The Client
Everest Effect is a modern yet simple approach to the complex world of disaster relief. Founded in 2019, Everest Effect is re-imagining Disaster Recovery by enabling access to critical supplies in times of need.
Their online platform puts critical resources directly into the hands of impacted individuals to accelerate their recovery. Goods listed range from food and supplies to temporary housing and transportation.
The Challenge
Everest Effect partnered with Synerzip in 2019. Its business was increasing, and they needed to enhance their current web-based application. The partnership with Synerzip came into being on the recommendation of another customer.
“Everest Effect partnered with Synerzip as they had the required technical expertise, could support them in a variety of ways, and had experience working with startups!”
Naysa Mishler, Co-Founder, and CEO of Everest Effect
The ongoing pandemic made the client, and it’s business even more relevant. Subsequently, the Everest Effect management team wished to release their product feature – Marketplace by March 2020, in time for it to be useful. Delivering a working product in a few short weeks was an ambitious endeavor, but as we have seen, pandemics have their timeline.
The Solution
Everest Effect’s web application is WordPress based. It implements crawlers to scrape data from different websites, search engines, and social media to populate more resources from the web. To begin with, Synerzip explored different crawling options and user story grooming. Synerzip technologists used the LAMP stack with WordPress as the CMS. Additionally, two-factor authentication ensured security. The application was hosted with Amazon Web Services, and Google Analytics is the preferred tool for data analysis.
Contrary to its apprehensions, the timezone difference was not a hindrance to Everest Effect. Due to different timezones, Everest Effect could leverage continuous development cycles and make faster progress. Naysa and the team refined the requirements during US work hours, and the India team implemented them during their workday. Transparent work processes and daily sync calls made prioritizing easier.
“Our goal was to launch the Marketplace in the second half of 2020, but with the Synerzip team, we launched it in March!”
Naysa Mishler, Co-Founder, and CEO of Everest Effect
The Outcome
Synerzip team shared many ideas, brought in different points of view, and worked as a close partner to help provide solutions in these unprecedented times of need. All this high energy helped accelerate product development! Synerzip was months ahead in terms of development and delivery.
“Working with Synerzip helped us accelerate our roadmap in ways we never thought possible!”
Naysa Mishler, Co-Founder, and CEO of Everest Effect
Mishler also has great experience working with the UI/UX team at Synerzip. As a startup, many attributes are unclear, and pivoting is often necessary. This change requires flexibility, and it is the most significant advantage Synerzip offers Everest Effect.
In the past nine months, Synerzip team worked on delivering,
- Migration of EE Platform from shared hosting to AWS
- User experience for a new feature – Marketplace
- Marketplace feature development
“We have used Synerzip for their design expertise several times now, for the flexibility Synerzip offers when incremental support is needed!”
Naysa Mishler, Co-Founder, and CEO of Everest Effect
Mishler is happy that they saved a considerable amount of time and money, but more because they created a product experience that they can be proud of.
“Synerzip team is very responsive & quick to adopt new technologies. Team naturally follows best practices, does peer reviews and delivers quality output, thus exceeding client expectations.”
“Synerzip’s agile processes & daily scrums were very valuable, made communication & time zone issues work out successfully.”
“Synerzip’s flexible and responsible team grew to be an extension to the StepOne team. Typical concerns of time zone issues did not exist with Synerzip team.”
“Synerzip worked in perfect textbook Agile fashion – releasing working demos every two weeks. Though aggressive schedules, Synerzip was able to deliver a working product in 90 days, which helped Zimbra stand by their commitment to their customers.”
“Outstanding product delivery and exceptional project management, comes from DNA of Synerzip.”
“Studer product has practically taken a 180% turn from what it was, before Synerzip came in. Synerzip cost is very reasonable as compared to the work they do.”
“Synerzip makes the timezone differences work FOR the customer, enabling a positive experience for us. ‘Seeing is believing’, so we decided to give it a shot and the project was very successful.”
“The Synerzip team seamlessly integrates with our team. We started seeing results within the first sprint. And due to the team’s responsiveness, we were able to get our product to the sales cycle within 7 months.”
“Product management team from Synerzip is exceptional and has a clear understanding of Studer’s needs. Synerzip team gives consistent performance and never misses a deadline.”
“Synerzip is different because of the quality of their leadership, efficient team and clearly set methodologies. Studer gets high level of confidence from Synerzip along with significant cost advantage of almost 50%”
“Synerzip’s hiring approach and practices are worth applauding. Working with Synerzip is like
“What you see is what you get”.”
“Synerzip has dedicated experts for every area. Synerzip helped Tangoe save a lot of cost, still giving a very high quality product.”
“Synerzip gives tremendous cost advantage in terms of hiring and growing the team to be productive verses a readymade team. Synerzip is one company that delivers “co –development” to the core!”
“Synerzip is a great company to work with. Good leadership and a warm, welcoming attitude of the team are additional plus points.”
“Our relationship with Synerzip is very collaborative, and they are our true partners as our values match with theirs.”
“Synerzip has proven to be a great software product co-development partner. It is a leader because of its great culture, its history, and its employee retention policies. ExamSoft’s clients are happy with the product, and that’s how ExamSoft measures that all is going well.”
“They possess a great technical acumen with a burning desire to solve problems. The team always takes the initiative and ownership in all the processes they follow. Synerzip has played a vital role in our scaling up and was a perfect partner in cost, efficiency, and schedules.”
“As we are a startup, things change on a weekly basis, but Synerzip team has been flexible in adapting the same”
“Synerzip team has been very proactive in building the best quality software, bringing in best practices, and cutting edge innovation for our company.”
“We’ve been working for more than six years with Synerzip and its one of the better, if not the best, experience I’ve had working with an outsourcing company.”
“My experience with Synerzip is that they have the talent. You throw a problem at them, and someone from that team helps to solve the issue.”
“The breadth and depth of technical abilities that Synerzip brings on the table and the UX work done by them for this project exceeded my expectations!”
“Synerzip UX designers very closely represent their counterparts in the US in terms of their practice, how they tackle problems, and how they evangelize the value of UX.”
“Synerzip team understood the requirements well and documented them to make sure they understood them rightly.”
“Synerzip is definitely not a typical offshore company. Synerzip team is incredibly communicative, agile, and delivers on its commitments.”
“Working with Synerzip helped us accelerate our roadmap in ways we never thought possible!”
“While working with Synerzip, I get a feeling of working with a huge community of resources, who can jump in with the skills as needed.”
