Kilowott

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of Grafikk og Musikk AS

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

The platform is a compassionate and user-friendly tool for those planning memorial services, helping them honour their loved ones with suitable musical selections.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• We gave the assignment to Kilowatt because we work so well together and they have known the project since we started developing this product.
• To redesign and develop the existing platform to create a newer version "Musikkforslag ved Gravferd" platform.
• To improve user experience by addressing current usability issues and integrating new features while maintaining the core functionality of music recommendations for funerals

SOLUTION

How did you find Kilowott?

Personal meeting in Norway

Why did you select Kilowott over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Nice people

How many teammates from Kilowott were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

The goal was to build Version 4 of Musikkforslag Ved gravferd. Phase 1, the Analysis & Design phase and Phase 2: Development. The redesigned system became a web-based application that enhanced existing functionality with a more intuitive user interface and new integrations. It featured a fixed player and an improved display of information. The platform was designed to be fully responsive, providing an optimal experience across both desktops and smartphones.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Completion of Phase 1 and Phase 2: The successful completion of the Analysis & Design phase and the transition into the Development phase showed clear progress toward the project’s goals.Enhanced User Interface: The redesigned system incorporated a more intuitive user interface, improving ease of use and reducing user friction.

New Integrations: The integration of new functionalities contributed to a more feature-rich platform, expanding its capabilities.

Responsive Design: The platform’s full responsiveness ensured an optimal experience across both desktops and smartphones, broadening accessibility.

Improved Information Display: The redesigned display offered clearer and more organized information, making it easier for users to navigate and interact with the platform.

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

It is a plessure to work with Kilowatt and a Great Teamwork. They are cleverand are allways on-Time Delivery.

They are allways responsive and Helpful and understand our needs

Clear Communication is important and that is not a problem with Kilowatt.

They are allways very flexible and Adaptable 

And the last is also very important, they allways deliever High-Quality Work.

What was your primary form of communication with Kilowott?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are always on our side and are always positive about understanding and solving our challenges.

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

As I have told you earlier: the sound quality when we are talking could be better. If you do have some rooms with softer walls will reduce ecko effect in the room. But that is minor details to improve. But in the total this is not a large problem. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of Grafikk og Musikk AS

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We offer quality products made from Norwegian wool that have a history dating back to the Viking Age.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Kilowott to accomplish?
Help develop and update a website for music suggestions for a funeral

SOLUTION

How did you find Kilowott?

From personal contact

Why did you select Kilowott over others?

• Good value for cost
• Been customer for more then 10 years

How many teammates from Kilowott were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

They came up with suggestions and sketches for an upgrade to our project. And it turned out really well. 

From sketches to the music site going live, it has been a great pleasure for us as a customer to have a close and good collaboration with Kilowatt. In addition, the communication with the team went very smoothly and we are super happy with the end result. We really want to recommend kilowatt as a digital partner.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It's a bit difficult to answer, but the work we've done to update our site was absolutely necessary to retain our customers and, not least, gain new ones.

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

We had a deadline to present our music site to a large meeting. Kilowatt delivered a test version on time. We presented this site and received so much good feedback. After this, we have completed the site, which will now be sold to existing and new customers.

What was your primary form of communication with Kilowott?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

The most important thing is that the entire team understands the issues very well and is also very creative and comes up with good ideas and suggestions for improvements so that the end product is as good as possible.

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

The only thing I could think of is that it might be a bit difficult to hear what the people in Kilowatt are saying. Since I have been working with sound and music production for many years, I would recommend that you build some conference rooms that are more suitable for speech. In short, in many of the rooms, some people also sit at home and there is a lot of echo in the room. Therefore, use headphones with a microphone. Then I won't hear as much sound from the room. It's just a suggestion.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder & CEO of Streaming Tank

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Streaming Tank is a live video production company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Create a new website
• Easy to update
• Quick response time for any changes I couldn't do myself

SOLUTION

How did you find Kilowott?

Referral

Why did you select Kilowott over others?

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

How many teammates from Kilowott were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

I have used them for several projects over the past couple of years. They all had to do with my AWS accounts and website.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

I have a website I'm very happy with on a platform (Word Press) that is easy to update. I can contact them on our Slack chat whenever I have a technical question and I'll normally get a very speedy reply with feedback on the next steps.

