Case study/Logistics
App Store for warehouse management
Our client Bitergo offers a collection of business apps to optimize warehouse management, scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies. Given the business drivers, the client decided to upgrade the front-end of all their applications to the latest version of Angular.
Bitergo's Business App Store is a collection of warehouse management apps, scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies. unicrew updated their front-ends with Angular, working to the style guide Bitergo's own designer supplied, then completed the backend integration over REST. After launch the client reported a rapid increase of test accounts ordered by potential customers.
- Client
- Bitergo
- Focus
- Logistics
- Market
Germany- Engagement
- Front-end rebuild and integration
- Stack
Angular
StorybookREST API
Outcome at a glance
What this project delivered, in numbers.
- Rapid increaseOf test accounts ordered by potential customers after the site launchedAndreas Trautmann, Bitergo, in his Clutch review
Project overview
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed supply chain companies, corporations and SMEs alike, to accelerate their digital transformation. That opened a market for software suppliers focused on logistics and warehousing.
Our client Bitergo offers a collection of business apps to optimize warehouse management, scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies. The warehouse management solution “Warehouse Star” consists of modular, standardized web and Android apps that help businesses digitalize their warehouses within a few days. Another unique feature of this collection is its ability to integrate other systems.
The client wanted to upgrade the front-end of all their applications to the latest version of Angular. The user-friendly interface plays a crucial role in customer satisfaction and is one of the factors that increase the conversion rate. By developing the updated front-end, the client aimed to promote to a specific target audience the opportunity to test the service, then convert the trial testers into new customers.
Challenge
The client’s web designer delivered a style guide and UX concept that had to be reproduced in the front-end development. At that stage, developers had to address the challenges derived from the architecture of the existing platform:
- Multiple similar modules and components are reused across different applications.
- The total number of applications is more than 15, so developing each component separately would take a lot of time.
Solution
unicrew developers implemented Angular components strictly according to the requirements. To shorten the timeline and use resources with maximum efficiency, we decided to use Storybook to build universal components that would later be integrated into the new grid of each application.
After implementing the full user front-ends, unicrew’s engineers completed the backend integration via REST and supported it with technical SEO.
Result
unicrew’s team updated the front-end of the Business App Store by developing with Angular. Intensifying development through Storybook led to fast completion of the active and defined backlog. Besides that, the collection of reusable components was developed to streamline the further development of new applications. As the client stated, after launching the site there was a rapid increase of test accounts ordered by potential customers.
Warehouse and logistics software is a standing part of our work: more of it on the logistics and transportation page, and the client’s own side of these projects on our client reviews page.
What the client says
After launching the site we saw a rapid increase of test accounts ordered by potential customers. Now the site provides a steady source of sales leads.
05/Technologies
Technologies on this project
Frontend
- Angular
- Storybook
Backend
- REST API
06/Quick answers
The questions behind the project
What did unicrew build for Bitergo's Business App Store?
unicrew updated the front-end of Bitergo's Business App Store, a collection of warehouse management apps scalable from start-ups to 4PL companies, with Angular. Bitergo's own web designer supplied the style guide and UX concept, and unicrew's developers implemented it as Angular components. After the front-ends were done, the engineers completed the backend integration over REST and supported it with technical SEO. After launch, the client reported a rapid increase of test accounts ordered by potential customers.
Why Storybook for a suite of 15+ Angular apps?
Because more than 15 applications reused many of the same modules and components, and building each component separately for each app would have taken a lot of time. unicrew used Storybook to build universal components that were then integrated into the new grid of each application. That cleared the active backlog fast.
Can you build to our designer's style guide and UX concept?
That is exactly how this project ran. Bitergo's web designer delivered the style guide and UX concept upfront, and unicrew's developers reproduced it in the front-end, implementing Angular components strictly according to those requirements. The design direction was theirs. The implementation was ours. Work ran on an agile process, and unicrew also handled the backend integration over REST and supported it with technical SEO.
Do you work with other logistics and warehousing companies?
Yes. Warehouse and logistics software is a standing part of our work: logistics and transportation for the wider industry, warehouse management for the software itself. What carries over from a project like this one is our team's experience: Angular front-ends built to someone else's design system, shared component libraries, and REST integration in a warehousing context.