Software product development for Efficio – UK-based management consulting company

Our client, Efficio, is a big procurement consulting company with offices across the globe. Their key objective was to eliminate a lot of manual work their consultants spent on conducting research and analyses. Therefore, Efficio Digital needed a reliable tech partner to help their onsite team develop a number of automation solutions.

To extend their resources and speed up pace of change, they started cooperation with N-iX. Our software development team was to attain the following objectives:

• move from the monolith architecture the the service-oriented one;
• contribute to the development of the client’s digital products such as OnTrack and eFlow;
• work on the system internal stream, develop the services for the onsite development team;
• develop a content builder system for reporting and integrate it with Tableau-based data visualisation;
• implement centralized authorization system;
• develop background processing system and a background monitoring tool;
• provide software testing and automate QA processes.

• Efficio services and software solutions involve a lot of analytics. There are different tools for processing input data and performing a certain business logic. However, all these processes can’t take place at the same time. N-iX engineers implemented the background processing system that put tasks in a queue and performs the calculations on the background. As a result, this speeds up the analysis and the solution provides prompt result to the client. To monitor the work of this solution and delivery of all the tasks in a queue, our specialists have also developed a native background monitoring tool. This dedicated layer allows to see the system from the inside out and oversee the completion of the tasks in a queue.
• To ensure the highest quality of the software, N-iX testers automated a lot of quality assurance processes and test cases. We have used Docker and many different types of software testing including Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, etc. Thus we were able to cover around 99% of different cases. Automation has also allowed us to save a lot of time and resources during full regression, which we performed every time after adding new features and functionality. So instead of taking 3-4 days, it has taken just a few hours.
• Additionally, the team has developed a content builder system for reporting and data visualization based on Tableau. We developed custom SDK to integrate Tableau with PHP software.