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Light Control Units realize intelligent lighting with innovative control concepts.

LCUs automatically select the light pattern e.g. for weather situation. Additionally, they offer adaptive front lighting systems. Also, adaptive driving beams. Therefore, it is a modern feature of vehicles that are focused on the user’s/ customer’s experience.

Our LCU expertise covers:

AUTOSAR compliant projects
ISO 14229 (Unified Diagnostic Services)
Basic software (basic layer)
CAN interfaces configuration
RTE configuration

We provide customized software, hardware, mechanical design solutions and system testing for the most diverse vehicle architectures and OEM strategies.

When it comes to IT outsourcing Romania, AROBS is a confident choice for many Western countries. Given its highly skilled professionals and adaptiveness to new technology, we are delivering high-level expertise to numerous industries.

Automotive gateways are ECUs that enable secure and reliable communication among the vehicle’s electronic systems. A very sophisticated part of automotive engineering and of the software service industry as a whole, gateways serve a critical role in vehicle security, in addition to performing data routing functions, and supporting new, vehicle-wide applications.

As cars have more ECUs (electronic control units) better communication is needed between them. Hence, the important role of the gateways.

Our expertise covers:

• LIN, CAN, CAN FD MOST, Ethernet, BroadR-reach, FlexRay;
• Integrated diagnostics
• Routing of CAN / LIN messages based on OEM routing table
• Failure management

We provide customized software, hardware, mechanical design solutions and system testing for the most diverse vehicle architectures and OEM strategies.

A Body Control Module (BCM) - an advanced part of automotive engineering - operates all the required vehicle body functions such as windshield wiper control, exterior, and interior light control, central door locking control, and car access.

Our colleagues in the Software Services division have over 20 years of experience in automotive software and hardware. 

Additionally a BCM can handle communication between Electronic Control Units (ECUs).

Technologies

• AUTOSAR compliant
• Ansi C
• safety critical features
• V-Cycle/V-Model methodology
• CAN
• LIN 
• Model Based development in MathLab
• Simulink
• Targetlink, Rhapsody and Statemate, 
• communication and control for wipers, interior heating, exterior and interior lights, centralized locking, alarm etc.

We provide customized software, hardware, mechanical design solutions and system testing for the most diverse vehicle architectures and OEM strategies. 

Travelport Hotelzon is a leading corporate hotel booking company offering booking services and hotel distribution technology, using advances travel software, to corporate clients, hotels and agency partners. Travelport Hotelzon has an extensive customer base – over 500,000 corporate customers all around the world, and the world’s biggest travel agencies.  It serves the entire business travel industry, having a unique business model merging both travelers’ and companies’ wishes. They requested the help of our Software Services Division.

Travelport Hotelzon’s hotel booking solution provides efficient tools for simplifying the booking process, implementing company travel policy, and control functions with real time reporting. For hotels and agency partners, it offers a suite of hotel distribution technology and services ranging from direct sales tools such as an online booking engine through to GDS distribution.

The platform fulfills and is certified according to the highest PCI level. Compliance with PCI standards helps to alleviate vulnerabilities in the card-processing ecosystem, including mobile devices, computers and servers, and protect cardholder data.

The Travelport Hotelzon International Group has twelve subsidiaries – UK, Finland, Sweden, Romania, France, Poland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Germany.

Business Challenge

Business travelers are increasingly adopting a leisure travel mindset when booking their corporate travel and want to be able to book via consumer-grade apps while on the move. The development of a new generation version of Travelport Hotelzon app came as a need to fill the gap between corporate and leisure booking experience. The new generation architecture and design was decided in correlation with continuous delivery principles. It’s more intuitive, responsive and user-oriented, making it easier to search and book a hotel directly from their mobile.

Another challenge is to completely migrate the current generation functionalities to a new generation platform. Furthermore, the migration of both current generation and next generation servers to Amazon represented a challenge.

