Our featured cases
Asteroid helps ambitious clients build high-quality digital solutions – combining deep technical expertise and a human-first mindset, from strategy to delivery.
We work with clients across a wide range of industries – including energy, financial services, gaming, logistics, manufacturing, retail, telecom, and the public sector. Business-critical challenges and meaningful societal impact make us tick.
We offer experience-backed insights and services to help our clients navigate digital development end-to-end. Agile or turnkey, ideation or execution, independent of platforms – our solutions are always driven by your business goals.
Read on to learn more about our customer cases.
customer Case
Modernizing a Real Estate ERP: From technical debt to ISO compliance
Pandia
#CustomERP #B2B #RealEstate #TechnicalDebt #Refactoring #Security #ISO27001
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Pandia, a forward-thinking real estate management software company based in Finland, was developing a specialized ERP system tailored to the property sector.
While their internal software development team focused on delivering new features, they needed support to tackle technical debt, implement ISO 27001 security standards, and address vulnerabilities in their software supply chain.
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We helped Pandia assemble a team of full-stack developers dedicated to addressing these critical technical challenges, freeing up their in-house team to focus on core product development and business objectives.
Working as part of their existing team, we brought deep expertise to modernize and future-proof their technology stack – React, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Through close collaboration, we helped ensure the system was scalable, secure, and equipped to support both current operations and future growth.
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With our support, Pandia successfully paid down technical debt, resolved security issues, and advanced toward ISO 27001 compliance – all while continuing to deliver on their business and product goals.
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Savoring a seamless restaurant booking experience through digital innovation
Major Finnish retail and hospitality group
#Customerexperience #Hospitality #Omnichannel #Phygital #Fullstack
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Our client, a group of diverse restaurant chains and hotels, wanted to stand out in a highly competitive digital landscape.
They understood that an exceptional digital experience can make all the difference for a restaurant and its guests – and that their existing web services needed a thorough refreshment to stay ahead of the competition.
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We started by building a modern web and mobile experience for discovering and exploring their restaurants and menus, with a strong focus on usability, information architecture, speed, and accessibility. This involved substantial improvements to frontend applications, integration architecture, data layers, and content management.
By listening to end-user needs, we streamlined the restaurant discovery and table booking process and merged digital and physical experiences through a mobile app renewal. This provided customers with new ways to access services at the venues, ensuring a seamless dining experience from start to finish.
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Our client now stands out from the competition by effortlessly blending digital and physical experiences.
The revamped services have been a great success, giving the restaurants and the group operations the means to cater to their end customers enjoyable dining experiences that begin well before arriving at the table.
Read a longer article about the project in Finnish.
customer Case
Next-generation psychometric testing solutions
Leading international psychometric services provider
#GCP #Cloud #Go #NextJS #Psychology
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Our client, a leading psychometric services provider set out to build a next-generation digital solution facilitating their assessment offering.
The initiative’s goal was to further improve the quality of their services, gain a competitive advantage in the market of digital assessment solutions, and simplify operations while ensuring utmost security and reliability.
Novel challenges like this are often fuzzy at first. The first steps in tackling them involve understanding, elaborating, and organizing them into manageable and actionable pieces of a puzzle.
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We helped our client clarify the path toward their goals and define a matching team structure and prospective team members to embark on that journey. Establishing and empowering a competent, multidisciplinary team with seamless collaboration across complementary roles is a well-known recipe behind many successes.
As a joint team, we built a modern cloud-based technical solution focused on a platform capable of orchestrating modern technologies, ensuring high performance and scalability while maintaining stringent reliability and security standards. A service-oriented system design was created in order to support seamless integration with multiple systems and real-time data processing. The platform was built as the backbone for a suite of cutting-edge end-user applications serving a global user base.
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Our client unlocked substantial growth potential with the rollout of the new platform, positioning themselves to maintain market leadership for years to come.
Through close collaboration, their internal technical expertise grew significantly, empowering them to become more self-sufficient in the future development of their services. The new platform has enabled increasingly rapid and continuous advancements to the services – benefiting various end customers and users across healthcare, education, and business.
At Asteroid, we’re proud of our role in accelerating this transformative journey, leveraging innovative technology and problem-solving capabilities to shape the future of our client’s industry.
customer Case
E-commerce platform modernization: From legacy to agility
Leading Nordic retailer
#E-commerce #Modernization #Serverless #AWS
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Our client, a leading Nordic retailer with a long-standing, bespoke e-commerce platform recognized the need to modernize its digital infrastructure.
While the existing system had served the business well, it was becoming increasingly complex to scale, maintain, and adapt to changing customer expectations. To stay ahead, the company set its sights on a modern, flexible architecture that could support faster innovation and continued growth.
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We helped our client shape a pragmatic modernization strategy focused on incremental value delivery. Taking on the tech lead role, we guided the gradual re-architecture of legacy features into cloud-native, serverless microservices with a modern front-end.
