30% SLA Increase for a Leading Logistics Provider in the USA

High-level architecture

We rewrote the logic of the existing portal to work on the new cloud platform while also providing a new functional and attractive interface. Sombra’s .NET architect presented a top-level architecture that aims to achieve the objectives of Wineshipping:

• Build a modern solution on top of the existing system.
• Benefit from the public cloud by using SaaS services from Azure.
• Achieve performance, resilience, availability, stability, and feasibility benchmarks using cloud-native mechanisms.
• As the core of the solution, Kubernetes allows the deployment of multiple solutions based on new business logic needs in the future.
• Get an available, secure, and operable solution with Azure diagnostics.

Wineshipping Client Portal

High-level estimation of the project’s budget

Sombra’s pre-sales team carefully worked out the project’s budget details, including:

• The speed at which we can assemble a dedicated development team.
• How the dedicated development team should look at the beginning of our collaboration with the client.
• The team’s peak-of-capabilities perspective.
• Costs at each stage of the development process.

We provided the client with a projection for the year ahead.

Engagement model

We proposed to the client an engagement model — a dedicated development team. This model involves Sombra and the client sharing responsibilities as follows:
Wineshipping:

• Establishes and manages priorities.
• Defines and drives milestones for the project.
• Increases or decreases the project scope during our cooperation.

Sombra:

• Manages the development team to achieve defined goals.
• Keeps Wineshipping informed about team progress.

Project management

The dedicated development team of Sombra operates in a location that has a ten-hour time difference with Wineshipping’s base in California, USA. In order to take advantage of the time zone difference, we implemented strong project management.

The client has received an efficient development process, as our project manager follows the Sombra guidelines for communication.

“Our working day across timezones essentially never ends,” shared Pawel Smolarkiewicz, Chief Experience & Innovation Officer at Wineshipping.

The technical challenges we have overcome during the development process of the “Awesome client portal”

We have developed a new customer support portal — “Awesome client portal,” which is:

• Performance-efficient to handle 500 concurrent user requests per second.
• User experience is smooth and responsive with a maximum page load time of 3 seconds.
• Generate sales and inventory reports within 10 seconds to provide timely and up-to-date information.
• User-friendly interface with logical workflows, clear navigation, and consistent layout, minimizing the learning curve and enabling users to complete tasks efficiently.
• Able to handle a minimum of 1,000 concurrent users without significant performance degradation and data conflicts.
• Database architecture and configuration can handle the increasing volume of orders, supporting at least 10 million orders without performance issues.
• Available and accessible to users for at least 99.9% of the time.

At Sombra, we are the most proud of:

• Developing the architecture, designing the interface, conceptualizing and deploying the platform, analyzing and fixing the scope of work.
• Building the dedicated development team, establishing a team management process, communicating with key stakeholders, and working according to timeframes.