ScienceSoft

Advertising Channel Analytics Solution

A big data warehousing solution to process 1,000+ raw data types.
A 5-module analytics system for advertising channel analysis in 10+ countries.
Up to 100 times faster analytical query processing.

Airline Market Data Analysis

As the Customer had clear requirements regarding the analysis but wanted the outsourcing partner to take responsibility for the technical embodiment, our consultants offered the Customer managed analytics services.

With these services, the Customer did not have to worry about BI infrastructure deployment and management. This, as well as the solution’s performance, availability, security and data quality management, was totally the responsibility of ScienceSoft.

To enable the Customer to get insights from the 10-year history of external data, our team deployed a BI solution on a dedicated server in ScienceSoft’s data center. The solution consisted of a data warehouse, an OLAP cube, and a web interface. To extract the data from Microsoft Excel and faultlessly load it into a data warehouse, our team also implemented an ETL process.

Within the OLAP cube, ScienceSoft created 10 dimensions, such as:

Airlines
Countries
Dates
Airline by country
Airline by size
Airline by carrier type
Airline by ownership.
The OLAP cube also contained the following measures:

EBIDTA
Revenue
Debt
Net income
Growth over year.
A friendly web interface allows the Customer to check prebuilt reports, as well as aggregate, slice and dice the data. Its another advantage is the possibility to set permissions to let a user access the reports from both their desktop or mobile.

Results
For a monthly subscription fee, the Customer is getting pre-built reports where they can find valuable insights, as well as explore a particular aspect of their interest in more detail. The Customer is also able to provide this information as a service by granting access to the reports to their clients.

Team Augmentation for Front-end Development of a Mobile Bitcoin Wallet

Senior front-end developer with practical experience in JavaScript, Cordova, BitcoinJS, CxJS to augment a blockchain development team.
Cooperation start in 5 days.
4 days for full knowledge transfer and analysis of the existing JavaScript code base.
Modification of the blockchain app’s JavaScript code to work properly according to the Customer’s requirements and within the agreed time frame.
Customer’s benefit: Faster launch of a cross-platform cryptocurrency wallet to facilitate bitcoin management.

Development of a Retail App with GPS and AR Functionality

Being experienced in application development, ScienceSoft started with the analysis of customer requirements. The team then examined the current market offering and proposed a unique and elegant solution that combines parking guidance with sales-boosting features.

Parking guidance
The software relies on a network of beacons and allows the app to work as a GPS navigator, even if there is no GPS signal available.

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The app allows to:

Drive to a destination point (selection of free parking slots are available on the map);
Remember the car position. This feature is similar to “home” or “favorites” function in a navigator;
Navigate to the place of interest – a shop, restaurant, or an emergency exit.
Sales-boosting tool
ScienceSoft ensured the monetization of the parking guidance application by introducing complementing sales-boosting functionality. The app is integrated with the global shopping mall loyalty system – a marketing platform for the retailers who run businesses in the mall: shops, restaurants, cinemas, etc.

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Functionality for retailers:

Dedicated working spaces. Each retailer has their dedicated password-protected working space. When the company marketer enters the marketing platform, they receive access to the potential consumers’ audience.
Statistics module. System collects data about the parking guidance mobile app users, such as:
Interests, behavioral patterns, and preferences.
Types of promo campaigns they better respond to.
Responses to questionnaires.
Marketing campaign setup. Marketers can set up a marketing campaign with tracked results, metrics, conversion rules, etc. They can deliver promo information to consumers using:
Instant push notifications.
Email campaigns.
Geofence triggers.
Functionality for consumers:

Information on “hot deals”. There is a list of advertisements assigned to the shops on the map. Users can apply a promo code to get a discount in the shop.
Instant push notification on specific events targeted at a particular consumer. Notifications can be sent even when a user is offline.
Email notification. When a person is outside the shop, they can receive promo information by email.
Geofence triggers. When a user gets to the “geofenced” floor or area, they receive ads only if they are a part of the target audience.ar feature
3D compass and augmented reality. A user can be guided through the mall to the required store. During navigation, virtual advertising messages can augment the real picture, taken by the device's camera.
Users can create and modify their shopping lists by using external database located on the server. When they create a new shopping list, they can use “history”, “auto suggestion”, “favorites” functions.

