Imprev, a leading provider of marketing automation and campaign management for the real estate industry, has engaged Ramp Group to help in the development of its latest enterprise-level system.
"We are on a steep growth curve, rapidly moving from serving hundreds of thousands to millions of end users," explained Imprev's CEO, Renwick Congdon. "At the same time, the real estate market is demanding and fast-changing, so we need to be able to respond to our clients' needs quickly and reliably."
Since Imprev continually innovates and evolves its applications, the Ramp Group team has helped the company incorporate an Agile methodology, merging with Imprev's development team to deliver technical expertise and process consulting. Ramp Group project manager, James Cooper, has instituted a software development approach using Scrum that allows Imprev's IT department to operate in small batches-much like lean manufacturing-so technical disciplines can overlap and perform simultaneously. "Instead of five or six developers trying to take on different projects, Imprev now has one delivery team working in two week cycles to create small iterations. They regularly provide deliverables to all the company's stakeholders for feedback-this helps the business development and customer support teams achieve their goals and sets milestones for which IT can be accountable," says Cooper. "We're able to develop new products quickly without disrupting business practices," explains Congdon. "Our velocity to identify, develop and enable products has increased many times over-the Ramp Group engagement is already paying for itself." "The Ramp Group team's competence with contemporary engineering best practices sets high standards by example, which helps our entire team cohere and grow," observes John Helm, Imprev's CTO and vice president of engineering, previously CTO of Drugstore.com. "And it's always great to sit down with Terry Drayton and kick around new ideas-both technical and business," adds Congdon. "He has a way of stirring up the creative juices." A managing member of Ramp Group, Drayton was a co-founder of HomeGrocer.com, which was the largest Internet grocer in the world.
Like many of its clients, Ramp Group is quickly evolving and growing. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Certified Integrator to Amazon Web Services, Ramp Group is one of the fastest growing software services and technology solutions companies in the country.
Established in 2000 and headquartered in Bellevue, Ramp Group helps clients grow by delivering highly usable, commercial-grade applications including Websites, internal business applications, ad management, content management and business intelligence solutions. For more information, visit the company's Website at www.rampgroup.com.