web prototype covering all core screens in our envisioned product. ImpressIT helped us design and the screens following detailed workshops and then develop them to an excellent UI standard.

What was the team composition?

The project was myself, the product owner, Nicola Graham the business sponsor, a project manager, a developer and a designer on ImpressIt's side.

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

We successfully demoed the prototype to a number of parties, receiving valuable feedback which allowed us to move forward with the next phase of hour product, creating an MVP.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management was via weekly standups and it was effective in quickly resolving issues as they occured. Giving me steady feedback as to progress which I could then pass on to stakeholders.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Roman and his team were extremely friendly, and flexible. They understand our needs quickly and are a delight to work with. That coupled with their teams excellent IT skills meant i've used them in subsequent projects which have also worked well.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We’re a leading international real estate consultancy. We work with owners, occupiers, developers, and funders, across both private and public sectors, to help them get more out of their real estate, at every stage of the property life cycle.

For what projects/services did your company hire Impressit?

We’ve commissioned Impressit to create a simple but entertaining online word search quiz. This online game was supposed to be tailored specifically for iPads and used as a part of brand promotion campaign at a real estate conference.

What were your goals for this project?

Timing and quality were the most important aspects of this project. Since the online game should have been delivered ahead of the conference so that our team could test it and get familiar with it. In addition, the quality of the game should have been at the highest level to resemble our brand’s prestige.

How did you select this vendor?

We have worked with Impressit several times now. We are always happy with their result so didn’t hesitate to give this project to them either.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We have provided the designs of the online game to Impressit team. From that stage, they were completely responsible for designing the optimal technical solution, converting design files into fully functional interactive interfaces and making adjustments according to our feedback.

What was the team composition?

The project team consisted mainly of 3 members: Solution Architect who was responsible for finding the optimal stack of technologies and tools to use for our unique needs, a Senior Full-Stack Engineer who was doing all the coding work and a Project Manager who was our single point of contact and provided a seamless customer experience to us.

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

The animated online game which Impressit team has delivered on time for the real estate conference that our company has been attending helped our brand to stand out from the competition and engage with our target audience deeper. This has definitely helped our sales team to generate more business opportunities.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project management process was smooth and very clear to us. We were receiving regular updates and timely responses to our requests.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Impressit team is exceptionally good at communicating complex technical challenges in ways we can easily understand.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, not at the moment. Everything is being done as expected and delivered on time.