Our developers have been creating websites on Kentico for more than 10 years now, having 200+ successful projects behind their belt. If you are interested in knowing more about why we choose Kentico, head on over to this article. As a Kentico partner we have professional qualification in several areas, for which we have been awarded certifications by the Kentico creators themselves. Bluesoft has been a Kentico Gold Partner continuously almost since its foundation and is also certified in „Development and Integration” and “Ecommerce“ competences. Eventually we have decided to proof the quality of our work with another certification and went through the “Kentico Quality Expert” audit.
Quality Expert Partner – warranty of high standard
Due to the difficulty of obtaining this certification, Kentico takes into account its ownership in both local and global rankings. Those partners, who managed to successfully achieve this certification, had to prove their deep knowledge of the Kentico Xperience product, and also a high quality of their own code, which is an integral part of the final solution. The main purpose as to why Kentico awards these certifications, is to give spotlight to the partners they have thoroughly verified and where they can vouch for the expertise of developers and high quality of the delivered service.
Audit – two projects and numerous phases
The first step in the audit is to provide several completed Kentico projects of substantial scope and complexity. One of the projects is chosen by the applicant, second one choose the Kentico architects themselves. We chose the our first MVC project built on Kentico, Ecommerce platform for Carlsberg. The brewery Carlsberg needed a new global B2B portal. We build them one with special logic for bulk-pre-orders, computation of transport pricing and delivery date estimation. We managed to develop and launch this project in 90 days with the result of increase in the number of pre-orders and very favourable rating by Carlsberg customers in ease of use.
The second project, chosen by the evaluators was a project for our client ComAp. This project was a customer service portal, built with the MVC technology as well
Both projects included several custom solutions and third-party integrations. The audit itself is split into a few phases, all of them require a thorough communication between Kentico and the partner. First phase is all about gathering all available information and details about the project. Next is the project analysis, they look at overall project depth, it’s architecture, development solution and the page loading time. The ultimate goal is to assess, whether the audited company can effectively use the tools that Kentico provides and goes by the best practice for development, architecture and design. They also assess for example the different user scenarios or the overall chosen architecture of the whole solution, custom code quality, consistency of the database, settings and system configuration, project hosting or the future scalability of the project.
In the end we find out, whether the investment into audit paid off or not. The company receives an evaluation report going into detail about each part of the project (front-end, testing or project configuration) and provides a valuable, detailed feedback. The final spreadsheet comes with a score for each category and a final grade in percentage. We passed our audit with a flying 95%, having the best score in architecture, project configuration or SQL optimization.
An investment, or just a shiny toy?
Even though the Quality Expert partner audit is not cheap by any means, we do not regret it at all. Our own main motivation for reaching this goal was to prove to ourselves, that our projects are amongst the best in quality on the global scale. Our developers have gained a great deal of knowledge over the years and are amongst the real experts on Kentico Xperience. The certification helped us get a spotlight and really put an emphasis on our place in the Kentico community. The most valuable thing we got is the expert feedback and a confirmation, that we do our work well.
