Xebia clients

Most of Xebia's consultancy clients are Top 300 organizations. However, we often work with smaller and/or specialized organizations when it comes to Agile transformation and software projects.
Below a selection of our client cases:

bol.com

"When we decided to start using the Agile methodology, Xebia was the obvious knowledge partner. They are the default standard when it comes to Scrum and they have a proven track record of successful Agile implementations." Feike Groen, software development manager bij bol.com

Bol.com radically changes IT course with Xebia
Bol.com’s continuous growth makes heavy demands on the performance and availability of the web shop. This puts quite some pressure on the IT organization. Besides the continuous growth, bol.com is constantly working on realizing new and innovative ideas for the shop. These ideas always result in adjustments to bol.com’s systems and these changes thus require a flexible approach. The organization however, lacked this flexibility. Projects on the whole were complex and long. And some projects took up all the time of the IT organization, making parallel progress on multiple initiatives impossible.

Bol.com wished to work in smaller teams, that were able to decide on the best approach and with their own project responsibility. This objective fitted perfectly with the Agile way of working. That is why bol.com decided to implement Agile as soon as possible. The total implementation only took two months, which they could not have realized without the advice of knowledge partner Xebia.

Thanks to Agile, bol.com has accelerated the time-to-market of new applications and has realized parallel development. On top of that, the Agile way of working resulted in a better motivated IT staff. Agile offers bol.com the possibility to keep growing at the same pace.

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ProRail

“Xebia pulled the development of our traveller information system out of a black box and made the process flexible and transparent.” Martien Leget, Program Manager InfoPlus

From Black Box to Glass House
Customer satisfaction studies carried out by ProRail and NS showed that inconsistency in information provision leads to great dissatisfaction among travellers. In order to improve and extend information provision, NS and ProRail have set up the InfoPlus program. This is a two-part program. For one thing, the media such as boards and loudspeakers are replaced and for another, the systems behind these are also replaced.

Vergelijk.nl

“Not only did Xebia develop a working platform within three months, but they also took away our aversion to outsourcing and offshoring.” Adriaan van der Hek, COO Compare Group

Xebia gave Outsourcing a positive connotation again
Proposed growth in Europe made it necessary for Compare Group, known among other things for Vergelijk.nl, to create an underlying platform which could host a variety of country sites. Compare developed the existing website and its platform inhouse 2000. The existing system was not the most ideal platform to expand internationally. Xebia was drafted in to develop a new Java-based platform.

Quality and transparency were deciding factors in choosing Xebia. The Agile project approach allowed Compare Group the ability to monitor the project’s performance every two weeks, and to evaluate the performance and quality of the new platform. Xebia used development teams based in both the Netherlands and India to carry out this project.

The new Java-based platform offers Compare Group the necessary stability, performance and scalability for further growth in Europe. The recognisable look and feel of the website was also retained. Compare Group now has the ability to roll out the various country sites efficiently, and to have them meet local specifications while at the same time optimising performance.

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AlbumPrinter

“ Without the help of Xebia, the result of our company transformation would not have been so successful. Our IT department has been thoroughly professionalized and performs on a higher level. That enables us to keep distinguishing ourselves from other providers” Klaas Waslander, CTO Albumprinter

Broad implementation of Scrum in hands of specialist Xebia
Innovative productdevelopment is one of Albumprinter's priorities. The unrivaled speed of innovation resulted in an enormous growth of the organization, and most of all the IT department. The IT department was in need of a adult structure where product development is handled as a process. The right method to do this was found in the Agile methology Scrum.

The creation and expansion of Scrum teams is of the utmost importance for Albumprinter because of its innovation and enterpreneurship. Albumprinter addressed the implementation seriously with the help of a dependable partner. Xebia supported Albumprinter with implementing Scrum by coaching of the management team, assembling the product management team, guiding the people on the floor and a phased scalability. After that, Albumprinter and Xebia have entered into a longterm partnership where Xebia will deliver Agile Offshore capacity to Albumprinter.

The direct benefits from working in Scrum teams, is that the Albumprinter employees are more involved in the projects and have their own reponsiblity. As a result, Albumprinter's progress and the process have become extremely transparant. Scrum has lifted the product teams to a higher level, allowing Albumprinter to keep delivering higher quality than other providers. Xebia has been an indispensible link for a succesful company transformation.

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