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Arcanys delivers high-quality code at a fraction of the cost. The team takes a communicative approach to ensure transparency. Although they could be more proactive in running the project, they’re excellent collaborators and manage their resources well.

I’m the lead developer at a fintech company called Institutional Investor, which is a division of EuroMoney. In addition to providing financial data, we run various conferences and memberships around the world. I work on the technical side, overseeing development for our websites and apps.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We were developing a hybrid web application called ManagementMatch that helps connect investors with suitable managers and intermediaries. However, we outsourced some of the work to a development firm that lacked a sufficient QA process, so we faced a lot of issues with poor code. Arcanys initially joined the project to take on QA, but we’ve since expanded their role to include Angular development and maintenance.

What challenge were you trying to address with Arcanys?

Discover Institutional Investor’s secret sauce to maintain and build game-changing features on their app for a third of the local costs.

Client Review | Angular Dev for Financial Publishing Firm

Angular Dev for Financial Publishing Firm

After performing QA checks for a fintech software, Arcanys has expanded its role into Angular development. They continue to manage the app, handling frontend work, building new features, and fixing bugs.

Their management style is very upfront, and they treat us with respect.

Despite the application’s complexity, they’ve maintained it well and have continued to create new enhancements for a third of the normal costs. It would have been too expensive to work with local developers, but the Arcanys team produces technically sound results while remaining cost-effective.

Arcanys is the most significant part of our team. They assign three developers for every one of our in-house engineers. We work very closely together. They help us serve all of our most important clients. One of the biggest companies in Sweden has 5–6 teams that work with them.

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

They’re well managed, and the communication is spot on. Every morning, we have a stand-up call to go over tasks. The team reports everything to us, from giving updates to breaking down project costs. If they’re not completely sure about something or have questions, they tell us, and we’re able to have a conversation.

I also appreciate that they don’t overstep their bounds. Previous developers I’ve worked with have been too pushy when suggesting new technical solutions, at times doing things that we didn’t ask them to do. In contrast, Arcanys follows our instructions, coming up with work-throughs as needed.

How did Arcanys perform from a project management standpoint?

What did you find most impressive about them?

While they’re communicative and follow instructions well, they could be more proactive in product development. For this particular project, I didn’t want to run the project myself; rather, I wanted them to take the reins. In a sense, it would become more of their project as they evolved into an external team. Becoming more proactive without being domineering would help us in the long run. After meeting with Arcanys' senior management, they have agreed to move the team in this direction.

Are there any areas they could improve?

In the beginning, Arcanys assigned a QA specialist to go over our software. As the project continued, we decided to bring on additional resources to support our development efforts. Arcanys currently functions as an offshore-development support team to extend our capabilities. The application itself is a hybrid between Drupal, PHP, and Angular 1. Our in-house team handles the Drupal and PHP work, while they handle the Angular development. Other responsibilities include frontend enhancements, new features, and system checkups and updates.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We work with a QA specialist, a senior developer, and a junior developer.

What is the team composition?

6–7 years before joining Institutional Investor, I worked with Arcanys to create an app and an administrative system. At the time, I found them through a job listing platform where developers could bid on projects. Once I moved to my current role, I was keen to use them again.

How did you come to work with Arcanys?

Between the three resources provided, we pay about $12,000 a month.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve worked with them since October 2017.

What is the status of this engagement?

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One of Arcanys' solutions is a source content aggregator that is expected to run 24/7 every day. It's powerful enough to run across five international networks, including over 600 asset locations, and combines data from over 20 API suppliers. The team has a relentlessly positive view of their work.

International Content Director / National Networks Manager with Office Media market leader Executive Channel Network, who have digital signage networks and operations in Sydney, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam

At least 5 different management applications were designed and developed by Arcanys to provide the necessary capabilities required to aggregate, segment, and distribute live data from a diverse range of media suppliers including news, weather, financial hubs, and social media APIs.

Additionally, a further 50+ intelligent content applications have been designed and developed for daily operation across 5 markets.

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

As a global digital communication business, ECN needed a versatile development partner like Arcanys to build innovative, powerful software solutions.

Client Review | Content Aggregator Tool for Broadcast Media Firm

Source Content Aggregator Tool for Broadcast Media Company

Arcanys has designed and developed at least five management applications and over 50 intelligent content applications. Their solutions help aggregate, segment, and distribute live data from media suppliers.

Arcanys' unique ability to be a Swiss army knife of services reduces the need to engage multiple suppliers.

ECN's Source Content Aggregation and delivery is expected to run without interruption (24/7 365 days a year) across 5 international networks, 600+ unique asset locations, combining data from more than 30+ API suppliers, on a daily basis and even more during advertising campaigns, which utilise dynamic triggers for a customised audience experience.

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

ECN Project manages all aspects of product development with Arcanys team members in the same style as would be used with our own local resources. Additional inputs on occasion from Arcanys Scrum masters / Team leads prove helpful where meeting schedules are sometimes interrupted.

JIRA is used extensively for allocation of Tasks, Planning, and Timesheeting and has been a brilliantly simple and clear layer of transparency ongoing.

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

No pun intended, but Arcanys' unique ability to be a Swiss army knife of services reduces the need to engage multiple suppliers, which saves time, simplifies project spend, reduces communication burdens and improves our agility when kicking off new initiatives.

But perhaps of even greater value is their 'can-do' attitude and relentlessly positive view of the work.

There are always areas for improvement in our business and processes. Arcanys as a partner join us in that responsibility and noticeably are proactive in improving communication, transparency and technical expertise. This has been a key differentiator in their style over other suppliers.

Following a review process of several vendors combined with a recommendation from an industry colleague, Arcanys was shortlisted based on breadth of technical capabilities, sensible costings, and a fiercely positive approach to innovation.

Knowing that a successful project partnership would lead to an ongoing relationship of development we were very fortunate to find a tech partner who was thoroughly trust worthy and shared common values.

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

ECN's ambitious dev schedule for product development required expertise across multiple technologies including;

Our projects were largely understood from legacy systems and processes which had been brought together piecemeal over many years but needed to undergo fresh development.

Our Arcanys team implemented our refined workflows and automated processing requirements which has alleviated the need for strong technically minded resources to manage daily operations, instead offering capabilities that can be easily controlled and configured by largely non-technical resources.

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

2 x HTML5/JS Developers ( Senior and Mid level), 1xPHP/Symphony (Mid level) , 1x .NET/SQL (Senior)

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