Robust Badge Issuing Platform with Support for 100,000+ Users

As a leading certification authority with more than 30 years of experience, the client wanted to enhance learning outcomes with verifiable and easily shareable digital badges to promote a badge earner’s achievements. In addition to expanding its online presence, the client was looking to open up new revenue streams by offering business users a subscription to the solution.

Knowing that the maintenance phase constitutes up to 80% of the total cost, the client placed utmost importance on supreme product quality and expected an easily maintainable, robust solution that would sustain 100,000+ registered users.

Demanding quality expectations were paired with tight deadlines as the first project phase had to be completed within 3 months — from scratch.

The client was also concerned with meeting Europe’s tough data protection regulations and needed a competent vendor able to provide end-to-end GDPR implementation services.

To address the customer’s needs, Oxagile assembled a team of 5 experts spearheaded by a lead engineer with over 20 years of professional experience.

With a proven track record of successful projects, Oxagile was able to demonstrate its developers’ ability to write clean, modular, readable code. In addition, the team thoroughly analyzed the client’s business context and adapted the company’s code guidelines and best practices to align them with the client’s specific requirements.

To meet the tight time-to-market deadline, Oxagile leveraged its flexible yet predictable Scrum process, enabling the client to frequently roll out new functionality and stay on schedule at all times.

Oxagile delivered a robust Open Badges solution that allows IT professionals to earn verifiable digital credentials and promote them on social and professional networks. From an easy-to-use dashboard, a user can choose to accept badges, make them visible, export to Mozilla Backpack, and share across Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to promote their career.

In line with the client’s goal to boost revenues, the solution comes with multiple subscription options for business users and offers seamless integration with the existing infrastructure. By using the solution, badge issuers can award, edit, and revoke digital badges, add custom templates, track badges and users, and more.

Underpinned by .NET Core 2.0, the robust system is able to serve up to 3,000 users per hour, while supporting 100,000+ user accounts. To ensure a great user experience, the solution leverages a flexible API and a highly optimized backend to create a new user or issue a badge in less than 3 seconds.

Relying on the company-wide expertise and best practices, Oxagile’s team delivered a solution that meets the client’s high maintainability standards. An independent audit agency meticulously examined the code objective metrics and proved the codebase to be highly analyzable, modifiable, testable, reusable, and modular.