Binary Studio | Offshore & Nearshore software outsourcing development in Ukraine - .Net, Silverlight, WPF, WinForms, Azure, PHP development

Offshore/Nearshore Development Centers and Dedicated Teams

The Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:48:00 GMT

One of the key services our company provides is the team building service. We create and help managing long-term offshore and nearshore development centers and dedicated teams of different sizes, working on various technologies.

Confidence in ODC Services

We are the right guys to ask doing this kind of thing as we know our business well and already have some things to show off with here. We know what are the risks and complications of such cooperation and how we should manage these risks in order to make the whole enterprise a success. We know that while you save on costs, you should ensure you also have effective communication, which also saves your time, that’s why we offer you:

a. All kinds of communications facilitators (Skype chats, calls, video conferences, e-mails, project management and bug tracking systems);

b. Trips to our premises. You can meet your team personally, establish good interpersonal relations and we will ensure you have pleasant time during your stay here;

c. We can also organize trips of your team to your premises, where they’ll meet your employees, study the projects and processes of your company.

All this will significantly help achieving our primary aim – create an impression that your developers, working at our premises, are sitting next door to you. Yes, this is not a miracle and it is possible. Communication set properly – and you feel the team that is working for you. You manage them, speak with them, laugh with them at coffee breaks and develop stunning things with them. We let you choose whom to work with. And they will stay with you for long. As long as you are happy with results. As practice shows – that will be real long.

Offshore & Neashore Development Center Cooperation Process

The suggested scheme could then look as follows:

1. You send us a request, describing your needs, your project and the skills you’d like your team to have.

2. We choose the best fitting guys for your team and send you the CVs.

3. After you confirm you are satisfied with the CVs, the team is created. (In case you are not satisfied with the CVs, we repeat point 2 until you ARE satisfied.)

4. You pass all the information on the project, its tasks and their priority to our PM. Some project start facilitating options, like mutual vacation in Alp mountains, on Copacabana beach or meeting team in our offices can be included at this stage as well.

5. PM makes the analysis and planning, communicates you the results of his analysis, asks questions if needed and starts the development with your dedicated team.

6. We will definitely use the project management system – it facilitates the whole project communication and management to a great extent. You can use our system (RedMine) or ask to use your system if you want to. The team usually sends you weekly reports and other updates on your demand.

7. We live together happily ever after.

Interested? Let's give it a try. Contact us to start a discussion.

POS-Software

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:08:00 GMT

Background

POS is software for retails and hospitality, including sales, reports, history tracking and much more.

Key Features

The POS module is completely written in Delphi with originally dbase files, but now has sqlite as a local database.
In this kind of software speed is very important - speed of print, speed of drawer open, and speed to be ready for the next sale. Much of the job of the pos server is to do things faster. This program is designed for retail and hospitality - hospitality has some extra features over a retail system such as kitchen printing and table tracking.

Technologies:

- Delphi

Neya - educational application

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:06:00 GMT

Background

Neya program is an undoubted leader among programs which stimulate children to study. Main task of this application is to direct child’s wish to play to cognitive activity. Neya will lock access to any entertainments on your PC unless your child passes all lessons needed and does all tasks required.

Key Features

Parents themselves can control minimal number of lessons and tasks, list of subjects to study etc. Application is developed in such way, that unlocking of PC is available only if the child completes all the tasks successfully, or if parent enters a special password.
Information and help materials of Neya program have been made by leading experts of Ukrainian universities and completely correspond to educational program of Ukrainain Ministry of Education. Native speakers of languages (English, German, Russian and Ukrainian) were involved in record of vocal tasks.

Technologies:

- Delphi

Screen Recorder Software

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:05:21 GMT

Background

Screen Recorder Software (SRS) – is a program which combines the most popular (major) features of SnagIt and CamStudio/Camtasia Studio into a single and easy-to-use and intuitive application.

Key Features

SRS allows end user to:
• Make screen (partial or full) snapshot - along with ability to capture specific windows, menus, & submenus (output support for bmp, jpg, gif);
• See fps recording rate of screen videos;
• Capture audio;
• Easily import/edit/playback recorded screen video clips and annotate with text or voice (i.e. adding voice narration to the video clips for creation of instructional videos);
• Save/output captured video clips to the major video formats: (i.e. AVI, WMV, Quicktime, MPEG 1-4, DivX, RealMedia, Flash).

Technologies:

- Delphi,
- DirectX,
- WinAPI

E-mail archiver

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:03:32 GMT

Background

E-mail Archiver is a simple, but, at the same time, very powerful and usable tool for work with large amounts of e-mails.

Key Features

Program exports e-mails (including attachments) from mail servers and stores them in application’s database. MS Exchange Server can also be used as a mail server.

E-Mail Archiver can download from the server all e-mails, or only those which correspond to user defined criteria (size, subject, attachments). Moreover, synchronization process can be automated – in this case program will load new e-mails in discrete time periods. Number of mail servers, from which mails can be imported, is unlimited.

Also a user has options to use extended search of e-mails and to create backup of database on CD/DVD disks, which are very useful if there is a big amount of e-mails.

