WEINMANN Emergency, a Hamburg-based medical technology company, was facing challenges in developing new medical devices. The company needed to expedite the process of bringing new products to the market while ensuring compliance with medical standards and regulations. The primary goal was to speed up the development and release of their MEDUCORE Standard² solution, a portable defibrillator. The company required a technology partner with expertise in embedded Linux software development, the capacity to assemble a strong engineering team quickly, and a cost-effective cooperation model. The challenges included implementing a secure communication protocol with a telemetry server, securely uploading user session data and device logs, fixing multithreaded data access issues, building Wi-Fi network connections, improving Bluetooth printer support, and ensuring compliance with security regulations.

The client, a rapidly growing brokerage firm in Canada with over $20B in assets under administration, was facing a challenge with its trading solution. The existing mobile app, which was the core of its brokerage business, was not meeting the increasing needs of its two main user categories: investors and advanced traders. The app offered the same functionality for both types of users, making it too complicated for ordinary investors and insufficient for professional traders. The client decided to replace it with two separate mobile apps to better cater to the needs of these different user groups. Additionally, the company was looking to expand its market reach and needed a reliable technology partner to launch new solutions.

The client, a leading luxury store chain operating in over 100 countries, was facing challenges with their product demand forecasting process. The process involved a significant amount of manual work, with all sales-related data being kept in Excel tables and calculated manually. The client's merchandising and planning experts used a demand forecasting web application to make estimations of customer demand over a specific period of time. The solution calculated historical data and other analytical information to produce the most accurate predictions. However, the client wanted to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of this process, making it faster, more accurate, and less complicated for their employees. They sought to unify all processes under an intuitive UI.

VMware was undergoing a significant digital transformation to support its business model transition from perpetual-license software to subscription and software-as-a-service (SaaS). The VMware IT team was tasked with delivering new capabilities in an accelerated timeframe while improving performance, resiliency, and user experience. One of the apps modernized was VMware Customer Connect, a self-service portal accessed by millions of users each month. Since its launch a decade ago, the portal experienced exponential growth in traffic, leading to scalability and performance issues, outages, and latency. Its legacy codebase and monolithic architecture made it difficult to build and deliver new features. To enhance the platform’s performance and security in the short term, VMware added third-party software tools. However, a lack of integration and other inconsistencies added to the platform's complexity.

MindArk's client required a unique platform that would allow professionals to host meetings in Virtual Reality (VR) instead of using traditional telephone or video conference. The platform needed to support multiple users, up to 100, from different locations, and provide a realistic representation of the users through customizable avatars. The platform also needed to support different VR devices including Oculus, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and traditional devices like iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X. Additionally, the platform needed to integrate with Google Account and Google Drive to operate with materials stored on the Drive such as PPT, Video, etc. The challenge also included creating a 3D positional / Voice proximity so users could see and hear surrounding objects/users as realistically as possible, and tracking the user’s hands and speech and synchronize it with the avatar’s lips and body language.

Bitlog, a Sweden-based company delivering innovative supply-chain and logistics solutions, was faced with the challenge of extending the functionality of their warehouse management system (WMS). They needed to improve the user experience and develop mobile applications for iOS devices. The task was complex due to the intricate business logic of warehouse management, which required a deep understanding of warehouse workflows, stock control, product movement, picking operations, and space utilization. The WMS comprised over 10 modules with complex logic and user scenarios, necessitating the development of multiple workflows for warehouse operators and managers. The team also had to develop different modules for managers and drivers for the Transportation Management System (TMS) application.

Orbus Software, a leading global provider of software solutions for Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Analysis, and Application Portfolio Management, faced a significant challenge. The company needed to expand the testing capabilities and reduce the time to market of iServer, their core product. The intense competition in the market and the high expectations of customers for upgraded offerings made time to market a critical factor for the company. Additionally, Orbus had an extensive manual Quality Control (QC) web team, which resulted in operational overheads with regression testing. The test case base was also large and difficult to maintain.

