Siili Solutions

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

 I am the CTO of a software company 

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Automotive software and design services.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Siili Solutions to accomplish?

• Enterprise level software development
• Staff augmentation

SOLUTION

How did you find Siili Solutions?

Referral

Why did you select Siili Solutions over others?

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

How many teammates from Siili Solutions were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

We partnered with Siili to assemble a team capable of architecting and developing an IoT cloud platform, not only to manage data and devices, but to also serve as the hub for the day-to-day operations of the business. They delivered a scalable solution on AWS, complete with development, staging, and production environments, and implemented robust CI/CD pipelines. 
Siili collaborated closely with both our team and our customers to define business objectives, translate them into detailed designs using Figma and Miro, and ultimately bring those designs to life through implementation.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Team integration, dedication, and collaboration
• Full access to review all source code and environments
• Quick responses to feedback on the business level as well as the working level
• Positive feedback from internal and external groups
• Access to daily scrum meetings and weekly status updates
• 99.9% uptime of prod environment
• The system scaled appropriately as more devices came online
• Jira usage to track work and progress

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

Project management was excellent. They were well organized and tracked everything as well as anyone could. During the project there were many times we had to pivot and go in a different direction, and they were able to stay on track and continue working and delivering.

What was your primary form of communication with Siili Solutions?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Great culture and attitude from upper management down to the working level. Very flexible in terms of dynamically adjusting team size and finding additional resources internally to help with very specific problems or technologies.

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

Nothing specific.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Technical Director of Oy Plusdial Ab

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Mobile ticketing services for public transport authorities/companies.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Siili Solutions to accomplish?

• Create a system exceeding requirements of a public tender
• Have the developed system maintained and further developed by Siili
• Begin a long-term co-operation for serving also other future Customers of ours

SOLUTION

How did you find Siili Solutions?

Known based on earlier co-operation

Why did you select Siili Solutions over others?

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

How many teammates from Siili Solutions were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

Prior to actual develipment project, pariticipating in initial planning and cost evaluation for producing response to tender, and continued with further development and support after project.

During project, developed a system for receiving and sending SMS messages, handling end customer billing, reporting tickets to 2 external systems over required APIs, mechanisms to detect suspected ticket fraud, reporting, UI for several end customer helpdesks, provision of receipts of purchases, refund mechanisms, etc. 
Providing several test and actual production environments in cloud environment, and creting tools and models for the permanent maintenance and further development team to carry out their work. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Fulfillment (and in fact, exceeding) of tender requirements, excellent ratings from our mutual Customer company satisfaction during and after development project, personal satisfaction as Product Owner

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

Project management was especially skilled, helpful, and solution driven. Managed also budget in an excellent way - very highly appreciated help from Product Owner and my companies overall project management point of view!

What was your primary form of communication with Siili Solutions?

Virtual Meeting

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

Despite developers coming from one country, my company residing in another country, and our mutual Customer in a third country, communication worked well. All participants were very professional in learnig new areas of technologies (and even teaching Product Owner to adopt lean development), committed to producing value, and solve unforeseen issues on the fly. The end result is perhaps best testimony: We have run it in production for two years with no downtime!

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

Not really. Every project faces unforeseen challenges (ours, mostly due to delays by external parties), but Siili's attitude to solve them was superb!