Technologies:

- Delphi,
- Firebird,
- API

Real Estate Web Application

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Background

X-realty is an Internet project, the objective of which is to consolidate databases of realtor agencies into common information space. End users of project are getting opportunity to see lots of options of realty to buy or hire at one place

Key Features

Whole project is conditionally divided into two parts – desktop-application, for internal work of realtor agencies, and Internet site, which is used as server, where all realty variants are stored. «X-realty agent» program is a client-server application, developed using Firebird database.
More details at www.x-realty.com

Technologies:

Project site is developed using LAMP components.

- Delphi,
- PHP,
- Firebird,
- MySQL,
- Ajax,
- Java,
- WinApi

Remote access application

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:58:00 GMT

Background

Remoteus allows you to provide remote support everywhere securely and safely over the Internet and reach customers behind firewalls and NAT addresses instantly without programming or configuring anything.

Remoteus application has several versions with different set of functions: Remoteus Click, Remoteus Doubleclick and Remoteus Click for Enterprise

Remoteus Click for Enterprise is the most enhanced and effective version of the Remoteus tool family. With the Enterprise version you can access both manned and unmanned remote computers through firewalls. You can provide computer support to your clients using the multitude of productivity features such as remote computer inventory and remote server monitoring.

Key features:

1. Reboot remote computer and automatic reconnect;
2. Connect to Windows login screen of the remote computer;
3. Showing own computer screen;
4. Giving access to own computer to remote user (keyboard and mouse);
5. Invoicing over internet;
6. Automatic recording of the connection time;
7. Inventory of the remote computer;
8. Secure access to unmanned computers through firewall;
9. Automated remote server monitoring.
3.3 Development technologies:
• MSGConnect (http://www.eldos.com/msgconnect/desc.php) is used for connection.
• Encrypting is made using StreamSec component kit.
3.4 Debugging:
• At the debugging/testing stage EurecaLog component is being used. This allows to find all unhandled exceptions. Also it allows to find memory leaks after closing of application.
• However main testing of application occurs in special program AutomatedQA. It allows to watch what happens during tested application runtime: recording all exceptions that occurs in application, allows monitoring of created and deleted objects (this helps to find memory leaks during runtime). Call stack helps to find bottlenecks in program. AutomatedQA also allows testing of application performance.

Technologies:

- Delphi,
- J2EE,
- Java techonolgies:
- Hibernate,
- Spring,
- Quartz,
- XStream,
- JasperRepors,
- ACEGI,
- IceFaces,
- JSF,
- ZKoss

Software localization application

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:46:00 GMT

Background

The software localization is the leading software globalization technology for enterprises, accelerating their global software business. By using the software localization application technology, user interfaces and contents of PC, mobile/PDA and Internet software can be quickly and efficiently localized to operate in users' own language.

The software localization application technology is used by thousands of companies in 60 countries, like ABB, Baan, e-Help, Intel Corp., Compaq, Nokia, Siemens, Ericsson Mobile Communications, Lucent Technologies, Xerox, NATO, Bosh, F-Secure, IBM Corporation and many other. The software localization application products helps companies to optimize the localization process, cut software localization costs and maintain consistent terminology.

The latest version of the product, the software localization application 2007 is the result of fruitful cooperation of onshore and Binary Studio teams, which lasts for more than 3 years. It is an integrated solution for optimizing the localization process of desktop, Internet and Wireless & PDA software by automating string extraction and protection, language version builds, and version control. A full set of compatible tools for project management, software engineering and translation work in various environments helps enterprises efficiently produce and maintain multiple language versions of their software, on time and on budget.

Key Features

Following features are available in all the software localization application 2007 Enterprise and the software localization application 2007 Pro products:

1. Experts for better productivity and quality. The software localization application Experts are designed to improve translation quality; Language Expert, Pseudo Language expert, Quality Expert, etc. are there to minimize your work.

2. Smart detection of changes. The software localization application products are optimized for projects, where localization source changes regularly. The software localization application smartly tags any changes (string removed, added, changed) and allows user to filter them. Whether you localize software or content, you'll always see the changes at a glance.

3. Wizards for sharing the work. The software localization application Wizards help to share translation work between team members. Send for instance free the software localization application Translator Edition along with your translations to your translation partner to ensure maximum process fluency.

4. Localize Visually. Visual Editors (Wysiwyg) for dialogs, menus, and other resources ensure that translations are always done in correct context.

5. Open Project Format. The software localization application's XML-based project format improves flexibility in common project maintenance tasks, and enables integration in enterprise's own systems.

6. Great support for file formats. Support for most of these fileformats (See product specific pages for more information); .NET, Visual Studio, Delphi, C++Builder, Turbo Delphi, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java, Palm, PowerPoint, Excel, MSAccess, SQL Server, Interbase, MySQL, Dita, .exe, .dll, .ocx, .bpl, .rc, .resx, .vbproj, .csproj, .sln, .xml, .html, .asp, .php, .txt, .ini, .properties, .xliff, .tmx, .tbx, .csv, etc.

