Global Civil Engineering Company Lowers Costs by Modernizing An Aging Application

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An Accumulation of Various Standalone Software Applications

BrandSafway is a global company that delivers access and scaffolding systems, forming and shoring, industrial services, and related solutions to more than 30,000 customers worldwide. With $5 billion in annual revenue and 35,000 employees, BrandSafway is the leader in their field.

Over the years, BrandSafway had accumulated various standalone software applications due to acquisitions. Because of the complexity of these applications and a lack of documentation, offshore partners were a poor option. BrandSafway had also experienced a rise in attrition with contract resources due to the maintenance and support requirements of their aging applications, which were scheduled to sunset within the next few years.

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Scrum-as-a-Service® Provides Talent and Value

Sparq’s Scrum team provided the right mix of talent and value to become the technology partner of choice for BrandSafway. Utilizing one of our multidisciplinary Scrum-as-a-Service^® teams, Sparq quickly captured the knowledge transfer from an incumbent partner to learn the application architecture, document tribal knowledge, then take on support tickets, build out user stories and develop, test and deploy into production.

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Successful Transfer Leads to Additional Engagement

BrandSafway was seeking a low-risk, high-value alternative to offshore and local consultants, and Sparq was the partner to help them improve quality and minimize risk. After the successful transfer of support, maintenance, and development for the Strategic Tracking System written in Java, BrandSafway expanded their relationship with Sparq by adding the SafQuote application for our team to support requests, prioritize incoming requests, and continuously deliver against an existing backlog.

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Leading Streaming OS Provider Positions to be Leading Home OS Provider

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Cloud-based Automation Improves Data Quality and Time Savings

We automated this managed services provider’s cumbersome manual processes with a serverless application using Angular and AWS tools. This saved them hundreds of hours per year, reduced staff burnout, and allowed them to provide their clients data-driven consulting that otherwise would have been nearly impossible.

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Innovative and Award-winning Digital Product

Our client, a Wisconsin-based financial services provider, was being acquired by a multinational conglomerate, due to the potential of their yet-to-be-launched, digital application. It would revolutionize the travel insurance industry, since at the time, if you wanted to purchase a travel insurance policy or file a claim, you’d have to do it over the phone, or in same cases, by mail.

Our product development team stepped in quickly and started meeting with the executive team to get a thorough understanding of the business goals and start building personas and fleshing out the buying cycle. They ended up developing an innovative, award-winning application with flexible, modern architecture and got it to market on-time, despite the tight timeline.

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Modernized Applications Improve Quality of Care for Senior Citizens

Two large healthcare technology providers had recently merged into one comprehensive platform for managing payments and care programs. Their combined product portfolio needed to be updated to align with a modern .NET tech stack to eliminate technical debt. Learn how we quickly scaled up a Scrum-as-a-Service^TM team to enhance and support our client’s legacy application.

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Global Civil Engineering Company Lowers Costs by Modernizing An Aging Application

An Accumulation of Various Standalone Software Applications

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