How Azati stabilized and accelerated a high-risk, calculation-intensive enterprise estimation platform with complex cross-module calculation dependencies in a multi-vendor delivery environment. The team validated pricing catalogs, coefficient logic, material-resource processes, and tender preparation for industrial infrastructure projects.
releases delivered early with future functionality demos
validated for enterprise tender preparation
core calculation and pricing modules built and stabilized
The client is a major vertically integrated oil and gas organization. Their ecosystem required a centralized construction cost calculation platform for large-scale industrial infrastructures and complex tender documentation.
In a nutshell, the goal of this engagement was to implement and stabilize multiple interconnected calculation domains, dozens of pricing dependencies, and validation workflows for cross-functional procurement stakeholders.
The enterprise pricing engine relied on interconnected catalogs, coefficients, material statements, and project-specific configuration rules spanning multiple procurement workflows. Even a relatively simple construction could involve long dependency chains spanning different business entities. This created risks like calculation errors and manual work, potentially leading to procurement losses.
Before Azati joined the engagement, another vendor had already implemented part of the functionality. Azati balanced engineering with stabilizing inherited legacy enterprise calculation logic, preserving cross-module compatibility, and enabling seamless releases. The engagement required deep immersion into existing business logic and undocumented system behavior.
Updating a single transportation coefficient could affect downstream calculations across material-resource estimates, exclusion rules, and tender pricing outputs. As the platform was built around dedicated Oil & Gas construction estimation methodologies, the complexity for Azati lay in operational modeling, the behavior of engineering estimation software, and enterprise cost validation. This required the Azati team to master domain-specific concepts, from coefficient logic, pricing structures, and material resource statements, to transportation costs, limited expense calculations, and tender preparation procedures.
The engagement demanded careful validation of interconnected calculation processes where even small inconsistencies could impact procurement and construction planning. Azati brought prior experience in Oil & Gas engineering, QA, and modernization involving calculation-intensive workflows and regulated operational environments.
Azati consistently operates inside dynamic multi-vendor enterprise delivery environments with evolving priorities, inherited features, and iterative release planning. Despite changing scope and operational complexity, the team released functionality ahead of schedule.
The project required QA for calculation systems and regression validation across multiple modules, areas in which Azati QA experts have firsthand experience. During the previous engagement with this client, our regression testing revealed critical calculation instability two weeks before release, thus preventing major operational disruption.
Before this project, Azati assisted the client in numerous engineering and QA initiatives, including enterprise portal migration, reservoir analytics platforms, and operational modules development.
Ask Azati to troubleshoot cost estimation platforms, stabilize inherited systems, and handle calculation-intensive logic.
Audit enterprise pricing processesThe Azati team developed, validated, and stabilized modules powering construction cost calculations and tender preparation workflows.
Azati implemented functionality for managing pricing engine components and coefficient structures used in construction estimation workflows. The team also corrected and standardized coefficient-type naming and display-order logic, and established project-specific pricing and coefficient processes.
To facilitate enterprise cost estimation and tender preparation, Azati developed modules that account for additional transportation costs for material resources, cost limitations, and exclusion flags. Selected construction types are configurable manually.
Azati also implemented accounting processes for material and technical resources. The system supported management of equipment, pipes, construction, and raw materials inside interconnected estimation processes.
Azati's Quality Assurance team prioritized the verification and stabilization of calculation-intensive enterprise systems, ensuring accuracy across pricing variables and coefficient interdependencies.
| Area | Azati contribution |
|---|---|
| Pricing management | Stabilized enterprise pricing engine and coefficient workflows used across interconnected construction estimation calculations |
| Cost estimation | Developed foundational calculation components |
| Material workflows | Implemented material resource statements and status models |
| Calculation logic | Added bulk coefficient application and exclusion handling |
| Validation | Performed enterprise cost calculation validation across interconnected estimation processes |
| Stabilization | Stabilized legacy enterprise calculation logic and cross-module estimation behavior |
| Delivery | Released two iterations early, restoring delivery predictability in a previously unstable multi-vendor environment |
Dynamic multi-vendor enterprise delivery conditions. Even under continuously evolving project priorities and scope, Azati delivered both iterations earlier than predicted, enabling stakeholders to preview functionality originally planned for future releases. Some estimation scenarios required recalculation across multiple dependent pricing entities and resource categories.
Given that the construction data was distributed across multiple modules and interconnected dependencies, the logic of industrial cost estimation required difficult manual recalculation and validation. Errors could lead to significant financial losses during the tender and construction phases. Even relatively straightforward construction activities could involve:
While actively building new functionality, Azati had to reverse engineer undocumented logic that the team took over from the previous vendor. The combined QA and engineering effort secured cross-module compatibility, fixed inherited defects, stabilized processes, and maintained release timelines.
Azati understands how intense your operational risks are. Our team has strong QA and CI/CD discipline, operating in regulated industrial environments, efficiently collaborating with system integration vendors and internal teams.
Derisk my estimation workflowsDuring regression validation, Azati identified inconsistencies in inherited coefficient dependency chains affecting transportation-adjusted calculations across material-resource workflows. The issue required reverse engineering undocumented logic across multiple modules before release validation could proceed.
| Metric / area | Before engagement with Azati | After engagement with Azati |
|---|---|---|
| Release predictability | Evolving multi-vendor delivery environment | Two releases stabilized and delivered ahead of planned release timelines |
| Calculation stability | Inherited defects and inconsistent logic | Stabilized enterprise estimation |
| Pricing and coefficient management | Partially implemented functionality | Centralized pricing and coefficient management modules |
| Material resource workflows | Fragmented functionality | Structured material resource statements status and validation |
| Enterprise readiness | Ongoing development instability | Successful enterprise acceptance testing support |
Azati delivered both released iterations ahead of schedule despite evolving requirements, inherited functionality, and multi-vendor coordination. Early delivery enabled stakeholders to validate future platform processes quickly and resolved uncertainty around subsequent implementation.
The Azati team introduced repeatable regression validation procedures before release acceptance. We've consolidated interconnected estimation processes spanning coefficients, material statements, transportation adjustments, limited costs, and project-specific pricing structures. This improved consistency of cross-module calculations and reduced operational ambiguity during tender preparation.
Through regression testing, cross-module validation, and remediation of inherited defects, Azati improved traceability and consistency critical to avoiding potential losses.
The implemented functionality completed release validation and acceptance for delivered iterations, enabling rollout of regulated enterprise software and future development planning.
The delivered core components established reusable patterns for pricing references, coefficient handling, material-resource accounting, and cross-module calculation validation across future estimation workflow modernization.
By stabilizing inherited functionality and validating interconnected calculation chains, Azati reduced delivery uncertainty across ongoing platform development.
Successful release support and delivery execution contributed to discussions around continued participation in subsequent development phases.
The engagement combined long-term dedicated engineering participation with flexible delivery adjustments.
Customer demos and release acceptance were conducted every two weeks. The delivery process included daily synchronization meetings, iterative customer demos, continuous release validation, acceptance testing support, and evolving backlog prioritization.
The engagement combined backend engineering, frontend development, QA validation, regression testing, and release support capabilities required for building industrial infrastructure estimation platforms.
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