endorsedOngoing

Digital Asset Management (DAM) System Development

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development

Industry

Information Technology

Duration

103 months

Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date

1 January 2018

Team Size

6-10 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

75/100

Good

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Client

One Group Digital Solutions

Lviv, Ukraine

Project Summary

Spiral Scout rebuilt an end-to-end digital asset management (DAM) system for an IT firm, replacing and migrating a legacy solution and delivering a customer-facing web portal, image editing tools, and integrations. The vendor provided requirements gathering, UX/UI design, development (JavaScript, PHP, Go), QA, DevOps deployment to AWS, SEO work, and documentation. The new system produced improved website performance, higher organic traffic and signups, and significantly reduced hosting costs. Spiral Scout continues to support and iterate on the platform with the client.

Key Challenges

Lacked internal bandwidth to build and maintain a DAM system
Needed an urgent update to a legacy DAM to support a busy season
Required a complete rebuild and migration of data to a new DAM solution

Project Deliverables

Customer-facing website
Subscription service for downloading images
Stripe and Mailchimp integrations
Backend dashboard for user and file management and reporting
Collaborative image editing and captioning tool
SEO recommendations and implementation
Documentation on how to use the software
Partial refactor and rewrite of legacy codebase
Deployment to AWS

Project Solution

Spiral Scout defined technical specifications and user stories through business analysis, produced high-fidelity UX/UI mockups and wireframes, and implemented the full software stack using JavaScript, PHP, and Go. They refactored and rewrote portions of the legacy codebase, built a customer-facing website, subscription/download service, backend admin dashboard, collaborative image editing and captioning tool, and integrated Stripe and Mailchimp. The team handled internal QA and DevOps to deploy the system on the client’s AWS servers and delivered SEO recommendations and user documentation.

Project Outcome

Increased customer revenue and website signups
Reduced AWS costs from $3,500/month to $800/month
Dramatically improved website performance and increased organic search traffic
Continued ongoing collaboration with Spiral Scout

Platforms

Web
Cloud

Tech Stack

JavaScript
PHP
Go
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Revenue, costs, and traffic have improved with the new system. Beyond delivering results that exceeded expectations, Spiral Scout displays attentive customer service. Their transparent and honest evaluation of challenges and smooth integration with internal resources are particularly notable.”
Andrew Grinchuk
Chief Visionary Officer
Date: 05/06/2019