Application Modernization and Development for a Major Ecommerce Platform

About the Client

BigCommerce is a leading SaaS ecommerce platform that helps businesses of all sizes create, customize, and grow online. It offers enterprise-grade features with ease of use and supports B2C and B2B companies in over 150 countries.

Challenge

After adding a new application to the portfolio through a corporate acquisition, BigCommerce was looking for an experienced software development team to improve the acquired product.

Main Goals

The primary objectives of initiating the collaboration with Edvantis were as follows:

• Ensure regular maintenance of several existing applications
• Improve customer satisfaction with the original system’s performance
• Adapt and migrate the legacy codebase to a new technology stack and architecture
• Outsource support for several core platform components

Solution

Edvantis provided the client with a right-sized and right-skilled engineering team during the aggressive initial product roadmap implementation stage. Later, we took on the additional responsibility of integrating third-party payments into the platform.

Three separate Edvantis teams worked on the project for more than four years, alongside in-house resources. At different stages of the project, between 30 and 50 Software Developers and QA Engineers contributed to several of the client’s projects, from modernizing legacy software modernization to new ecommerce feature deployments. 

During Our Partnership, We Performed: 

• Code updates and migration of the company’s core product components to a modern tech stack. The components were related to customer management, product management, and big data analytics. 
• End-to-end back-office internalization and localization to Chinese, Ukrainian and French languages — from technical architecture design to complete implementation that also included collaboration with third-party translation companies. 
• Development of a new application that allowed the client to replace third-party products with native app features. 

Every team successfully adjusted to the rapid pace of delivery suggested by the client’s SDLC and based on continuous delivery (CD). Despite the demanding environment and rapid time-to-market, Edvanits Engineers remained fully-integrated with the in-house team. Our people love to be challenged!

Results

With the help of Edvantis Software Engineers, the client managed to deploy new robust ecommerce features and attract a new cohort of international sellers to their platform. They also gained an organic and dynamic extension to their team, capable of working remotely at a high-pace while delivering stellar results!

Edvantis set the bar for excellent IT delivery and introduced the client to the IT market in Ukraine. Our four-year partnership gave the company confidence to subsequently open a dedicated R&D center in Kyiv, Ukraine.