Custom Feature Development for Specialized Construction Technology Product

Client Context

A successful tech solutions group focused on construction industry clientele partnered with BroadPoint Group for a development partnership focusing on product development and feature enhancements.

The client is a leading provider of scalable construction management software, which integrates contractors' financial and resource management with project operations, job site and field. Their software enables customers to integrate operations across the office, team and field to improve project profitability, enhance productivity, manage risk and effectively collaborate across a broad ecosystem. Driving innovations that are transforming the construction industry by fully integrating operations across financial and HR systems, project management tools and mobile field solutions, the client serves nearly 8,000 clients.

The core product at the center of this engagement was the client’s main offering of highly specialized construction industry ERP software, which offered specific features and functionality based on construction focused operating model.

Business Challenge

This collaboration required a multi-layered engagement with focused efforts catering to the client’s and their parent company’s in-house business requirements; and also, separate efforts catering to feature requirements from the client’s construction industry enterprise customers who used their product to run their businesses.

Having already established themselves as a trusted provider in their space, the client approached BroadPoint Group seeking expertise, consultative support and a development partnership to design, develop and implement specialized core product modules, features, enhancements and custom integration services.

The BroadPoint Solution

BroadPoint Group engaged a team of highly experienced and specialized resources with proven success in this space and partnered with the client to identify and prioritize requirements from the parent company for a competitive offering plus specific feature and integration requirements from their enterprise customers.

With a detailed roadmap plotted and agreed upon, BroadPoint’s engineering, development and cross functional teams used an iterative approach to help design and implement core product features, and went on to solidify the relationship as a trusted partner for producing client-specific enhancements, modules, applications and integration projects

We ran multiple parallel projects to support the client’s parent company enterprise customers employing proven industry best practices and BroadPoint’s repeatable methodologies.

By the end of the engagement, some of our key accomplishments included product design, core product enhancements, custom feature design and development and enablement of partner API and custom integration services. In addition, we became an ongoing development partner for the client’s enterprise customers and also took over system management and maintenance responsibilities.

Key Outcomes

  • Core product enhancements

  • Custom feature design and development

  • Partner API and custom integration

  • Development partnership for multiple enterprise customers

Custom ERP Solution Development for Food and Beverage Client

Client Context

The client is a pacific northwest based organic produce broker founded in 2001, with a focus on sourcing products for large and small industrial customers, food service operators, and retail store poly bag programs. The client also supplies their customers with market information, forecasting, and distribution options.

Over their 18 years in operation, the client successfully developed a large network of relationships with produce growers and packers in the Northwestern United States and California. More recently, with their sourcing operations steadily expanding nationally and internationally, their relationships and customer base saw explosive growth.

Business Challenge

As with several businesses that started during the time period, the client’s legacy ERP application which served them well for many years, was no longer meeting the needs of their growing business in the modern digital ecosystem,

Their existing ERP application continued to support the business, but at a high cost and effort to maintain with less than optimal performance output. The rigidity and aging application design and architecture was impacting the client’s ability to operate and grow at a pace aligned with their short- and long-term goals.

The BroadPoint Solution

BroadPoint’s team of solution experts took on the task with a two-fold focus – the first, was to assume responsibilities of maintaining and upgrading the legacy ERP system to ensure seamless and optimized business operations; and the second, was the new system design and implementation.

The team collaborated with the client’s leadership and subject matter experts for a deep dive understanding of the functionality and features of the new solution should look like. This information remained at the heart of BroadPoint’s outcome-driven solution development.

From ideation through roll-out, the team designed and developed a bespoke ERP system which was implemented using an iterative roll-out process with business continuity in mind.

This engagement was based on a blended delivery model through a combination of onsite and remote resources

Key Outcomes

  • End-to-End Design and Development of custom ERP solution

  • Feature enhancements and sustain engineering management

  • System Infrastructure Management