CASE STUDY
About The Client
Art Marketplace | United States, Europe, Asia
We worked for a global art gallery specialized in modern and contemporary art, that has a digital marketplace with innovative online viewing rooms. It started in Los Angeles almost 50 years ago and now has locations worldwide across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
The Challenge
It is a multinational company and the platform needed to include users worldwide. Sales people use it in galleries from all over the world. They need all the information available about the artwork including: Title, Artist information, People interested in it, where its stored/displayed, etc.
Given that it is an art gallery, an important feature is the management of art assets, having many pictures of each work, with different views and angles, so that the person interested in buying can be fully aware of what he will be getting.
Additionally, the software must keep the inventory knowing where it is, where it was, who transported it, when its sold, who bought it, and all its previous owners.
On top of all that, the software also has a complex security system to ensure each user can see only the allowed information as each role has access to different aspects of the work.
What we did
We created and released a new system for managing the creation of the assets, which were previously created and labeled manually. This new piece of code syncs the information entered by the archivist with the information of the sales team. Additionally, it automatically generates asset variants like thumbnails or labels, to name a few.
We are collaborating to rework the current inventory and invoice generation, managed using Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Results & Takeaways
They needed a new addition to the backend team to tackle the new functionalities planned, but also as it is an evergrowing platform they needed someone prepared to work on all kinds of new functionalities.
