Insoftex

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Managing Director of a fuel price comparison website.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

A leading website for comparing fuel prices.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Insoftex to accomplish?

• rewriting backend functionality from Java to nodejs and AWS Lambda functions

SOLUTION

How did you find Insoftex?

Online Search

Why did you select Insoftex over others?

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

How many teammates from Insoftex were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

Insoftex successfully revamped the application's backend and API using Node.js, MongoDB and AWS Lambda functions. AWS SAM was used to outline and deploy the application model. The core tasks included geo queries, price updates, graphs generation, notification system as well as other numerous vital components of the service. The vendor had to examine the existing Java code in order to replicate existing functionality of the service.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Seamless transition from the old backend server to the reimplemented API. Further attention was paid to any changes in latency of the crucial API calls.

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

The project was delivered within the expected timeframes. Any amendments and requests were handled appropriately.

What was your primary form of communication with Insoftex?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

What really impressed us about Insoftex was their professionalism and how well they understood our project. They successfully solved complex technical aspects of the functionality and always made an effort to pick the most fitting approach.

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

We are absolutely satisfied with their work to the point that we have decided to continue our partnership with them. Their performance has met our expectations, and we look forward to further collaboration.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Co-founder & Head of Product of market analytics company.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Provide data and analytics around private equity markets

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Insoftex to accomplish?

• Improve analytics around the daily pricing data for pre-IPO companies that we are offering to our clients

SOLUTION

How did you find Insoftex?

I knew Insoftex founder before and directly asked for cooperation

Why did you select Insoftex over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from Insoftex were assigned to this project?

• PM
• 3 developers
• 1 QA
• 1 designer, mostly part time

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

Insoftex worked with us to develop the analytics component of our platform. The project steps included requirements gathering, designing the data analytics architecture, implementing data collection and processing pipelines, and assemblinguser-friendly visualizations. Technologies used in the project included Python, Django, SQL, and various data analytics tools and libraries for data processing and visualization purposes.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Quick time to market, few bugs, and not a ton of back and forth saving us time to get other features done while Insoftext team was working on enhancing the analytics capabilities of our platform

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

We communicated via emails, Google Meet, Slack. All tasks were tracked in Trello. Most of their teammembers were located in Ukraine, but the communication was effective and professional.

What was your primary form of communication with Insoftex?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Insoftex has demonstrated an impressive level of dedication to the solution we are developing. Their commitment goes beyond simply securing a new contract and moving on; they genuinely care about the outcome and impact of the solution they are delivering. We greatly value the high quality of work they consistently deliver. Additionally, their attention to work quality is evident as they frequently provide valuable suggestions on improving our UX.

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

None so far. We're happy with their work, hence we’ve decided to continue partnering with them.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the COO of a Platform of a Service business that provides B2B automated workflow solutions. We are fully remote, with people located in many different countries.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We had a need for both Front end and Back End development support to further evolve our product as well as a few customer-specific projects.

SOLUTION

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

I found Insoftek via a referral on LinkedIn. The main reason we decided to work with them is they didn't just say they had candidates, they actually presented good quality candidates that meet our requirements. In addition, Michael has been a great experience and we appreciate his open and honest dialogue.

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

The Insoftek team members worked on both the front end and back end of our platform. The Front end team members are using Angular to implement new features in our UI, and the back-end team members are using GoLang and Typescript to enable the back-end integrations with clients. The Insoftek team members integrated smoothly into our existing sprint teams as extended members of the Azarc team.

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

We've had roughly 5-6 people from Insoftek working in the areas of Front End Development, Back End Development, as well as Quality Assurance testing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The team members picked up the technology well and seamlessly integrated into our existing workflows and processes. We were able to increase the velocity of the teams with the addition of the Insoftek team members.

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

Azarc led the project management, and the Insoftek team members were extended members of our Sprint teams.

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

Michael has been great to work with, patient, and understands what we needed.

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

We haven't had any issues.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm an owner and CEO of a software consulting company. We work with enterpise-level clients in several domains, incl. e-Commerce and Retail

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our client, a product company, created a first version of their product many years ago using now-outdated technologies. Some time ago they asked us to develope a brand new platform that would incorporate existing and new features, modern UI/UX design. Since we didn't have in-house expertise in Energy Management domain we were looking for a partner with appropriate knowledge and engineering resources. After months, our end-client is happy with the cooperation, so we are. Our joined team addresses the most challenging technical issues with IoT, UI/UX design, data streaming, mobile-first design, AI recommendations for energy generation and consumption optimisation, and others

SOLUTION

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

We contacted several software development vendors and checked their expertise, reviewed past projects, hourly rates. Also we asked to create a UI/UX mockups, and interviewed their developers.

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

We had a kick-off meeting to discuss our goals and objectives, project development process and communication channels. We highlighted that we would like Insoftex's team to be a technical decision making, in other words - work more autonomously. From there, the team delivered a solution architecture and overview of the main components. Their team demonstrated progress twice a week. Hence, we were able to regularly discuss new business requirements and changes with our client

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

While we were able to communicate with every team member a project manager was our main point of contact throughout the process. There were also 2 full-stack full-time developers, a full-time UI/UXdesigner, and one additional part-time designer. We had regular meetings within software development and design streams.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

First of all the new system contains new features demanded on the market, a complitely new UI/UX design and works 40% faster with IoT data streaming processing. The new system is multitenant and can be installed in cloud or on-premise.

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

Twice a week we had meetings with their project manager, where we discussed important changes in requirements, reviewed regular planning and schedule. We used emails, Slack, Jira, Confluence, Figma, and GitHub. Also as we wanted to be closer to the technical side of the project we had regular calls with the whole team.

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

We appreciate their professional communication and flexibility in adopting changes in requirements. We described issues and they quickly evaluated solution suggestions. Eventually, we were able to clearly communicate the updates to out client. We learnt how to improve performance of such kinds of applications.

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

First of all, I would love to have better business requirements from our client, so we will need less code refactoring that required additional testing and fixing iterations. The Agile process helped us to address these changes timely without significant issues.