Fortune 500 Medical Company App Development
See how Uplancer took a common sense approach to app development when solving a complicated business enablement process.
The Background
As a global leader in the medical device and diagnostics business, a Fortune 500 company needed digital transformation more than ever with their innovative, new ways of working. With an entrepreneurial spirit in mind, one leader contacted Uplancer with a new idea and said, “I’ve talked to several people about how to do this, and no one can figure out how to do it.”
Enter Uplancer, who immediately brought a simplified app development solution to an otherwise complex organizational problem. Uplancer used their digital common sense. Through app development, Uplancer built a solution that not only fits their business needs, but also meets their complex company-wide IT processes. Continue reading below on Uplancer’s impact on their business, and how we can impact yours as well!
The Challenge: App Development That’s Built for a Corporation
The Fortune 500 company knew that this would be a huge undertaking. The application had to do exactly what they needed for their new business process as well as fulfill additional organizational constraints.
- Starting from Point B: When developing the business enablement tool, Uplancer needed to reference two things: the existing prototype, which was limited in functionality, and any new business requirements. The latter was the unknown and easily the trickiest part.
- Complex Business Systems: This Fortune 500 Medical Company leveraged a number of business enablement tools. In doing so, business teams spent herculean efforts performing manual tasks across multiple systems to accomplish one goal.
- Overloaded IT team: The IT team was overloaded with work. With this operational pressure, IT could support only a handful of projects. Any overhead to maintain the solution had to be minimal.
- Compliance Challenges: Strict, yet much needed security and compliance protocols had to be followed when delivering an elegant solution. Any app development had to navigate through those security challenges.
The Solution: An Uplancer Business Enablement App
- No Stone Unturned During Discovery: Every app requires a clear set of requirements – our job was to uncover them. We gathered all stakeholders and captured all requirements for the final web app. Then it was a matter of balancing the scope with the budget. The final deliverable was a functional requirement that was exactly what the Fortune 500 company was looking for.
- Common-Sense App Development in the Cloud: We approached this problem by asking one simple question, “How can we make this simpler?” By leveraging the security of the cloud, the compliance and requirements of IT went away. As a result, we could focus on the common sense solution: building a business enablement tool that automated manual tasks for their business teams.
- Freedom From Servers: One of the key promises that Uplancer delivered was to design a solution that was easy to implement and easy to maintain. Uplancer brought a serverless architecture to reduce the load on IT management.
- Business Compliance Made Easy: Aligning expectations with our partner is essential for shared success. By asking the right questions, Uplancer found common ground with the business team right from the start. This allowed Uplancer to quickly establish the compliance ground rules for developing the final business enablement app.
The Result:
Thanks to Uplancer’s approach to the Fortune 500 company’s complex problem, the business team can now focus on accelerating their business and innovation. Their IT team was not overloaded with work and could easily support their business enablement app. Additionally, sales managers became 10% more efficient in their day-to-day activities.
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