SPR

With offerings for fire protection, life safety, and security as well as building automation and HVAC, Siemens Building Technologies succeeds or fails based on customer service. But field technicians were experiencing information overload. The quantity of email the Operations and Sales teams received made it difficult to identify essential information in a timely manner. To ensure their customers receive quality service, employees needed immediate access to information in their specific areas of responsibility. The company engaged SPR to develop and launch a mobile app for Android and iOS that could help the teams find information faster.​

As a result of developing the mobile app, SPR:​

• Developed a communications solution named Siemens Wire that enabled employees to curate information most relevant to them and reduce decision making​

• Integrated a custom robust publishing and management backend, allowing the company to streamline publishing and maintain content in a centralized cloud location​

• Created a beautiful, easy-to-use, and engaging user experience​

Aon, the world’s largest insurance brokering firm, has employees around the world. Aon employees needed a quick and convenient way to locate colleagues with precise expertise in a company of 50,000 people. SPR created a streamlined and intuitive PeopleFinder mobile app that offers secure access to employee data stored onsite. Employees can search for, read about, and contact colleagues around the globe who can help their clients be more successful​.

To enable greater scalability and flexibility,  SPR: 

• Extracted Aon’s data away from the business logic and putting it in a different tier, using smaller microservices as a layer between the data stored onsite and the receiving device ​

• Tested for compatibility using Xamerin Test Cloud to show that the app would deploy successfully on the majority of phones employees have. Xamerin made it possible to run automated compatibility tests whenever there were major changes throughout the project.​

Siemens Building Technologies provides automation technologies and services. These building automation systems help to integrate and manage a number of different common building features from one centralized hub. in 2017, Siemens launched MindSphere, a cloud-based, open IoT operating system that connects products, plants, systems, and machines; it allows industrial customers to make decisions based on valuable data generated by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). ​SPR worked with Siemens to implement an event-driven serverless architecture based on Lambda serverless compute and DynamoDB serverless storage. The platform's operational observability is built on CloudWatch and X-Ray. With the implementation complete, Siemens' product teams can now focus on delivering superior Smart Building hardware products and software user experiences opposed to dealing with low-level technical minutia day to day.

Ball Seed needed to optimize inventory and reduce waste by better predicting demand. Building upon earlier engagements with SPR, where Ball’s internal and external data sources were streamlined, the Big Data project pulled from new sales reporting information for predictive analytics