Ciklum - dacadoo Case Study

Flexibly scaling development for a global health engagement platform.

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Challenge Dacadoo is a Swiss-based globally operating technology company, that develops technology solutions for digital health engagement and health risk quanti cation, partnering with insurers and health service providers. In 2010, Dacadoo started developing its mobile- rst health engagement platform with its unique, patented Dacadoo Health Score, that enables individuals to track their health and wellbeing in an easy and fun way.

Back then, Dacadoo needed to scale their development team in Switzerland but couldn’t nd the right people fast enough. So they decided to start a mixed setup with a remote team.

Ciklum enabled Dacadoo to scale and to grow from a small startup to the global health platform provider they are today Integrated teams in Switzerland, Ukraine and Spain work on a platform covering over 200 million people in 40 countries around the globe

Solution In 2011, Dacadoo started scaling their development with a front-end team in Kyiv, Ukraine, which has grown to a team of 40 people today.

Ciklum helped with recruiting, onboarding, and the establishment of a great work environment, to grow and maintain the team in the long run.

When Dacadoo needed DevOps experts and back-end developers – but for compliance reasons within the EU – Ciklum enabled them to extend development to Malaga, Spain.

Dacadoo, together with Ciklum, invests a lot in team building and alignment across the three locations, to ensure bonding beyond day-to-day work. To enhance exibility and speed of delivery, Ciklum organises agile training sessions for the whole Dacadoo team.

Technology QA Client sni ers: Fiddler, Charles Calls to API: Postman Tools: android SDK (ADB + android emulator), iTools SDK/API: Swagger Automation: Katalon studio + Java => Android and web automation, custom API testing scripts on Ruby

Web Server: Node JS/Express Database: MongoDB Client: React/Redux CI/CD: Gitlab/Docker

Android Kotlin Java IDE: Android Studio CI/CD: bamboo

iOS Swift

Objective C IDE: Xcode CI/CD: bamboo VCS: git

Result Ciklum enabled Dacadoo to scale and to grow from a small startup to the global health platform provider they are today.

When part of Dacadoo’s development was required to be done from within the EU, they could exibly opt for a second Ciklum location in Malaga, Spain.

Dacadoo licences their platform to the world’s leading life and health insurance operators and covers over 200 million people in 40 countries around the globe.

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Working with Ciklum for us is about

trust. In the digital society, it’s all about

knowledge and it’s all about sharing that knowledge. Ciklum has been a very good partner for that.