Bamboo Agile

A secure AI-powered solution that helps parents to track their children's progress, and the staff to organize the tuition process.
Using web and/or mobile app, parents, teachers, and headmasters can monitor pupils’ progress, and access the schedule, teachers’ notes, etc. Both apps allow parents to monitor their children’s grades and attendance. Teachers can view and fill in the class register, leave notes for students, and see their schedule.

Features for Parents

• Monitor children's progress
• View the pupil’s educational journal
• See homework due the next day
• Access the electronic diary
• Access pupil rankings
• Receive notes from teachers

Features for Teachers

• Access the working schedule
• Access teacher rankings
• Leave and receive notes
• Review notes

Features for Headmasters

• Make notes for pupils
• Review educational journals
• Review studies statistics
• Review notes

Challenge

School OS aunique product developed by the Bamboo Agile team from scratch. Before startingwork on the project, we had to do lots of research (including big dataanalysis) to better understand modern educators’ specific needs and to refinethe vision of the product. Our goal was to create apps which would simplifyparental monitoring of their children’s progress allowing to view their gradesand rankings, and facilitate the parent-teacher communication. An importantrequirement was that the final product should be accessible via web and mobileapps.

Solution

On the backend: using MySQL database for data storage; using Redis data storage for keeping cached data and user sessions, manual and performance testing, creation of server monitoring settings, integration with payment systems; using sockets for real-time updates on mobile devices, plus FCM integration for subscriptions and push notifications.
On the web side: creation of web interface for various user roles, slow internet connection support, offline mode, setting up the functionality for sending SMSsin different countries.
On the API side: adding functionality for sending push notifications to the mobile app;localizing the system interface into different languages.
On the mobile side: uploading app builds to Google Play and iTunes Connect, promo website launch.

Results

The BambooAgile team created web and mobile apps which allow users to monitor and managethe educational process. With School OS, users are able to view the schedule,homework, academic achievements in every subject, and benefit from many otherfeatures essential for today’s digitally connected students, teachers, andadministrators. Depending on user type, the system enables different features.
Allrelevant information is available: students’ grades, attendance, assignments,schedules, teachers' notes, etc. The solution offers a unique feature:providing an insight into a pupil’s performance and making data-basedsuggestions on how to improve it.
School OShas three different UIs: one for parents, one for teachers, and one for schooladministrators. Each version has specific functionality. Each user is given aunique ID and password for the system so a parent can access only their child’sprofile.

An e-docs web app supporting the Wacom DTU 1141 interactive pen display for Velcom, a major Belarusian TSP.
The key function of this web application is electronic document signing. Customers can read and e-sign the e-docs at a sales point, using an interactive pen display. Then the dealer can send signed documents to the company server for further processing and storage.

Features for Dealers

• View, send, and remove signed e-docs
• Store e-signatures
• Show e-docs on customers’ devices

Features for System Administrators

• View list of users in the system
• Send and edit users’ e-docs
• Remove e-docs from the list

Features for Customers

• Read e-docs
• Sign e-docs

Challenge

Following the global trend of transitioning from physical to electronic paperwork, Velcom made the decision o modernize the process of signing, storing, and processing documents. Velcom hired a Bamboo Agile team to define, engineer, and implement that the optimal e-docs solution.

Solution

Developing web interfaces synchronized in real time.
Creating integrative web design (web interface integration on Android devices with progressive web applications).
Integration with LDAP Web Services and Velcom’s Oracle database.
Unit, API performance, and manual testing; monitoring.

Results

Within several months, Velcom was able to deploy an efficient customized internal e-docs/e-signature system. This allowed to speed up the company's workflow significantly.

An online store plus a mobile app with NFC chip functionality.
This project incorporates a fully customized online store (based on a Shopify theme) plus a mobile app with NFC chip functionality, and was made for Pangaia—a new eco-friendly and high-tech clothing line.

Features for Users

• Make purchases
• Get info on unique new tech used by Pangaia
• Get acquainted with Pangaia’s philosophy and initiatives

Challenge

Every individual clothing item by Pangaia features an NFC chip. Bamboo Agile was tasked with creating an online store together with a mobile app with NFC scanning function. We were to choose the most suitable e-commerce platform ourselves, and implement unique design and functionality.

Solution

Choosing Shopify GraphQL API as the most efficient tool.
Providing a deeply customized site design.
Creating a custom integration with the NFC vendor’s system.

A mobile app for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players with check-ins, combining rankings with geolocation.
RANKmapp’s name is telling: this mobile app combines rankings with maps. Its target audience are Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players, enthusiastic and highly competitive. Using the mobile app, the user can learn how good their geographical neighbors are at CS:GO, where they are located, and also how big is the circular area where the user is #1.

Features for Users

• Check in
• See other CS:GO players on the map
• See Steam-based rankings
• See own “#1 circle”

Challenge

Global Rank Softwareentwicklung UG chose Bamboo Agile to deliver a mobile rankings app that required integration with multiple external API’s, including Steam, Google Places, and OpenStreetMap, and also real-time user tracking plus location search and storage over the entire OSM database.

Solution

Developing a special algorithm allowing to store the geodata and calculate rankings at any given time.
Implementing multiple optimizations and custom bypasses to the back-end part of the project (due to the algorithm being demanding to processing power).

Results

A complex project featuring back-end and mobile parts, highly informative and entertaining for the audience.

A mobile marketing platform helping create automated mailouts and send them to subscribers’ devices.
This solution created for Bamboo Group’s mobile marketing agency is available via the mobilemarketing.by website. Its paid users are able to send targeted SMS, Push, Viber, and e-mail messages up to 1,000 characters long. The mobile marketing platform also gives its users access to different types of data reports.

