XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems)

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About XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems)

XTIVIA, formerly known as Strategic Sales Systems, brings over three decades of experience to its clients, having been founded in 1992. Despite this long history, the company maintains a focused team of 10 to 49 professionals, suggesting a boutique approach even after so many years in business. Its services include mobile app development, cross platform app development, wearable app development, and VR app development, a combination that blends conventional mobile work with newer categories like wearables and virtual reality. The company's name change from Strategic Sales Systems hints at an evolution in strategic focus over the years, likely reflecting shifts in the broader technology landscape since its early days. XTIVIA's premium hourly rate suggests it positions its long-standing expertise as a value proposition, commanding rates that reflect decades of accumulated knowledge rather than competing purely on volume. Having weathered multiple waves of technological change, from the earliest mobile platforms through today's VR and wearable devices, XTIVIA offers clients a rare blend of institutional experience and continued relevance in newer technology categories. Businesses valuing longevity paired with modern technical capability may find XTIVIA a distinctive option.

Services

Mobile App Development VR App Development Wearable App Development Cross Platform App Development

Industries Served

Events & Event Management Logistics & Supply Chain Construction

XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) Reviews

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A testing partner who treated quality as seriously as we do

Brandon Hayes / VP of Engineering - Apex Digital Partners
Verified
Jan 08, 2025

Project summary: Our existing platform had grown organically over several years and the accumulated technical debt was beginning to affect both performance and our ability to ship new features.

I am a demanding client. I have a technical background, I review code, and I have high standards for documentation and testing. This team met all of those expectations without ever seeming defensive about scrutiny. Peer code reviews were welcomed, unit test coverage was genuine rather than performative, and the API documentation was thorough enough that our own developers integrated against it without a single clarification call. That level of craft is what I look for and rarely find.

PROS

Business-aware approach to every technical decision, strong project governance, fast turnaround on feedback, zero drama during a genuinely complex engagement

CONS

Their calendar books up quickly which made scheduling the initial kickoff slightly challenging — a good problem for them to have and not one that affected our delivery

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeQuality Assurance & Testing
IndustryEvents & Event Management
Project Cost$10,000 to $49,999
DurationJan 2025 – Apr 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Apex Digital Partners operates across the Events & Event Management sector with offices in San Francisco, USA. In my capacity as VP of Engineering I oversee both the strategic and operational technology agenda. We are a growth-stage business that needed a development partner capable of scaling with us rather than constraining us.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
We had a product concept validated by market research but no clear path to build it within our budget and timeline constraints. Our Events & Event Management competitors were moving quickly and we could not afford to spend eighteen months finding out a generalist agency could not execute the Quality Assurance & Testing work our product required.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The full Quality Assurance & Testing lifecycle from discovery through to production deployment and hypercare support. This included requirements workshops, solution architecture, sprint-based development, QA and automated testing, deployment to our cloud environment, and a structured handover with documentation. They also provided a brief post-launch period of dedicated support which was genuinely useful.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
Price was a factor but not the deciding one. They were mid-range in our evaluation. What tipped it was the combination of their technical depth in Quality Assurance & Testing, the seniority of the team they proposed to assign to our account, and the clarity of their project governance model. We had been burned by an agency that overpromised before and we needed to see evidence of process maturity.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Thorough and precise. They translated our business language into technical requirements without losing the intent, which is a skill that sounds straightforward but frequently goes wrong. Every user story they wrote was reviewed against the original business objective before it entered the sprint and the acceptance criteria were specific enough to remove subjectivity from QA.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Outstanding. I have worked with agencies that communicate beautifully during the sales process and go quiet during delivery. This was the opposite — structured, consistent, and genuinely informative throughout. Problems were surfaced early with proposed solutions rather than just problem statements, which made the inevitable mid-project decisions much easier to make.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
The project landed on the agreed delivery date and within the approved budget. We did add scope during the engagement — two features that became apparent as essential during user testing — and those were quoted, approved, and delivered without affecting the original scope timeline. That kind of clean change management is not something you can take for granted.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
Hard to isolate precisely because several factors changed simultaneously, but the data we can attribute directly to the new Quality Assurance & Testing platform shows a meaningful improvement in the metrics that matter to our Events & Event Management business. Our account managers report that the new capability is coming up positively in client conversations, which was one of the strategic objectives we started with.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The intellectual honesty. They told us when something we wanted was a bad idea and explained why. They told us when a timeline was tight and gave us options. They did not tell us what we wanted to hear in order to win work or avoid a difficult conversation. In a long engagement that kind of relationship is far more valuable than an agency that just says yes.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes. The referral I would give comes with context: they are not the cheapest option and they are not the fastest to schedule. If you are optimising purely on price or looking for someone to start tomorrow, there are other choices. If you want the work done properly and a partner you can trust with a complex, high-stakes Quality Assurance & Testing engagement, this team is the answer.

E-commerce platform that cut our cart abandonment rate by a third

Lukas Becker / Head of Digitalisation - Becker Industrie GmbH
Verified
Nov 20, 2024

Project summary: Visibility across our multi-tier supply chain was essentially non-existent and we were making operational decisions based on data that was 24 to 48 hours stale.