The organization, a leading provider of integrated logistics solutions, was facing several challenges in its quest to become the top player in its field. The company, which is one of the largest wind and solar energy logistics players, was struggling with managing complex Over Dimensional Cargo (ODC) operations. They were also looking to consolidate all their divisions, functions, service offerings, and capabilities to achieve a high standardization and interoperability level. The company was in need of a solution partner who could accommodate and support their expansion into other logistics segments. Additionally, they were seeking a solution that would support their goal of bringing innovation to the logistics industry, which would help in delivering cost-effective and modern technology-driven solutions.

The challenge faced by the engineering design software provider was to build a new compliance program from scratch, start earning revenue quickly, and expand to multiple geographical markets. The company had never systematically instrumented its products to identify piracy, and wasn’t at all confident that it understood the magnitude of its problem. Like many software companies, it had relied primarily on anecdotes, speculation, and tips from disgruntled employees, but it had no reliable data to set priorities for enforcement, or to pursue specific infringers. The company needed a solution that could provide reliable data and help them pursue leads in different markets.

The client, a leading global fashion retailer, was in the midst of a digital transformation journey. The challenge was to improve their existing legacy systems and develop new tools to accelerate this transformation. The legacy promotion management system, a desktop application used to manage promotions, lacked flexibility and could not keep up with the company's needs. It involved the use of several programs, and the client needed a unified app that would allow them to create an end-to-end promotion process. Additionally, the client required the development of a proposal management system for buyers. The buyers used excel tables and manually entered data to create proposals of goods they needed in their shops, including their quantity and the time when they needed them. The client wanted to reduce the amount of manual work and automate this process.

Automotive supplier Continental was faced with the challenge of saving time, reducing costs, and standardizing the development process across its globally dispersed development sites. The company also had to meet the requirements of the functional safety standard ISO 26262. This necessitated a global effort to standardize the development process during every phase and at every geographic site, using common processes and tools. The challenge was not only to streamline and standardize the development process but also to ensure compliance with safety standards across all its development sites.

The client, a leading provider of a wide range of tax services to thousands of clients in nearly 100 countries worldwide, was facing a challenge with their property tax calculation services. These services were mostly completed manually with the help of Excel sheets. As their business grew and the number of customers increased, these calculations started to incur substantial amounts of time and effort. The manual process was not only time-consuming but also led to additional operational expenses. The company needed to automate this process to maintain their efficiency and keep up with the growth.

Book2Meet, the largest online booking platform for meeting spaces across Europe, approached N-iX with the goal of creating an easy-to-use platform for reserving meeting venues. The challenge was to design an intuitive application that simplified the booking process, shortened the user flow, and incorporated all search filters within a single widget, all while adhering to the platform's style guide and preserving its image. The UX/UI team faced the task of placing numerous filters on the page without overloading the design and ensuring that setting search criteria wouldn't be time-consuming. The initial user journey included numerous options spread across three pages, which was cumbersome and time-consuming for users.

The client, a leading global provider of integrated connectivity solutions for public transport, wanted to expand their services by creating a web-based CCTV solution for transport surveillance. This was aimed at giving them a competitive edge over rivals who mostly used desktop or hybrid solutions. However, the client faced challenges in validating the feasibility, budget, and timelines of the project. They needed to define these aspects for the existing infrastructure before proceeding with the development of the web-based CCTV solution.

Teradici, the creator of the PCoIP® remote display protocol, faced a significant challenge in transitioning from a hardware-based business model to a software subscription model. The company's initial offering was workstation cards that converted high-performance towers, blade servers, or rack workstations into a workstation that delivers high-end images to any remote location over affordable IP networks. However, as CPUs and GPUs became more robust, the company saw an opportunity to port its solution to run on software, offering more flexibility for customers and recurring revenue. The challenge was to implement a flexible licensing system across multiple products, centralize entitlement management for automation and data gathering, and integrate with Salesforce.com and the cleverbridge ecommerce platform. The company also aimed to improve order processing, increase operational efficiencies, and offer an ecommerce channel.

Diversey, a global hygiene company, was facing significant challenges with its customer support system. The team was using email and email groups to interact with both their customers and employees, which led to a loss of context, confusing threads, and difficulty in establishing who was working on which query. This lack of organization and accountability often resulted in teammates working on the same query. The customer support team was dealing with clogged up inboxes due to high volumes of mail and phone calls, repetitive tasks due to the lack of automations, a lack of customer history, zero transparency into customer queries, and loss of context and customer queries. There was no portal for customer/agent interaction, making it impossible to route queries/problems to the right person, and ticket resolution times were long. The quality and effectiveness of their service were being affected by unanswered emails/calls/chats, delayed responses, and a lack of reporting.

