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A heat exchange manufacturing company faced significant problems with their outdated legacy software such as:

➖ slow and poor performance;

➖ the high necessity to maintain their own environment, which took a lot of effort and was risk-prone;

➖ strong dependency (if the system stopped working in the head office, it stopped working everywhere);

➖ the problem of data backup and storage (local installations are not the most optimal backup solutions);

➖ outdated approaches to user identification and authorization;

➖ old-fashioned design and unintuitive functionality.

“We need a state-of-the-art solution” – that’s what the customer emphasized during the Clarification Call with us. And here is how we've managed to implement this solution in close cooperation with the client as an IT partner > https://bit.ly/3idc9zl

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Our customer’s approach to managing projects was no longer keeping up with an accelerating pace of work. The data used to be captured in various spreadsheets, which were barely efficient enough to make use of. Struggling through a bazillion of rows stuffed with data is not so great of a plan to get powerful insight. The more difficult deciphering the data was becoming the stronger our customer was striving for a new, unconventional strategy that would help to automate generating multiple reports and transmit them to user-friendly, intuitive dashboards.

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The customer was looking for an IT partner – a technological and methodological expert who could help not only to create the product but also would assist in its market entry strategy. The idea was to develop an ecosystem which would fulfill the following functions:

• giving everyone an opportunity to get a full-fledged academic education;
• giving a possibility to get competencies that are in demand through the concept of bite-sized learning;
• providing recruiters with access to the app so that they could estimate students’ competencies and soft skills at an early stage and make a decision about interviewing the candidates.

QMS: Web Document Handling and Document Reader

Challenge

The customer wanted to create a web-based Quality Management solution that would help their clients to comply with quality regulations. A fully integrated Procedure Management solution (Document Handling) had to be the first step in this way.

Tasks

- Our team had to develop a solution that would allow to upload/create/edit documents with revision control and access security.

- We were asked to create a configurable workflow for the users to be able to approve new document revisions and be notified of them.

- MS Office documents had to be supported by the solution and the changelog was supposed to be shown between document revisions to facilitate an easy search for document content.

- And last but not the least, the customer wanted to make it possible for the employees to register all the risks and safety-related cases so that these cases would be addressed to the relevant company roles and, thus, would be prevented in the future by implementing particular safety procedures. 

Solution

Our team has developed a web application that can manage the entire document library and distribute what is required to the fleet or to a specific vessel. We have also reduced the dependency on paper by putting the entire library of documents in one consolidated place accessible to those who require the information. Besides, *instictools solution has provided the users with fast access to information in a web browser available also on the go and intuitive searching feature taking the users directly to the information. What’s especially worth mentioning is that all the document management can be done offline as the application is meant for work on board of ships, where most of the time there’s no Internet access.

Value

Thanks to the solution implemented by *instinctools, the users got an opportunity to manage the revisions of documents and correlate them with all the necessary regulations in a more efficient way. It allowed our customer to attract more clients, which increased business profitability.

"I was impressed by the developers’ skills and by the ability of *instinctools to extend the team on really short notice. I’m looking forward to the collaboration with *instinctools on our upcoming digital transportation projects." Tim Rosenberger, Director, Global R&D at SpecTec.

Technologies

.Net (backend)

Angular (frontend)

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Company

Our customer is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets worldwide. For more than 90 years it has provided data and analytics based on scientific rigor and innovation, continually developing new ways to answer the most important questions facing the media, advertising, retail, and fast-moving consumer goods industries. It operates in more than 100 countries and is ranked number 1 among top Market Research companies in the USA.

Challenge

Succeeding in today’s market is tough. Innovation - that’s where breakthrough opportunities reside. But an innovative approach is impossible without using up-to-date technologies. Our customer embraces innovation just as we do. To work properly they need to be on the cusp. That’s why it has been decided to migrate from legacy technologies to modern cloud infrastructure. 

