UpChannels is a Silicon Valley-based marketing & IT services agency. They help their clients grow faster with market data, resource networks, growth marketing services and custom IT solutions development.
One of the projects in UpChannels is building an ERP/CRM system from scratch, UpChannels knew they needed to find a way to accelerate development.
After evaluating various low-code solutions, UpChannels selected Amplication for their new system.
UpChannels looked for several key factors:
- Ability to fully own and customize the generated code
- Robust and scalable tech stack (Node.js, NestJS, Prisma)
- Clear pricing and onboarding process
- Easy to test out with sample projects
Unlike other existing tools that fully abstract the backend and provide ‘black box’ solutions, Amplication met UpChannels' needs for transparency, quality, and customizability.
According to UpChannels co-founder Steven Xi Zhang, Amplication cut their development time by 5x compared to building everything from scratch manually.
The new ERP system required over 25 complex database entities managing inventory, invoices, customers, accounting, and more. With a modest team of 2-3 developers, building this from scratch would have taken months of effort and been prone to errors. The team leverages Amplication plugins system to set up authentication and authorization functionalities as well as to integrate with Postgres DB.
Amplication generates production-ready backend in minutes, providing developers with readable and fully customizable code that they can build on top of, adding the core business logic of their products.
Amplication provided the flexibility to customize and extend the generated code to meet UpChannels’ specific needs.
By leveraging Amplication to generate code for the backend foundations, UpChannels has achieved 5x faster development compared to building the system manually. The team has delivered higher quality APIs with fewer bugs.
Going forward, UpChannels will be using Amplication as a standard part of their tech stack. Amplication's production-ready code generation provides the speed and quality needed to build complex business applications better and faster than ever before.
