Custom web application for
growing small business 401k provider
Overview
Human Interest is revolutionizing the way small businesses in the US manage 401k plans for their employees.
How We Solved It
Sphere employed React, a declarative, efficient, and flexible, open source javascript library for building user interfaces. In the case of Human Interest, Sphere chose React as it allowed the creation of a fast, simple and scalable frontend for web applications. Using React, Sphere engineers executed the development by segmenting the project into separate components. By employing this approach, Sphere was highly efficient and productive as it allowed reuse of the code. An additional challenge encountered was working with the dated legacy technologies like Baobab and the integration of new React components to the production through provider repository using git submodule. Despite all of the technical complexities and challenges, Sphere successfully resolved all issues and also implemented the new style reports and analytics to go with the new front end.
The Results
The Human Interest web application is now well adapted for mobile devices. Their new look application provides a user experience that is modern, seamless, and efficient, with meaningful and actionable custom analytics and reporting. Recently, Human Interest has seen a significant surge in user logins and the number of reports created, generated, and perhaps most importantly, downloaded indicating enhanced user value as compared to the previous capability.
