Case Study · Software & Portals

Festina Bringing smart features together with premium watch design in a companion app

Project profile

CustomerFestina Sweden
PartnerSigma Technology
IndustryManufacturing / Watch Industry

Challenge

Festina Sweden is responsible for developing the Festina Group’s hybrid watches, and its team in Malmö has grown from a handful of people to 24 employees over the years. To keep pace with growing development needs and build watches that combine appealing design with up-to-date technology, the company needed additional software engineering capacity.

Solution

Two roles in the existing team

iOS app development
Backend & cloud services

Two consultants inside the existing team

Sigma Technology placed two consultants directly inside Festina’s existing team: one focused on iOS app development, the other on back-end and cloud services.

App features and cloud infrastructure

Together they worked on new app functionality as well as on extending the cloud infrastructure, built on services including Google Cloud, AWS Lambda and Google BigQuery.

Technologies

iOS app (Swift)
Google Cloud, AWS Lambda, Google BigQuery

In focus

App development
Back-end & cloud services
Process automation

Results

The collaboration produced new companion-app features, including music controls, photo capture, location reminders and a find-my-phone function. On the back-end side, the consultants helped prepare the system for upcoming products and automate manual processes. Festina describes working with the Sigma consultants as straightforward and consistently high in quality.

New companion-app features
Extended cloud infrastructure
Prepared for upcoming products