Modernization of a Training Portal for US Managed Services Providers

ScienceSoft was selected as a service provider to carry out this project. After 8 months of cooperation with the Customer, the team of 3 developers - PHP, iOS and Android - succeeded in bringing to life a range of the Customer’s ideas.

Initially, to improve the overall performance of the Customer’s learning management system, ScienceSoft updated the previous version of the Sensei-based educational system and integrated it with WooCommerce.

Then we implemented a self-registration page enabling the portal’s new users to sign up without any assistance of the Customer’s managers and quickly get access to relevant training materials.

After that, our team integrated the Customer’s portal with MailChimp, an online email marketing solution allowing to manage subscribers, send emails and track mail-out results. Once integrated with the service, the portal automatically adds users to relevant lists based on the information collected during the user registration and thus facilitates emailing, excluding manual input of the respective data.

In addition, ScienceSoft carried out the portal’s integration with the online billing software Chargify allowing automatic account creation for the portal’s new users. Apart from the automatic billing, the service sends notifications to the Customer’s managers about the expired accounts and delayed payments.

At the next stage, the integration with Stream API was performed to guarantee the smooth tracking of every user’s activity (including changes in credentials and settings) and provide a visual representation of the accumulated information via colorful graphs and diagrams. Using this feature, the Customer can track and analyze how the portal’s users treat their content and functionality.

The Customer’s analytical capabilities were further reinforced with the portal’s integration with Wistia, which let them automatically gather statistics on user’s interactions with the Customer’s video content. Now analyzing what parts of videos are often viewed or, vice versa, skipped, the Customer can improve the content’s quality according to the users’ needs.

Our team has also redesigned the Customer’s mobile apps based on both iOS and Android and integrated them with the portal. Unlike with the previous static-page apps, the users of the new mobile version can search and download different types of content, listen to audio directly from the app and watch video after redirection to the web version.

Technologies and Tools
PHP 5.4, WordPress, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, MySQL, Chargify API, MailChimp API, REST, iOS, Android.

Magento Implementation with Enhanced Product and Content Management for a Fashion Retailer

ScienceSoft’s team started the project with UX research of the existing website. This allowed the team to come up with a user-friendly web store. They managed to strike a balance between keeping to minimalistic and clean design and making the website informative. As for customer data protection, the team ensured that the web store complied with US data protection laws and industry guidelines for online merchants.

For the technical part of the solution, ScienceSoft offered to complement Magento 2 with a Product Information Management (PIM) system and a Content Management System (CMS).

Akeneo was chosen as a PIM system for the project. It allowed for efficient product management across the Customer’s sales channels. The team integrated Akeneo with the Customer’s cloud Point of Sale (POS) system and the Magento back end. As a result, the product flow looked the following way:

A product was uploaded to the POS system and exported to Akeneo.
In Akeneo, product managers categorized it and enriched by adding attributes (e.g. size, color, description) and media files (e.g., images, video).
They exported the product to a Magento catalog, and it appeared on the website.
To achieve the best shopping experience, ScienceSoft’s team foresaw a possibility to show the whole product catalog on the website while letting visitors know that some products were available in the Customer’s brick-and-mortar stores only. Depending on the configured setting in Akeneo, buyers would either see a Buy button or a Contact to Buy button on the website.

Having analyzed Customer’s expectations of content management, the team decided that it wouldn’t suffice to rely on Magento built-in capabilities. Having combined the ecommerce power of Magento and the content management power of Pimcore (a CMS), they fully met the Customer’s requirement of a convenient and feature-rich editing tool. Pimcore would serve to manage non-catalog content including blog posts, event announcements, support pages, and more.

ScienceSoft customized Pimcore for the Customer’s business. The team created necessary editables (templates of content blocks) so that content managers would further fill them in with real content.

To make sure that the Customer was able to leverage the rich functionality they got, ScienceSoft conducted user training explaining the role of each solution component.

Technologies and Tools
Magento Commerce 2.2, Pimcore 5.1.3, Akeneo EE 2.3.7, PHP.

