Creating a Powerhouse App for an Equipment Manufacturer

Since our client was targeting this new user segment with our work together, their unique needs led us to establish cutting-edge practices and processes while building the web app. We pioneered approaches to tackle two key needs: the ability to view data across organizations (within our client and its customers) and high performance with extremely large data loads.

The app was designed to handle more data than any of our client’s other applications. It was the first app to combine both equipment and agricultural data and present it to users in a way that highlighted potential issues. To find those potential equipment issues in the data, we needed to find ways to encode complex business rules easily. We created visualizations that allow users to pinpoint outliers among tens of thousands of pieces of equipment and discern what isn’t being used efficiently. 

This app was also one of the first of our client’s apps to integrate with other SaaS offerings created by other business units. Since the app consumed data from these other sources within our client’s organization, we investigated ways to increase their performance as well. Because of this data-at-scale need, we kept performance as a top concern throughout our engagement.

Due to the cutting-edge nature of the features we were building, we contributed code and documentation back to our client’s larger development ecosystem. We were closely involved in software community of practice meetings, presenting on many topics that led to the establishment of best practices for our client’s organization.