Case Studies / Retail
How MAS Global Helped A Startup Accelerate The Development Of An Intelligent Retail Solution
Engagement Description
Provided Architecture and DevOps advisory services. Assembled a dedicated development team for Wisy in order to add capacity to their product development efforts. Built an intelligent retail solution, which uses web, mobile and AI technologies.
The client:
Wisy helps the consumer packaged goods industry to be more efficient by reducing out-of-stock items and waste through artificial intelligence, and to ensure the availability of everyday products.
Wisy provides real-time intelligence from shelf images to achieve control at scale, to reduce loss, and sell more effectively in any retail location. The platform’s uninterrupted flow of factual-unbiased data enables wiser operations and category management to tap into the 1.9 trillion-dollar physical retail opportunity.
The Business Problem
Wisy is a startup based in San Francisco, CA, and are experts in retail intelligence and artificial intelligence. They required additional software development capacity to accelerate and scale the delivery of new features. They also wanted to build a strategic alliance with a partner who would bring expertise around the best practices of Agile software development. Wisy needed help creating some of the main components that will enable their platforms, such as web-based applications, user sign-up, product management, shelf, product processing, branches and branding. As a startup, costs are an important factor, as well as quality and real-time collaboration. For those reasons, it was decided a nearshore partner was necessary
The MAS Global Solution
MAS Global quickly assembled a remote development team at their nearshore development hub in Medellin, Colombia, to provide the benefit of aligned time zones with the US based client team, as well as providing lower costs compared to US based talent. The MAS development team helped Wisy with the implementation of some of the main components of their intelligent retail platform. As part of the engagement, our team defined and implemented the general Architecture for the web project. They configured DevOps practices which enabled the team to perform weekly deployments on the dev environment.
We also helped Wisy to design UX prototypes for the website which were very helpful to understand the business flow and to refine business scenarios. Finally, our MAS team collaborated with the Wisy team using Scrum methodologies in order to provide incremental delivery and ongoing client feedback.
By the end of the project, Wisy was very satisfied with MAS Global’s quick delivery of their much-needed new functionality.
Their team was very involved; from the start, they felt like they were a part of the team and were accommodating to the startup environment. Their attitude was also suitable for our startup culture — we were surprised by the level of their expertise
It is always great to collaborate with other women owned technology companies leveraging technologies such as AI to provide innovative solutions to the market. I am glad our MAS team in Latin America was able to collaborate in real time with Wisy’s distributed teams in San Francisco, CA and Panama to achieve major milestones in such a short period of time.
Are You Ready for MAS?
Do you have a major software development project that is stagnating? Are you tired of constantly having to onboard new software developers as your outsourced developer constantly cycles people out? Do you need proven, reliable, and professional services from a software developer who generates real results?
If your answer to any of the above is “YES!” then reach out to MAS Global today! We offer a unique approach to software development services that combines U.S.-based developers and nearshored developers that provides:
- Cost savings
- Significant flexibility
- Long-lasting relationships with your developers
- Consistent results using Agile frameworks and methods
- Strong reporting so you’re never in the dark
