Case Study: Leading Market Research Company achieves automated, efficient Consumer Price Index (CPI) data collection with Globant

Globant helps a leading market research company improve Consumer Price Index collection

Leading Market Research Company, a global leader in market research present in over 80 countries, provides Consumer Price Index (CPI) data to national statistics offices and collects roughly 120,000 prices during the first week of each month plus tens of thousands of online and supplier prices. In 2013 the client engaged Globant to replace an existing application with a fully automated mobile CPI data-collection solution that must work offline on phones, support remote updates without disrupting collectors, and reliably upload and sync data to the master databases.

Globant built the CPI Collection Program App — a native Android, kiosk-mode mobile app with collector and supervisor roles — plus a REST interface for secure synchronization with the master database and a Web back office for administrators. Key features include duplicate notifications, back-check routing, conversion tools, price history, suggested items, maps and on-site reporting. The solution automated the entire collection process, improving efficiency, precision and transparency, supported offline capture and timely synchronization of the client’s large monthly price volumes, and was delivered under an agile approach with a pilot completed in September and deployment in November, exceeding the client’s expectations on cost, time and quality.