Our previous agency had given us a platform that worked well enough to demo and fell apart under real load. This team came in, diagnosed the root causes accurately, and rebuilt the critical components without disrupting the live service. The performance improvements were immediate and measurable — page load times dropped by 60 percent, error rates dropped to near zero, and our support team has far fewer incidents to deal with. The contrast with our previous experience could not have been sharper.

PROS

Collaborative working style that made them feel like an extension of our team, excellent written communication for our async timezone relationship, clean and readable codebase

CONS

Honestly nothing worth documenting — we went in with high expectations and they were met on every measure

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeE-commerce Development
IndustryLogistics & Supply Chain
Project Cost$10,000 to $49,999
DurationJun 2025 – May 2026

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
I lead technology at Becker Industrie GmbH, a mid-sized organisation in the Logistics & Supply Chain sector headquartered in Munich, Germany. My remit as Head of Digitalisation covers everything from infrastructure to product development. We had reached a point where our internal engineering capacity was not sufficient to execute our roadmap without an experienced external partner.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
Our existing E-commerce Development capability had accumulated years of technical debt that was slowing every new feature to a crawl. Incident frequency was rising, developer confidence was falling, and we knew a rebuild was overdue. We needed a partner with the depth to do it properly rather than apply another layer of patches.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The core engagement was E-commerce Development but expanded to include technical consultancy during the discovery phase, which helped us refine the requirements significantly before development began. They also took responsibility for coordinating with our third-party data providers, which removed a significant coordination burden from our internal team.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
A direct referral from a peer who had used them for a comparable E-commerce Development engagement in the Logistics & Supply Chain space. That peer's experience had been excellent and their project profile was similar enough to ours that the recommendation carried real weight. Everything we found during our own evaluation reinforced that this was the right decision.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
The requirements understanding was solid from early on, aided by the fact that they had prior experience in the Logistics & Supply Chain sector and did not need us to explain domain context that a less experienced team would have required. That background knowledge shortened the discovery phase meaningfully and reduced the volume of clarification questions during sprints.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Professional and efficient. We used a shared project management tool that gave our stakeholders visibility without requiring them to attend every meeting. The project manager had a clear escalation path and used it appropriately. The only time I needed to intervene directly was when I chose to, not because something had been missed.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes. I will note that the original timeline was aggressive and I had privately expected a slip. They managed to hold it by making smart sequencing decisions early on that I only fully understood in retrospect. The budget discipline was equally good — we received a single change request for scope we had introduced ourselves and it was priced fairly.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
Quantitatively: user engagement metrics are up significantly since launch, our support ticket volume has dropped, and we have received unsolicited positive feedback from clients who noticed the improvement. Qualitatively: our internal team is proud of the product we now have, which affects morale and retention in ways that do not show up on a dashboard but matter enormously.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The intellectual honesty. They told us when something we wanted was a bad idea and explained why. They told us when a timeline was tight and gave us options. They did not tell us what we wanted to hear in order to win work or avoid a difficult conversation. In a long engagement that kind of relationship is far more valuable than an agency that just says yes.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes. The referral I would give comes with context: they are not the cheapest option and they are not the fastest to schedule. If you are optimising purely on price or looking for someone to start tomorrow, there are other choices. If you want the work done properly and a partner you can trust with a complex, high-stakes E-commerce Development engagement, this team is the answer.

Outsourced IT support that cost less and performed better than our internal team

Noura Al-Rashidi / VP of Technology - Gulf Retail Holdings
Verified
Jul 27, 2022

Project summary: Several previous vendor relationships had left us cautious. We needed a partner who would be honest about complexity upfront rather than discovering it mid-project.

I am a demanding client. I have a technical background, I review code, and I have high standards for documentation and testing. This team met all of those expectations without ever seeming defensive about scrutiny. Peer code reviews were welcomed, unit test coverage was genuine rather than performative, and the API documentation was thorough enough that our own developers integrated against it without a single clarification call. That level of craft is what I look for and rarely find.

PROS

Collaborative working style that made them feel like an extension of our team, excellent written communication for our async timezone relationship, clean and readable codebase

CONS

Premium pricing compared to some of the alternatives we evaluated, but the quality of the output and the absence of rework costs made the investment straightforward to justify

