RapsiApp supports the availability of domestic oil plants

Apetit, a Finnish listed company focusing on food solutions, wants to ensure the sufficient cultivation of oil plants in Finland. To aid farmers and facilitate trading, the company joined forces with Rakettitiede to create a mobile app.

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Services

Mobile

Technologies

React Native, Node.js, AWS, Serverless, JavaScript, Expo

Industry

Food wholesale

“RapsiApp is even better than we had imagined and planned. The application is clear, easy to use and beautiful to look at.”

Jani Kielenniva, CIO, Apetit

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Challenge

More information and better harvest: Apetit wanted to ensure the sufficient cultivation of oil plants in Finland.

Solution

Interactive mobile application was developed to aid farmers and facilitate trading.

Final result

The application is clear, easy to use and beautiful to look at.

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A new channel to support business

“Growing oil plants is very demanding. Farmers need to constantly expand their skills and know what they are doing at each stage. We wanted to help them with that task. And of course, this project provided the opportunity to strengthen Finland’s food security as well,” says Jani Kielenniva, CIO at Apetit.

Apetit wanted to build a mobile application, as the information on their website was underutilised.

“We wanted to give this new channel a go. The project gave us an excellent first experience of how an app can support our business. For example, push notifications can be used to better distribute information,” Jani Kielenniva says.

“The app is also interactive. We provide a platform for farmers to anonymously share observations of pests. The farmers also receive information on purchase prices, which helps to make price comparisons.”

The app was released to users in the spring of 2021. Kielenniva is pleased by the excellent end result. Feedback from users has also been very positive.

We were constantly on the same page

There’s no doubt RapsiApp is a useful application. Best of all, its development was a breeze.

Topi Sarkkinen and Tuisku Salminen from Rakettitiede got to put themselves in a Finnish oil plant farmer’s shoes.

“We have been very pleased with the cooperation. We wanted to find people who don’t just freeze when the going gets tough. The project progressed as agreed and according to our wishes. The developers’ expertise really showed in their interactive and productive collaboration, which included offering suggestions throughout the process,” Kielenniva says.

“We built the application with a small group of people using agile methods, and the client was pleasant to work with. There were no obstacles, nor did anyone try to deliberately create them. The client knew what they wanted. I’m not saying that the customer should always have all the answers, but with the RapsiApp the fact that the Apetit team expressed their wishes so well really helped with the process. It meant that we were constantly on the same page,” Topi Sarkkinen says.