Case Study: Merck DORA expands diabetes risk assessment across Africa with Monterail

Merck DORA launches a 0.7 MB diabetes app in 9 African countries with Monterail

The customer, Merck DORA / Merck Group, needed to overhaul its existing diabetes risk assessment web application to be highly accessible across Africa, where internet performance is extremely low. The challenge for vendor Monterail was to develop a lightweight, multilingual app optimized for slow connections and a wide range of mobile devices while creating a new interface.

Monterail implemented a solution using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, which included a separate version for the Opera Mini browser. The resulting app was redesigned, visually appealing, and weighed only 0.7MB. This allowed Merck to expand the application's reach from one country to nine across Africa, secure new partnerships with local pharmacies, and led to further collaborations with Monterail on three additional projects.

Merck DORA / Merck Group