Archives: Case Studies

A leading global car rental company recently expanded the footprint of one of their customer-facing applications to make it available outside of the United States. This expansion placed additional scrutiny on application-level security vulnerabilities. We put a team in place to remediate any vulnerabilities without compromising their overall throughput and delivery.

Within four months of engagement, a backlog of 90 vulnerabilities were remediated and newly discovered vulnerabilities were being remediated in under 20 days; down from 45 days.

A SaaS company catering to the home construction industry had outdated product architecture that needed to be modernized for quicker product releases. We moved our client’s flagship applications to the Cloud so our team could build and deploy much more quickly, while also introducing Agile methodology to the development process. We then developed a new, modern application utilizing microservices.

As a result we streamlined the time it took to get their products to market, enabling them to generate revenue faster and get their clients the technology they need to revolutionize the home construction industry.

One of the leading dental insurance providers in the country was struggling with data integrity, slowing the claims process down, putting them at risk of government-imposed fines, and making it harder  to process claims correctly. We helped provide extra support by handling all of the member enrollment and data migration tasks. We also provided triage support, handling any help desk tickets and data clean-up.

In order to maintain their market-leading position, and continue to grow and scale their core product, a fast-growing SaaS start-up required the development of key API integrations. We quickly stepped in to develop the API integrations needed to tie their core product platform to third-party apps, allowing them to win new business.

As life sciences company Auxilium has grown their product portfolio and revenue over the years, their need for more robust systems and skilled IT professionals has also grown. Strategically, Auxilium wanted to maintain a lean internal IT staff while implementing state of the art systems to support their growing business. The company needed a long-term partner that could be flexible and nimble with the IT needs of a large and dynamic organization.

This U.S.-based international car rental company needed to rewrite their Metadata Repository Graphical User Interface, as it was written in a soon to be decommissioned web host that would no longer be supported.

This healthcare company was trying to create a patient/provider communication tool but the project was behind schedule due to frequent mistakes and communication challenges with their previous outsourcer. We stepped in and created a cloud-based primary care physician notification tool that collected clinical data for each specified patient event as well as notified the primary care provider of these events. This resulted in overall improved patient and provider satisfaction scores.

With increased revenues, and the potential for additional growth on the horizon, Human Genome Services (HGS) was looking for cost-effective ways to better support their SAP system and its expanding user base. After researching their options, HGS chose Sparq to maintain and support their SAP infrastructure.