StarKist, a leading food company in the United States, was facing significant challenges in managing its supply chain. The demand planning function and the financial planning and analysis team were using separate sets of spreadsheets to track inventories and orders for 100 key accounts and 200 product SKUs. This disjointed approach was not only inefficient but also prone to errors, especially when dealing with new SKUs, discontinued SKUs, and customer allocations. The supply chain's reliance on an SAP ERP for production planning resulted in a massive amount of data accumulating in a complex spreadsheet that was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. Furthermore, the lack of real-time data between the supply planning and demand planning functions made it impossible to conduct in-depth analysis of SKU traffic or to quickly respond to volatile market conditions.

Keller Williams, the world's largest real estate technology franchise, was driven by a desire to foster meaningful relationships and provide a seamless user experience for agents and customers. They wanted to create a platform that would allow agents and customers to navigate the real estate market with ease. However, they faced the challenge of finding a solution that was highly flexible and customizable, as opposed to a Software as a Service (SaaS) suite that did not allow for customization. The company needed a solution that would enable them to manage contacts, marketing profiles, campaigns, and listings effectively.

GE Healthcare, a global leader in medical technology and digital solutions, faced several challenges in managing support requests from its channel partners. The company provides medical equipment and services to clinicians worldwide, and when a piece of equipment is down, the channel partner may reach out to GE Healthcare for help. Capturing and managing these support requests was a complex task, often leading to hours spent searching for information. Additionally, GE Healthcare needed to ensure that channel partners were delivering the same level of support to their customers as those supported directly by GE. However, with their existing customer support process, GE managers had little visibility into support requests. They were unaware of the number or status of requests and who was responsible for each. This lack of process control and visibility into channel partners led to the realization that a change was necessary.

Israel is currently undergoing the largest infrastructure development in its history, with projects ranging from lite-trains and underground trains to cross-country highways and heavy railways. However, coordinating these large-scale projects in a small country like Israel, where resources are limited, is a significant challenge. Each project requires multiple approvals from various entities, including the Israel Water Company, the Israel Electric Corporation, and several federal bodies. This process was previously handled manually, leading to inefficient paperwork, misunderstandings, and delays in the coordination process, which in turn delayed project delivery. The Israeli government recognized the need for a more efficient system to manage the coordination of these infrastructure projects.

In the highly competitive real estate market, quick response to leads and efficient management of these leads are crucial. Jonathon Kerester, the managing broker at Realty Investment Advisors (RIA), was faced with the challenge of connecting email marketing and customer support tools. He needed a system where Zendesk tickets would be automatically filled out whenever leads subscribed to specific newsletters in Mailchimp or updated their profiles with RIA. The challenge was to reduce the time spent on cold calling and to connect with leads faster. The goal was to automate the initial follow-ups and lead management to increase efficiency and productivity.

SelectQuote Insurance Services, a company providing insurance quotes, was faced with the challenge of providing reliable insurance quotes to clients in an efficient manner. The company wanted to streamline the process of cross-application functions without the need for a developer to build a series of APIs. The process involved a potential client filling out a form with their phone number, assigning the client to a SelectQuote agent, pulling quotes from SelectQuote's vendors, and then sending the quotes to the client. The company wanted to automate this process to save time, money, and resources.

Chang, a popular beer brand in Thailand, was facing a significant challenge. The brand had not updated its advertising or packaging since its inception twenty years ago. As a result, it had earned the reputation of being the 'old man's beer' and was rapidly losing market share to more modern competitors. The beer, the bottle, and the brand were all in desperate need of a change. The challenge was not just about rebranding, but also about reconnecting with a younger, more modern audience and changing the perception of the brand.

AirAsia, a leading airline in the Asia Pacific region, aimed to become a 'data-first' business and a digital airline. The company needed technologies and services that could capture, process, analyze, and report on data, while delivering value for money and meeting its speed and availability requirements. The airline also wanted to minimize infrastructure management and system administration demands on its technology team. AirAsia realized that only a cloud service could meet its needs and began evaluating the market. The company also faced challenges with its legacy on-premises directory as it expanded to new markets and regions. Managing multiple servers across a number of on-premises data centers and the public cloud proved costly and time-consuming.

