Digital audit platform
Digital audit platform
Digital audit platform
Digital audit platform
Brightgrove has partnered with a German-based company which provides Digital Audit Platform to 500+ audit, financial and professional firms. The main goal of the platform is to speed up the Balance Confirmation request process for Audit providers and their clients.
Brightgrove has partnered with a German-based company which provides Digital Audit Platform to 500+ audit, financial and professional firms. The main goal of the platform is to speed up the Balance Confirmation request process for Audit providers and their clients.
Brightgrove has partnered with a German-based company which provides Digital Audit Platform to 500+ audit, financial and professional firms. The main goal of the platform is to speed up the Balance Confirmation request process for Audit providers and their clients.
Cloud
QA
UI/UX Design
Digital audit platform
Digital audit platform
Digital audit platform
Client overview
Client overview
Client overview
Brightgrove has partnered with a German-based company which provides Digital Audit Platform to 500+ audit, financial and professional firms. The main goal of the platform is to speed up the Balance Confirmation request process for Audit providers and their clients. The platform’s USP is a simplified audit information request workflow which centralizes communication, collaboration, and file exchange on One platform.
To comply with high Regulatory and Data Protection requirements, Digital Audit Platform is relying on DATEV eG solutions for data storage and processing. The core workflows in the Digital Audit platform are implemented in accordance with IDW PS 302 and ISA 505 standards.
Both standards emphasize the critical role of external evidence in supporting audit findings and ensuring the overall quality and credibility of the audit process – which is an essential part of services provided by our customer to Audit and Law firms.
Brightgrove has partnered with a German-based company which provides Digital Audit Platform to 500+ audit, financial and professional firms. The main goal of the platform is to speed up the Balance Confirmation request process for Audit providers and their clients. The platform’s USP is a simplified audit information request workflow which centralizes communication, collaboration, and file exchange on One platform.
To comply with high Regulatory and Data Protection requirements, Digital Audit Platform is relying on DATEV eG solutions for data storage and processing. The core workflows in the Digital Audit platform are implemented in accordance with IDW PS 302 and ISA 505 standards.
Both standards emphasize the critical role of external evidence in supporting audit findings and ensuring the overall quality and credibility of the audit process – which is an essential part of services provided by our customer to Audit and Law firms.
Brightgrove has partnered with a German-based company which provides Digital Audit Platform to 500+ audit, financial and professional firms. The main goal of the platform is to speed up the Balance Confirmation request process for Audit providers and their clients. The platform’s USP is a simplified audit information request workflow which centralizes communication, collaboration, and file exchange on One platform.
To comply with high Regulatory and Data Protection requirements, Digital Audit Platform is relying on DATEV eG solutions for data storage and processing. The core workflows in the Digital Audit platform are implemented in accordance with IDW PS 302 and ISA 505 standards.
Both standards emphasize the critical role of external evidence in supporting audit findings and ensuring the overall quality and credibility of the audit process – which is an essential part of services provided by our customer to Audit and Law firms.
Business and technical contexts
Business and technical contexts
Business and technical contexts
Business context
While being great experts in Audit domain and surrounding regulatory requirements, our customer needed a reliable and skilled technical partner who could take over the Platform development during a crucial growth phase.
Brightgrove has established a highly professional development team which introduced highly desired tech expertise to the product. We have taken control over architectural decisions to enable scalability and operational excellence, enhanced development processes (such as Alerting and Monitoring, Release management, DoD and testing standards, etc.) using our best practices and experience.
Business context
While being great experts in Audit domain and surrounding regulatory requirements, our customer needed a reliable and skilled technical partner who could take over the Platform development during a crucial growth phase.
Brightgrove has established a highly professional development team which introduced highly desired tech expertise to the product. We have taken control over architectural decisions to enable scalability and operational excellence, enhanced development processes (such as Alerting and Monitoring, Release management, DoD and testing standards, etc.) using our best practices and experience.
Business context
While being great experts in Audit domain and surrounding regulatory requirements, our customer needed a reliable and skilled technical partner who could take over the Platform development during a crucial growth phase.
