Digiforma
Meet Digiforma
Digiforma, a customizable training and learning management system, has more than 4000 corporate users and 1.1 million end users in France alone.
E-learning
Team Extension
France
Background - what was the idea?
Digiforma is the leading product by A World For Us, a French enterprise
pearheading the market of integrated software for training professionals. The company’s mission
is to reinvent the sector’s digital tools to enable organizations to succeed in their digital
transformation.
The application is a dedicated ERP platform for organizations managing training of
individuals and business entities alike, aiming to provide full assistance in business processes
through its ecosystem of tools.
The Digiforma platform is a benchmark in its sector, helping organizations deal with
administrative management, customer relations, quality monitoring, Quallopi (French national
certification of training organizations) compliance, as well as e-learning.
Challenge
We joined the Digiforma product team to collaborate on an established, large-scale platform
for conducting and managing training activities, with a growing e-learning component. Our work
has since focused on the development of the product's e-learning capabilities, including a
conference tool for webinars and a set of elegant content creation features.
Our full-stack Elixir & React team has contributed to the platform both through participation
on day-to-day improvements of the product’s features and by providing development of new
functionalities such as a custom video call solution, a quiz management and running system
and a bespoke e-learning content editing and presentation platform.
Curiosum’s and Digiforma’s technological stacks make a perfect match, utilizing backend and
frontend technologies such as Elixir, Phoenix Framework and Phoenix LiveView, Absinthe, GraphQL
and React, which enabled the A World For Us team and Curiosum people to achieve synergy and
exchange business and technical know-how between both parties.
Requirement
The client was looking for an experienced Elixir development team to help with their
fast-growing enterprise training and education tool. The key to success in this cooperation model
was ability to fit the Digiforma internal team culture.
According to Henri Morlaye, co-founder of Digiforma, “hiring for Elixir makes it a little bit harder”, particularly in close
vicinity to the company’s headquarters. “Outsourcing is a natural solution to our problem”, says
Henri.
A World For Us had been looking for a long-term partnership with people they can trust.
“I wanted to find a team we would be very comfortable with – not only on a technical,
but also a human level”, said Henri Morlaye commenting on their requirements regarding the choice
of a technological partner.
Team composition
Curiosum team members participate in the development of Digiforma and other projects by A World For
Us through a variety of flexible models of collaboration. Over time, 14 Curiosum Elixir &
React developers have contributed to the project.
Depending on specific needs, we delegate full-stack Elixir and frontend developers, often dealing
with React on the frontend, or specialized React developers where very specific and deep knowledge
of the technology is needed.
Collaboration model
In many cases, it has been practical for A World For Us to maintain a team of in-house software developers,
which is well-suited for business-critical parts of the Digiforma core. In this case, Curiosum
provides developers on a team-extension basis, participating in the every-day routines of the
team and providing development services to extend the team’s capabilities and give the client
access to Curiosum’s technological know-how.
When applicable, we also collaborate in the project-based outsourcing model, taking full
responsibility for development of several new features of the application. This model has proven to be
particularly useful for the purpose of research & development projects such as Digiforma’s brand-new
e-learning content editor, a custom video call & conferencing solution, as well as an in-app quiz platform.
Curiosum takes full responsibility for feature development, also taking into account the
handover to A World For Us’s in-house team for optimal knowledge retention.
Both collaboration models have also been utilized for digital product development together with A World
For Us’s, resulting in several new products complementary to Digiforma - Skills Marketplace, Formalerte,
and others.
"Curiosum team has adapted very well to the way we work and has been able to give valuable contribution to our overall product development."