ACH Colombia, a financial services company, was established in 1997 with the aim of providing solutions to the financial industry and promoting financial inclusion among users. Over the years, the company has delivered several services, but it identified a new need among Colombians: the ability to send, receive, and request money easily and immediately, without having to leave their homes. This need became even more pressing in the context of social distancing and preventive confinement measures against the spread of COVID-19. Furthermore, ACH Colombia faced the challenge of delivering a 24/7 service across all regions of the country, and needed to ensure that the service was accessible to unbanked users. The company also wanted to promote the use of e-money to reduce costs, decrease the use of cash, and increase the security of transactions.

Chatter, or unwanted vibrations during CNC machining, can cause noise, heat, and damage to both the workpiece and cutting tools. It is crucial to detect and mitigate chatter to ensure high-quality production and prolong the lifespan of the equipment.

Small PCB design firms often face the challenge of limited access to affordable, comprehensive software tools. These tools are essential for designing, co-designing, sourcing parts, and sharing projects at each stage of the development cycle. Many available tools are incomplete, requiring additional modules that increase complexity and costs. Matthew Lightsey, founder and principal designer of Granite Summit Designs, experienced this challenge firsthand. His firm specializes in designing custom PCBs for various industries, including commercial, industrial, aerospace, and defense. When starting his own design firm, Matt did not want to compromise on professional tools. However, he found that more comprehensive solutions came with a higher price tag, while cheaper solutions were inadequate for professional use.

Defense technology company, Anduril, was facing a significant documentation challenge. With several core product platforms commercially available and many more in development, the company was struggling to keep its documentation up-to-date. The traditional method of using flat PDF documents with screenshots from CAD software was becoming obsolete as products evolved. Moreover, the creation of these documents was dependent on mechanical engineers, leading to bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the process. This outdated method of documentation was causing delays and resulting in stale data. Additionally, the company's business development representatives were limited in their ability to respond to product questions and requests from customers due to the restrictive nature of flat documents and screenshots.

The City of Akron, Ohio, faced a significant challenge when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. With a workforce of about 2,100 full-time and seasonal employees across various divisions, city officials had to make quick decisions to protect not only residents but also its employees. The initial stay-at-home orders issued in March 2020 necessitated accurate, real-time data to make important decisions on how to bring employees back to work and support active city employees. The city needed to determine which employees were essential and nonessential, manage benefits for essential employees, and track leave types to analyze its impact on staffing levels and overtime costs. However, the city's legacy applications made access to real-time data for decision-making difficult. The process of obtaining personnel data was time-consuming and involved several steps, including requesting reports from the appropriate staff member or department or directly accessing the database to pull data into a CSV format.

Datanet, a UK-based data hosting and connectivity services provider, was facing several challenges that necessitated a change in its data centre network. Firstly, the network equipment was nearing its end-of-life, raising concerns about its long-term viability. Given that Datanet's customers required highly reliable services with minimal downtime, a future-proofed and high availability network was essential. Secondly, as Datanet's services grew more successful and the volume of backup and recovery services increased, it needed to upgrade its network capacity from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps to keep pace with traffic volumes. Upgrading the existing equipment would have required a substantial investment, almost equivalent to replacing it completely, prompting Datanet to look for alternative solutions. Lastly, Datanet had experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that its previous vendor had struggled to deal with satisfactorily. It was keen to deploy comprehensive security throughout its new infrastructure as a fundamental design feature, rather than an add-on.

Schüttflix, a German logistics start-up, aimed to disrupt the traditional construction supply chain by digitizing the industry, which was primarily reliant on pen and paper processes. The company's mission was to enable data-driven decision-making by providing stakeholders with accurate and timely data. The challenge was to build a modern data stack that could tap into key data sources efficiently and reliably. Alexander Rupp, Head of Data and Business Intelligence at Schüttflix, was tasked with evaluating connectors that could meet these requirements.

