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E-Commerce application for the Swiss Pharmacy Union
Unified pharmacies across Swiss cantons into a cohesive system, enhancing workflows and patient experiences through a new digital platform for online shopping and medication reservations.
CLIENT NAME
ELCA
INDUSTRY
E-Commerce
TECHNOLOGY
Angular, Java, React
SERVICES
Custom Software Development
METHODOLOGY
Agile, Scrum
DURATION
2 years
LOCATION
Switzerland
TEAM NO.
8
The Client
ELCA is a Swiss IT company with a 50-year legacy and a robust team of over 1300 specialists. It provides a comprehensive array of experience, skills, and technological innovations.
The Challenge
Connecting 1,000 pharmacies across Switzerland into a unified system. The client required an additional team to manage a large module that complied with varying cantonal regulations and to coordinate a global team across multiple time zones.
The Solution
Notch assembled a cross‑functional team to deliver a key module of ELCA’s eCommerce platform, connecting over 1,000 pharmacies into a single, compliant system across Switzerland. The team implemented business logic for differing cantonal regulations, integrated with ELCA’s backend and pharmacy systems, and coordinated work across time zones. This enabled a scalable, easy‑to‑use digital experience where patients can handle prescriptions, vaccination plans, invoices, and electronic records in one streamlined place.
What does the client say?
Ferruccio Lagutaine
Chief Operating Officer at ELCA
“The cooperation with Notch was characterized by a high level of technical excellence and a high degree of independence within the scope of our guidelines. In Notch we found a trustworthy and reliable partner that delivers cost-effective IT solutions.”
Process
01
Assessment & Planning
Audit legacy modules, map dependencies and technical debt, and define scope, goals, and a modernization roadmap for the pharmacy platform.
02
Modernization strategy
Decide what to refactor, rewrite, or replace, applying gradual, low‑risk migration patterns for critical eCommerce and integration components.
03
Migration & integration
Migrate functionality and data step by step, integrate modern APIs, containers, and frameworks, and keep existing pharmacy operations running.
04
Testing & validation
Use automated and AI‑assisted testing plus end‑user feedback to validate performance, compliance, and user experience at each iteration.
05
Evolving the product
Operate CI/CD, monitor performance, and handle proactive maintenance and bug resolution to keep the modernized platform secure and scalable.
Project Goals
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1System consolidationConnect +1K pharmacies into an online shopping and medication reservations system.
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2Digital transformationUse centralized system to enable e-prescriptions for patients and pharmacists.
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3General usabilityMake the platform generally accessible, for both B2B and B2C interactions.
Technologies & Services
Java
Spring
Angular
React
AWS/Kubernetes
ElasticPath (eCommerce platform)
Datatrans
Custom Software Development
Product Discovery
Team Extension
UX/UI
DevOps
QA
Legacy Application Modernization
The Product
The ELCA eCommerce platform streamlines the delivery of medications to pharmacies in Switzerland. Notch created a system that simplifies regulations for all users. Registered patients can shop online, renew prescriptions, access vaccination plans, manage invoices, and set up an electronic patient record (EPR).
