Our Research Institute developed a comprehensive accounting system based on blockchain technology for Russian Railways. The system's purpose is to track locomotive repair costs in real-time and monitor the
maintenance efficiency.
Also, we had a task to develop business dashboards for the Russian Railways senior management. To enable them to monitor the progress of important processes and strategic indicators, without immersion themselves in operational data. But clarifying exactly what KPIs they need, collecting requirements, developing data visualization, and writing a
technical specification for the IT team is a huge job. We decided to hire an experts, Alex Kolokolov, and his team.
In short, Alex's services helped us save a lot of time and nerves. He interviewed our customer, finished never-ending approval steps, sometimes he even had to guess the customer's thoughts. We are not specialized in such tasks and we were happy to find an expert.
We received not only design layouts of the dashboards but also the source data requirements, which were not originally in the system. As a result, we have expanded our system by additional data sources and increased its value for the customer. Also, the labor costs for preparing reports were significantly reduced. And we also received a finished technical task for our specialists. It helped to integrate business dashboards into the new accounting system quickly.
Konstantin Schoenfeld
Executive Director at the Research Institute of Railway Transport