Development of Software for a Wearable Pet Tracker Managed via an iOS/Android App

Pet tracker app
ScienceSoft started by developing software for pet tracking devices that were provided by a third party employed by the Customer. Given the existing limitations of the hardware itself, our team of mobile app developers strived to write software that would make the pet tracker as efficient as possible.

The final product enables two-way voice communication and nationwide GPS tracking, snapshotting the surroundings with a 2-megapixel camera, as well as switching on a flashlight. The device also has a virtual ID tag that shows the pet’s name and the contacts of its owner on a small display.

Technologies and Tools
Android SDK, iOS 9 SDK, Python, MQTT

Innovative CMS Application Development

In cooperation with ScienceSoft team of 6 specialists, the Customer has released a brand-new CMS called Enonic eXperience Platform to provide the most intuitive and fastest way to create and manage websites, intranets, commerce and mobile solutions for public and private enterprises.

For Morten Øien Eriksen, Enonic CEO and co-founder, eXperience Platform has been the biggest undertaking in the history of Enonic. “The costs are estimated at NOK 50 million. Our goal is to be innovative in all areas of the application and not to follow the path of our competitors. And now we have a platform with a modern and flexible architecture which is years ahead of our competition”, he says.

Throughout 5 years, ScienceSoft’s cooperation with Enonic has grown into a strategic and friendly relationship. “Working with ScienceSoft has enabled us to deliver the project faster and with better quality. Their developers are highly skilled and passionate about the project,” says Morten.

Technologies and Tools
Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS

Frameworks & libraries: Vaadin, Ext JS, Gradle, Elasticsearch, Less

Development of an Azure-Based Software Product for vCIO Services Management

ScienceSoft’s cross-functional team of a PM, a BA, .NET developers and architects, test automation engineers, and DevOps engineers was entrusted with the delivery of the new SaaS product.

The new software product ?omprised a set of tools that allowed MSPs to:

Create customizable client reviews (QBR) and complete vCIO services impact assessment.
Manage service delivery strategies for every client.
Organize and digitally present service initiatives and recommendations.
Conduct online meetings with clients.
Manage budgets.
Establish and maintain custom IT standards.
Access a structured repository of industry compliance guidelines.
Gather client feedback.
Pay for SaaS usage.
The team ensured its easy integration with popular third-party MSP and IT business management software solutions – ConnectWise, Autotask PSA, IT Glue, BrightGauge – to support automated data import.

To secure high availability, fault tolerance, safe and easy scaling of the complex microservices-based SaaS application, ScienceSoft’s team enhanced its architecture with Azure services to enable a service mesh layer, load balancing, and automated container deployment and management.

To help the Customer ensure stable work of large distributed software, our team delivered a monitoring component that included a custom audit module and Grafana, Azure Application Insights, Kiali, and Jaeger functionality. The monitoring module:

Collected data on the component performance metrics and custom purpose-specific logs.
Automatically notified about specific events.
Helped quickly trace a specific event through different architecture components and tenants to find out the reason for the issue.
Analyzed the received metrics and provided a single console with interactive dashboards to easily check the health of the whole application infrastructure.
To comply with the Customer’s requirements of frequent and reliable releases, ScienceSoft’s team established a lean product development process with integrated Agile/Scrum and DevOps techniques (Docker containerization and Docker Compose, CI/CD).

To further sped up software delivery, ScienceSoft’s team used the proprietary IMAAT (Integrated Manual and Automated Testing) approach that resided in the balanced combination of automated and manual testing. The team automated functional regression, integration and cross-browser testing. Manual tests were saved for quick initial checks for newly implemented features, one-time runs, and served to provide prompt response to developers after hotfixes. Test automation engineers integrated continuous testing into the continuous integration (CI) pipeline to run tests automatically every time a new change was introduced and support safe nightly builds.

Combined, professionally established continuous integration, testing and delivery resulted in almost continuous readiness for quality releases of new features and updates.