Features for Business Clients

• Send messages to subscribers
• View subscriber base
• Create subscriber bases
• Create subscriber blacklists
• Check balance
• View balance statistics
• View customers’ answers for SMS
• Order SMS packages

Challenge

The goal was to design and implement a platform performing automated, multi-channel electronic mailouts via the web based management tool which would enable our clients to view their account balance, the number and type of messages sent, and multiple types of reports.

Solution

Integration with the MNP and HLR API.
Development and implementation of a new Dispatch Sending Daemon.
Integration with the Telegram messenger platform.
Integration with SuperMag Loya (a loyalty management system).
Platform tech support.

Results

We designed and implemented a paid platform which allows our users to send bulk electronic messages to their clients, obtain feedback from them, and see the share of those who open and read their messages. Users can also order SMS packages so the system can work as an enterprise SMS service or web-to-SMS service. The platform can also be utilized in the e-commerce sector to send regular messages (newsletters, sales notifications, etc.) to a subscriber base. The platform’s functionality is continually extended so the solution stays cutting-edge and meets the latest market requirements.

E-Wallet turns a smartphone into a payment tool allowing its user to pay their bills, buy tickets, and pay for goods and services in one application.
The MTS E-Wallet is a system that allows its users to make payments with funds on their personal accounts. Its consists of a mobile app, an API, a system core, a database, and an admin interface, and features a deep system integration with mobile operator, banking, and payment systems.

Features for Users

• Make payments
• Monitor e-balance
• Review payments history
• Create favorite payments lists
• Receive payment reminders

Features for Administrators

• Manage the payment workflow
• Collect end-user statistics
• Access the user management interface

Challenge

MTS, a major Belarusian TSP, approached Bamboo Agile with an idea for a mobile-based wallet that would enable their clients to make payments with their smartphones. All transactions were to be processed via the Belarusian National Information and Settlement System “Raschet” launched in 2008 to simplify payments between individuals and legal entities across the country.

Solution

Developing a unique API to provide seamless integration with the TSP’s billing and “Raschet” systems.
Making a special secure protocol to connect E-Wallet to the various banks’ CMSs, ensuring the safety and instant processing of all transactions performed in the app.

Results

In Belarus, where consumers still prefer to use cash, mobile payment apps like E-Wallet can set the trend for e-payment systems, bringing various benefits to users by removing intermediate steps such as commuting, signing papers, withdrawing cash, etc. With such features as "Add to favorites", quick-to-set reminders, and payment history the E-Wallet makes over 2,000 payment types doable with a single tap.

A mobile app allowing the mobile operator’s clients to control their account balance, manage their subscription plans, get automated support, and access entertaining content.
This solution made for the Velcom mobile provider allows its users to access real-time info about their mobile account, and (if they subscribe) watch online TV and listen to their favorite music. The users are also entitled to information about location of brand services and many other features, including automated support.

Features for Users

• Choose 3 favorite types of music
• Choose 3 favorite types of videos
• See real-time balance info
• See free minutes left
• See MBs of traffic left
• Watch online TV via the VOKA service
• Check roaming connection

Challenge

Velcom chose Bamboo Agile to create a mobile app that would serve as a new communications channel between the company and its clients, while becoming part of the corporate loyalty management ecosystem.
Bamboo Agile proposed a customer-centric design going beyond mere communication and support functions to also include personalized content and services, and offering improved user experience.

Solution

Back-end: creation of modules to parse .XLS files containing information to be stored, via a back-end integration with a MySQL database, in turn integrated with Redis for storing cached data and user sessions. Server monitoring and performance testing settings were integrated with FMC for subscription and push-notification services.
Web: creation of a web interface for adding & editing information to be stored in the MySQL DB, accessible via API in the mobile app.
APIs: access to the data from the MySQL DB.

Results

The launch of the Velcom Recommends app resulted in a 27% decrease in voice calls to the operator's customer upport centers. More data on user online behavior allowed Velcom to offer personalized services, increasing revenue per customer substantially. Customer satisfaction rating went up, bolstering the clients’ loyalty.
In 2017, the app was fully redesigned and new functionality was added. Due to deep link to the CMS, subscribers could easily browse featured audio and video content according to their preferences. With a new homescreen widget, users had personalized web content and all info about their account and balance at their fingertips.

A social mobile app centered around predictions and enabling users to compete against their friends.
This mobile app incorporates a set of features, including leaderboards, Amazon Web Services back end, integration with social media, SDK integrations including the Big Data & Stats Analytics platform, and complex game design implementation.

Features for Users

• Choose a game
• Take part in a game
• View all available games
• Accumulate points
• Spend points
• Buy points

Challenge

DuelBet, an interactive entertainment provider, needed not just a social app but an innovative social mobile game. Bamboo Agile was chosen as the developer because of its proven expertise in developing cross-platform gaming apps and using the Cocos2d-x framework for building multi-platform apps. Another challenge was to communicate instantly with a third party team responsible for the design of DuelBet app UI.

Solution

Adaptation of the UI design to different platforms and screen sizes.
Building back-end systems including databases and data processing components, with Amazon Web Services.
Speeding up the testing phase by developing a unique algorithm that enables the simulation of gameplay on back-end servers.
Using an Agile approach to project management to specify, develop, and test the features of the app in manageable, two-week cycles, making possible the implementation of rich functionality within a short term.

Results

The DualBet app became a new type of social prediction mobile game. The integration with the Stats & Analytics platform allowed users to follow game scores in real time and see final results. By accessing interactive leaderboards, players could track their progress as well as their friends’. Push notifications let the users know when matches started.