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Repliance: Making those dreaded security questionnaires less scary

In the spring of 2021, the company that would eventually be called 

, was little more than an idea. A really good idea, too, but to understand how good of an idea, some context is required:

If you've ever worked with any U.S.-based SaaS company, you may have had to deal with the notorious "Vendor Security Questionnaire" — or the "Third-Party Vendor Assessment Questionnaire", or some variations thereof.

Or, as it's more commonly known — the "Dreaded Security Questionnaire".

The VSQ is the industry standard for would-be clients to evaluate the security protocols of a prospective technology vendor. VSQs are notoriously complex and require significant resources to be correctly dealt with; and yet, it usually falls on the sales department to sift through process descriptions and technical documentation in search of answers to questions including:

How do you test the security of your production network and applications? Internal, third parties or both? If so, what is the cadence? Explain your methodology.

Time is literally money in these scenarios; if the VSQ isn't completed in a timely manner, it's not uncommon for deals to fall through. The organization's IT team inevitably inherits the responsibility of providing VSQ support. This means other priorities are pushed to the side while it's all-hands-on-deck for dealing with the VSQ.

In collaboration with the team at Metosin, Repliance designed and built a system from scratch. One that uses a blend of machine learning and expert knowledge to answer VSQ requests. This system was instrumental in scaling up Repliance's business and customer offer.

But as anyone who has ever built a business can attest, there's a great distance between a promising idea and a fully operational entity. Metosin was proud to be a development partner in the scale-up; from a dream to an MVP created by one-and-a-half person team, to a fully-realized business.

Metosin's solutions must always adapt and scale along with the client's business. That’s the standard we hold ourselves to, on every project we touch. Once the initial Proof of Concept was completed, we used it as the foundation while we went on to build and refine what would eventually become the core of the Repliance offer. The scalability of the system was continually tested as the team (and the dream) continued to grow.

From the knowledge gained during the PoC phase, and with development and design informing one another, the project grew from an application for ingesting questionnaires from "gnarly" Excel files and "dreadful" web portals — to implementing indexing and information search via NLP machine learning models.

The product development process evolved from a flat ticketing system to a more structured model, with a focus on systematic operations (using selected Shape Up methodologies, if you're a product development nerd too).

Even with Metosin in Finland and the Repliance team a full 8-hour workday behind in Chicago, a shared sense of camaraderie and purpose made the distance feel smaller. Yes, the daily work was on different timezones, but parts of the teams on both sides also travelled, to Chicago and to Finland, to see in person to give strength to work remotely.

The Repliance and Metosin teams were able to create a framework that takes in client security data, refines it and uses it to select efficient, accurate answers. This, along with expert personnel and the technological tools put at their fingertips, has enabled Repliance to gain a true competitive edge in both response times and accuracy of VSQ responses. The things their customers appreciate - and benefit from - the most.

"Metosin was one of the founding components of Repliance. 


Their team members helped turn our ideas and concepts into tangible tools. Metosin not only helped us create software but also establish processes and core practices like quarterly retrospectives. Their many contributions will always be a part of our culture and company."


- Ewa Jodlowska
Co-founder and CEO, Repliance

From dream, to MVP, to industry standard - how Metosin helped build a human and AI-powered service for dealing with Vendor Security Questionnaires.

Repliance

 system collects real-time heat, air pressure, and humidity data from thousands of homes, and integrates it with weather forecasts and district heating price forecasts. This enables them to optimize the temperature of the water in property heating systems, which can save up to 20% on heating costs without sacrificing comfort.

Metosin’s experts acted in a consultative role as part of the team, and they participated in the design and implementation of the architectural solutions and system features. They also helped build the AWS cloud infrastructure.

"their small and flexible team made everything easy and agile."

Metosin helped to take Leanheat from a functioning prototype to a fully-fledged product and brought Leanheat’s own team of Clojure engineers up to speed.

“The Metosin guys caught our attention during a Clojure meetup and it was clear that they had the experience to work with Clojure projects. They are enthusiastic and better than average guys, and working together with their small and flexible team made everything easy and agile.”

We provided expertise, advice and hands-on help to get Leanheat’s new product up and running.

