InData Labs

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We are a corporate startup. We're relatively small, but we can access a larger company to use their resources when we need them. I manage our business development.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with InData Labs?

We're developing tools for the security printing industry and needed hardware that could communicate with users. The project called for coding, connections to databases, and a user interface.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They did custom software development for us and provided a fully functional app for our end users. They did a lot of work in the backend, but I'm not sure of all the connections they completed or the software they used.

What is the team composition?

Our initial contact was a business development specialist, then we worked with a project manager, a character recognition specialist, and a few programmers who worked in the background.

How did you come to work with InData Labs?

We did a search for potential companies, and we found InData Labs in that search. They were incredibly fast and reactive, and we heard back from them within an hour after our initial inquiry. They gave a very good impression in an evaluation, and their level of customer satisfaction was very high.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project started around August 2018 after some early discussions. The last deadline was in June 2019, but they still do programming for us. There are still many things to do, so we'll continue working together after the summer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We didn't have anything before, and this was the first major app we created. Our userbase and the product are evolving all the time, and each iteration is more elaborate than the last. Our next step will be to add some of the changes we've made to the client interface.

How did InData Labs perform from a project management standpoint?

They were very good project managers, and I'm particularly pleased with our main contacts. They worked day and night, and I would rate them very highly.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Their drive was strong, and the whole team pushed their limits to meet deadlines and make everything work. Their strengths showed throughout our collaboration.

Are there any areas they could improve?

At this stage, there is nothing they should improve.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Give them a try, even with small projects to test them out. They won't disappoint you, and they're very open about what they can and can't do. I would recommend them to anyone.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We are a digital health startup developing solutions that help women take control of their health, track periods, and get ready for pregnancy. We combine intuitive designs, science, and modern technologies in order to turn a regular mobile app into a women’s personal health assistant. The application is called Flo, and it uses artificial intelligence for accurate predictions. I’m the CTO of the company. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with InData Labs?

Our team is good at mobile app development, but we lack expertise in data science and engineering. We needed an expert partner who could fill that gap. We are using a mobile backend called Parse, which was acquired by Facebook in 2013. When they unexpectedly announced that it would be shut down in early 2017, we had to plan a recovery strategy and start to implement it quickly. We decided to find a company that could help and came across InData Labs. 

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

InData Labs has designed a data-processing architecture which can handle massive quantities of data and support near-real-time analytics and machine learning. One of their tasks was the migration from Parse. InData Labs built a client-server API, allowing our mobile applications to connect to the server, and also built machine learning models for menstrual cycle prediction. It allows us to make predictions on irregular cycles with an accuracy of more than 54%, which is a good number in this context.

We worked with a manager from InData Labs’ team during the initial setup, but we had direct communication with their two data scientists for the rest of the time.

How did you come to work with InData Labs?

After a careful consideration of our options, we chose InData Labs because of the quality of their team. We started the search in our own location, and InData Labs is based in the same city as our team. They had a good reputation and specialized in data science, which we needed at the time. There are many outsourced companies in Minsk, but they are more generalist.

How much have you invested with InData Labs?

It was a considerable investment on our part. InData Labs assigned two data engineers who worked with us for a year.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with InData Labs in May of 2016. We continue to develop additional features which require data science and machine learning skills. One of our current tasks is personalizing the app content based on our data. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Could you share any evidence that would demonstrate the productivity, quality of work, or impact of the engagement?

We don’t track formal performance parameters and mostly qualify InData Labs’ work intuitively.

We have more than five million monthly active users. The service load is rather high, with around 1,000 requests per second. InData Labs built a solution which can cope with this demand rather well. We perform a lot of data analysis and research, based on the user data we collect.

The business-intelligence system built by InData Labs allows us to analyze data on our own, without their help. Any complex reports are still being built by their developers.

How did InData Labs perform from a project management standpoint?

