Services

We help you identify and realise digital business opportunities

solution design

  • We convert business objectives into tailored digital solutions
  • We make it simple, to the point

product/tech leadership

  • We have done it many times before
  • We guide you from back-of-the-envelope idea to global rollout

culture & organisation

  • We help you structure organisations and build teams that can deliver
  • We help you hire the best talents and engage with the right partners

value optimisation

  • We optimise your timeline and budgets
  • We minimise risks and dependencies

Olivier is a real expert in e-commerce both technically and strategically, and the people he choses to work with him are top talents."

Case study #1: Emolument

Emolument is a crowdsourced salary-benchmarking tool used by thousands of professionals worldwide. Techtopus built the platfrom from scratch.

a unique model

Emolument sources its data directly from its users through its unique contribute-to- get model: users have to provide their own details and salary data to access their job, university and employer reports. As more and more people participate, more and more data is collected, more and more reports are created and become more and more granular and precise in their outputs.

Machine learning data validation

A set of 80,000 entries was used to identify typical patterns and create a model that would predict whether a salary should be included to our database or terminated.

High speed Real time statistics

We developed a very efficient and fast engine to generate statistics in real-time based on any user job selection. The engine calculates statistics across all dimensions included in the report in record speed.

Employee engagement surveys

Subscription service with sophisticated surveying tools to assess employee engagement for corporate clients.

SEO optimized

Most of Emolument traffic is coming from search engines and is the result of a highly effective search engine optimisation stragegy.

Fully responsive

More than 50% of Emolument visitors are using the site on their mobile phone or tablet. The site is available on all platforms.

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Case study #2: MyShowcase

MyShowcase.com is an award-winning, multi-brand, multi-channel beauty e-commerce platform. MyShowcase was sold in early 2018 to Miroma Group.

Techtopus built the fully-integrated technology platform that powered its:

Stylist network

The platform enabled stylists (independent sales advsisors) to manage their teams, events (showcases), customer base, commission, training & development etc;

Consumer B2C experience

Online shoppers browsed products and placed their own orders directly on the platform. They could also earn loyalty points, host showcases etc...

independent brand marketplace

Brands managed product information, stock, revenue directly via their own control panel.

Order fulfillment and customer support

Warehouse operation, customer service and Stylist network management teams used the platform in order to fulfil and manage orders and the health and development of the Stylist network.

Management information

Integrated reporting helped managers and executives understand and drive business performance.

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Case study #3: Carlsberg

Techtopus advised the company on its B2B multi-channel platform strategy and co-led its execution over the following 3 years.

Build vs buy

Techtopus assessed the risks associated with replacing an outsourced legacy Sales Force Automation (SFA) app by an in-house, built for purpose tool. Its conclusion led to the decision to build in-house. Techtopus was then put in charge to build the in-house digital product development capabilities.

new digital hub in lisbon

After exploring various options, Lisbon was selected as the location for the new team. Techtopus teamed up with a local recruitment agency to build the product team. It vetted and on-boarded each new member and led the delivery of the first version of the tool, setting up the foundations for the platform. Within 3 months, the first version of the new tool was ready for testing and rolled out in its first pilot markets.

the creation of a multi-channel global digital platform

This success led to expanding the scope of the original platform to other channels. Techtopus created a new team to build the B2B ecommerce platform for the Asian and Russian markets leveraging the newly acquired product development know-how. The micro-services/multi-tenant architecture enabled the SFA and B2B applications to share similar functionalities without redundant developments and a common data integration layer with the local market ERPs. At the same time, having built its own product development capabilities, Carlsberg was able to adapt its digital solution to the specific needs of each markets, developing its own custom promotion and loyalty engines whilst leveraging third party modules when available (headless content management, IA powered product recommendations).

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Overall, working with Techtopus transformed what I thought was going to be a complicated problem, like choosing and building a platform, into something relatively simple and enjoyable."

 

Projects

Bata Corporation

Advised the board of the global shoe retail group on its e-commerce multi-channel platforming strategy. Coached MD to deliver e-commerce redesign across all European businesses.

Carlsberg A/S

Advised Danish global brewer on B2B multi-channel platform strategy and in-house execution to deliver digital solutions to various markets in Europe and Asia (see case study above)

Auchan Group

Created new in-house team (including perm CTO) for the global French retail group to support migration away from outsourced e-commerce platform (SAP Hybris)

Momondo Group

Interim CTO for the online travel fare aggregator. Managed roadmap following the merger between Cheapflights and Momondo

Time Out Group

Interim CTO for the publishing group. Led tech initiatives following merger between UK and US businesses, advised on e-ticketing and CRM RFP process and platform selection

MyShowcase.com

Co-founded and built bespoke beauty e-commerce & direct marketing sales platform from scratch (see case study)

FundingXchange.co.uk

Co-founded and built real time underwriting engine and marketplace for SME funding

FabulousNoble.com

Co-founded and built platform to showcase and commission bespoke art works

Emolument.com

Co-founded and built platform to capture, validate and generate salary data analysis and benchmarking (see case study)

ReachX.co

Co-founded and built FCA regulated platform to source independent finance professionals and deals

About Techtopus

Techtopus was founded in 2010 by Olivier Beau de Loménie, an experienced tech and product leader passionate about creating outstanding digital solutions. Olivier led the team that originally developed and scaled Ocado.com e-commerce platform.

 

Over the years, Techtopus has incubated multiple new online businesses in a wide variety of sectors, leveraging a deep, hands-on experience of software design, architectures, technologies and agile processes as well as a broad network of talents from acting CTO/CPO to ad-hoc resources.

 

At the same time, Techtopus has worked with numerous blue chip companies helping them make key digital transformation decisions and implement them.

 

This unique combination of projects has enabled Techtopus to bring blue chip maturity to the former and startup agility to the latter.

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