Technologies:

The following platforms, languages and technologies were used in the development of the The software localization application project:

- Delphi,

- .Net,

- Multi-threading,

- plugin system based on COM-objects,

- XML,

- many files format support,

- full Unicode support,

- Zip,

- EurekaLog,

- VCL,

- Trados,

- Soap.

Minder-Warehouse - Enterprise-level ERP system

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:56:00 GMT

Background

Minder Warehouse is a universal accounting system for enterprises and medium size businesses, that belongs to *Minder products family. This system is a property of an Australian company “Barcoding & Data Collection Systems Pty Limited” (http://www.barcoding.com.au). System allows real-time accounting, storing and moving of products in warehouses. Almost the whole system is designed to operate with barcode scanners - log in and log out from the system, operating with most of screens of the system, activation some of business processes in system etc. Minder is integrated with very powerful ERP NetSuite and allows data exchange in real time tracking incoming and outgoing warehouse product units. Update system can work both in automatic and in on-demand (manual) mode. System is designed with requirement to work on PC and different PDAs/HandHelds and to be platform-independent.

Among other Minder’s advantages one of most important is that it allows to work in off-line mode. User doesn’t feel the difference, but all his on-screen actions are stored in internal database and all of them are applied as soon as System Administrator turns on internet connection. Minder’ clients like this options since they feel more comfortable when they open internet gates for server only few times per day and only when it’s required – this helps them to decrease external access to their local network as much as possible. It’s also good to know that Minder won’t send tons of unnecessary bytes trough internet and will only make synchronizing of recently changed records.

Such well-known not only in Australia brands like Shell (http://www.shell.com/home/content/au-en/welcome.html) and Volkswagen are enjoying using of Minder system. Average-size companies like Alstom Power (http://www.power.alstom.com), Fresh Produce Group (http://www.freshproducegroup.com/), National Museum of Australia (www.nma.gov.au) operate with Minder system in their everyday work as well. It’s also interesting to know that few Police departments in Australia are using Minder to store information about dangerous stuff.

Key Features

Challenge:
Since the system is very big and complex and the expectations of the multinational clients are very high, during the development our team faced and successfully resolved quite a lot of challenging issues, among which are the following:
• On connection to ERP NetSuite, there appeared a problem with odd sending of data via SOAP. This problem was solved by writing a class for caching and checking data sent and received by the system. This significantly decreased the volume of traffic transferred by the system. Using this class system got ability to select which data is needed to be updated and which is not and to load data by discrete portions, if needed.
• There also appeared a task to develop several intellectual screens, which would be completely controlled via a barcode scanner, would recognize scanned data and put them to correct form fields, and which would also recognize user errors and promptly inform user about them. The task was also to make all processes handled by screens – saving data, running transactions, changing to other screens – be controlled without using keyboard and/or mouse but only via barcode scanner. This task was particularly important due to the fact that in most cases users of these screens are in about 10 meters from actual terminal and using wireless (Bluetooth) barcode scanners, so they shouldn’t waste time to get to terminal and make appropriate actions.
• Developing Minder classes that allows user to work in off-line mode was a big challenge for our team as well. We made a deep analysis of the existing up-to-date solutions for storing on-screen user actions history in special database and have chosen to use some of Google technologies to get a stable solution with many powerful features, which we successfully integrated.
Features:
• Accounting on several warehouses;
• Accounting on several locations inside warehouse;
• Listing of suppliers/consumers;
• Reports system;
• Accessibility from PC and PDA;
• Integration with mobile and fixed barcode scanners;
• Generation of own barcodes.

Technologies:

Technologies:
- PHP5,
- AJAX,
- SOAP
3rd party libraries, frameworks and classes:
- Zend Framework 1.5,
- JQuery 1.2,
- GoogleGears,
- Flex,
- JPGraph 1.26,
- FPDF 1.6,
- PEAR,
- JQueryUI library,
- NetSuite library.
Database:
- FireBird 2.1,
- SQLite

UpdateME - Custom Web Part for MS SharePoint Server

The Admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:48:07 GMT

Background

Developed for Quartal CGS, UpdateME is a custom Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server to extent Quartal’s Corporate Governance Solution that enables secure collaboration between board members of publicly-traded corporations. UpdateME is a custom Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server that enhanced options for user notification.

UpdateME delivers notifications to subscribed users using timer job events, so there is no need for administrators to individually configure alerts for individual document libraries. Based on the user-defined values and preferences, UpdateME sends messages with links to recently added or modified content so subscribers can keep up to date on their priority activities.

Objectives

The objectives of the UpdateME project were to:

- Allow users to select and subscribe to individual notifications, select channel preference (e-mail, SMS, both) and control the frequency and timing windows of notification delivery

- Display last 5 notifications directly within the user’s dashboard

- Allow administrators the ability to manage both email and SMS templates for a single alert

- Allow administrators to manage subscriptions and message templates

- Support localized alerts based on the user’s preferred language

Platforms, Languages & Technologies

The following platforms, languages and technologies were used in the development of the WhoisOnline project:

- Windows Server 2008
- MS SQL 2005
- C#
- ASP.NET 2.0 - Web Services
- SharePoint Portal Server 2007
- Clearwire Messaging API