Creating an innovative networking platform is like replicating a range of highly interactive sessions amongst focused groups, which would lead to insightful inferences / business decisions with valuable inputs.

At PSI we played an instrumental role in developing such an innovative and pioneering networking platform for Marketing Communications Consultants that cater to individual users as well as business groups, and enables them to connect, interact and grow.

The team has worked on a B2B networking platform / portal that would facilitate the users and businesses to connect, interact, recommend each other, create, save and publish content. Besides, the portal allows multiple companies to come together to organize and run online events like webinars.

What was our scope / brief?

• Allowing groups/companies to connect, subscribe and recommend others on the site.
• Inbuilt features to publish digital content matter, save them in different folders and rights to remove the same.
• Enhance product features with online collaborative events for users and companies to organize and participate.

The project is an innovative networking platform for business communications, which was a challenge and an opportunity at the same. The project involved constant change in briefing and specifications, so the scope of work kept on changing. There were back-to-back sprints, therefore requirement gathering for the next sprint and development took place simultaneously.

Moreover, the team had to adapt to the changes in the business requirements while minimizing wasted efforts. The developers had to customize ‘Drupal Commons’ to cater to the business requirements defined and redefined by the client.

So, what was the strategic solution approach taken by PSI’s development team to come up with such an innovative networking platform?

• With a view to get the concept into practicality, PSI team started working on the portal by creating a prototype that implemented and demonstrated existing Drupal features that catered to client’s business specifications.
• The next step was to develop the Pilot version of the prototype by enhancing already implemented Drupal features and adding more customised functionality, as per requirements.
• Using prototype as a solution approach enabled the client to evaluate whether Drupal could cater to the business requirement they had planned.
• The team worked extensively on Drupal platform for application development.

PSI team not just worked by client’s specifications, but went beyond and made a difference. The team was able to deliver specific requirements, namely, enabling groups/ companies to connect with, subscribe to and recommend other groups or users on the site. This entire approach and project all in all not only displayed the technical proficiency, but also creative edge of the PSI team.

Shikha Mathur is a Business Analyst @ PSICreating an innovative networking platform is like replicating a range of highly interactive sessions amongst focused groups, which would lead to insightful inferences / business decisions with valuable inputs.
At PSI we played an instrumental role in developing such an innovative and pioneering networking platform for Marketing Communications Consultants that cater to individual users as well as business groups, and enables them to connect, interact and grow.
The team has worked on a B2B networking platform / portal that would facilitate the users and businesses to connect, interact, recommend each other, create, save and publish content. Besides, the portal allows multiple companies to come together to organize and run online events like webinars.
What was our scope / brief?

• Allowing groups/companies to connect, subscribe and recommend others on the site.
• Inbuilt features to publish digital content matter, save them in different folders and rights to remove the same.
• Enhance product features with online collaborative events for users and companies to organize and participate.

The project is an innovative networking platform for business communications, which was a challenge and an opportunity at the same. The project involved constant change in briefing and specifications, so the scope of work kept on changing. There were back-to-back sprints, therefore requirement gathering for the next sprint and development took place simultaneously.
Moreover, the team had to adapt to the changes in the business requirements while minimizing wasted efforts. The developers had to customize ‘Drupal Commons’ to cater to the business requirements defined and redefined by the client.
So, what was the strategic solution approach taken by PSI’s development team to come up with such an innovative networking platform?

• With a view to get the concept into practicality, PSI team started working on the portal by creating a prototype that implemented and demonstrated existing Drupal features that catered to client’s business specifications.
• The next step was to develop the Pilot version of the prototype by enhancing already implemented Drupal features and adding more customised functionality, as per requirements.
• Using prototype as a solution approach enabled the client to evaluate whether Drupal could cater to the business requirement they had planned.
• The team worked extensively on Drupal platform for application development.

PSI team not just worked by client’s specifications, but went beyond and made a difference. The team was able to deliver specific requirements, namely, enabling groups/ companies to connect with, subscribe to and recommend other groups or users on the site. This entire approach and project all in all not only displayed the technical proficiency, but also creative edge of the PSI team.
Shikha Mathur is a Business Analyst @ PSI[:]