Program for the development of an E-Commerce platform for global retail group
First Line Software implemented the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system as a reliable digital marketing technology tool that functions as a central content management hub and makes it possible to share the client’s digital assets with customers to: save and organize photos, videos, illustrations, audio files, documents, design files and presentations. This system allows the client to manage and organize all their digital assets in one place.
Client
International retail group. The company operates more than 300 supermarkets.
Challenge
During the first phase of the project, First Line Software has been focusing on making initial improvements:
- Develop product catalog
- Rapid migration of the client’s website
- Develop customer personal profile
- Group and run the Customer loyalty club (according to product categories)
- Provide migration of loyalty transactions from web to mobile application
First Line Software implemented the Digital Asset Management (DAM) system as a reliable digital marketing technology tool that functions as a central content management hub and makes it possible to share the client’s digital assets with customers to: save and organize photos, videos, illustrations, audio files, documents, design files and presentations. This system allows the client to manage and organize all their digital assets in one place.
During the entire project, First Line Software has been operating as a UX technology expert and has designed several client projects (from the concept development to completion of development and testing).
Development of customer personal profile account
During the next phase, First Line Software developed and integrated these ecommerce development solutions:
- Customer profiles
- Number of points
- Transaction history of points
- Personalized promotions according to their transaction history (based on machine learning)
- General promotional campaigns
Development of product catalog
First Line’s engineers architected and developed retail software solutions to:
- Integrate Product Information Management System with SAP ERP System
- Establish updated product catalogue
- Develop web-searching, create web-editorial interface, and arrange vendor code according to product catalogue
- Build consumer list and shopping basket calculations
- Integrate with cashier system (Kristall)
- Integrate with media archive including product photo content (DAM - Digital Asset Management)
First Line developed a platform for the migration of large volumes of existing content to the Episerver CMS. This platform consists of a number of components that extend the functionality of the standard Episerver CMS and optimize working with big data.
First Line Software provides full cycle retail software development.
Project Deliverables
- Analytics
- Development
- Testing
- System configuration
- Support
- Technical documentation
Features
- High-performance system (250,000 users)
- 70 users per second visit website (approximately 2 million users per day - the highest volume in the retail industry)
- Product catalog consists of more than 100,000 products
- 20 million customers to take part in Client’s promotions (events, discounts)
Technological stack:
Episerver, .NET 3.5, MS SQL, ReactJS MS Products: .NET framework 3.5, C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server
The team: more than 30 First Line Software technical experts
Project duration: 2018 – 2019
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