GOOGLE CLOUD SERVICES

RGT Cycling is a virtual reality cycling simulator available for PC, Mac, and Apple TV. It is used in conjunction with iOS and Android Apps and supported training hardware.

As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, Zitec has managed the infrastructure migration and cloud ecosystem modernization for RGT Cycling at all stages, from solution assessment, architecture & design, environment setup, testing cycles, migration, and post-migration support.

In addition to supporting growing volumes at lower costs, the RGT Cycling infrastructure now allows for the company’s future development plans to include integrations with services like Google Stadia, Google Maps, and analytics capabilities.

“We had been planning an infrastructure upgrade for more than a year but kept postponing due to the size and unpredictability of the project. Working with Zitec has given us the confidence to go forward and their expertise has made the process safe and fast. The results have exceeded our expectations especially in terms of performance optimization, as well as the accelerated learning this has brought in our team.” (Alex Serban, CEO, RGT Cycling)

Vivre is the largest online store for furniture, textiles, and decorations in Central and Eastern Europe, present in 9 countries. Vivre has an offer of over 150 thousand products, over 1000 brands in its portfolio, and over 4 million orders delivered in 8 years.

As one of the first Recommendations AI partners approved by Google Cloud, Zitec managed the implementation of the solution for Vivre, by providing technical and business consulting at all stages: from data ingestion to data integration, model customization, and recommendations placement across the customer journey.

Results have shown an increase of over 15% in transactions from product recommendations. Overall, Recommendations AI has increased its efficiency by 50% from project-start and is expected to improve as Vivre continues to build and run new experiments.

“Vivre is a company born from a passion for technology with innovation at the forefront of its growth. We found in Zitec an experienced partner with the same enthusiasm for technology. With Recommendations AI we have the freedom to experiment with recommendation scenarios and to offer our customers a source of inspiration of more than 150,000 unique products available daily on vivre.ro. We recorded a 15% increase in transactions obtained from product pages that contain recommendations. We will expand both the scope and the number of our experiments with Recommendations AI.” (Mihai Iova, Head of Product, Vivre)

Instant Factoring is the first Romanian online fintech platform for factoring, functioning as an NBFI – non-banking financial institution. Its goal is to provide fast and simple financing via invoice discounting to SMBs in Romania and across the region, helping companies that would otherwise struggle to get financed to have a reliable and predictable alternative to bank loans.

Instant Factoring innovates the financial market by streamlining the factoring process for small entrepreneurs, reducing it to 24 hours, an alternative to the classical bank process of 2-3 weeks. To develop the easiest and fastest flow of financing bills through digitization, the platform can process multiple factoring requests simultaneously, with significantly reduced operating costs.

With a technology stack powered by Google Cloud, Instant Factoring closed its first year of activity on the factoring market in Romania with a volume of over 1,930 fundings granted to small companies and micro-enterprises, worth 4 million EUR, and estimated ending 2019 with a 300 percent increase in customer portfolio, and a total funding volume of 15 million EUR.

Instant Factoring estimates that more than 15.000 small businesses will use its services by the end of 2022, with an average value of invoice financed of approximately 2.000 EUR.

Relying on the Google Workspace apps, the first 7 months of remote work meant for Zitec’s team a marathon of over 1700 hours and 8000 connections worldwide through Google Meet, 30 new colleagues recruited online, and customers from 10 countries who have joined the portfolio exclusively through online interactions.

• 2500 virtual meetings in Google Meet in the first 7 months of remote work
• 42 minutes average duration of  per call
• A total of over 1,700 hours spent on the Google Meet video conferencing platform
• 30 new colleagues recruited exclusively online
• Easy onboarding process managed through Google Meet and Google Drive
• Online team building on Google Meet – 140 team members in over 10 hours duration of the video meeting

“The remote work, flexi-time, or flexi-city policies implemented for a long time at Zitec, together with the right tools and apps from Google Cloud, have made possible an easy transition to working from home, without technical and organizational challenges or any compromise related to security. As a Premier Google Cloud Partner, we are pleased to support other companies increase team performance by implementing Google Workspace applications in the shortest possible time, depending on their needs.“ (Alexandru Lăpușan, CEO and Co-Founder, Zitec)