Greyloud: Charting A Cost-Conscious DX Strategy

The Covid19-led pandemic has accelerated an ongoing digital transformation (DX) demand like never before. Online food delivery, shopping for essential items through apps, and working remotely have become a necessity than a luxury. These trends are slated to only increase DX with time. As more businesses seek an online presence, so does the data grow endlessly. This makes data security a huge concern for business owners. And doing DX with companies that are not protected by the law of the land would put the entire business operations in jeopardy, vulnerable to cyber-attacks, and not sufficiently accountable to the cybersecurity establishment. This also creates a lot of demand for expert professionals to build fool-proof DX systems that also need long-term support that cannot be relied upon by the fly-by-night operators.

It is really hard to find the best talented IT professionals resource pool, as they are absorbed mostly in a very few sectors that leaves the market unmet with staffing solutions for a massive drive in DX. And it is a myth that only high costing professionals will deliver high-quality DX solutions. GreyLoud is founded to intelligently give the best of both worlds by smart geo-arbitrage and staffing solutions. The company is headquartered in Minsk, Belarus— Eastern Europe, where the software developers are also based, which cuts significant demand-led costs. East Europe is covered under the Data Protection Act, giving robust digital security legislation for all stakeholders. The project management heads operate from Hong Kong and Singapore, where investors and clients can personally meet. This resolves any glitches that need top management to participate in discussions with the investing clients opting for DX.

The hybrid outsourcing model of GreyLoud helps businesses cut down the operating costs by moving the developing part to talented IT professionals in East Europe who give better turn-around-time, efficient response to deliver solutions and are covered by the Data Protection Act for East Europe.

The traditional Asian market is driven more by investments and has added risk of data theft and not adequate laws cover data security currently in these regions. Investing in DX of business also needs sufficient training to be imparted on its operations. And supporting the apps and services in DX in its backend needs an adequate infrastructure involving experts continuously. Besides, the more the app and other DX services are used, much more is a need to adapt to evolving user demands. This makes the project opt for scaling, resulting in further budget investment. And at this stage, companies cannot take any risk of delay in its delivery.

GreyLoud demonstrated the power of DX in its outreach to the community on the novel idea of species conservation. GreyLoud designed the iDOPT wildlife app to facilitate the adoption of endangered wildlife in Africa by providing information to choose from for the common people. This crowd-funding facilitates willing and aware common people script their participation that is considered to rest with the government agencies or international bodies. GreyLoud deploys a platform model by applying the marketplace model to animal conservation. Using Aliyun—Alibaba Cloud Computing services and the great firewall, the user’s data request is serviced, moving it to the data center where the user will have the fastest connection. Users can browse adopted animals and even get multimedia updates on their daily activities and life.

GreyLoud looks forward to continue offering digital strategies that are highly reliable and have the ability to face architectural challenges on platforms that give unmatched portability power to reach millions of users.