Peer-to-Peer Marketplace for Scientists - Peerwith
Researcher services marketplace to connect experts with scientists
Industry
- Publishing
- Science
Technology
Services
Customer’s Location
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ELITEX can quickly scale the team up or down to meet our needs. They’re very flexible in that regard. If we tell them we need specific resources for a project next month, they recruit the people that we need, and it only takes a few days to get them up to speed. ELITEX prepares and mentors all of their employees well.
About the Project
Peerwith is a platform for expert-led researcher services. It helps academics seeking to raise the quality of their scientific work to connect with peers who are experts in researcher services.
Peerwith partners with the best publishers, societies, and institutes to help bring author services to a wide academic audience. This way, researchers can improve the quality of their academic work while building lasting relationships with peers from their academic discipline.
The Challenge
The platform lacked the capacity to deal with a growing number of partners and users. When the customer contacted us for the first time, the startup was in need of software development services for marketplace expansion and the development of new features.
Peerwith also needed the flexibility to scale the team up and down according to the development capacity required at any particular phase of the project.
Our Solution
ELITEX and Peerwith started cooperating in 2017. Before that, our client tried the services of multiple freelancers and other software development companies. ELITEX offered a more consistent approach to the work, and the client decided to stay with us.
Over the years, ELITEX was flexible to the needs of the customer. The development team consisted of developers of various levels, and its size was changing based on the workload. ELITEX has also proven a strong ability to prepare and mentor newcomers to the project.
While ELITEX was managing and motivating the team members from its side, from the customer’s perspective, remote engineers were managed by Peerwith’s CTO, who communicated with the team on a regular basis, setting priorities and managing the tasks.
We used the following technologies:
Backend:
- Node.js
- Express
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
Frontend:
- AngularJS
- Angular 2+
- Polymer
- HTML/CSS
Web apps were deployed with AWS (Amazon Web Services), which allowed easy and quick infrastructure scalability at a reasonable cost.
The Result
Our software engineers worked on various parts of the project:
- Submission portal
- Invoicing
- Rankings
- Experts section
- Administrative sections
- Partners' webpages
During our cooperation, Peerwith also launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution - Cockpit, a management console for administrative users at the partner level.
We helped Cockpit in the development of different features:
- monitoring usage of the platform at a partner level;
- access and controlling features related to a partner / institutional account;
- administrative features (budgeting or billing);
- reporting.
While the core work for Peerwith has already been done, ELITEX continues to support the startup, developing new parts of the system and tuning existing ones.
As an outsourced team, ELITEX serves as a cost-effective development option. They have proven to be a reliable vendor that is capable of finding, training, and implementing the appropriate resources to meet project requirements. Their experience with an array of technology is a definite strength.
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