Tasks

• Migration to Spark. Spark is used at a wide range of organizations for large-scale data processing. It allows running workloads faster, writing applications quickly in Java, Scala, Python, R, and SQL, combining SQL, streaming and complex analytics. Spark runs on Hadoop, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, standalone, or in the cloud. It can access diverse data sources.
• Validation of business logic, which is critical to keep things running smoothly. Publishing data is actually pretty easy. There are lots of ways to do that. While securing and organizing your data is an important bit that requires some thought.
• Data correctness verification. Accurate data is the backbone of any database. Rigorous, objective and transparent verification processes are vital to establishing and maintaining high-quality data.
• Performance improvement in general and reducing data processing time in particular, which, by the way, speak for themselves.

Solution

The solution implies taking the data prepared by the company’s different teams from the cloud storage (S3) and executing the project code to message, consolidate and filter data to perform further calculations. Code execution results are recorded in a file that can be used either for the company’s other projects or for making reports.

The solution includes:

• Orchestration of all jobs (tasks);
• Migration to AWS cloud services;
• Refactoring of the code to handle increased data volume;
• The possibility of sharing the transformed data with different teams and using it within various company’s projects.

Key features

• Data verification (data qualitatively and clearly coincides with what is expected)
• Each job (task) gives the expected result
• Runtime reduction 
• Maintenance cost reduction
• Modifiability improvement

Value

The implemented technologies provide our customer with qualitative detailed information in a short time and help to deliver expertly crafted reports to the end-users to remain competitive. On the basis of these reports the advertising policy is built, whose success depends critically on data accuracy. 

Technologies

Scala Spark HDFS AWS EMR AWS Lambda AWS RDS AWS SQS Grafana S3 Kubernetes Airflow

The Lition company came to *instinctools with an idea of creating a platform for an open and direct energy exchange within Lition Energy System. The aim of the project was to simplify the legal, operational and economic hurdles for green power producers and allow customers to buy truly green electricity at an affordable price.

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The customer is an American healthcare data management company which helps healthcare organizations improve data quality and reduce errors. In their need was creation of a product for patient identification due to acute problem of personal identification in the field of healthcare.

In this regard there were implemented web and mobile applications:

•  a mobile application (on iOS and Android platforms) for patients. It can be installed via a QR code. After installing the application, one has to enter his/her personal data and upload a photo. This application helps to make an appointment and receives notifications and QR codes for verification at the HI.
•  a web-based face recognition app for use in an HI. It is installed on the device the patient passes through during identification. The web application serves to read the QR code and recognize the patient's face. After verification is completed, the web application shows the patient what room to go to. If the QR code does not work, the application notifies the patient of the need to approach the registry.

 Part of work was the development of a UX/UI design.

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This is a cloud-based service that connects multi-site ministries with time-shifted video playback to ensure the inspirational experience of your main campus is shared with consistency at remote or temporary locations worldwide. Using low-cost Internet connections, this end-to-end solution includes everything from the source encoder to the dedicated playout appliances.

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ChronoBank.io is a wide-ranging blockchain project. It is intended to disrupt the HR/recruitment/finance industries in the same way that Uber disrupted the taxi business and how Upwork represented an evolution in freelancing.

Developed by *instinctools platform is intended to maintain smart contracts, performance and gas usage optimization, security audits, research and technical development implementation.

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The main goal was to make a space for doctor-patient real-time communication and give the patients full access to their health data. Security level was achieved through QR-code scanning for patient identification. UX designers simplified system’s interface to make user interaction more intuitive and enjoyable.

Key features:

• Quick operations with large volumes of information
• Integration with the client’s server to establish an automatic match to the local records at the institution
• Advanced security and user access control
• Patients’ full access to their health information 24/7 through mobile app
• Personal health notes: daily sleep duration, physical activity, stress, alcohol consumption, weight
• Patients’ easier making an appointment with the doctor
• Reminders of taking pills according to doctor’s prescription
• Effective real-time patientdoctor communication
• Daily health insights according to personal health notes
• Scan a verification QR-code from smartphone
• User-friendly interface

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*instinctools delivered a consolidated content pool to Burda Digital Systems based on single-source principles. Using the new generation of the GateOne Framework an allpurpose, future-proof platform for integration, standardization and distribution of information has been created.

