Enterprise Web Application

Packet Analyzer Platform - Case Study

User-Friendly Interface and Data Visualization for Complex Network Engineering Logic

Jan Solecki ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT MONTERAIL

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Monterail continued to dig in, ask questions, and do what a good consultancy is supposed to do—namely, dig deep into the customer's needs. As a consequence of this, we're getting a better product. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR PACKET ANALYZER PLATFORM

Scope and highlights

Product workshops
UX/UI design
Rails + react + angular app

6k+commits and counting
15team members involved
7on-site meetings

The Challenge

The Packet Analyzer Platform is a Web application used by networking engineers for monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. As the client's team is focused primarily on core logic engine implementation, the challenge for Monterail was building a solid frontend along with a UX/UI and great data visualizations.

The project required us to explore a range of security- and privacy-related matters. Due to the client’s requirements and specific business model, we had to abandon our typical workflow as each release of the product would be separated by a 6-9 month window. Key challenges of the project included:

Collaborating with the client’s in-house team responsible for API implementation
Getting deep into the highly complex internal logic of network engineering
Building a user-friendly interface and visualizing data in an accessible way

The Process

At the outset, the most important part of the project was the UX strategy and design. We started our efforts with researching ways in which engineers could monitor network performance without diving into a sea of complex data. The team working on the first release consisted of one designer and three developers—since then it’s grown to fifteen people.

Every iteration includes workshops, architecture enhancements and design, and a lot of testing. The product is not available on the Web and has to be deployed locally for each client, so there is no option for releasing updates whenever they’re available. This is how we make it happen:

We keep our commitment to the release date no matter what
We use Agile methodologies to approach business needs and manage requirements
We conduct numerous on-site meetings at the Monterail and client offices

The best thing (and the hardest!) is that the ever-growing scale and complexity of the project always forces us to find new technologies, processes, and solutions. Many of which we later apply company-wide. Darya Stepanyan Project Manager

The Outcome

After a period of collaboration spanning over two years, we delivered a working version of the Web application that our client now sells to companies across the globe.

Having a ready-to-sell product that was already in use by the financial market, we started to think about further development. We’ve drafted a development plan for one year into the future and filled it with lots of great ideas for upcoming releases. The success of this project hinged on the following factors:

Improved usability and data visualization methods
A solid team of fifteen people working towards accomplishing one common goal
Commitment to learning about and understanding the complex engineering problems

I'm here to gather your requirements, answer all your questions, and push your idea into development as fast as possible.

Jan Solecki