5.0
Overall
5.0
Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
Project TypeIT Managed Services
IndustryConstruction
Project CostLess than $10,000
DurationJun 2025 – Aug 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
As VP of Technology at Gulf Retail Holdings, I manage a cross-functional technology team serving our Construction clients from Abu Dhabi, UAE. We are a commercially focused organisation and every technology decision we make is evaluated against a clear business case. We needed a partner who understood that context, not just the technical brief.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
Our Construction regulatory environment had changed and the compliance timeline was non-negotiable. We needed to rebuild specific components of our system to meet the new requirements and our internal team was already fully committed to the core product roadmap. Bringing in a specialist IT Managed Services partner was the only realistic path.
What services did the company provide for your project?
The core engagement was IT Managed Services but expanded to include technical consultancy during the discovery phase, which helped us refine the requirements significantly before development began. They also took responsibility for coordinating with our third-party data providers, which removed a significant coordination burden from our internal team.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
Honestly, the quality of the questions they asked during the briefing process set them apart. Most vendors listen to the brief and come back with a solution to exactly what you described. This team came back with a solution to what we actually needed, which turned out to be somewhat different. That kind of consultative instinct is what we were looking for.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Extremely well. They asked detailed questions, challenged vague requirements until they were specific, and proposed sensible defaults for decisions we had not yet made rather than just leaving them open. By the time development started there was no ambiguity in the backlog, which is a rare starting position.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
The project management was the best I have experienced in a vendor relationship. We had fortnightly sprint reviews with structured agendas, a shared backlog that we could inspect at any point, a risk register that was actively maintained rather than created at kickoff and never opened again, and a project manager who treated our time as something worth protecting. Communication was proactive, not reactive.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes on both counts. There was one sprint where a third-party integration took longer than scoped because of undocumented API behaviour on the vendor side. The team flagged it immediately, proposed two mitigation options, and we agreed on an approach that recovered the timeline within two weeks. That is how scope issues should be handled and rarely are.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
We went live three months ago. In that time we have not had a single P1 incident, our page performance scores have improved across every measure, and the feature we had deprioritised for years because the old architecture made it too complex to implement is now in our next sprint. The platform they built has opened up our roadmap in a way we had not anticipated.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The quality of the written communication. This matters more than most clients articulate. Clear, concise, technically accurate updates that our non-technical stakeholders could read and understand. Proposals and change requests that made the decision obvious rather than obscuring it in jargon. That communication quality reduced our internal coordination overhead significantly.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Unreservedly. We are in active conversation about the next phase of work and I expect this to become a multi-year partnership. For any organisation in the Construction space looking for a IT Managed Services partner who combines technical rigour with genuine commercial awareness, I would put this team at the top of the shortlist.

FAQs

What services does XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) offer?
XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) provides software development services that may include mobile app development, web development, custom software development, UI/UX design, cloud solutions, AI development, and enterprise application development. Its core focus areas include Mobile App Development, Cross Platform App Development, Wearable App Development and VR App Development.
How much does it cost to hire XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems)?
The cost of hiring XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) depends on factors such as project complexity, development hours, required technologies, team size, and engagement model. Based on available data, XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems)'s typical hourly rate is around $150 - $199, with an average project cost of $5000000+.
Which industries does XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) serve?
XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) has experience working with businesses across multiple industries, including Logistics & Supply Chain, Construction and Events & Event Management.
Is XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) suitable for startups?
Yes. Many startups choose companies like XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) because they offer MVP development, product consulting, scalable architecture, and dedicated development teams that help launch products quickly while managing development costs. For context, its listed capabilities span Mobile App Development, Cross Platform App Development, Wearable App Development and VR App Development, and its average project cost is reported at $5000000+.
Why should businesses choose XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems)?
Businesses may choose XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) based on factors such as technical expertise, industry experience, client reviews, development methodology, communication practices, and the ability to deliver scalable software solutions that align with business objectives. Founded in 1992, the company has built a track record of delivering projects across various industries.
How can I contact XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) for a project?
Businesses can contact XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) through its official website, email, or contact form to discuss project requirements, request a consultation, or receive a development estimate. For context, its listed capabilities span Mobile App Development, Cross Platform App Development, Wearable App Development and VR App Development, and it has experience across industries such as Logistics & Supply Chain, Construction and Events & Event Management.
What engagement models does XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) provide?
XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) may offer multiple engagement models such as fixed-price contracts, dedicated team hiring, and time-and-material billing, allowing businesses to choose the option that best fits their budget and project scope. For context, its listed capabilities span Mobile App Development, Cross Platform App Development, Wearable App Development and VR App Development, and it has experience across industries such as Logistics & Supply Chain, Construction and Events & Event Management.
Which countries does XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) serve?
XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) may serve clients across multiple countries and regions, depending on market demand and business partnerships.
Does XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) develop SaaS products?
Yes, XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) may offer SaaS product development services, including multi-tenant architecture, subscription billing integration, and cloud-native deployment for scalable software-as-a-service solutions. For context, it has experience across industries such as Logistics & Supply Chain, Construction and Events & Event Management, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
Can XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) modernize legacy software?
XTIVIA (formerly Strategic Sales Systems) may provide legacy software modernization services, including re-platforming, code refactoring, and migration to modern frameworks or cloud infrastructure to improve performance and maintainability. For context, its listed capabilities span Mobile App Development, Cross Platform App Development, Wearable App Development and VR App Development, and it has been operating since 1992.

Company Info

Founded 1992
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $150 - $199
Avg. Project Cost $5,000,000+
Client Rating 5.0/5 (3 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
5.0
Schedule
5.0
Cost
5.0
Communication
5.0