Approach/Impact

Dynamic hotel search was a major release, involving new technical solutions and technologies for reducing UI response time  to half and a better user experience. Static hotel contents are directly displayed and prices are dynamically updated based on suppliers’ responses.

Hotelzon API (hAPI) is an interface through which 3rd party service providers can utilize Hotelzon content and booking capabilities within their own system’s user interface. The latest version allows the sending of a PNR record locator during booking flow, offering the possibility for our clients to link the same reservation with their air and car reservations in Travelport GDS.

Technologies

•        JavaScript
•        Java
•        Elastic Search
•        Spring Boot
•        Spring MVC
•        Spring Data

•        Hazelcast
•        OAuth2
•        Angular JS
•        HTML 5
•        Foundation
•        Node.js

Testing

•        Postman
•        SoapUI
•        Karma
•        Protractor
•        Selenium
•        Zaproxy

Build

•        Jenkins
•        Maven
•        Gradle
•        Sonar
•        Ant

Infrastructure

•        Azure
•        Couchbase
•        Docker
•        Git
•        Rabbitmq
•        Putty

One of our teams from the Software Services Division, Travel & Hospitality Solutions Business Line worked on a Channel Manager, which is a software solution that actively manages hotel exposure to online travel agencies, such as Booking, Expedia, SynXis, Best Western and any other similar platforms. It offers the capability to control rates and availability from a single real-time source. It also provides integration with property management systems so that the bookings, regardless of the sources, are sent directly to them.

Integrator for Online Travel Agencies

The Channel Manager distributes the hotels live inventory to a wide range of Online Travel Agencies (OTAs), Global Distribution System (GDS) with minimum effort and cost.

It streamlines the channel management process by allowing you to control rates and availability from a single real-time source, removing the requirement for room allotments and manual adjustments on an individual channel basis.

Business Challenge

The large range of products that cover PMS, online bookings, CRS, channel distribution, digital marketing, PCI compliance and POS systems leads to different challenges. During the development process, we started using Agile, moved to cloud and implemented continuous integration, continuous delivery, while constantly using the latest technologies.

Through several technical, as well as mindset changes, we came to the performance of managing various channels, hotels, RMSes and more than 15,000 reservations a day.

Impact

Our collaboration with the client has been active for more than 18 years now, so we can say that the results of our work can identify with their success. Nevertheless, our technical and business expertise has contributed to the increased value of the company on the market, which was acquired a fiew years ago by a large market stakeholder and evaluated at more than 70 million euros.

3 years of clinical trials cost up to 450 million dollars. AROBS Life Sciences Solutions, Software Services Division, collaborated on the project that succeeded to drop the amount by 75%.

Saving time means saving money and when talking about the pharmaceutical industry, time is also a matter of saving lives.  
By implementing the solution with our collaborator, the entire process of clinical trial research for a new product became optimized in terms of time and money. 
The necessary amount of time drops from 3 years to 3 months and, taking into consideration that one day of clinical trials research might cost up to 1.8 million dollars, the total cost of the process is reduced by 75%.

What is our input?

The AROBS Life Sciences Solutions Department has helped to build expertise around specific software that simplifies the clinical trial process the drugs go through, from the research point to the approval, before reaching the consumer. Practically, we help the business entities analyze the features of the drugs faster, so they can send them for approval in a shorter period of time.

Our proven successes in the Life Sciences solution for our international partners, together with our high flexibility to adopt and integrate with the customer’s specific processes and standards, give us the competitive edge to meet the continuous optimizationneeded on the clinical trial research market.

Expertise

We focus on clinical randomization and trial supply management activities with professional Interactive Response Technology (IRT) solutions. This app is built using innovative Web-based technology for both web and mobile.

Our customers’ needs required a solution that helps them manage patient’s screening and enrollment in clinical trials, randomization and drug supply management.

Our solution was to integrate the interactive Web response services (IWRS), which was developed via an Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS). The Web-integrated service built by our developers offers strong reporting capabilities and other practical features.