Eastern Washington University (EWU), a comprehensive regional public university in Cheney, Washington, faced several challenges with its IT services. The university, which has a total enrollment of 12,633 students spread across multiple campuses and online, was struggling with legacy platforms, lack of end-user adoption, visibility and ownership of service requests, and scalability. The IT team at EWU was tasked with ensuring the on-time availability of technological facilities and services across all the campuses. However, the incumbent on-prem SolarWinds and ServiceNow solutions were not meeting the university's needs. The team was looking to modernize and scale the campus IT services, moving from on-premise to cloud-based solutions. The objective was to improve agent and end-user adoption and extend the solution instance across campus partners, departments, and other offices.

Fantastic Services, a property maintenance service provider, was facing challenges with its custom-built live chat platform. The platform had limited capabilities and features, which resulted in agents spending more time manually picking up tickets and waiting for replies from idle customers, reducing agent concurrency. Furthermore, despite having a full in-house development team, maintaining the chat platform was proving to be difficult. Technical updates and maintenance slowed down support, and the company found it hard to manage the chat channel without external assistance. The company needed a solution that could enhance the efficiency of their sales and customer service teams and improve their chat-generated revenue.

Scaling their business at a brisk pace, CELLINK wanted to find a reliable tech partner with solid experience in the development of IoT systems who could provide experts in С++, Qt, Embedded Linux, Marlin, MQTT, and Flutter. With bioprinters already in production, CELLINK was searching for a dedicated team able to maintain their code through bug fixing and polishing to make their bioprinter devices function even better.

The consumer goods arm of a global conglomerate, manufacturing a wide range of products, faced significant challenges in securing its operational technology (OT) environment. The company's manufacturing sites are spread globally, with some being decades old and others relatively new. The company had to manage a multitude of devices and systems, along with remote access for numerous third-party contractors, which added to the complexity of its industrial cybersecurity posture. The company was relying on traditional, IT-centric security tools that were incompatible with its OT environment. This, along with the prevalence of legacy systems, inconsistent documentation of OT assets, and diverse geographies and local practices, made gaining full visibility into its OT environment a daunting task. The company also struggled with unmonitored remote access and misconfigurations, which led to downtime. Furthermore, the company's growth through acquisitions resulted in a patchwork of systems from multiple vendors, complicating its IT and OT security. The company also lacked OT anomaly detection capabilities, which are crucial for quick response to operational disruptions.

Shapermint, a leading ecommerce website for women's intimates, shapewear, and loungewear, faced a challenge in scaling its customer support operations to keep up with its rapid growth. The company recognized the potential of offering 24/7 live chat on their website to enhance customer experience and drive sales. However, they were concerned about their capacity to meet the demand for high-quality service in synchronous messaging. The challenge was to scale up their synchronous customer engagement without compromising on the quality of their industry-leading customer experience.

Big Bus Tours, the world's largest open-top sightseeing service, was facing a significant challenge in managing their customer support. With a scattered support team and no visibility into customer context, they were struggling to provide a unified and efficient customer service experience. The company was also missing out on identifying revenue-generating opportunities due to the lack of data. The support team was working out of a shared inbox, which provided little to no customer context, making it difficult to manage the increasing volume of queries. The data was too siloed to offer a unified experience to both the support team and customers. The company wanted to centralize all 23 separate in-city customer service functions and create a customer service excellence center. They also wanted to give customers the opportunity to communicate through any channel they choose, including social media.

Bracknell Forest Council, a local authority in Berkshire, England, was facing several challenges with their legacy ticketing system. The system was heavily reliant on traditional channels such as emails and phone calls, which limited the efficiency of the teams. The system required heavy customizations to meet the council's needs, making it difficult for non-IT teams to use. The council's IT environment was plagued with manual processes and the system was heavily siloed, restricting the flow of information among teams and resulting in longer resolution times. The council was in need of a modern, user-friendly IT service desk that would enable them to serve their customers better. They were looking for a solution that would provide self-service capabilities to reduce agent workload, visibility across teams for better collaboration, and an easy learning curve for non-technical teams.