Hadoop Lab Deployment and Support

The Customer got a smoothly functioning on-premises Hadoop lab that serves a valuable source of practical knowledge for their students. Thanks to the training organized by ScienceSoft, the Customer has quickly understood the role of every technology that makes part of the Hadoop lab and is ready to use them accordingly.

Technologies and Tools
Hadoop Distributed File System, Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Hive, Apache Hadoop YARN, Apache Ambari, Apache Oozie, Apache Spark, Apache Pig, Apache Zeppelin, Apache Ranger, Anaconda, Apache ZooKeeper, the Jupyter Notebook.

Training Portal UI/UX Design and Cloud Migration

ScienceSoft’s team stabilized the existing application, handled a smooth functional modules migration, and enhanced the overall performance of the web application. The specialists applied the Scrum methodology for more flexibility, which reduced the terms of web application elements development.

First, our experts introduced the Azure Services platform to make the application run in the cloud and enhance it with cloud-based capabilities. Then, ScienceSoft’s team reviewed user interface (UI) and UX design and renewed several application’s screens. The specialists also introduced AJAX technology, which enabled users to get data from the server without reloading pages. Afterwards, ScienceSoft performed automated web application testing to assure its quality and reliability. Besides, the experts executed API integration testing and load testing.

Mobile IPTV/SVOD Apps Enabling Fox Entertainment, MTV, and Orange

Within 5.5 years of partnership, ScienceSoft team of 9 developers has helped the Customer to become one of the leading TV apps providers that evolves briskly along with the growing diversity and complexity of devices. Together with ScienceSoft, the Customer plans to improve their star products and increase the company’s visibility in the console market.

Android and Web Versions of Viber, a VoIP Messenger with 1.17B Users

The outsourcing engagement with ScienceSoft has lasted for 5+ years. The Customer obtained the Android app version of Viber and had it enriched with new features based on the end users’ feedback. Viber’s popularity was further increased with the continuously evolved desktop app. As a result, the Customer experienced the rapid customer base growth – 900 million users were registered in Viber by the end of our cooperation time.

Technologies and Tools
Project management: Confluence, Jira.

DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab.

Android development: Android SDK, Android Studio, Eclipse, ADT Plugin, jarsigner, SQLite, Volley, Gradle, Logcat, UiAutomator.

Desktop development: C++, Qt, WebRTC, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Web backend development: PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL.

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Website for a Transportation Company

Mobile Communication System for the Elderly and Caregivers

ScienceSoft's medical app development team created the mobile system consisting of two main parts according to user roles – an elderly person and a caregiver.

Senior’s application
The app for a senior is installed on a tablet with a customized Android OS provided by the Customer. The basic functionality within the software includes:

Video calls
Secure text messages
Photo album
Daily schedule
Emergency button
The elderly can get in touch with their close ones via video calls, see shared memories in photo albums, answer text messages from their caregivers and see their calendar with daily activities as well as get automated notifications on doctor appointments. In case of need, they can press an emergency button to alert caregivers.

Caregiver's application
The app for caregivers can be installed on Android, iOS or other mobile OS. It allows family and relatives stay close to seniors in various situations – hospital settings, assisted living facilities or just their own homes. Caregivers can use the following functions within the app:

Secure text messages
Video calls
Calendar
Photo sharing
Member directory
Elder settings
Caregivers can make phone calls or write text messages to the elderly and share their precious moments with them. Moreover, they have an ability to see the senior’s calendar with doctor appointments and schedule medicine intake, phone call or any other activity for their person under care. The caregiver can also track if the senior is complying with the necessary routine and intervene if necessary.

Within the member directory, the caregiver can add more relatives or friends as well as change their personal and contact information. Moreover, the settings allow the caregiver to alter the senior's location, date, app’s background colors, profile photo and alerting system. For example, if an elderly person forgets to take daily medications or mark this activity done, the app will send a reminding sound after an hour or can remind to call the physician 5 minutes prior to the activity.

Inpatient Care Mobile App

The Customer wanted a healthcare app development company to create a mobile application designed specifically for iPads. This application was to offer inpatients a secure access to their health history, enable communication with caregivers, watching TV shows and movies as well as playing games. At the early project stages, the Customer turned to ScienceSoft for creating a requirements specification and developing a demo version of the application.