A/B testing ensured measurable impact before full rollout. We also introduced modern DevOps practices, test automation, and observability, laying the groundwork for continuous delivery and operational excellence.
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The modernized platform delivered immediate business impact, outperforming the legacy system in A/B tests across conversion, revenue, and user experience.
With improved reliability and scalability, the development team could shift from firefighting to feature delivery, accelerating time-to-market and unlocking long-term agility.
customer Case
Last-mile deliveries solved by autonomous robots
International last-mile logistics pioneer
#Logistics #AI #B2X #Frontends
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Our client, a global leader in last-mile deliveries by autonomous robots, is pioneering the future of logistics.
They face unique challenges in their bid to revolutionize the industry and provide novel services – such as developing cutting-edge AI-driven navigation, overcoming various operational edge cases, and ensuring the ability to scale the business flexibly.
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By leveraging our technical expertise, we helped our client succeed. We focused on the development of user-friendly operative frontend applications that addressed specific challenges – including training new staff in growing markets and creating realistic simulations of real-world scenarios.
The end goal was to ensure smooth end-customer experiences even in the most challenging navigation cases.
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Our client’s business has experienced impressive growth and maturity, boasting millions of successful deliveries combined with ongoing learning to further refine their services.
At Asteroid, we’re honored to contribute to this pioneering journey, helping to shape the future of last-mile logistics with innovative technology and problem-solving capabilities.
customer Case
Enhancing the public transit experience with user-friendly apps
Public transport company
#Transportation #B2C #Datadrivendesign #Fullstack #Devops
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Our client, a public transport company, was looking to elevate their end customers’ travel experience by launching new digital products and services.
Their objectives included reducing customer service workload by enabling digital self-service access to their products. They also wanted to refine their web and mobile applications to provide reliable, engaging, and accessible services.
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We helped turn the client’s goals into action and make the outcomes measurable through relevant business metrics. Our approach involved synergetic frontend technologies to develop user-centric web and mobile apps.
We modernized parts of the application architectures, streamlined DevOps practices, and bolstered cloud architecture and security to ensure seamless future development and delivery of exceptional end-user experiences.
We also contributed to the client’s design system to improve the end-users’ experience and simplify development efforts across different channels, applications, and development teams.
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Our work yielded significant improvements in self-service capabilities, customer service focus, sales, and conversion rates – all measurable and backed by real-world data.
customer Case
Providing transparent and easy access to government data
Finnish government agency
#Publicsector #Fullstack #Modernfrontend #Privatecloud #Searchengine #Datamigration
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Transparent and easy access to information is one of the cornerstones of public administration in Finland, influencing both internal operations and external interactions, ultimately impacting the lives of all Finnish citizens.
Our client, a government agency, set out to develop a web service aimed at consolidating and sharing their research and statistical materials, alongside blogs, analyses, and other selected data.
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To effectively address this multifaceted challenge with utmost competence and flexibility, we jointly tendered for the project with our close, complementary partners.
Asteroid’s contributions included development roadmapping, application architecture design, feature development, and supporting the client in adopting modern best practices, such as test automation.Our role was primarily focused on front-end development, utilizing technologies such as React, and integrating it with the Liferay DXP. Additionally, we contributed to backend integrations involving
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Our client now benefits from an advanced research and statistical data search platform that seamlessly leverages modern front-end technologies in a private cloud environment.
The enhanced search service empowers users with a modern, intuitive experience, making it easier than ever to access the right information quickly and efficiently.
customer Case
Technical due diligence for mobile app acquisition
Payment services provider
#Advisory #Duediligence #Mobiletech
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Our client, a payment services provider, was preparing for a strategic business acquisition involving the target company’s IPR. This included a mobile app that would have the potential to extend the client’s key digital offering.
To fully assess the app’s development potential, they needed to conduct an independent technology evaluation. This included gaining insight into its licensing, quality, lifecycle, and maintenance aspects – as well as identifying any risks, dependencies, and requirements to be aware of.
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Asteroid reviewed the software using an established methodology consisting of interviews, static code analysis using automated tooling, and hands-on expert evaluation of the codebase, system architecture, and development practices.
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Our review was done within the estimated timeline. We presented a report covering both the key qualitative and quantitative findings that enabled the client to make an informed decision about moving forward with the acquisition.
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Many thanks for the review and report! We found your professionalism and the quality of the work remarkably high. Well done!
– Our CLIENT, the CTOExplore new digital frontiers with Asteroid
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Mika Tuoma
CEO, Co-Founder
mika.tuoma@asteroid.fi
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Eero Kurkela
CTO, Co-Founder
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Sami Talpiainen
Chief Commercial Officer
sami.talpiainen@asteroid.fi
+358 40 550 3969
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