Agiliway had to attend to a number of tasks to create a fully functional website and improve user experience with it. In particular, there was a need to enhance

• Performance: additional technical solutions were needed to make sure the large catalogues do not slow down the website.
• Hierarchy of products: spare parts may have the same titles, but are different for different models of vehicles; what is more, the same spare parts may have different titles depending on the region of use. It was necessary to consider all these specifics and create complex product catalogs.
• Search: the search had to pull up the variants based on unique VIN or frame numbers, which are commonly used in the industry to distinguish between hundreds of thousands of spare parts.
• Structure: there was a need to make changes to the structure of the shop adding additional menus and pages;
• Administrative control: Although an e-store allowed to easily manage the information on products and organize sales, adding extra information in the form of a blog post or a notice required attracting a professional programmer.

Agiliway has managed to implement all the necessary changes allowing a giant enterprise successfully work via a popular e-commerce platform – Oxid eSales. Our engineers have carried out the following steps:

• Resolved all performance issues increasing the speed and improving user experience with the website;
• Built catalogues with a comprehensive hierarchy for hundreds of thousands of products;
• Optimized the search so that products can be searched by various titles and last digits oftheir VIN codes;
• Developed a custom page with a number of users’ wish lists. Such solution allows users to have a separate wish list for each of their cars and easily access all the items they need to buy or have bought for each of their cars;
• Rewrote the modules of filters and menus for them to display on the pages of individual product;
• Created custom widgets for presenting news and updates. Using the widgets, admins of the website can easily change and add new content without breaking the layout of the page

Although it has been a challenging task to make Oxid e-shop serve all the needs of the giant in the automotive industry, Agiliway has managed to implement all the changes and make the website highly performing, convenient to manage and serving all the needs of the company’s sales managers, wholesalers and retail buyers.

The project’s goal was to enhance the GPS tracking system, which is at the core of client’s business. Having analyzed the functionality and technical characteristics of the system, ourexperts noted a number of drawbacks, which had to be addressed:

• the used architecture was outdated
• the system’s performance was poor
• the system had no mobile version and, thus, could not be used from a mobile phone,which has long become a common customer demand
• the features were limited and did not allow the company to expand the range of servicesto meet potential needs of its clients
• customers with many cars following complex overlapping routes faced considerableperformance and visual issues
• the user interface was far from intuitive
• the system did not allow any access rights management
• there were no automatic system alerts when the received data differed from the setconditions, so that management of transportation presupposed constant monitoring andknowledge of all route details

The solutions provided by Agiliway helped the company to establish on the market as a reliable partner leveraging the latest technology to provide superior service to its customers. The company grew the number of its partners and receives particularly positive feedback on the performance and functionality of the GPS tracking system. Being particularly satisfied with the provided solutions, the company has decided to work with Agiliway on further iterations of the product. In particular, it has been agreed to rewrite the system using React that will improve the performance of the GPS tracking system under the conditions of high loads of information coming from thousands of vehicles worldwide.

Business Challenge In order to implement the idea, it was necessary to develop stable and secure web communication platform that would:

• Provide information about dozens of thousands of IT products from vendors, on the one hand, and IT solutions from thousands suppliers, on the other hand, to the benefit of all parties;
• Allow quick search and selection of the most appropriate IT products and solutions, as well as offer similar and complementary options;
• Allow projecting efforts, price and ROI for competing IT solutions based on multiple parameters provided by a user;
• Provide possibility to automatically compile presentations and proposals with selected IT solutions including solution description, price, schedule, ROI, etc. to be further presented to user’s decision makers.

The platform had to meet the following criteria:

• Security
• Fast data processing
• Scalability
• Multilanguage support
• Customizability
• Supportability

Solution During the project implementation, Agiliway has built a ROI4CIO platform on TYPO3 CMS with a number of custom modules that implement specific logic like ROI calculation or automatic solution search. The following tools/technologies have been applied:

• TYPO3 CMS as a platform that determines the structure of the system
• PHP and JavaScript for building basic functionality and complex internal architecture
• Semantic UI for developing the UI design
• MariaDB for quicker data processing

Value ROI4CIO platform developed by Agiliway is going to help our client

• to become a worthy competitor to already existing distributors of IT solutions on EU and CIS markets,
• to grow the number of partners,
• to provide an effective and one-of a kind tool for an end user to select potential IT solutions by modeling and comparing ROI.