Brightgrove has established a highly professional development team which introduced highly desired tech expertise to the product. We have taken control over architectural decisions to enable scalability and operational excellence, enhanced development processes (such as Alerting and Monitoring, Release management, DoD and testing standards, etc.) using our best practices and experience.
Technical context
Digital Audit Platform is built on top of DATEV eG solution using Ruby on Rails technology as the backend stack and Stimulus.JS as the frontend framework. The combination of these technologies ensured high performance and platform stability, with dynamic data being rendered on the server-side. Thus, the FE team has been fully dedicated to deliver outstanding UI/UX look and feel. The platform is cloud-native and is hosted in AWS.
Technical context
Digital Audit Platform is built on top of DATEV eG solution using Ruby on Rails technology as the backend stack and Stimulus.JS as the frontend framework. The combination of these technologies ensured high performance and platform stability, with dynamic data being rendered on the server-side. Thus, the FE team has been fully dedicated to deliver outstanding UI/UX look and feel. The platform is cloud-native and is hosted in AWS.
Collaboration approach
Collaboration approach
Collaboration approach
Brightgrove has set up a dedicated team that has been working in collaboration with customer’s inhouse IT department. Team’s role was to boost development throughput for the whole product, and to set up mature and efficient development processes. With time, those processes have been extrapolated to the inhouse department as well.
To successfully achieve these goals, Brightgrove has set up a team of highly experienced engineers and team leadership, who also bring stability on top of their technical expertise. Team composition has changed over time according to the business needs; however, several key roles have been there throughout the whole engagement period:
• Engineering Team Lead – a key person to introduce best practices into development process, such as Code Review procedures, boilerplate creation, Unit test code coverage standards and many more
• Senior DevOps engineer – brought in continuous evolution of CI/CD pipelines and AWS cost optimization to the Digital Audit Platform, which has significantly reduced the infrastructure cost and brought in highly desired Prod stability. Also, DevOps has established Alerting and Monitoring standards, which allowed to increase system uptime to a stunning 99.97%
• Expert UI/UX designer – to make the simplified document review and exchange workflows that serve as the core of the Platform truly usable, a design guru highlighted its values in very customer-oriented Look & Feel; Though, the design work was less about creating the mock-ups and more about conducting customer interviews and working with focus groups
• Full-stack Ruby development team
• Senior Quality Assurance engineer – has built the QA framework around the platform, had very deep product understanding which resulted in a thorough Quality gate for the development process, minimizing the number of high-severity issues found in production
Collaboration with our customer is lasting for 7 years already, with great synergy between Brightgrove’s dev team and customer’s business goals.
Brightgrove has set up a dedicated team that has been working in collaboration with customer’s inhouse IT department. Team’s role was to boost development throughput for the whole product, and to set up mature and efficient development processes. With time, those processes have been extrapolated to the inhouse department as well.
To successfully achieve these goals, Brightgrove has set up a team of highly experienced engineers and team leadership, who also bring stability on top of their technical expertise. Team composition has changed over time according to the business needs; however, several key roles have been there throughout the whole engagement period:
• Engineering Team Lead – a key person to introduce best practices into development process, such as Code Review procedures, boilerplate creation, Unit test code coverage standards and many more
• Senior DevOps engineer – brought in continuous evolution of CI/CD pipelines and AWS cost optimization to the Digital Audit Platform, which has significantly reduced the infrastructure cost and brought in highly desired Prod stability. Also, DevOps has established Alerting and Monitoring standards, which allowed to increase system uptime to a stunning 99.97%
• Expert UI/UX designer – to make the simplified document review and exchange workflows that serve as the core of the Platform truly usable, a design guru highlighted its values in very customer-oriented Look & Feel; Though, the design work was less about creating the mock-ups and more about conducting customer interviews and working with focus groups
• Full-stack Ruby development team
• Senior Quality Assurance engineer – has built the QA framework around the platform, had very deep product understanding which resulted in a thorough Quality gate for the development process, minimizing the number of high-severity issues found in production
Collaboration with our customer is lasting for 7 years already, with great synergy between Brightgrove’s dev team and customer’s business goals.
Brightgrove has set up a dedicated team that has been working in collaboration with customer’s inhouse IT department. Team’s role was to boost development throughput for the whole product, and to set up mature and efficient development processes. With time, those processes have been extrapolated to the inhouse department as well.
