Case Study

Customer Overview

Customer Overview

Growers is a multi-vendor eCommerce marketplace that empowers farmers and retailers to establish a powerful relationship and revolutionize the agricultural supply chain. Our collaboration with Growers primarily aims to enhance farming operations and transactions by adopting precision technologies, developing a single platform to streamline the bidding process, and delivering unparalleled convenience to all participants within their agricultural ecosystem.

Business Requirement

1
End-to-end Functionality

The emphasis was on achieving end-to-end functionality, with Node.js serving as the backend and maximizing the utilization of the available AWS services and infrastructure for optimal performance.

2
Enhanced User Experience

The aim was to enhance user-friendliness and elevate customer experience significantly. The requirement was to deliver a feature-rich and a highly performant mobile application that lets customers engage more efficiently.

3
Integration Complexity

To swiftly deliver a high-quality mobile application, not only mirroring the functionality of their existing progressive web application (PWA) but also adding few major business critical functionalities.

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Solution Overview

Building upon its existing utilization of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for numerous infrastructure requirements, Growers opted to broaden its AWS implementation further to build the Smart Agriculture Mobile platform. This global solution caters to farmers and retailers, offering features such as procurement, processing, supply chain management, financial oversight, and data-driven analytics. Despite the ambitious business goals, Growers managed to uphold cost-effectiveness for end users. The AWS infrastructure facilitated an exceptionally efficient and transparent bidding process, ensuring equitable pricing, fostering trust, and delivering unparalleled convenience to all participants in the agricultural ecosystem. The highly scalable, configurable, and future-ready unified platform has empowered Growers to embrace Digital Agriculture, achieving profitability and sustainability in their agricultural pursuits. Collaborating closely with the customer, Successive Digital sustained a modern application that connects a diverse range of users, from individual small-scale farmers to large agricultural enterprises. This collaborative effort enabled farmers and retailers to access and manage their data seamlessly through web and mobile applications. Successive Subject matter experts helped Growers with their steadfast commitment to nurturing growth and offering a potent and dependable bidding environment. Their unified platform sustained farmers and retailers with a robust and reliable bidding solution. Solution leveraged Terraform – IaC tool for infrastructure management that helped us to build, change, and version cloud infrastructure safely and effectively. We built and deployed the Mobile application platform leveraging docker containers with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)—which runs highly secure, reliable, and scalable containers—powered by AWS Fargate. This serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine was used to build applications without server management, and it supported features such as autoscaling. The Solution leveraged AWS WAF, for enhanced platform security and safeguard against potential threats. Platform leveraged other serverless services like AWS Amazon EventBridge, AWS lambda and Amazon DynamoDB and PostgreSQL on RDS for databases.

Business Impacts

  • Through this unified platform, farmers and retailers experienced a significant boost in productivity and profitability.
  • Since adopting the AWS Cloud, Growers have witnessed remarkable enhancements: IT and development cycles have accelerated from weeks to days, time-to-market has improved, fostering innovation, and costs have significantly decreased.
  • Furthermore, the platform facilitated effective email communication with users, elevating engagement and enhancing customer interaction.

Success Stories

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