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Manufacturing
Through multiple engagements, we helped Cambria grow its tech footprint and define the structure of its delivery teams.
Overview
Cambria has been a world-class producer of quartz countertops for 20 years. With so many moving parts — from manufacturing to customization to point of sales — there are plenty of opportunities to streamline processes and make things more efficient with technology.
Challenge
Cambria sought to expand its use of technology. It wanted to gain initial quick wins on some highly valuable business projects and define its longterm technology structure from a staffing point of view. However, it first needed to determine how it wanted to structure its delivery teams from a digital transformation standpoint. The company's previous experience with remote teams saw them spending far too much time onboarding new team members and getting them up to speed.
Solution
Our first engagement with Cambria was building software for digital kiosks that the brand uses in retailers and at consumer events. Through a partnership with the client, we provided the software integration services to help get the hardware setup and deployed out to the physical locations. We also designed and developed a web application and deployed it on Cambria’s existing infrastructure and core software framework.
Dedicated team
The next evolution of our partnership came at the end of the kiosk project. Cambria needed to increase its development velocity so they opted to keep one team member from the kiosk project on board as a full-time, dedicated developer. Together with Cambria’s in-house Scrum team, they worked through a backlog of work for the digital kiosk as well as several other web platforms. In addition to that dedicated developer, Cambria leveraged our Continuation Engineering team to get ahead of some incremental enhancements to several applications before winding it down and opting for a half-time quality assurance analyst.
Design
After laying the groundwork in the previous two engagements, we were ready to take on some larger digital transformations with Cambria. Over the course of six months in 2018, we worked with their team to completely re-platform their website. We began with a lift and shift while updating a few key components of functionality. For this undertaking, Cambria ramped up its existing dedicated team with an additional three developers and another QA. Our Experience Design team also helped redesign some of Cambria’s highest-traffic online conversion tools.