To successfully achieve these goals, Brightgrove has set up a team of highly experienced engineers and team leadership, who also bring stability on top of their technical expertise. Team composition has changed over time according to the business needs; however, several key roles have been there throughout the whole engagement period:
• Engineering Team Lead – a key person to introduce best practices into development process, such as Code Review procedures, boilerplate creation, Unit test code coverage standards and many more
• Senior DevOps engineer – brought in continuous evolution of CI/CD pipelines and AWS cost optimization to the Digital Audit Platform, which has significantly reduced the infrastructure cost and brought in highly desired Prod stability. Also, DevOps has established Alerting and Monitoring standards, which allowed to increase system uptime to a stunning 99.97%
• Expert UI/UX designer – to make the simplified document review and exchange workflows that serve as the core of the Platform truly usable, a design guru highlighted its values in very customer-oriented Look & Feel; Though, the design work was less about creating the mock-ups and more about conducting customer interviews and working with focus groups
• Full-stack Ruby development team
• Senior Quality Assurance engineer – has built the QA framework around the platform, had very deep product understanding which resulted in a thorough Quality gate for the development process, minimizing the number of high-severity issues found in production
Collaboration with our customer is lasting for 7 years already, with great synergy between Brightgrove’s dev team and customer’s business goals.
Results & Outcomes
Results & Outcomes
Results & Outcomes
Partnership with Brightgrove has brought visible results to Customer, being reflected both in measured KPIs and the feedback received.
Partnership with Brightgrove has brought visible results to Customer, being reflected both in measured KPIs and the feedback received.
Median Delivery throughput has increased by 22% per engineer over the first year and by 43% over the second year
Median Delivery throughput has increased by 22% per engineer over the first year and by 43% over the second year
Median Delivery throughput has increased by 22% per engineer over the first year and by 43% over the second year
Number of High- and Critical- severity production incidents and defects has dropped by 288% over the 5-year span
Number of High- and Critical- severity production incidents and defects has dropped by 288% over the 5-year span
Number of High- and Critical- severity production incidents and defects has dropped by 288% over the 5-year span
System uptime has reached 99.97%
System uptime has reached 99.97%
System uptime has reached 99.97%
End user’s NPS exceeded 9.2
End user’s NPS exceeded 9.2
End user’s NPS exceeded 9.2
Unit test coverage increased from sporadic usage in 2018 to 75% in 2023
Unit test coverage increased from sporadic usage in 2018 to 75% in 2023
Unit test coverage increased from sporadic usage in 2018 to 75% in 2023
Change Failure Rate was reduced to 8%, with very smooth rollback process that ensured data integrity
Change Failure Rate was reduced to 8%, with very smooth rollback process that ensured data integrity
Change Failure Rate was reduced to 8%, with very smooth rollback process that ensured data integrity
Executive summary
Executive summary
Executive summary
Industry
Industry
Audit
Audit
Audit
Location
Location
Germany
Germany
Germany
Tenure
Tenure
2018-present
2018-present
2018-present
Delivery center
Delivery center
Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine
Team size
Team size
7-10 FTE
7-10 FTE
7-10 FTE
Tech stack
Tech stack
Ruby-on-Rails, Stimulus.JS, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
Ruby-on-Rails, Stimulus.JS, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
Ruby-on-Rails, Stimulus.JS, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform
Conclusion
Conclusion
Conclusion
Brightgrove has exceeded customer’s expectations in setting up predictable and efficient delivery process model, which is proved by numbers. Eventually, our tech experts enabled our Customer to concentrate on Product and Growth aspects of their business, which resulted into significant expansion and revenue growth since 2018.
Brightgrove has exceeded customer’s expectations in setting up predictable and efficient delivery process model, which is proved by numbers. Eventually, our tech experts enabled our Customer to concentrate on Product and Growth aspects of their business, which resulted into significant expansion and revenue growth since 2018.
Brightgrove has exceeded customer’s expectations in setting up predictable and efficient delivery process model, which is proved by numbers. Eventually, our tech experts enabled our Customer to concentrate on Product and Growth aspects of their business, which resulted into significant expansion and revenue growth since 2018.
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