Directions Research
Directions Research is a market research company specializing in data analysis and data warehousing.
Service: Technology Application Assessment, UI/UX Design & UI Development, Software & Data Engineering, Web Development, Managed Services
Industry: Technology/Software/SaaS
Tech Stack: React, Ruby on Rails
Profile & Challenge
Directions Research sought to integrate automation, data analysis, and data warehousing into their pipeline, facing difficulties with a cumbersome, email and Word document-heavy workflow for customer specifications.
SOLUTION & OUTCOME
GAP proposed a web-based specification authoring tool to streamline and standardize the authoring process, provide a centralized secure archive of specifications, and deliver outputs in multiple formats. The tool has been successfully adopted by several project management teams and is continually used years after its introduction​​.
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