As a leading software developer for the Dutch real-estate market, Cegeka-DSA provides solutions that help its clients meet the evolving demands of their customers. Evolving demands in terms of government-mandated transparency and efficiencies, as well as technological changes such as 24/7 digital access and self-service with a wide range of choices.
Cegeka-DSA rose to the challenge by entering a migration path to a standardized, Microsoft Visual Studio- based generic software platform.
Combined with Continuous Delivery and Automated Testing, the solution meets the market’s demands as well as offering high levels of flexibility and reliability. To avoid losing time along an unfamiliar development path, Cegeka-DSA involved Xpirit as a guide and thought leader.
Cegeka-DSA leads the market for software solutions for the real estate market in The Netherlands. Its product suite includes solutions for property management, including the entire lifecycle following a rental contract, as well as management solutions for maintenance and new construction projects. However, the Dutch real estate market has been facing challenges during recent years.
Anton Vreugdenhil, Cegeka-DSA’s CEO, describes some of the challenges: “The market in which we operate comprises a large number of housing corporations. Following a large amount of public and political attention, most housing corporations were put under pressure to improve their service levels and performance, while at the same time reducing costs.
Cegeka DSA rose to these challenges in order to meets its customers’ demands and to retain and strengthen its market share. Anton summarizes the company’s action plan: “The substantial number of similarities in our customers’ requirements allowed us to create a standardized but easily customizable baseline SaaS solution, realized in Microsoft Visual Studio platform.
The amount of standardization is proportional to the amount of flexibility – why would you re-invent the wheel time and again?
Although Cegeka-DSA has a lot of in-house development expertise, including agile working methods and a SCRUM-based project approach, the integration of Continuous Delivery in its development path led through large areas of new territory. Exploring this territory, including the migration from legacy to virtual machines, however challenging and exciting as it may sound, was not an option.
In order to ensure undelayed progress in this new territory, Cegeka-DSA involved Xpirit’s René van Osnabrugge, an ALM consultant and MVP in the domain of Visual Studio. What’s more, as a thought leader in the domain of Continuous Delivery, René offered valuable experience with fact-based knowhow of the do’s and don’ts.
As a thought leader in Continuous Delivery, René led the way and saved us from getting lost and thus losing time and money.
Xpirit’s involvement has certainly paid off. Jeroen van der Heijden: “René has guided and assisted us in creating a new pipeline from source code to a running environment including automated testing, resulting in a short time to market with 100% reliability and traceability.