A key retail construction player in the Middle East, Abdulla Al-Mis’hal’s primary focus is building trade malls in the region. It wanted to augment its retail lease offering with an integrated POS and retail ERP system created specifically for the needs of its SMB leasees.
After a stringent conceptualisation and vendor selection process, Abdulla Al-Mis’hal chose ELEKS to help it build its MVP.
We came on board to help Abdulla Al-Mis’hal deliver an MVP of a robust retail solution to enable rapid market entry with minimal risk, initially targeting supermarkets and grocery stores as its primary customers.
The comprehensive MVP, delivered in 16 months, comprises the following:
Once validated by the market, Abdulla Al-Mis’hal plans to expand the POS solution with extra modules and enhanced functionality to bring more value to its clients and tap into new market segments.
Abdulla Al-Mis’hal has a market-ready MVP that will allow it to enter the market and build on its early successes. The integrated retail system was successfully deployed to the pre-production environment, and ELEKS’ experts trained the client to set up customer implementations.
Post-project, impressed by ELEKS’ capabilities, Abdulla Al-Mis’hal has entered a partnership agreement with ELEKS Software Middle East LLC, the Middle East-region arm of ELEKS, which operates under ELEKS’ umbrella brand. This partnership will set the stage for ELEKS Software Middle East to expand its reach and innovative expertise throughout the Middle East and North African region, starting with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
The breadth of knowledge and understanding that ELEKS has within its walls allows us to leverage that expertise to make superior deliverables for our customers. When you work with ELEKS, you are working with the top 1% of the aptitude and engineering excellence of the whole country.
Right from the start, we really liked ELEKS’ commitment and engagement. They came to us with their best people to try to understand our context, our business idea, and developed the first prototype with us. They were very professional and very customer oriented. I think, without ELEKS it probably would not have been possible to have such a successful product in such a short period of time.
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