E-commerce platform for furniture used by the largest retailers in North America
Success Cases
Challenge
Blueport Commerce, a leading provider of e-commerce for big ticket retail, was growing and needed to quickly meet the development requirements of adding new customers. In order to increase development capacity in a short period of time while continuing to provide superior quality and services to its clients, Blueport sought out talented Angular and .NET developers capable of adding immediate value and capacity with the flexibility and availability to fill short-term positions.
Solution
Working collaboratively with Kaizen, Blueport was able to identify Kaizen developers to supplement its staff. Together, Blueport and Kaizen identified the key skill sets needed as well as where within Blueport’s team structure Kaizen would have the biggest impact.
From front end work to back end and database coding, Kaizen team members integrated into all layers of Blueport’s development stack.
About this project
Blueport is the leading e-commerce platform for furniture used by retailers in North America to run their omnichannel websites. Designed to overcome the challenges of selling furniture online, the Blueport SaaS e-commerce Platform plugs into any furniture ERP system to quickly launch sites fully integrated with stores.
With a long experience in the industry, Blueport provides better shopping experiences for their customers and drives online sales through its e-commerce platforms.
- Headquarters: Boston, MA.
- Founded: 2009
- Industry: Computer Software, E-Commerce
- Founder: Carl Prindle
- Website: blueport.com
New clients acquisition
New skills and faster technologies were applied
Brand perception improvement
based on better time to market and innovative approach
Milestones
April 2019
Kaizen engage with Blueport’s CTO
Blueport needed to increase flexibility and capacity. Kaizen was experienced in staff augmentation and knew how to get up to speed rapidly, delivering business value from the inception.
May 2019
Migration from a monolithic application to the cloud.
With Kaizen’s experience and knowledge on micro services, we collaborated in migrating to the cloud, figuring out the patterns that the client wanted to follow.
June 2019
Kaizen .NET developers started to collaborate on front-end solutions.
Kaizen established the necessary reporting, communication and workflow procedures for effective and smooth cooperation. New proposals for product improvements such as user experience and code quality began to emerge.
July 2019
Introduction of a dedicated new Angular development team
Due to the emergence of a new customer, Blueport decided to augment the team. Kaizen provided a great responsiveness that allowed them to fulfil new demands using a project-oriented Angular development team.
March 2020
Kaizen Team visited Blueport headquarters in Boston
We began conducting workshops and knowledge transfer of Angular technology and architectural proposals for Blueport developers. The team also started mentoring Blueport Junior internship developers.
May 2020
The value that Kaizen brought was taking hold. More support was requested.
The client shared a new vision with Kaizen. More support was needed to respond to the requests of its current clients and to maintain the continuous development of its platform.
April 2021
Onboarding process for off-shore developers is created
We got involved in improving the onboarding process and working on the creation of an onboarding document for off-shore developers.
Testimonial
My experience with Kaizen is that people come with a lot of knowledge, they share their ideas which is awesome, but they also fit into our development processes and our goals and how we approach things. So it's really easy to fit people onto the team because there is not a lot of work that we have to do to convince them to approach things in a certain way. They just adapted but they also brought their ideas.
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