The Creche and Kindergarten Association Limited (C&K), a leading non-profit organization in Australia, faced significant challenges in managing its IT service management (ITSM) tool. With over 350 centres across Queensland, C&K was struggling to scale its processes, systems, and IT infrastructure to meet the demands of its expanding operations. The existing ticketing system was inadequate, leading to misrouted tickets, miscommunication, and a lack of visibility. The system's inability to categorize and route tickets to the right team resulted in confusion and inefficiency. Additionally, the workload was unmanageable, leading to employee burnout. The approval process was cumbersome, involving 10-12 pages of handwritten paperwork and uploading this information onto an external government portal. The lack of a priority matrix and SLA management led to ticket resolution times ranging from 2 days to 2 weeks, causing chaos and frustration.

CeX WeBuy, a global dealer of second-hand electronics, video games, and computing equipment, faced a significant challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company, which relies heavily on its physical stores for buying and selling used products, was hit hard by the lockdown restrictions. The closure of stores led to a surge in customer enquiries, with ticket volumes increasing by over 100% compared to the previous year. The company was also dealing with the confusion over lockdown guidelines, with customers contacting individual stores to check if they were open and to get updates on their orders. Prior to the pandemic, CeX WeBuy had been using Zendesk to manage its customer support operations, but found it lacking in customization, support, and reporting options.

MISA, an online fashion retailer, faced a significant challenge in managing customer support and communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift in consumer behavior towards online shopping led to an explosive growth in digital footfall, increasing MISA’s average number of orders from 30-50 a day to about 70-100 a day. This surge in orders resulted in higher support volumes, with customers frequently enquiring about their orders and delivery status. The team struggled to prioritize issues as their existing email systems ordered conversations based on the latest response rather than the urgency of the queries. Additionally, the shift to remote work due to the pandemic raised concerns about effective team collaboration and communication. MISA also faced the challenge of dealing with repetitive customer queries, which were time-consuming and redundant.

STEEZY.Digital, a real estate marketing tech company based in California, was struggling with the results of their general marketing campaigns. The founder, Jeffrey Brogger, was dissatisfied with the high-ticket sales of homes that required an extra human touch to close the deal. He was looking for a better way to enhance the real estate market. The shift of commerce and communication from email to Messenger was also observed, with real estate marketers using the new channel to close escrow. However, this left out an important aspect of sales: Conversation. Since Jeffrey’s clients sell high ticket offers, the ability to engage their audience, provide valuable content, and qualify prospects before talking with an agent was necessary. He also aimed to reduce the average time it takes to close a sale for his clients.

Furlenco, India's largest furniture subscription-commerce company, was facing a significant challenge in customer engagement and retention. Despite successfully driving app installs, the company was experiencing a low subscription ratio, which was impacting the number of subscriptions coming in from their mobile app. The team identified several customer drop-off points across the customer journey that needed to be addressed. These included reaching out to prospective clients, formulating messages for better subscription rates, determining the frequency of messaging, improving the acquisition and onboarding experience to retain customers, and making the post-onboarding process more meaningful and engaging.

Branch, a leading provider of mobile linking and measurement platforms, was facing a significant challenge in converting their website traffic into leads. Despite having a healthy amount of organic traffic and mature website pages, not all of their site pages were optimized for conversion. The company was successful in attracting prospects to their site, but struggled to encourage them to take the next step. Additionally, Branch had specific qualification criteria for their enterprise product and needed a tool to automate this process. They wanted to leverage the logic and filtering criteria within a tool to simplify the qualification process for their prospects. The goal was to have the qualification happen automatically before suggesting a conversation about an enterprise plan.

Park Place Technologies, a provider of proactive and predictive data center support and maintenance, was facing a challenge with their live chat system. The live chat was only available during certain hours, which meant they were missing out on potential conversations with prospects in different time zones. Additionally, they were unable to engage visitors who used their End of Service Life (EOSL) library page as a reference resource and then left the site without any interaction. The company needed a solution that could engage prospects 24/7, tap into new lead sources, and improve the speed of lead to opportunity and lead to close.