The days of knuckling down with your internal dev team to build a new customer-facing platform or application from scratch are all but gone in the current digital landscape. Not only do most organizations lack the internal expertise and resources necessary to tackle development projects in this way, but the logistical demands of this approach directly undermine a company’s ability to remain agile and competitive in the current market.
That’s why so many organizations are outsourcing software development to companies like Hakkoda, expediting the development process and keeping internal resources focused where they should be—optimizing and maintaining day-to-day operations.
This article will explore how three different organizations enlisted Hakkoda’s experts to develop innovative, Snowflake-driven platforms with an efficiency and effectiveness that would’ve been impossible with internal developers alone. The results speak for themselves, with these Hakkoda-developed platforms shortening customer onboarding processes, generating real-time insights, and expanding client’s addressable market share via the Snowflake Marketplace.
Blue Yonder: Revolutionizing Supply Chains with Streamlit and Snowflake
Blue Yonder, a global leader in digital supply chain transformation, needed a user-friendly platform for seamless data sharing with their customers. Hakkoda stepped in to develop a Snowflake Native App utilizing a Streamlit-based UI.
This innovative solution allowed customers to map and securely share their data effortlessly, significantly reducing customer onboarding times. By enhancing data shareability, Blue Yonder improved the interoperability of their systems, driving productivity and reducing waste across their supply chains.
The intuitive interface of the app empowered non-technical users, making the platform accessible and efficient. This strategic development helped Blue Yonder expand its market reach, ultimately reinforcing its position as a forward-thinking leader in supply chain management.
Powering Real-Time Insights for a Global Logistics Company
A leader in global contract logistics identified the critical need to modernize its data strategy to remain competitive within its market. To address this, the logistics enterprise partnered with Hakkoda to build a state-of-the-art data platform utilizing Snowflake, designed for near-real-time data ingestion and scalability.
Over three months, Hakkoda worked closely with the customer’s internal data teams to create an executable vision and business case, minimizing complexity while enhancing capabilities.This advanced platform now ingests data from cloud-based systems across the customer’s extensive network, empowering the leadership team to use data as a strategic asset.
The platform’s capabilities support faster decision-making and quicker deployment of new services, significantly enhancing operational efficiency. By standardizing data modeling and implementing robust data quality measures, the platform also lays a solid foundation for AI and ML applications.
These improvements have led to a remarkable 25% increase in total addressable market and a 6x return on investment, demonstrating the transformative power of modern data infrastructure in optimizing supply chain operations.
Enabling Frictionless Data Capabilities in Wealth Management
A data provider of wealth management enterprise solutions faced significant challenges after merging three companies. The integration resulted in outdated legacy systems, inefficient data transfer methods, and poor data governance, all of which impacted their ability to deliver clean and timely data to clients.
Hakkoda stepped in to revamp the organization’s data infrastructure by creating a multi-lane, plug-and-play data sharing platform capable of both micro-batch and near-real-time data delivery. This platform significantly enhanced the ability of the company’s clients to access and self-serve their data needs.
In addition, Hakkoda developed an observability platform that allows the organization’s clients to monitor performance metrics and ensure regulatory compliance. By implementing comprehensive tagging and masking policies, Hakkoda helped establish a secure governance framework, assuring clients of their data’s safety.
These enhancements provided the organization’s clients with real-time analytic insights and the ability to make timely updates to their data, driving improved decision-making and operational efficiency. The project not only addressed the company’s immediate challenges but also positioned the company to offer more powerful, frictionless data capabilities essential for modern wealth management.
Hakkōda’s Approach to Platform Development Outsourcing
Outsourcing software development to companies like Hakkoda isn’t a one-size-fits-all process. Hakkoda takes a uniquely collaborative, outcome-oriented approach to platform development (PDO) for both internal and customer-facing data platforms, forming close partnerships with clients in order to not only realize immediate organizational goals but also to chart a course toward ongoing innovation.
Our experts work with client stakeholders through each stage of the development process, from ideation and conceptual design, to the construction and deployment of the platform, to the training phase where we equip your internal team to maintain and scale the platform moving forward.
Our award-winning, Snowflake-certified teams include architects, data engineers, and governance leads who have deep experience in leveraging AI, machine learning, and our own cutting-edge IP to build scalable data platforms that unlock powerful insights and set your organization up to deploy more data-mature practices such as data monetization and forecasting.
If your organization is ready to build a scalable customer-facing data platform that drives innovation while protecting your internal resources and expediting your modernization journey, let’s talk today about how Hakkoda can meet your PDO needs.
