Case Studies

For over 20 years, TechStar Group has helped customers reach their most important business goals. Discover in detail the wide variety of services & impact we've had on our clients.

Microsoft Use Cases

A Midsize Professional Services Organization in Michigan needs help with document management:

The Microsoft Services team created and delivered an automated Document Management system using Microsoft SharePoint and the Microsoft Power Platform.  The system processes millions of documents, made up of hundreds of different types of forms.   It scans the documents, looks up reference information in an online database, and extracts vital contact information.  This information is then applied to the document as metadata, allowing for quick search and retrieval through SharePoint document libraries.  This system saves this company hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in reduced costs.

B2B Translations Services:

The team built a live Japanese to English translation engine that runs inside Microsoft Word.  Japanese text was read from a document in real-time and scanned against a live glossary of words.  Possible translations appear in a sidebar interface that allows the translator to pick the most relevant translation usage.  The system also supported an e-commerce website for translation subscribers and allowed for sharing glossaries among muti users.

A large west coast security company needed to provide their customers with custom Power BI Reports:

They wanted to take Microsoft Sentinel security reports and process them for customers in Microsoft’s Power BI dashboards.  Our solution used advanced DAX expressions to handle large amounts of security data and create graphical dashboards and written Paginated Reports showing summaries of security alerts and issues for each customer.

Microsoft CAF events:

Microsoft hired our team to deliver 30+ Azure two-day Cloud Adoption Framework Workshops for enterprise customers.  These workshops help enterprise customers set up an Azure landing zone with proper governance, security, manageability, and cost accounting.  This landing zone gives organizations a strong foundation for building their Azure Cloud platform.

A medical service company in Arkansas wanted Teams Training:

Delivered a full eight-hour training day teaching how to utilize Microsoft TEAMS for communications, project management, collaboration, and modern meetings.  These hands-on training sessions allowed attendees to work in virtual labs to create new TEAMS environments, share documents, and build project management sites to coordinate all work on critical projects.

Advanced Analytics with Power BI

A huge nationwide insurance company and a large metro bus Line in a top 20 city needed advanced analytics training.  We delivered large webinars and smaller hands-on classes for Microsoft Power BI training.  Eight-hour classes included fundamentals of Power BI, creating dashboards, using AI for analytics, DAX expressions, custom reports, and fundamentals of database design and implementation.

Developed a NOS platform to automate and scale data center network

Overview
Our client is a pioneer in accelerated computing. The end-to-end accelerated computing platform is integrated across hardware and software handles all the critical workloads in the Datacenter platform. Data centers deliver breakthrough performance for compute and graphics workloads, at any scale with resulting in faster insights. The NOS platform enables to Automate, customize, and scale your data center network with a Flexible Open Architecture.

Challenge
Businesses are embracing open data centers, which require applications and services that are easily integrated with other solutions, this unified framework enhances networking software APIs with Open Programmable Infrastructure to deliver a robust open networking operating system. This helps to Automate, customize, and scale the data center network.

Solution
Next Generation User Experience Platform is anobject-oriented, schema driven model of a complete Cumulus Linux system providesa robust API that allows for multiple interfaces to both view and configure anyelement within a system running this software on the Datacenter. Newconfiguration management framework for NOS is an API-first, pluggable,model-driven framework to manage all aspects of Linux network configuration.We at TechStar help them build the User ExperiencePlatform by developing features as well automate the workflow for the software.The solution enables advanced programmability, extensibility, and usability. Thiscreates open and scalable networks enabled by standards protocols.

Outcome
Our customers comprehensive suite of software products provides an opportunity to work across innovation application-centric software’s across the various portfolios in Cloud Computing, GPUs for accelerating computing, and DPUs for data center infrastructure processing, AI, and Data science.

Developed a NOS platform to automate and scale data center network

Overview
Our client is a pioneer in accelerated computing. The end-to-end accelerated computing platform is integrated across hardware and software handles all the critical workloads in the Datacenter platform. Data centers deliver breakthrough performance for compute and graphics workloads, at any scale with resulting in faster insights. The NOS platform enables to Automate, customize, and scale your data center network with a Flexible Open Architecture

Challenge
Businesses are embracing open data centers, which require applications and services that are easily integrated with other solutions, this unified framework enhances networking software APIs with Open Programmable Infrastructure to deliver a robust open networking operating system. This helps to Automate, customize, and scale the data center network.

Solution
Next Generation User Experience Platform is an object-oriented, schema driven model of a complete Cumulus Linux system provides a robust API that allows for multiple interfaces to both view and configure any element within a system running this software on the Datacenter. New configuration management framework for NOS is an API-first, pluggable, model-driven framework to manage all aspects of Linux network configuration. We at Techstar help them build the User Experience Platform by integrating features as well automate the workflow for the software. The solution enables advanced programmability, extensibility, and usability.

Outcome
Our customers comprehensive suite of software products provides an opportunity to work across innovation application-centric software’s across the various portfolios in Cloud Computing, GPUs for accelerating computing, and DPUs for data center infrastructure processing, AI, and Data science.