The company soon realized that for organizations in the banking and insurance industries, security was a top-most concern. As an all-in-one communication and document workflow platform, Totaldocs needed a way to allow these customers to send and store documents such as bank statements, policies, and billings – which must remain confidential.Solution RequirementsGive customers the ability to apply legally recognized digital signatures, with the secure electronic delivery and AATL Long Term Validity (LTV) to meet archiving requirements for documents.Easily integrate with the existing Totaldocs cloud platform to ensure a seamless end-user experience.Partner with an experienced, globally recognized Certificate Authority with a strong understanding of the document signing market.

Cure Forward, an innovative healthcare platform, aimed to revolutionize the traditional approach to cancer treatment by building a network that connects patients with each other and with clinical trial providers. The challenge was to create a digital solution that would enable cancer patients to explore clinical trials as a treatment option. The platform also needed to provide access to educational information based on a user’s molecular diagnostic test results and facilitate communication between cancer patients and survivors. The client required a complex 5 in 1 web application with a simple and intuitive UX design, allowing patients to effortlessly add their details to the database. The design had to be engaging and encouraging, considering the social aspect of the product.

Yieldmo, a mobile-advertising marketplace, was facing a challenge in enhancing its measurement of user interactions for its ad campaigns. The company needed to capture user behavior in real time, across each ad pixel for billions of ad impressions at millisecond granularity. This was crucial for their sessionization process, which involved the collection of user interactions, known as micro-interactions, performed on Yieldmo’s ad units within a user session. The company was also planning to launch a new data platform that would provide in-depth insights into customer engagements. However, capturing hundreds of billions of micro-interactions presented a technical challenge as it would increase the number of requests coming in and require adding many more proxy servers to capture and analyze all these events. Implementing a traditional solution would be time-consuming, expensive, and require a large amount of storage and compute power.

The Angolan government agency was seeking to upgrade its voter ID system ahead of the elections in Q3 2017. The aim was to increase the number of citizens eligible to vote by issuing voter IDs in a short time frame. The existing voter ID printing system needed to be replaced with a solution that reduced costs significantly by providing mobility and streamlining operational processes. The key selection criteria included a faster throughput secure issuance printer solution, a de-centralized secure issuance solution to increase the number of citizens enrolled, a Wi-Fi based secure issuance printing solution for increased convenience, improved reliability of the printing solution, a lightweight, easy-to-use portable solution for collecting citizens’ data and issuing voter IDs for citizens residing in remote areas, and high levels of security to combat fraud and minimize the number of counterfeit voter IDs.

Facedrive, a Canadian ride-sharing platform, needed to develop a comprehensive solution from scratch. This included back end, front end, and mobile development for both iOS and Android platforms. The development team was tasked with implementing GPS positioning and route navigation, integrating with a payment platform, and creating a complex ride-sharing logic. They also needed to create an intuitive UX design. The challenges included updating the drivers' location information in real-time, estimating time and distance for each ride, synchronizing multiple servers, ensuring payment security through Stripe API integration, developing the ride-sharing logic, calculating rates for electric, hybrid, and gas vehicles, and ensuring smooth operation across multiple apps and platforms.

BBVA, a Spain-based financial institution with over €662 billion in assets and 83 million customers across more than 30 countries, relies on complex calculations for risk analysis and pricing of financial products. Post the 2008 Financial Crisis, regulations necessitated banks to evaluate credit risk and stress-test financial scenarios. Typically, this risk analysis is performed using Monte Carlo simulations, a highly complex, expensive, and time-consuming process that must account for all possible credit default scenarios. Any enhancement in the performance of these simulations would directly affect the daily operational costs, financial product pricing, and risk analysis.

