A new sustainable platform for Guardsquare
Guardsquare wanted to modernize its customer portal and partnered with Tailr to create a future-proof, API-first and PWA-ready solution. Although Guardsquare has its own technical team, at the time it lacked the necessary capacity to start from scratch. We made a valuable contribution by qualitatively guiding the migration and developing some key features. Thus, Tailr laid a solid foundation on which Guardsquare could continue to build!
Guardsquare as a trusted partner in mobile application security
Guardsquare offers the most complete approach to mobile application security on the market. Guardsquare's software is based on the open-source ProGuard technology developed by Guardsquare and integrates seamlessly into the development lifecycle. Guardsquare solutions provide enhanced mobile application security from the beginning of the development process all the way up to the publication.
More than 800 customers worldwide in all major industries rely on Guardsquare to help them identify security risks and protect their mobile applications from reverse engineering and tampering. The latest software releases and related information is made available to customers through the customer portal.
Based on most recent best practices
Before we started the development of the application, we made sure we were all on the same page.
By having a successful workshop we mapped out all the wishes, resulting in a clear project plan supported by a strong digital strategy.
UX as starting point
Important reasons for refreshing the portal were usability and speed. Therefore, Tailr helped defining the perfect UX. First we drew a diagram to make the structure of the app as logical and natural as possible. Then we drew out the wireframes that transformed this structure into a web design, based on the latest principles of UX.
API-first application, PWA-ready
To build the portal, we chose an API-first application. Why? If we make everything API-first, then you can easily automate all parts of the application in the future or you can let customers connect to the application. An API-first platform gives the advantage that the application is PWA-ready because the application is built as a Single Page Application.
Read more about difference is between PWA and SPA here.
Code clean-up
Tailr picked up the project where another party left off. To make sure we could build on the previous developer's work, we started by cleaning up the code. This allowed our developers to build something powerful and bring new functionality to the client.
Migrate to a new platform
The greatest challenge? That was migrating from the old to the new platform. The old customer portal was built in a Drupal environment. The new platform was running on React. We noticed that this migration did not happen swiftly, but Tailr likes taking on challenges! In cooperation with Guardsquare, this migration was successful eventually.
Google Cloud Platform
Guardsquare asked us to work with Google Cloud Platform. This because they already worked with "Infrastructure as code" internally and because they also had experience with Google Cloud platform for other products. Tailr took on this challenge with energy, resulting in Google Cloud experts within our ranks !
The result?
In the meantime, Guardsquare's customer portal is in full use. They regularly receive feedback that the portal has improved tremendously. Their customers find it a convenient and fast app. So the user experience has definitely improved. But in addition - thanks to its future-oriented approach - Tailr ensured that the application is also sustainable and can evolve along with the company.
Mission accomplished!