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

I know I am repeating myself a little but I think their communication channels are very impressive. I always feel very well looked after and nothing is too much for them. They know AWS extremely well and when I was decommissioning my servers they were able to help me backup& download everything before we turned them off.

What was your primary form of communication with Kilowott?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Lovely people to work with even when I'm saying please can we fix this ASAP. They always have a smile on their faces, and they can back that up with great quality work too.

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

I am not sure there are actually. I'll have a think. :O)

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm Business Manager at a funding company that provides trading capital for day traders.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired Kilowott as our main developer for online infrastructure. We have a remote business where all our operations are being conducted online. For these purposes we needed a high class webpage with connections to different third party software, that would ensure efficient and thorough process of receiving trading accounts for our customers.

SOLUTION

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

We found them through a referral and considered them along with 3 other vendors. Because the project was such a high priority, we needed a results-driven partner that was committed to providing efficient solutions for our tasks and desired features. An other factor was the ability to receive constant support on the project.

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

The project has required implementation of different third party software in order for the offering to work properly. Some connections were more complicated than the others, but the vendor has done a very good job with all of them.

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

The is always a project manager that is working closely with the project and it's tasks. In addition, there are two developers working on the project full time. Also, there are two communication managers that are making sure we receive everything we need and that the project is moving in the right direction.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The team has been delivering features before deadlines and are often coming up with efficient solutions to issues and new features that we are desiring.

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

The communication goes via Slack in addition to weekly calls with walk through of the ongoing tasks. The team is on the line every working day if needed.

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

Their ability to provide human resources for our project.

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

We are happy with everything so far and nothing special comes to mind.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am head of digital business development at 4Cast Media AS. I am co-founder and product owner of a publish/CMS system called CON-TEXT.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to create an online system to write articles that our company produces to our clients. This was planned to be build from scratch in .Net. After feedback from the market, the product started to grow and expand month by month. This is an Agile project and we are still developing this product.

SOLUTION

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

We selected Kilowott due to one of our previous colleague had good contacts in the company and we did not regret that decision.

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

The project had now goal or end plan in the beginning. We have weekly meetings to plan the sprints and how this project will be developed further. The system is coded in .NET.

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

There were about 15 people including the developers, testers, and the project managers earlier. Currently we have 4 people including 1 front end developer, 1 back end developer, 1 tester and 1 delivery manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After the system and website was live, we have seen a frequently increase in traffic and use. The number of users and readers of the platform has gone beyond our expectations.

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

The team follows an agile project management methodology. We plan the sprints along with the Kilowott team using Jira and they estimate the same and let us know the planned deadline. We meet weekly through Google meet to discuss the plans and updates.

They also provide constant updates on the project status through Slack communication. The team also accommodates higher priority requests and extends the sprints on the need basis. Bit bucket is the tool used for code repository management.

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

The team actively participates in product management, along with the development by researching and suggesting on the best possible ways to implement certain client requests, and they clearly communicate and explain the reasons and impacts due to which some of the features should not be implemented.

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

The number of bugs in the system have drastically reduced in the recent times. It could be further fine tuned. The application could be made more friendly and responsive to the bigger screens that we use here.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the managing director at Hofgut Lilienhof, an event venue hosting company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Kilowott?

We needed help developing software.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Kilowott helped us develop cloud-based software to optimize event planning. They were responsible for both the front- and backend as well as the whole architecture. We only did the design and requirements on our side. 

We sell it to other companies in Germany as a white label solution. It’s a configurator for our customers’ venues so that guests can set up their own events. Our system helps minimizes the preparation time for events.

What is the team composition?

I’m in contact with three people from their team, including one of the founders.

How did you come to work with Kilowott?

They made me a good offer and I trust them. They had another project in Germany, in the Netherlands, and in Norway. I knew some other companies who had worked with them already. It was a good word of mouth.

How much have you invested with them?

We have invested $50,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in November 2019 and it's ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

I’ve received good feedback on the solution. It’s good working together with them. There are difficulties with any project but we have found a solution for everything. 

