Spark Equation

View original https://sparkequation.com/2022/08/08/building-a-digital-core-for-a-leading-workforce-solutions-provider/  Headway needed to address increasing complexity across it’s infrastructure and accommodate growth for changing user demands. They needed their system to be more agile, resilient, and scalable to continue to provide market-leading workforce solutions. We joined their digital transformation mission and assisted in addressing any challenges that arose during digitization. We transitioned their system to a microservice model.To meet their product goals, the Spark Equation team ran an end-to-end analysis of the existing system and conducted a thorough discovery phase to understand where the product is now, where it needs to be, and where it will be in the future. Their system needed re-architecture to support their growing daily users, seamless integrations, and a robust digital core to enable them to drive real, measurable business value and confidently face the future of staffing without disruption of ongoing user platform activities.Headway using Spark Equation’s end-to-end product creation platform, and working side by side with Spark Equations product consulting, we created a technology core, a master blueprint for their product. This allows them to build unique aspects of their business and extend the rest through 3rd party functionality, maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of resource allocation. Headway can now see a real-time holistic view of its end-to-end business processes thereby enabling front-end innovation, delivering agility, eliminating manual steps with automation, and providing a seamless user experience. This extended business view and the ability to seamlessly integrate with internal and external partners will drive strategic differentiation for the digital business in the future.

View original https://sparkequation.com/insights/portfolio/digital-transformation-sparks-retail-learning-providers-business-impact/Encumbered by an ineffective software vendor and an underperforming e-learning platform, a well-established retail company faced a declining user experience that risked its expansion into the retail industry. Spark Equation worked with company leadership on a multi-dimensional transformation that restored competitive advantage, instilled innovative engineering systems, and implemented mature project management practices.Upon investigation, the Spark Equation team carried out the procedure in the most comprehensive way and resolved the root cause of the low performance. Within months, Spark Equation had stabilized the platform and proceeded to improve all functions that were previously hindering development. Spark teams avoided the possibility of a platform collapse and gradually continued transferring the platform from its unstable foundation to a new and improved high-performance engine able to sustain any future iterations. Spark Equation conducted a thorough cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, and platform diagnostics to develop a roadmap and phase structure. This ensured all issues discovered were prioritized and the improvements were deployed when they were needed most.Spark Equation created tangible value through re-engineering and project management. Progress Retail is now live in 3 countries and has quadrupled its client profiles on the e-learning platform. They now offer 4 central educational systems that are based on the company’s role structure and personalized store systems. Progress Retail can now provide an in-person training experience through the tools, coaching, and communication of their newly re-engineered online platform. Future iterations will allow users to integrate HR tools, point-of-sale, and additional performance tools for personal and professional growth.

View Original https://sparkequation.com/insights/portfolio/opening-new-revenue-streams-through-saas/    BookedOut by Shiftgig, an experiential marketing and event management platform, faced increasing problems with activation inefficiencies, lack of measurement and accountability along with administration challenges to onboard, process and pay freelancers. To extinguish this issue promptly and develop a more efficient technological solution, Shiftgig reached out to Spark Equation as an external service provider to engineer a robust and reliable proprietary platform   Spark Equation assisted their client’s internal team to engineer a resource-saving and streaming tool for staffing and event management. The collaboration created a powerful and secure mobile and cloud-based platform that would allow users to create, manage, staff and track all events in one place.     The end product was a cloud-based marketplace and logistics platform that seamlessly connected enterprises with the vast and growing freelancer community. Due to the platform’s robust capabilities, marketing agencies that used to hire internal staff to work events switched to BookedOut’s platform for their staffing purposes and business needs.   To successfully onboard the firms’ first private market client, Spark Equation expanded the platform to be a multi-tenant product and split the tenants into separate databases to ensure the privacy and security of data.

View original https://sparkequation.com/insights/portfolio/exploring-innovations-and-advanced-integrations-with-minimized-risk/Sometimes the problems that technology companies need solving are fundamental, but they don’t necessarily have the resources to explore uncharted territory. Echo Global Logistics, a leading provider of transportation and logistics turned to Spark Equation to engineer a software solution that would increase customer satisfaction rates, unlock new revenue streams and reduce costs for research and development. Using a lean startup discovery framework and a readily-configured continuous delivery pipeline, Spark Equation delivered an internal technology innovation lab that allowed the client to efficiently research and explore new solutions while releasing quality products faster and more frequently.Echo Global Logistics, is an award-winning leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services and is committed to using technology to simplify critical tasks for clients across a wide range of industries.     The company needed to invest in new IT methods to retain a competitive advantage and accelerate growth while rapidly updating legacy systems. Their new initiative had to be ambitious while still minimizing risk and making strategic strides toward the company’s future. To do this, they wanted to test a product and activate it, but their internal operations were not equipped to explore new ways of developing the technology.   Spark Teams engineered a cloud innovation lab to find new approaches to existing problems in order to generate the best outcomes without putting the core business operations at risk. To ensure results delivery, the Spark team assumed control and used their time-tested processes, from discovery to delivery, to build a customized solution, saving the company time and money.