The Forestry Software Solution means the creation of an IoT system, a platform that provides improved efficiency, better visibility, and control at each stage of the forest lifecycle. The cycle is more efficient: from forest to mill and from land acquisition to product delivery in order to support responsible forestry. The forestry management solution offers cloud-based data, collaboration, and workflow automation services to forestry professionals and forest planning experts.

Our colleagues from the Software Services Division, IOT specialization worked on this project. 

Small and medium-sized forestry companies in Finland use the solution. It has a centralized management environment for the various functions of forest planning in a modern user interface. It facilitates the update of the customer forest plans and forest stand data.

The software's functions imply:

•        maintaining user accounts and customer data
•        planning forestry work and cuttings
•        managing harvesting service logistics
•        update customer forest plans and forest stand data
•        allows for geographic information-based forest plan and work site maps through     integrated map system
•        laser scanning for forest asset data collection
•       forest growth calculation models to help determine the need for cuttings.

Business Challenge

One of the objectives of the project was and is to integrate as many as  possible of the older applications that were in use by some of the clients of our partner. An important focus was the improvement of user experience, in particular by reducing response time, improving filters and guidance messages or alerts. A great emphasis was also put on the customization of customer-specific functionalities, the improvement of the support process and on the development of integration. This would allow better integration between the various companies’ products that help carry out the client’s activities.

Technologies

We also made technical changes that place us in a better position in terms of market requirements, added new functionalities and support for the entire forestry management solution.
The main technologies used in the development of the project were:

• AngularJs
• Typescript
• RxJS
• Bootstrap
• Lodash
• ag-Gri

Benefits and impact

The created web-based platform created has become a valuable instrument for responsible and controled forestry. It’s increased responsiveness. The user experience improved the workflow that helps for a better time management. The development of new functionalities continued and the project currently has a number of tools that allow a better approach to the market.

The software is a complete solution that integrates the entire activity process of any forestry company. As a web-based service, it can be scaled anywhere in the world in the industry.

RentYourCrane is an innovative project that uses technology to upgrade a more than hundred years old industry. They needed high-quality software services for their project and our colleagues from Travel & Hospitality Solutions worked on it.

“AROBS is an easy-going but hard-working company with the capacity to deliver. We really appreciate the way they share their ideas and help you through the whole process. We wanted a new booking platform – front and back-end development – so, from all the potential suppliers, we chose AROBS. They gave us the confidence we were looking for, through their experience and energy. Everything was casual and simple, so we truly recommend them.”

Niels Wouters, Finance manager, Rentyourcrane.nl

Study case

Lifting jobs are no easy jobs. Finding your best lifting solution is no easy job either, but RentYourCrane will assist you through the process. 

If you are looking for a lifting solution, RentYourCrane allows you to order easy and quick; determine the location, date range and product. 

Business Challenge

Our client, with 120 years of expertise in this business, needed an innovative solution for this industry, in terms of implementing an online renting platform and build a back-office application that allows them to easier manage their products and get in touch with their customers and being able to advise them. 

If at first the platform was dedicated to manage only our client’s cranes inventory, now the challenge is to extend this platform to help as well other suppliers from this industry to rent their cranes through this rental system, making customers life easier by having a single point of searching for the most suitable crane for every lifting job, whether this involves the lifting of an enormous work of art, moving to a location that is difficult to access or the logistical organization of a construction project. 

A mobile renting solution has also been designed and is currently under implementation with the challenge to cover all functionalities that the website RentYourCrane offers, but also keep the renting process as light and fast as possible.

AROBS Approach on RentYourCrane

To make sure we understand our client business and to be able to propose the best solutions, we have started our collaboration by involving a Business Analyst.  Our team member helped us transpose the client’s needs into mockups and created use cases that gave us a more complex view on the application workflows. 