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VoxGen specialises in self-service automation that increases customer satisfaction and reduces business costs.

The challenges for VoxGen lay in getting development services where the provider can familiarize themselves quickly with Voxgen’s framework, has expertise in Eclipse technology, can deliver high quality project results on time and can work in a self-contained manner as much as possible

The technical base for the VoxGen project was Eclipse/RCP, Java and VoxGen’s own development framework.

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SAP chose to evolve from a proprietary XML format to the DITA open standard. DITA allows users to establish a simple and structured way of writing and organizing information elements, text and meta-data. It facilitates minimalistic writing and creates efficiencies in production times. 

Time-saving features include automatic link validation, metadata synchronization and automatic categorization. As SAP manager in charge of the project noted that they expect to significantly reduce the time writers spend on preparing documents for production and focus far more time on content development. Componize/*instinctools own benchmarks demonstrate publishing at 10to 15 times faster than traditional pipeline implementations.

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Caviar is a unique project that aims to achieve investment volatility reduction while capturing higher than average rates of return by combining investments in fast-appreciating crypto-assets with income-generating short-term loans.

Key features of the product developed for the client:

One entry point for tokenholders and Caviar stuff:

• 2 factor authentication as an option;
• KYC (Know Your Customer) provider integration.

Profit payment:

• Payment should be confirmed with 2 persons from Caviar;
• Profits are paid in Ethereum.

Powerful tool to build the portfolio:

• Manual Entry of Real Estate, Early Stage and Cash Assets;
• Automatic sync with cryptoexchanges: ▪ Bitmex ▪ Kraken ▪ Bittrex, etc;
• Real-time exchange rates powered by CryptoCompare

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Fujitsu Enabling Software Technology GmbH selected the software DITAworks from *instinctools after an extensive trial. DITAworks is a software solution that allows creation and management of different types of documentations, such as manuals, training materials, process descriptions or online help, according to the single-source principle DITA standard. DITAworks supports the entire documentation lifecycle from modeling, through creating / editing, to publishing.

Fujitsu EST GmbH deployed DITAworks solution for Eclipse which also has special functions for the documentation of Eclipse-based applications. Existing content and the model were carefully analyzed. Recommendations for the migration to the latest DITA standard and integration with the existing development and publication process as well as the XMetaL-Editor were developed. 

Read more about this project here.

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CANet was in need of building a robust platform for patients, supervisors and researchers. The aim of the platform was to improve patients’ engagement and communication with a wide range of health care practitioners.

The project included patients’ mobile application implementation for both iOS and Android platforms as well as a web-based application for researchers.

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In order to ensure fast and comprehensive education and ongoing support of the system users, Daimler decided to develop and implement a special user support system. The main requirements to the system were its transparent structure and easy-touse interface which would allow users in various countries to use materials describing GLOBUS functioning. 

It was decided that the solution would be built on the pre-packaged version [go:xDoc] of *instinctools’ GateOne framework which meets all the requirements in the best way: it is web-oriented which offers independency from time and place, J2EE compliant which makes it compatible with GLOBUS, offers selectively DocBook or DITA standard which helps to properly structure and create documents according to international standards, has a WYSIWYG user interface which makes it easy-to-use for content editors, and at the same time it offers required flexibility and scalability to encounter future needs of a global roll-out.

Thus, an introduction of the GLOBUS Help and Support System proved to be beneficial to all the parties involved into Daimler’s procurement activities and allowed to lower the costs and time required for information creation and distribution, as well as for education of GLOBUS users. 

The main goal was to create an application that would digitalize the process of how users follow the diet plan by counting calories and weight tracking using their smartphone. *instinctools team developed mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms that would meet customer’s business objectives under a PM’s supervision.

• Show energy value and characteristics of a vast list of products
• Organize quick search within the products list 
• Indicate the exact quantity of the eaten product and count its energetic value
• Deploy an intuitive and user-friendly interface
• Combine the calorie counting process with the product nutritional value estimating.

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