At VARTEQ we help retailers tackle their business-specific problems, and Festi Framework is the main tool we use to develop custom-made solutions for small and medium companies. A flexible and efficient framework, it is not intended for end users: initially, we have built it to help developers write simple and powerful web applications and APIs.
But, while developers may discover all they need to know about Festi Framework at the product page, here we intend to describe in plain language what it can do for your business. Festi Framework helps develop middleware solutions, something the end users won’t see, although they will definitely feel the results of their implementation: better customer service and enhanced user experience.
Essentially, it helps to streamline and automate processes which previously involved a staff of employees, if carried out manually:
Back-office processes
As sleek and user-friendly as your online store may look at the front end, the back-end part of it, such as warehouse inventory and shipment control may be in desperate need of automation. There’s only so much an employee can do manually without making inevitable mistakes. At VARTEQ we know how to tell your retail business may be in trouble, although you may have done all you can.
Synchronizing and automating order processing, shipment and accounting is an example of the solutions we can build with Festi Framework. Automatically extract items from warehouse databases, create and send notifications that the order has been assembled and shipped for accounting and delivery companies, avoid accounting mistakes and potential taxing problems — Festi Framework helps us do this and more.
Nontrivial customer-related activities
Every company has specific, customer-related activities, which have the potential to propel their business but would take too much time and effort without automation. Extracting customer addresses from public databases for direct mailings, identifying potential clients, validating client-related information are just a few examples of what we can do. Our success stories include assembling a database of real estate development companies to target as potential clients for a furniture retailer and an advanced age validating system for a tobacco store, which helped the company avoid legal issues and, ultimately, stay in business.
Business intelligence processes
Today, you just can’t afford to overlook the importance of big data and data-driven business intelligence for your company. BI helps pinpoint and eliminate potential risks. Moreover, insights gained from big data help businesses increase productivity, protect their IT infrastructure from breaches and deliver better customer services. The scope of problems big data applications help to solve cover application management, security and compliance, infrastructure and operation management, digital intelligence, business analytics and much more.
Enterprise scale big data apps offer a record of all user transactions, customer behavior, sensor activity, machine behavior, security threats, fraudulent activity – as well as other invaluable information that would otherwise be left unregistered. Unsurprisingly, the CIOs and the business owners demonstrate growing awareness of the benefits big data analysis brings. But the biggest problem with BI tools most SMB companies face is quite simple – they can’t afford it.
Festi Framework helps us build custom solutions tailored to small and medium companies and their business needs. You no longer need to pay a fortune for costly enterprise-class software only to find out you have to disrupt your entire company ecosystem to use it successfully. Moreover, at VARTEQ we leverage Festi Framework to integrate your business-specific company databases with third-party tools you are accustomed to such as Hubspot, Salesforce, Quickbooks, etc, without having to re-educate your staff to enjoy tangible benefits.
Festi Framework is also applicable if you have numbers to crunch or data to process: perfect for building solutions which collect, organize and analyze data, it helps retailers tackle the data problem. Insights, derived from big data can be used to benefit your business or sold to third parties, but visualization and analysis is usually the tricky part. We help SMB companies process and visualize big volumes of data (create dashboards, admin panels, etc). There’s a number of free solutions out there that promise to deliver exactly the same, but too complex for most small and medium retailers to use, since they require at least some expertise in data science. Most paid solutions, on the other hand, are expensive and charge hourly fees.
In a nutshell, we offer a flexible and easily customizable toolset which helps small and medium retailers undergo a digital transformation. Unlike major tech giants, we boast individual approach: we will carefully study your business processes and develop middleware solutions that will integrate seamlessly into your company ecosystem. Apart from affordability, personalized approach to your business is another prominent reason to forge a partnership with VARTEQ.