Success Story

Offshore Delivery Center for a Fortune 500 Company

The client needed to rapidly expand its development capabilities to boost flexibility and accelerate modernization, adoption of innovations, and delivery of new apps.
186 experts
40 teams in an offshore delivery center.
10M+
downloads, and 179K monthly installs for apps.
Technologies

Technologies

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    Client Overview

    Fortune 500 US FashionTech Retailer

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    Our client is a Fortune 500 company and a major player in the US FashionTech sector. They required a long-term, reliable software development partner to help them rapidly expand development capabilities and accelerate modernization across their platforms.

    Industries:

    Retail, FashionTech

    Country:

    USA
    NDA
    Challenges

    Rapidly Scaling Development Capabilities

    The client needed to boost flexibility, accelerate modernization, adoption of innovations, and delivery of new apps, requiring a reliable software development partner.
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    Workforce expansion

    The need to rapidly expand its workforce to meet escalating demands in mobile app development and support.
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    Data access

    Decisions were made with little knowledge of the actual business activities. No business entity could access accurate data in one location.
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    POS update speed

    It took a lot of time and effort to update all store POSs each night with the most recent information required to ring transactions.
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    High traffic management

    Frequent massive traffic spikes during critical sales events and high traffic the rest of the year, requiring seamless updates and constant monitoring to avoid downtime.
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    Monolithic systems

    Partner’s order management system from a third-party provider was monolithic, making it difficult to support order visibility, logistics, and customer self-service.
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    Why They Chose Us

    Strategic Partnership for Technical Acceleration

    The client sought a reliable partner with a focus on engineering excellence and long-term product success.
    Tailored AI strategy for each client

    Ownership mindset and reliable partnership

    The company required a reliable software development partner to help them. Zoolatech provided the company with experienced software engineers with a strong ownership mindset who are rooting for the long-lasting success of the product they help to build and deliver.
    Tailored AI strategy for each client

    Alignment with business goals

    Our solution architects and principal engineers play a pivotal role in offering technical solutions aligned with the client’s functional needs and in achieving their business goals.
    Zoolatech is a senior-heavy engineering firm with Silicon Valley roots and a Miami HQ, specializing in legacy modernization, system re-architecture, and AI deployment to drive long-term, compounding value.

    2017

    Year Founded

    600+

    Employees

    96%

    Client Satisfaction
    Workflow

    Building Long-Term, Adaptable Teams

    Establishing a strategic partnership with shared responsibilities and transparent processes across teams.
    Phase 1

    Strategic partnership formation

    Zoolatech has evolved into a strategic software development partner for our client. Our teams, both at Zoolatech and in the United States, share equal rights and responsibilities.
    Phase 2

    Process standardization and oversight

    Zoolatech adheres to established team management practices, ensuring that our client is consistently informed, engaged, and aligned with project progress. Experienced Delivery Managers ensure seamless execution and client satisfaction.
    By modernizing and integrating core systems, we accelerated time-to-market and unlocked real-time insights at scale.
    Solution

    Artifacts and Specific Features Implemented

    Delivering mobile apps, microservices, and specialized platforms across 40 teams.
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    Core systems and architecture

    • Order management system (OMS): Built a new OMS with microservices, event-driven architecture, a single order domain, and flexible versioned APIs.
    • Analytical platform: Created an analytical, digital-first platform serving as the organization’s data hub, featuring a flexible, extensible event-driven data architecture.
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    Mobile app development

    Established a dedicated mobile team of over 60 professionals, managing Android analytics, releases, and feature implementations, and ensuring consistency in iOS projects. Developed dynamic components/layouts, purchase history, push notifications, and iOS widgets.
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    Retail and inventory solutions

    Modern Data Pipeline for POS: The solution loads product, price, and promotion data from "source of truth" systems into store POSs, allowing updates almost in real time. Helped deliver a cost management module for managing unowned inventory.
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    User experience and security

    Implemented an AI-powered "Looks" module and Visual Search utilizing machine learning. Developed functionality to tokenize entire PII and customer-sensitive information in the enormous data platform.
    Results

    Record-Breaking Velocity And Multi-Million Dollar Savings

    Doubling the speed of product delivery while cutting cloud infrastructure costs by 400%.
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    Time-to-market and velocity

    Zoolatech played a pivotal role in helping our client achieve a two-fold increase in development velocity and time-to-market. Time to market improved by 100%.
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    Cost reduction and performance

    Cloud costs were reduced by 4 times after the migration of a critical service. The resulting high-load, scalable, and reliable service is working 7 times faster than the previous version.
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    Revenue and downloads

    The apps we helped to develop achieved remarkable milestones, reaching 10 million downloads on both iOS and Android platforms, with 179K monthly downloads. Guest Checkout increased the average revenue rate from purchases by 12% on Android.
    Business Value

    Strategic Impact and Organizational Value

    Sustained success through strategic tech solutions and enhanced user experience.
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    ODC and talent pool

    The ODC provided the flexibility to scale the team up or down and access to a diverse talent pool, resulting in increased innovation and quicker problem-solving. This ODC comprises 185 people and 40 teams.
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    Operational and customer experience

    The digital shopping experience and customer health improved significantly due to the faster product launches and well-grounded tech choices. The Android team doubled app revenue in just three years, concurrently increasing user engagement time by over 40%.