To ensure PHI security at the bedside, the iOS application needs to be locked with a specific PIN-code to be set up by a patient’s case manager. Then a patient is ready to use their care application with the following features available:

Medical record

Here patients are able to view their medical images, check on lab results and refer to their treatment plan.

Entertainment

Within the entertainment menu, patients can pass the time in the hospital by watching TV, Netflix and YouTube. Watching movies allows patients to better endure long procedures, such as IV treatment. They also can listen to music, radio and audiobooks.

Games

Games allow patients to bear discomfort, pain or tiresome waiting better, as they are good at distracting.

Hospital Mobile App for Nurses and Physicians

The Customer had a custom-developed EHR system. To let their employees make use of this system on the go, when making rounds in hospitals, the Customer wanted to complement the EHR solution with an iOS mobile app. With this idea, they turned to ScienceSoft, as the Customer acknowledged the company’s ample experience in hospital mobile app development.

The mobile app has three main features that make the daily routine of healthcare professionals easier and more consistent:

Logging time – this feature allows a healthcare professional to input the amount of time they spent with a patient and have it automatically saved in the EHR.
Image capturing – the app allows a physician or a nurse to take a picture of a wound, rash, or any other visible ailment. The image can be touched up with various filters right in the app and linked to a patient record in the EHR after a secure upload to the database.
Document scanning – based on the functionality of Microsoft Office Lens, this feature allows scanning a document captured by a device camera. If a document consists of more than one page, pages can be edited individually, then bundled together and saved as a single file object.

read more: https://www.scnsoft.com/case-studies/hospital-mobile-app-on-ios-for-easier-work-of-healthcare-professionals

Telehealth Chiron Mobile App

The Customer needed an Android version of their telehealth app to expand the offering of mobile patient applications for patients and physician practices.

ScienceSoft’s medical app development team created a HIPAA-compliant Android application that helps patients book appointments and make conference calls with their physicians through an encrypted peer-to-peer video connection.

The app seamlessly integrates with existing practice workflows (e.g. scheduling) and management systems (e.g. EHR / EMR, RIS, LIS). Doctors can offer patients remote care and replace unpaid phone calls with reimbursable video visits, improving outcomes by 3%-4%.

Patient data is synced with the practice management system right before the conference starts so that the physician can have the necessary information at their fingertips.

read more: https://www.scnsoft.com/case-studies/android-telehealth-chiron-app

Mobile Care Coordination App

The Customer's business challenge was in limited HIE capabilities, unable to ensure streamlined cooperation between patients and their caregivers. The Customer decided to introduce a mobile care coordination application to evolve their HIE platform by putting patients in charge of their health data and allowing them to control the process of sharing it with their providers and close ones. Apart of that, the Customer wanted to equip the caregivers with a mobile tool to communicate with each other on the go in case of need.

The app created by our healthcare app development team is designed to support the needs of both patients and care team members, including providers, relatives and close ones. Since one person can be both a patient and a care team member at the same time, we enabled an easy patient/caregiver account toggle through the password input or fingerprint validation.

For patients, an app is divided into two main modules – health status and care team management.

Within the health status module, the patient can view their aggregated health information from one or many providers, including:

Diagnoses
Vitals (including height, weight, SpO2, temperature, respiration, etc.)
Allergies
Medications
Immunizations
Payers
Documents (including medical images, CCDs, lab results, etc.)

read more: https://www.scnsoft.com/case-studies/mobile-care-coordination

Hospital App

This is a tablet hospital app for an attending physician. It helps health professionals overcome tiresome paper-based tasks and concentrate on what really matters – patient care.

Focusing on the most necessary features a physician may need in their work, we’ve created a hospital app demo that is intuitive and easy to interact with from the very first launch. Our purposeful choice of the horizontal layout helps to maximize convenience of navigation and minimize the probability of mis-taps.

You don’t have to learn how to communicate with the app: it already speaks your language. Along with being fluent in medical terminology and ICD-10, our app for doctors uses a predictable color scheme: blue – for neutral information, green – for good results, yellow – for some alarming signals, and red – for information requiring immediate attention.

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