We’ve had no problems in this area. The communication between our two teams was done through JIRA and Flex. We also had daily calls and organized on-site meetings if needed. InData Labs met the deadlines we set for them, which was important for us. We mixed different techniques like Kanban and sprints. We did have strict deadlines at times, but for most of the collaboration, we simply had a backlog of tasks to perform.

What did you find most impressive about InData Labs?

They have good data science expertise. We don’t have general models which can be built by anyone, so we appreciate InData Labs’ skillset.

Are there any areas InData Labs could improve?

InData Labs has assigned two data science engineers to our project. We have had tasks related to engineering as well as data science and analysis. Having separate resources for these areas could improve the performance of the whole team. We are working on this and may come up with a solution in the future. Overall, we’ve had a very good collaboration, and I highly recommend InData Labs.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Exec of a marketing company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Influencer and Affiliate marketing company 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire InData Labs to accomplish?

• Deliver on AI project for Media Safety
• Deliver project on time and with high quality

SOLUTION

How did you find InData Labs?

• Referral
• Other

Why did you select InData Labs over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from InData Labs were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Scope:

The project scope is to develop a new functionality in existing brand safety feature. The objective is to increase brand recognition by featuring contentious articles that highlight the involvement of identified creators.

Deliverables:

1. The solution should be able to collect news and articles data from News APIs & Bing API
2. The data should processed and integrated to backend through data pipelines
3. The solution should be able to analyze articles and identify creators which are involved in controversial topics
4. The analysis should be done periodically using AI models
5. The results should be integrated to existing platform under brand safety feature (i.e., figma files show visual concept to add identified articles)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

1. KPI's were defined before the project kick-off and were met in a timely manner
2. Timeline: Key milestones were met, delays if any were communicated effectively
3. Operational Efficiency: The Indata team seamlessly integrated with my team to identify potential risks and work together as a single unit to deliver the project 

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The project manager assigned to the project was very efficient. 

1. The team consistently met deadlines for key milestones and final deliverables
2. They were proactive in understanding and addressing specific needs
3. Weekly progress reports with issues and concerns were raised promptly 
4. Quality of work was as expected

What was your primary form of communication with InData Labs?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

1. Problem-solving: They partnered with my team to handle any obstacles and setbacks
2. They went above and beyond to get the deliverables completed on time 

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

It took 1-2 weeks to establish effective communication cadence. Once established it was a relatively smooth process 

UPDATED REVIEW

This review was published on 3/2/17
Project Manager, SMM FirmInformation technology

Minsk, Belarus

11-50 Employees

Apr 2015 - Ongoing

Verified

Project summary
InData Labs’ data scientists and engineers created an API and track 50,000 social network profiles, leveraging their own infrastructure to deliver analytics.

Feedback summary
The collaboration has enabled quicker dissemination of info to customers, efficient problem-solving, and rapid implementation of new features. In addition to applying technical skills, InData Labs regularly provides advice about strategic implementation.

Quote
"We work closely with each other to solve problems quickly."

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We analyze Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube and provide analytics to our customers. 

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with InData Labs?

We needed to create a tracker for customers' accounts and to collect information. We also wanted to analyze the audience an account is reaching based on metrics around interests, geolocation, ethnicity, languages, and so on for top posts and engagement. 

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

We have an API [application programming interface] with InData Labs, and we use their infrastructure to receive analytics. Our platform is based on Java, Python, and Kafka. InData Labs has two teams: data science and engineers. Both teams work with these different technologies.

We then engaged InData for a second project. We have around 50,000 profiles created of popular people in social networks. We use InData Labs’ servers to track these profiles. We have a very effective infrastructure from InData Labs.

How did you come to work with InData Labs?

When we launched our company, we were familiar with the people who started InData Labs. We talked about what we needed and decided to work with them.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with them in April of 2015, and we still work with InData Labs. We have a lot of new tasks for them, and they also take care of any issues we have. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Could you share any evidence that would demonstrate the productivity, quality of work, or impact of the engagement?

