Success Cases

Veja is the largest Brazilian weekly newsmagazine that publishes liberal articles about politics, economics, culture, behavior, world events and entertainment.

In the interactive version for iPad of the leader magazine for business and economy in Brazil , the reports are enriched with videos, graphics, and exclusive photo galleries.

Actminds developed a SharePoint Multi-touch Interface bringing a wide range of functionalities from SHAREPOINT, WINDOWS 7 and WPF/SILVERLIGHT to create an attractive, friendly and dynamic presentation layer.

Self-customized dashboard with data from Business Intelligence.

Actminds helped GoldenGate to create the new version of its software Veridata, splitting a monolitic application into two parts, integrated using web Services.

Actiminds suggested Ajax combined with JSF 3 months before JavaOne selected this combination of technologies as the "hit of the day".

Technology: J2EE (Hibernate, Spring, JSF), Ajax, Web Services, JUnit, Selenium.

11 months; 6,000 man-hours.

Results

Actminds not only provided the software under the budget and shedule, but also suggested the framework (Spring, JSF, Hibernate) and helped the architecture of the product.

Proof of Concept delivered in one month.

1 full release in 10 months

Technology: J2EE (JDO, Spring, JSF); Ajax

2+ Years; 10,000+ man-hours

Product is being sold around the world

Results

A new provider, with no previous experience with Business Objects, could deliver an important new product (Composer) on time, introducing a new framework to Business Objects.

Tetra Pak has reduced their product lead time (packages) to half by implemented the new collaborative Scheduling System developed by Actminds.

The system controls activities like manufacturing, distribution, scheduling and has improved performance of several different processes in the production chain.

Developed on Microsoft .Net Platform.

Technologies: NET Framework 2.0, C#, Windows Services, Excel Classes, AJAX .NET, Reporting Services, SQL Server 2005, Graphical Componets.

Results

With the news system developed by Actminds, Tetra Pak get a 50% product lead time reduction from order to shipment.

Actminds was hired by Recall to create a new version of its Document Management System in order to be compliant with the requirements of their end user - a major US Bank.

The system is designed to operate worldwide controlling the storage and retrieval process of the physical documents of the bank

Development Methodology: RUP

Technologies: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1/2.0 and 3.0

Challenge: Synchronize a huge volume of data distributed in 28 SQL Server 2005 databases in different worldwide locations.

Project duration: 10 months.

Results

This new version of the system compliant with the requirements of the bank supports 100% revenue growth to customer.

Actminds designed and implemented JOGO Media's GamePlan, an Ajax application that delivers features for online in-game advertising with advanced reporting features.

Technologies and techniques

Spring Framework, Hibernate, Ajax/ICEFaces, Oracle, Maven, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Design with TestNG/Selenium, Continuous Integration with JetBrain's TeamCity, Code Review with Atlassian's Crucible.

Project using Ruby on Rails technology.

By understanding the business concepts of the new system, Actminds was able to make suggestions to increase the benefits it will bring to Young Life. 

Case using Amazon Web Services – AWS

• Scenario
  • Marketing campaign support application for multi-national food company
  • Online auctions sponsored by this food company
  • Target: millions of consumers from different countries
  • Scheduled auctions, with high peaks of utilization
  • Low budget for infrastructure investment
• Solution
  • Development of "Cloud Ready" Application
  • From concept, development, setup and deployment to operation
  • Technology Combination: Agility of Ruby and robustness of JAVA
  • Use of Elastic Compute Cloud – EC2 (pay per use)
  • Amazon Web Services – AWS
  • Total automation of the cloud application
  • Management and monitoring activities
  • Automatic provision of servers for demand peaks
  • Peaks scale up to 150 servers
• Benefits
  • Agility: Infrastructure can be changed on the fly, with no interruptions on the service
  • Reliability: 99.95% availability SLA on servers
  • Low TCO: Payment only for used infrastructure. No upfront payment.

Case using Microsoft Azure

• Scenario
  • Satisfaction Poll with consumers for a multi-national beverage company
  • Online selection for participation
  • High peaks of utilization for each quarter
• Solution
  • Microsoft Silverlight and Azure
  • Consumers registering online for the poll
• Benefits
  • 44% in hosting cost reduction
  • Elasticity for the process