Leanheat

Unitary Healthcare provides a patient logistics solution for public healthcare providers. Their solution manages the logistics for non-urgent patient transfers at the district level, including internal hospital transfers, health centre transfers, and sharing facilities between municipalities. It also integrates the transfer of things like patient information.

Metosin implemented a web app and a mobile app for the iOS and Android platforms. The project involved a comprehensive technology partnership, from the prototype and piloting phase all the way to winning the competitive bid for the Pirkanmaa Hospital District, including the implementation project with EHR system integrations and the system maintenance. The product ownership, service design and implementation were done in close collaboration with Unitary Healthcare doctors and the end-customers.

We built and delivered a robust service that solves a real problem for health care professionals. The user feedback has been stellar.

“Metosin provided a flexible technology partnership model that allowed us to get up to speed fast without hiring a full team of engineers ourselves. We are happy to have them taking care of the technological aspects of our solution.”

We implemented web and mobile apps for healthcare data, collaborating with real end users at every step.

Unitary Healthcare

Johtotieto Oy is a Finnish state-owned provider of location information and cable location services. The company handles hundreds of thousands of display requests each year from civil engineering companies, municipalities, excavators, planners and authorities.

Metosin built a field work management system with in-depth reporting and map functionalities that provide all the necessary information about underground infrastructure and related work requests. The system can be accessed through the contractor's operational control system, so the relevant people can see who is doing what, where they are and how the work is progressing. Metosin also provided help in integrating the system with third parties. The system and its support functions are constantly being developed.

The new system was developed right on schedule, which allowed transition from the old infrastructure to a modern and fault-tolerant cloud-based environment. The new system provides better security, more detailed audit logs and autonomous fault recovery in event of problems. In addition to system development, Metosin worked tightly with Johtotieto to enhance the level of business process digitalization, which enabled Johtotieto to make great leaps in productivity. And, by removing the need for unnecessary paperwork, the new system also saves tons of CO2 emissions.

“They work like they’re doing it because they want to.”

“We operate in the infrastructure sector, so we were looking for a safe, long-term partner. Metosin met our requirements. They have an innovative way of working and good insight into the customer's business, which they also help to develop.”

“Large software companies can offer many types of expert. However, they also have a layer of management between them and the customer, so the schedules and the concept can get stretched. Sometimes it’s like you ended up with a moped instead of a motorbike – or vice versa. In contrast, Metosin’s system is made to be easily customizable and makes making changes quick. They work like they’re doing it because they want to.”

Petri Nuutinen
Managing director, Johtotieto

We built a data management and mapping system to replace their old infrastructure and improve their productivity.

Johtotieto

 has over 20 years of experience of working as a pioneer in the development of business support systems for telecom operators.

Metosin delivered services for a business area that Qvantel did not have their own expertise in. The collaboration began with a pilot, and this then expanded into a fully-fledged software project. Metosin was responsible for the UX design, software development, system integration and testing.

"We were very pleased that Metosin was able to provide the UX, implementation, integration and testing capabilities needed. It has been a true pleasure to work with Metosin. The team has been self-steering and able to adopt our patterns where appropriate. Software drops have been consistently delivered on time with good quality.

We knew they had previous experience in implementing telecom operators' business processes and document management systems. The implementation team was self-guided and they adapted easily to our ways of working. Metosin’s development work is high quality and they always deliver on time."

We helped Qvantel turn a complex vision into a new, ground-breaking service.

Qvantel

 builds, operates and develops the Sigfox network in Finland and Estonia. Connected Finland also supplies IoT devices, projects, and FoxerIoT services to Sigfox network partners.

Metosin designed and developed a SaaS platform called FoxerIot, which manages IoT devices and the data gathered by the devices. The service platform contains databases that host a large amount of sensor data from clients' IoT devices, including data related to property maintenance, equipment usage and remote measurement. The service is built with scalability in mind, so it can meet the needs of a large number of users and thousands of devices.

“We are very satisfied with the quality of their work,” says, Markku Patronen, Managing Director, Connected Finland Oy. “Metosin's team was very dynamic and autonomous! All the work was done as promised and on schedule. They also rapidly developed more functionalities for us as new requirements were discovered during the project. Connected Finland started using the FoxerIoT platform and we already have successful customer cases around the world.”

“We wanted to use a top team with experience in building scalable service platforms for international markets.”

We built a scalable platform for managing IoT data, which can grow with the customer’s business.

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