Enterprise Risk-Management Solution
“Hotovo has been an integral part of the product development and the success of the application. It’s a partnership. It’s really not a typical outsourcing arrangement.”
Peter Walker, Chief Technology Officer of The Protecht Group
Protecht is a major Australian company that helps organizations with deep understanding, monitoring and management of risk.
For more than 20 years, Protecht has been providing a complete risk solution comprising world-class enterprise risk management, compliance, training and advisory services to government organizations, key regulators and businesses of all sizes across the world.
Protecht was looking to expand its product's scope, but didn't have the capacity within its software development team to do so. Protecht knew they needed to extend their software development team with a number of highly skilled personnel, but in a cost-effective manner, which was their main challenge.
We stepped in to provide Protecht with a dedicated and long-term agile development team, based in Slovakia. Hotovo was entrusted with the development of Protecht’s core products and tackled the issue of product quality and insufficient requirement specification by extending the Slovak-based development team to include a proxy product owner.
As our successful partnership took off, the responsibilities of the Slovak team slowly started to increase, to include tasks such as analysis of customer requirements, processing of change requests, definition of technical architecture and design – with the final approvals done on the Protecht side.
Gradually, the Slovak team then also took charge of the development of new features as well as the support and maintenance of the current product releases.
An increasing demand for mobile-device use by Protecht's clients then led to the establishment of a new sub-team specifically focused on the development of a native mobile application on iOS and Android.
Hotovo was also in charge of hiring additional outside personnel, whom they assigned to the migration of certain front-end libraries.
With regards to managing information security, Protecht is ISO 27001 certified. Hotovo therefore polished its own internal processes and successfully passed the certification for ISO 27001 as well, to provide support for its European customers with the same standard as Protecht.