Two years ago, we worked with a different company who charged us a monthly fee of $15,000. We now receive the same services from InData Labs for under a third of that cost, and they provide us with even more information.

How did InData Labs perform from a project management standpoint?

We have a project manager. We use JIRA, and I create tasks for them. We discuss how each task should be implemented, we receive an estimate, then they start work.

What did you find most impressive about InData Labs?

They provide advice and expertise on how we can implement features, which is very important for me. We work closely with each other to solve problems quickly.

Are there any areas InData Labs could improve?

We don’t have any problems right now. I think we work together very effectively.
STAR RATINGS
Overall rating: 5
Quality: 4 Everything is good right now, but we did have issues when we first launched the project.
Cost: 5
Schedule: 5 We don’t always have strict deadlines, but they communicate well with us when we do. Also, they are always trying to improve.
Willing to refer: 5 I can see the progress we’ve made since we engaged InData Labs. We’re now able to provide more information to our customers, solve problems, and add new features quickly, which is important for me. They always accommodate changes.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the ceo of a trading company

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

trading

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire InData Labs to accomplish?

• buil a systematic trading algorithm

SOLUTION

How did you find InData Labs?

Online Search

Why did you select InData Labs over others?

High ratings

How many teammates from InData Labs were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

the work was niot truly completed since there was not profitable result from what i required. the integration were well made and the overall work was well made, however, the end result was not met, and the cost was well overpriced.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

by the last phases there were weeks of delays

What was your primary form of communication with InData Labs?

Virtual Meeting

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

much improvment needed, in the first place make sure to find the correct engineer for the task, not any engineer. second, research and properly determine an possible outcome before chargin a fortune to the customer.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'am the Chief of Staff of a cutting edge proptech company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired InData Labs to create a data ingestion framework within AWS to run algorithms and simplify large data sets for our clients.

SOLUTION

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

We were recommended to them by a friend of our CEO.

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

We deployed multiple AWS EC2 instances to sort and run lambda functions to produce key performance indicators for our clients.

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

We worked closely with at least 6 experienced backend devs as well as 1 highly proficient project manager (Anastasiya).

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We are very happy with what InData Labs has built us and are looking for to continue working with them for future updates to increase the robustness and efficiency of our product.

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

• GoogleWorkspace
• Google Meet
• Email Correspondence

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

They are extremely knowledgeable in SQL and databases and proficient in AWS products.

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

None.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Project manager at publishing house.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to proof content adjusting and automation.

SOLUTION

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

We did some research on datadriven developers and found InData as a vendor with very high quality and many experts.

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

They designed and NLP based content adjusting platform, to proof the possibility of rulebased changes to the content.

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

The team consisted of 3-4 data engineers, 1 frontend developer, 1 project manager and 1 key account.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We were able to get our proof of concept very early and with lots of ideas and effort from the team. Outcome was really well, so that we continued the development even further.

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

Project management style was very good, including frequent and very clear communication, weekly meetups and task managing tools Jira and Confluence.

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

The precision of the project management and the almost 24/7 availability of developers and team were impressive.

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

We really enjoyed working with them and all our goals were achieved, some even more than that and the team had great ideas on their own, which added up to the project, so just keep up the good work!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the driving force of the company, mainly market research.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

I had an unusual task that InData was able to accomplish for me.

SOLUTION

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

They were the most direct and easiest to interact with. The team also had experience in this specific subset and that was a deciding factor.

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

They developed a cloud based proof of concept, well within the desired parameters, and it helped give legs to a project.

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

There were 5 people with additional resources added as needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It was a simple enough 'proof-of-concept' project and I am eager to get it ready. The project was delivered early, bug fixes were annotated, and questions for clarification made the process exceptionally smooth.

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

The project management was great.

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

The single greatest part was they had previous experience in the field I was looking for. It was the most valuable and impressive part of the initial search.

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

There really isn't anything that could have been differently. I am very happy with the end result.