Customer
The Customer is a company providing video streaming services for network operators, content owners as well as telecommunications, broadcasting and media companies in the US and Europe. Among the company’s clients there are Fox Entertainment Group, MTV, Discovery Communications, BBC, T-Mobile, Orange and many more.
Challenge
In 2010, the Customer helped large telcos make their live TV streaming services available across multiple mobile devices. Given the rising interest in the company’s flagship products among the large industry players, the Customer decided to streamline time-to-market by tapping into a pioneering technology – hybrid app development. The company chose ScienceSoft as a mobile application developer to jump-start new projects with.
Cooperation
ScienceSoft augmented the Customer’s development group with 1 iOS, 1 Android and 2 JavaScript Developers working under a T&M arrangement. In the course of the 3 subsequent years, the team powered 6 broadcasting companies with customizable multi-screen apps that allowed watching online streams on smartphones, tablets, TV, gaming consoles and in browsers. Following the products’ success in the market, ScienceSoft scaled up its team.
The companies reached a milestone when set out to create their own framework based on Backbone.js, which would open up striking opportunities to lessen development costs and accelerate the delivery of customized solutions. Exploiting the agility of HTML5 to the fullest, the new architecture made it easy to regularly update, implement features and manage UI/UX via the cloud without bothering to re-publish the app to the store. Moreover, it allowed new functionality like SVOD (subscription video on demand) and movie rental. The framework has been developed for 2.5 years and now is core to all of the Customer’s products.
Results
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.
Technologies and Tools
JavaScript, Backbone.js, jQuery, Modernizr, RequireJS, Underscore.js, HTML5, CSS3, Xcode, Android SDK
Founded in 1989, ScienceSoft is a US-headquartered provider of custom software development and IT consulting services with 700 employees located internationally.
For over 32 years we’ve been bringing custom and platform-based solutions to midsized and large companies in Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Financial Services and other industries. The likes of Walmart, Nestle, eBay, T-Mobile, Baxter and IBM rely on our solutions in their daily operations.
With the background rooted in science, we build on our legacy knowledge and grow it dynamically in the areas of Collaboration, CRM, Data Analysis, VoIP and Information Security. As part of this journey, we partnered with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, Episerver and more tech leaders so that our clients can benefit from these high-level networks too. Currently, we are recognized with 8 Gold Microsoft Competencies in Application Development, and Collaboration and Content.
The core of our client operations is at our US headquarters in McKinney, TX, and EU office in Vantaa, Finland. At the same time, the major development centers in Eastern Europe. From here, our teams nurture and apply their competencies worldwide: while Northern America remains our principle market, our customers come from over 30 countries.
Experience 32 years in IT
Size 700 employees (600 IT professionals)
Customers 60 countries, 30 industries
Turnover 75% of the revenue comes from 1+ year-long customers
INDUSTRIES
ScienceSoft has been delivering software solutions for middle-market and enterprise customers across multiple target industries. Our hallmark projects include:
Banking and Finance: СRM for a bank with 7 mln clients Award-winning mobile banking solutions Intranet portal for a bank with over $400 bn assets Information security projects for financial institutions on three continents
Healthcare: Business intelligence solution for 200 US healthcare centers Medication order processing system for a US healthcare company with more than $15 bn revenue and 60,000 employees
Retail: Modules for one of eBay’s e-Commerce platforms with over 2.5 mln members Private label product analysis and reporting used by Walmart Trade promotion management solution used by Heinz Brand health monitoring system used by Nestle
Telecom: Viber, one of the world’s most popular instant messaging and VoIP apps with 600+ mln users Information security projects for telecoms in Europe and Asia
Public Sector: Nationwide civil registry for an EU country Mobile document management solution for a parliament We have also built up experience in Education, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Media and Entertainment, Transportation and Logistics.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
With an established project management culture, ScienceSoft has achieved 100% project delivery owing to:
ability to work with both detailed and vague project scope realistic estimation and, thus, staying within budget during implementation effective resource allocation to lessen risks being able to apply various software development methodologies ensuring smooth communication with the Customer and 3rd parties all-round Quality Assurance to guarantee that the application runs as intended
KEY TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE
Back-end and desktop: Microsoft .NET, Java, C++, PHP, Qt, Node.js Front end: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript Mobile: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Xamarin, Apache Cordova, Qt Web development: Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, Pimcore, Magento, Sitecore, EPiServer