Based on these requirements, a UX Designer built an attractive design for both the website and the mobile apps, keeping ease of use in mind.

Having all these established, the development team started the actual implementation, following a SCRUM Agile approach, offering the flexibility to improve the initially described requirements and proposed design, up as the project goes along.

Technologies & Tools

• JavaScript, React Native

• Laravel – PHP

• MySQL, Redis

• HTML 5 / CSS 3, Bootstrap

Social impact is one of our core values. Working on projects that reflect our values is a privilege. This is the case with this project, a cloud-native custom software development for an NGO that helps other worldwide NGOs prosper in the agriculture sector.

Our colleagues from the Software Services Division worked on the project. With the created project management application, the client improved overall business indicators, centralizing all crucial data.

Business challenge

The initial challenge was related to the understanding of the requirements from the client, given the fact that the destiny of the project was unclear. With the help of their business analyst, everything fell into place, communication improved, and the previous application was entirely re-coded.

The second challenge was to move the built application to the latest technologies.

The final challenge was to integrate a timesheet application for accounting purposes.

AROBS Approach

The client was open to new ideas, so we approached them with suggestions for improvement. Afterwards we negotiated the implementation time, offering different deployment solutions, highlighting the pros and cons of each in order to facilitate the decision-making process based on our expertise.

Technologies

• Angular
• PHP
• Zend Framework
• HTML5
• Material design
• Responsive design
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• High-availability
• OneLogin

Benefits and impact

The created application

• significantly improved overall business
•  increased transparency on business processes, generating accurate reports
• timesheet and accounting features that save time and money
• integrated 5 third-party applications, including timesheet and accounting features that save time and money
• has data warehouse making the user able to verify past activities in great details
• facilitates the work of over 200 NGOs, managing over 8,000 projects
• improved response time by over 10 times
• provides push notification that helps the communication and tracking of every project

Unquestionably, music has a huge impact on people’s lives. Influencing the industry that affects the daily lives of the global population was as challenging, as it was a great source of pride.

The project was implemented by our colleagues from the Software Services division and the team that worked on it is mainly specialized in Cloud applications development for Enterprises. Our work consisted of creating a global publishing system – together with our partner – that brings improved business functionality and efficiency to the music industry. It also facilitates business transformation and further centralization of some core business functions, such as songs management, contract briefing, copyright, registration, portal, royalty processing, and tracking/reporting.

Business challenge

The challenge was to replace an old and obsolete publishing system that was suffering of decentralized and low-quality data. Thus we decreased the processing time and increased efficiency while working with multi-terabyte of data.

Also, on the people level, the biggest challenge was to harmonize the work of developers from different continents and physically gather them for the intense research phase of this project.

The output was a cutting edge, a truly singular system that revolutionized music publishing.

AROBS Approach

We approached the challenge with incredible focus on research since the music industry was a domain where AROBS did not have previous experience. Together with our partner, we held intense meetings to analyze flows and the specificity of the industry. We were searching for blind spots where huge improvements were possible.

This approach allowed the team to transform the software developers into experts of the industry. Hence, they were able to increase overall efficiency and achieve an  18-fold improvement time-to-production.

Technologies

Since users are spread all around the world, it was important to have a robust system that is highly available and easily accessible. Therefore, the team used leading approaches like cloud-native solutions on AWS.

To ensure the persistence of the system, we used Cassandra – a distributed and fault-tolerant technology.

Other technologies used include Cloud Foundry, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Angular, Node.JS, HTML5, CSS3, responsive design.

Benefits and impact

The revolutionary system

• reduced time-to-production for new functionalities from 3 months to 5 days;
• generates data that feeds over 2 million pages of PDFs each quarter;
• can deal with a data increase of 1+ TB/year;
• centralized data for a faster and more accurate reporting;
• optimized data structures and modification tracking to simplify future audits;
• decreased response time to user actions and needs;
• operates with multi-terabyte of data in ways never seen before in the music industry.