GCH Modernization & Single Account

Overview
The client required development and delivery of fully functional codes to implement in ETL scripts with various designs to extract data from each of the incoming data feeds and map new data model among other needs. The client also requires design, development and delivery of UIs, Micro-services, and implementation of enhanced wireless profile. Our expertise in programming and coding would ensure that clients’ needs are designed to suit their business, developed efficiently and delivered conveniently.

Challenges
There is a gap in coding expertise for ETL scripts that can enhance user experience. Creating functional codes to implement ETL scripts requires expertise, our team designed and built wireframes using the client’s hierarchy UI that will provide superior user experience while they attempt to access customer information. We built an UI based on the approved wireframes using latest JavaScript to enhance the users’ experience.

Solutions
We deployed UI built on dedicated servers that are load balanced and built workflows to assign data governing tasks to various user groups. We redesigned and modularized all existing APIs to micro-services leveraging stored data in new models. We built each existing APIs as decoupled and fully functional units that can be fully validated using automated tests.We implemented an enhanced wireless profile to leverage the customer data stored in new models for sales and legal user groups while providing a generic interface for default users. We implemented enhanced VZ connect profile to leverage the customer data and store it in new model for sales and legal user groups while providing interface for default users. We developed an enhanced One ERPSAP profile for customers according to their requests.

Outcome
The developed fully functional codes integrated the UI and the APIs built in the deliverables enhanced customer experience. We delivered a unified UI that has one account hierarchy data model that absorbs current model deficiencies.

Customer relationships management, analytics and marketing automation using Salesforce

Overview
TechStar Group is a leading firm in customer relationships management, analytics, and marketing automation. Our team excels in enabling interaction across channels and shareholders, building connected ecosystems, and leveraging data to offer a unified platform addressing customer needs. We know that great customer interaction and positive feedback will improve your business. The client firm, in this case, is a cellular service provider with millions of users. Thus, they need better customer interaction to improve their business.

Challenges                                                                      
The client firm has low data insights and monitoring; thus, they cannot predict and forecast the opportunities they could explore in the market. The client needs a system that allows them to know errors, perf metrics, and vulnerabilities in their approach. Clients need a strategy to help build customer journey insights for predictive analysis.  Clients also need a contract lifecycle management system to accelerate the quote-to-cash process and resolve other finance issues.

Solutions
At TechStar Group, we are committed to improving user experience by creating data-driven analytics using the Einstein AI platform to generate real-time customer journey insights, funnels, and platform and sales metrics. We applied the contract lifecycle management for the client; this platform’s intuitive and customizable solution boosts sales productivity and efficiency, such as accelerating the quote-to-cash process and shortening sales revenue. By optimizing the channel management with partners, we enhance the channel management solutions, giving all parties a centralized, customizable platform to extend their services, quote, sales and delivery. We provide omnichannel enablement via Telco’s velocity, improving customer care and customer retention. Our data modeling services allowed the client to build digital stacks to configure, integrate and maintain product and service portfolios across the enterprise with a migration framework to import products.

Outcomes
We helped the client achieve business values on a single pane of view e.g., a one-stop solution to get engineering and business operation metrics, self-serve reports from customers, and real-time drill downs of app errors. Elevated customer experience is achieved and operational cost savings.

Data and AI Platform services for a cellular service provider

Overview
Techstar firm deals with data engineering and data analytics services, while the client firm is a cellular service provider with millions of users on their platform. Our firm excels at helping users and other firms store, manage and analyze large amounts of data that contributes to the success of the user’s business. We excel at building better algorithms and creating accessible yet secure AI platforms that clients can use to improve their business. The collected data offers information on useful patterns that led to the success realized in the business.

Challenge
Accessing data in large firms is a challenge, most users will not get the data they need efficiently, and this wastes time and denies the user the data they want. Data management is therefore a challenge in most large firms. Secondly, there is limited access to fast computation stream processors thus the firm does not access data conveniently.

Solutions
Our data and AI management solutions are reliable and updated to suit the needs of every firm.   Our data ingestion framework allowed us to build an extensive framework for extracting, transforming and loading data sources into suitable ecosystems. Our Data Lake Management of Data helped unify platforms for analytics with data integrity and enables users to generate insights across portfolios. Our expertise with Click Stream Data Feed enabled us to compile Adobe catalyst data for customer journey analytics, generate insights from web portals, understand user navigation behavior and enhance customer experience. Our Business Intelligence and Reporting services equipped the client with a reporting dashboard of enterprise application data, thus providing the client with insights on billed revenue, revenue traceability, funnel and bookings for customer metrics.

Outcome
With the application of our services, the cellular service provider firm was able to enhance customer experience, increase customer retention, apply ticket monitoring and generate an automated workflow which improves their business. We look to capitalize on the latest management and analysis technology for every firm’s needs in data engineering and analytics services.