Customer Overview

talentsconnect, a German HR technology company headquartered in Cologne, specializes in developing talent acquisition and retention software to enhance talent experience and HR processes. Their flagship product, JobShop, lets recruiters create attractive career websites and directly offer open positions online, maximizing success in talent acquisition.

Opportunity

talentsconnect needed a better way to deliver insights from their client data files. "We wanted to create a value-added offering for our customers where they could gain detailed insights about their market and competitors as they developed their recruiting strategies," said John Shiles, CPO at talentsconnect.

talentsconnect had diverse, loosely structured data. They received many files from clients and needed a solution to analyze that data directly from those files. Initially, they used Power BI but found it restrictive and difficult to customize for specific business logic. Embedding user-friendly, responsive dashboards for clients, with custom layouts and styling, was also problematic due to Power BI's limitations. These issues impacted their ability to innovate and slowed down their engineering teams with customization requests.

Solution

When talentsconnect moved to Semaphor, the benefits became clear almost immediately. Semaphor's open-standards approach let them leverage familiar tools like SQL and Python, providing greater control over their analytics.

Semaphor enabled talentsconnect to separate analytics from their core application. This significantly boosted their iteration speed, allowing product teams to swiftly adjust and enhance analytics without impacting the main application or overloading the engineering teams. Semaphor also provided an efficient way to implement multi-tenancy over S3 buckets. By segmenting client data via S3 prefixes instead of provisioning separate databases, they reduced both complexity and costs.

"Semaphor integrated seamlessly into our application with just a few lines of code," said Zhivko Todorov, Full Stack Developer at talentsconnect. "We gained complete control over the dashboard design, styling, and branding across devices, creating a seamless user experience."

Results & Impact

Semaphor significantly sped up talentsconnect's ability to deliver insights. This separation of analytics from the core application increased flexibility and remarkably improved their workflow between data and product teams. It enabled specialized teams to work independently on each part, enhancing the overall quality and innovation.

Since adopting Semaphor, talentsconnect has seen a 30% increase in their delivery speed, allowing them to deploy changes rapidly without burdening engineers. The collaboration between data and product teams is greatly improved, making it easier to experiment and integrate new ideas quickly into their product. Their clients appreciate seeing relevant metrics directly within the application, resulting in an improved user experience.

Testimonial

"Semaphor has transformed our product and data team's workflow. They can now more quickly prototype and test new use cases directly in our application with our clients, significantly reducing feedback cycle time. Plus, Semaphor's styling options are outstanding, fitting seamlessly with our product's design," John Shiles, CPO at talentsconnect