We have a friendly working relationship with Kilowatt. We’re very satisfied with the product and the work that they did. The software is working and we get customers who are satisfied as well.

How did Kilowott perform from a project management standpoint?

Our teams work together using Slack and Trello. Their project management works very well. If there are any problems, I just text them and they text back or we have a video call.

What did you find most impressive about them?

What I really appreciate is they try to understand our problems. They come up with ideas on how to make our solution better. I really like the friendly communication between our teams.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There are always points where everyone can be better but I don’t have a point I could say that’s improvable.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I recommend working with them, especially if you’re a company in Europe, Germany, Netherlands. It’s not difficult working with Kilowott.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Strategic designer, Owner of Plan A Kommunikasjon

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We build strong brands and platforms that convert.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Build websites and e-commerce stores in wordpress and woocommerce

SOLUTION

How did you find Kilowott?

Direct contact with founder

Why did you select Kilowott over others?

• Good value for cost
• Strong relationship

How many teammates from Kilowott were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Build website, build custo API plugin, Support and optimization and enchancement of craft.no and other woocommerce stores. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We started out using Kilowott for development as a technology partner and outcomes of the project have made us interested in design and marketing services as well. This is due to the quality of work and level of accountability.

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

Delivery is on time. When unforseen obstacles are encountered I get a message in time.
The Project manager is very responsive and always make sure I have backup when on leave.

What was your primary form of communication with Kilowott?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are committed to understanding the core of the projects in order to achieve results.

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

Creating an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing updates, insights, and feedback is key to fostering creativity & seamless communication across all project levels. 

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive at Paul John Indian Caffeine Co.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Roasting and retailing speciality Indian coffee

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Build a e commerce website
• Digital Marketing

SOLUTION

How did you find Kilowott?

• Online Search
• Referral

Why did you select Kilowott over others?

• Pricing fits our budget
• Referred to me
• Had a broad range of departments so that it was easier to have everything under one company

How many teammates from Kilowott were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

They have created a website for our e-commerce platform on woo commerce, they handle our digital marketing, SEO and website development on a recurring contract.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Usability of the website, sales increase and social media engagement

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

They are very prompt in replying and implementing deliverables. The team is very responsive and on top of things at any time that you need them.

What was your primary form of communication with Kilowott?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

The company is very prompt in implementing your needs and has the ability to do an number of various tasks related to web development and digital marketing.

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

I’m very happy with them currently

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I´m the general manager of a web development company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We use Kilowott as a development partner for Wordpress projects.

SOLUTION

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

We have worked with several development partners and now use Kilowott as our main partner based on the quality of work they provide.

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

We hand over webdesign and have walkthroughs with Kilowott. They develop the websites with Wordpress (front and backend). We then do testing/QA together to ensure that the projects have the quality we need before handing it over to our clients.

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

We work with a business manager, project manager, developers and testers from Kilowott.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

With Kilowott as a development partner we can deliver a lot more projects. We use them for projects we don´t have capasity to develop inhouse. This gives us a great flexibility.

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

We communicated with the project managers at Kilowott using Trello, Slack and video.

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

They are able to give us the quality we need together with a good price. And delivery model and the timelines we need for our projects.

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

We have an ongoing dialouge about things we can do on both sides to have a smoother operation and increase the quality of work.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Bold Digital delivers digital marketing, websites, videoproductions, photography and graphic design. I am a CEO in Bold Digital and our website is bolddigital.no.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We had a new graphic profile and a new name for the company. But we had no time to make the website ourselves.

SOLUTION

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

We asked Kilowott to do it for us.

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

We had a tight schedule and a deadline that came faster than expected. Kilowott delivered the front-end design and development fast.

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

A project manager was our main contact. And it was a designer and a developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We are very happy with the result. Delivered fast, and as espected. Usually with other companies I have expierenced that they only deliver half of the things we agreed on. But Kilowott delivers all with perfection.

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

Very effective. The project start with a simple spec from us. Then we have a video call and set a timeline and a price. When accepted they update me every week on the progress.

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

The delivery. Everything is as we wanted it to be. Their designs are very unique and good looking.

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

I am very happy with the result and the process.