Customer Stories

Background

Elastique is a Production Agency successfully developing products for organizations that are digitizing their future. Elastique helps these organizations make an impact on their customers with custom solutions for the new economy.

Predictability and reliability of agreements are important ways that Elastique deals with its customers. Every day, Elastique converts the most diverse digital challenges into high-quality business and mission-critical solutions. In order to empower them, while still being able to express its predictability to customers, Elastique went looking for a partner who can take over a part of the cost estimation process for them.

Solution

To relieve the digital teams from the burden of the cost estimation process, they hired IDC Metri for the following aspects: (1) make their own process of creating digital solutions leaner by taking over their cost estimation process, (2) retain the predictability and reliability as a core value, and (3) improve the persuasiveness of their cost estimates by basing them on historical data.

Plan In Action

Before taking over the cost estimation process, IDC Metri conducted two proofs to convince Elastique leadership of the reliability of our estimates. First our IT Intelligence experts made a blind estimate of an already delivered digital solution to an international sports association. Next a bid for a new digital solution for an European monetary supervisory institute was estimated by both Elastique internal experts and our IT Intelligence team.

Results

Both proofs were within a few percent of the project realization or the internal estimate. This gave the Elastique leadership enough confidence to outsource the cost estimation process to IDC Metri and let their digital teams focus on what they do best: building digital solutions that help the Elastique customers make a difference.