Things we've built

Building the fastest beauty mobile shop in the industry for 80+ countries

We helped cosnova bring best-in-class user experience to their customers by rebuilding the two webshops for their brands Catrice and essence, delivering on a tight deadline. The webpages were rolled out in over 80 countries worldwide and provide high performance using the Next JS framework. The page scored “green” on Google’s Lighthouse test, indicating low page load times and a short time to be interactive for the page’s users. We rebuilt the UI Component Library using React and (S)CSS to optimize the user experience on both webshops across multiple devices. Additionally, we connected a headless e-commerce system through go microservices. Our iterative approach allowed for a fast ready-to-market release with a significantly improved user experience.

Both webshops have an identical backend structure but a different and individualized frontend design to transport the spirit of each brand. This simplifies the initial development while enabling a straightforward process when new features are added in the future.

Cloud-Based Mobile Inventory Management for EDEKA

Over 30 months, four teams developed a flutter-based solution connected to an Azure backend in the cloud, that is currently used by more than 200 stores of EDEKA – the largest German supermarket corporation. More retail stores from the EDEKA group are to follow.

Together with EDEKA DIGITAL, the IT subsidiary of EDEKA headquarters, we designed and implemented a new mobile inventory management solution (Warenwirtschaftssystem) to support all processes in their supermarkets. Our mission was to replace the outdated offline-only version developed by a third party. Daily deployments enable the teams to rapidly implement user feedback. The improved user experience simplified the daily work of thousands of EDEKA employees using the new solution. All milestones of this 30-months project were reached on time and on budget, and future extensions/adaptations of the software can be easily implemented by EDEKA.

Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Fulfill Physical Order Slips for BA.Unternehmensgruppe

To relieve workload from skilled professionals, our engineers set out to make the processing of physical order slips 10x more efficient. They built a system that processes complex image data to extract and categorize information using machine learning algorithms. This significantly reduced workload from specialists and freed up time for more demanding tasks.

Building the Backbone of Tchibo’s digital Business

In 2009 we built a new custom webshop for Tchibo, a leading coffee and consumer goods retailer in Europe with an annual turnover of €3 billion.

“Jede Woche eine neue Welt” – Tchibo’s unique concept required a webshop as dynamic as their vision. Their former standardized webshop solution couldn’t keep up with growing webshop sales at that time. So we rebuilt their whole system from scratch.

We committed the Go-Live date for the new webshop twelve months in advance – and delivered as planned and on time, on budget, on target.

The new webshop featured a tailor-made content management system and seamless scalability, ensuring smooth operations even on the busiest days – especially during peak holiday seasons. For over 16 years and ongoing, we made sure Tchibo’s operations were efficient and ensured a unique shopping experience for their customers even with upcoming demands.

In 2020 we moved Tchibo’s webshop to Google Cloud Platform → and replaced its monolith architecture step by step with microservices.

When you build and maintain such a system over almost two decades at scale you learn a lot how to build systems that can stand the test of time. We added a lot of new features, rolled out to new countries and the traffic quadrupled over time. And still it is a solid system that our client can trust.

This is the practical software engineering knowledge that we teach to our new hires to forge well-rounded software engineers.

Flight Booking Engines

Way back in 1999, we were among the first to build travel and booking systems that connected the giant computer reservation systems (CRS) of Amadeus and Sabre to the internet. We were the first to show only the available flights, filtering out unhelpful unavailable flights, long before sites like Expedia even existed.

Online Bookstores

We have been building many of the e-commerce platforms for the competitors of Amazon in the German and European book industry. Online bookstores were quite difficult to build in the times before the cloud, because they have staggeringly large assortments, often over 20 million individual articles, which change daily. That’s a lot of data to process! On top of that it is very satisfying to work for the “underdogs” and help them to compete with industry giants like Amazon.