Proximus, the largest internet service provider (ISP) in Belgium, embarked on a network function virtualization (NFV) initiative in 2018. The project involved deploying various telecommunication applications using a cloud infrastructure, including virtual IP multimedia subsystems (vIMS), and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN). However, migrating complex physical ISP networks to a new network with virtualized functions was a long-term project, taking several years. During this transition, Proximus faced the challenge of maintaining the same visibility and analytics across both physical and virtual functions. The company had deployed several traffic analytics probes that relied on physical taps, tap aggregation switches, and Keysight Vision network packet brokers in the legacy environment. However, in the new virtual environment, network functions ran as virtual machines (VMs) on the same physical server, and the east-west traffic did not cross any of the physical links where the physical taps would have been located. Proximus needed to maintain the same level of visibility in the virtual environment as in the physical one, while also containing the total cost of ownership.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) was established in 2000 with a mandate to run a safe, secure, and reliable .CA domain for all Canadians. With over 2.8 million domains under management, CIRA saw an opportunity to complement its registry revenue with new services. In 2015, CIRA moved into DNS cybersecurity with the introduction of D-Zone Anycast DNS, a service now used by ISPs, the Canadian government, and many educational institutions. However, after the release of this service, many of CIRA’s customers requested a recursive DNS Service, particularly organizations in the education sector who were interested in a service with content filtering. CIRA considered building a recursive DNS service solution in-house but realized the real value was in a threat feed, which they couldn’t develop on their own.

Acxiom, a company that designs and delivers customer intelligence solutions, is heavily invested in digital technology. With a business built on the ethical use of data, Acxiom faces the challenge of constantly evolving security threats. The company needed to ensure the protection of its customer data and insights into customer behavior. The challenge was to find a partner that could provide cutting-edge and next-generation technologies to keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape. Acxiom required a solution that could not only defend against attacks but also align with the different changes in the threat landscape.

As a leading manufacturer of precision parts in China, Gian Technology's customers include Samsung, OPPO, Vivo and other well-known enterprises. They have very high requirements for the precision and appearance of products. Every year, Gian invest a substantial amount of capital in manpower and capital in quality control and quality inspection. The "original" method of the traditional naked eye + magnifying glass is intensive and boring, making many young people reluctant to choose this job. The gap between business volume and manpower is getting bigger and bigger, and it is difficult to meet the quality inspection needs in three shifts and eight hours. Overtime is a common occurrence.

To succeed in the fiercely competitive LCD manufacturing industry, CSOT must deliver high-quality products within a tight time frame, but time-consuming product inspections have hampered its agility. Quality inspectors had to inspect each LCD screen individually to check for flaws. This takes quite a bit of time.

The client, a battery management solution provider, wanted to expand their market reach by making their solution compatible with embedded platforms. Their solution, which monitors individual cells within lithium-ion batteries, was not optimized for use on embedded platforms with microcontrollers. The solution could either be integrated as part of the Battery Management System (BMS) or operate independently on Docker or the cloud. Customers could retrieve data from the BMS for a specific time period, save it into a file, and incorporate it into the algorithm. The algorithm would then analyze the data and determine which cells work well and which do not. However, the client needed to analyze and prepare the solution for implementation on embedded systems.

Mellanox Technologies, a multinational supplier of computer technology networking products, was facing challenges with its testing, research, and design infrastructure. The company, with multiple manufacturing sites worldwide, needed an infrastructure that was engineered for integration, easy data sharing, scalability, and unified support. The existing system was not providing the performance and reliability required to accelerate product innovation. Mellanox also needed to reduce the time to market for its products, including adapters, switches, software, cables, and silicon products for markets such as high-performance computing. The company was in search of a unified solution that was reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.

Aker Solutions, a global leader in providing subsea production control systems for the oil and gas industry, was facing a challenge with the increasing sophistication of its products and control technologies. The offshore oil and gas production environment is one of the most demanding engineering environments, and the rising complexity of Aker's products was creating a growing need to store, manipulate, and share data across networks of devices located on the seabed, on production platforms, and onshore. To meet the demands of future product generations, Aker Solutions identified the need for a new database management system that could handle high volumes of data, be compatible with embedded and conventional systems, and maintain data integrity in the offshore environment where communication links may suffer disruption and interruption.

The client, a rapidly growing global company specializing in business transformation through various solutions and services, was seeking to enhance their services to better meet the needs of their key customers. The company, with over 4,500 skilled professionals and 30+ offices worldwide, provides ICT services and solutions based on a wide range of technologies, including OpenText, SAP, Microsoft, etc. The primary challenge was to integrate OpenText Extended ECM, an enterprise CMS platform that securely governs the information lifecycle by integrating with leading enterprise applications, with Microsoft Office 365. This integration was aimed at expanding the company's services and better matching the needs of its customers.