E-com domain is highly competitive and Ankorstore planned not only to keep up with the market demands but to be on top of it. So, they sought a reliable technical partner, to scale their development team, take over product optimization, and support them along the evolutionary growth.
Partnership with the Sigma Software web development team helped Ankorstore grow their development capacity and boost collaboration. Together we improved the core platform functionality to align it with business goals while saving costs on infrastructure and 3rd party integrations.
The dynamic E-com industry puts a lot of pressure on suppliers in terms of web apps robustness, performance & usability. Ankorstore had an ambitious product roadmap and needed more experts to keep up with it. As in-house hiring was time-consuming, they decided to turn to a nearshore supplier who could extend their web application development team in short order.
We perfectly matched Ankorstore’s hiring and development speed expectations, swiftly adapting to their ways of working. Our team assisted the Client through their evolutionary growth, contributing with our business and technical expertise to ongoingly improve the product:
The platform was successful, growing to support over 30K brands & 300K retailers. Ankorstore wanted to make sure their capabilities matched the rapid product growth, so engaged our experts to conduct both delivery processes and technical audit.
We analyzed product architecture and development practices, created a transformation roadmap for improvement areas, and moved to its implementation. As the product delivery was divided across several business units, each responsible for a certain platform component, we also helped facilitate productive collaboration across them. The changes within delivery transformation included:
Together with the Client’s technical team, our DevOps engineers follow the best practices that include GitOps approach and extensive IaC usage to streamline the development process as well as standardize and automate changes made into the infrastructure.
Cost optimization was another vector our team focused on. Together with the Client’s team we analyzed the existing processes and implemented improvements that allowed reducing expenses and optimizing the infrastructure. Our DevOps engineers contributed to the following activities:
Nikita Vershinin
VP of Engineering
Ankorstore
The team’s flexibility and willingness to get things done are unique, distinguishing them from other providers. Moreover, they have a great sense of ownership.
Yuliya Arsenyeva
Account Manager
Sigma Software
The synergy which we've built during our collaboration with the Client’s team is based on the people-centric approach. Ankorstore has great inspiring talents which are an absolute pleasure to work with. And our dedicated specialists were never treated as contractors. We became an integral part of their engineering team that creates exciting things, cultivates both soft & hard skills improvement, nurtures openness, and supports each teammate.
