Technologies

 

Kunde:	Raiffeisen Group
Applikation:	Raiffeisen
Technologie:	C++, JAVA; TCL/TKL, HTML5/JSON

In recent years, the Raiffeisen Group has established itself as the leading retail banking group and third largest banking group in Switzerland. Its strength is its local roots. Today, Raiffeisen customers include 3.7 million Swiss nationals. Of these, over 1.8 million are members of cooperatives and thus co-owners of their Raiffeisen bank.

The Raiffeisen Group provides its individual autonomous Raiffeisen banks with price information for foreign exchange, interest rates (e.g. mortgages) and securities. Together with Dion Global Solutions, soXes has developed a central pricing tool specially for the Raiffeisen Group, which receives, validates and calculates market data from different providers (Reuters, Bloomberg, Sungard etc.). This information is then made available to the different systems (e.g. Avaloq) or the local Raiffeisen banks.

This pricing tool was implemented several years ago and is still in daily use today. Today, soXes takes over the maintenance and support of this application. In addition, changes and improvements are regularly incorporated into the solution within the scope of small projects.

From a technical point of view, the solution consists of a backend (central computer) developed in C++/Java and a frontend developed in TCL/TKL and HTML5/JSON.

 

Kunde:	Mercer Alternatives AG
Applikation:	Mercer
Technologie:	Web2Py, Python , MySQL

Mercer Alternatives AG is an independent Swiss investment advisor for institutional investments in private equity, real estate and infrastructure. With more than 130 employees at its offices in Zurich and Nyon, Mercer is one of the leading providers of pension advice, investment consulting and solutions as well as advice on human capital and compensation management in Switzerland.

The company offers individual advisory solutions and collective investment vehicles, as well as investment controlling and reporting services.

soXes has developed an application for Mercer to calculate the total expense ratio, or TER (Total Expense Ratio). The Total Expense Ratio is a key figure that puts all administrative costs of an investment vehicle in relation to the assets under management.

The calculation basis (funds and their net asset value as well as investors and their units per fund) is imported from a central system via an import interface into the Mercer TER application. In contrast, the management costs are entered manually. Based on this data, the application calculates the total cost ratio per investor for their investments at the touch of a button. The results can be output as PDF or Excel reports and distributed to the investors. A user management function allows the distribution of roles with different authorizations.

The Mercer web application is programmed in Python and the data is managed in a PostgreSQL database.

soXes developed the initial web application in 2013 and since then has further developed the TER application in the context of change requests. In 2019 soXes received a refactoring order. The data model was fundamentally revised in order to better represent fund of fund structures (multi-level hierarchy) and at the same time the technology stack was updated.

With today's solution, calculations are more efficient, significantly faster and easier. This reduces the source of errors and enables significant time savings. The documents are now stored centrally and clearly arranged at the right place and are available at any time. In addition, the proportionate total cost ratio for an investor in complex investment structures can be calculated in the desired level of detail.

 

Kunde:	Inrate SA
Applikation:	Inrate SA
Technologie:	ASP.NET, MS SQL, Angular, KendoUI

Inrate is an independent rating company and evaluates the environmental and social sustainability of companies, institutions and countries worldwide. These ratings are used to create investment universes and theme indices or baskets that provide asset managers and financial service providers with a basis for making decisions on how to create sustainable and financially attractive portfolios and investment products.  

In close cooperation with Inrate, soXes has designed and implemented a new web solution to create the sustainability ratings and make them available to clients for online download via web account. An MS Access database was replaced by an MS SQL database with web front-end (Angular/KendoUI). The ratings are based on a complex versioned rating model that is scalable through Inrate. The rated investment universe is regularly updated via interfaces to MSCI and Thomson Reuters. For individual clients, data feeds for their core banking system (Avaloq) can be retrieved.

Since the application went live, soXes has been providing maintenance, support and individual development within the framework of a maintenance contract.

One of the main objectives of the new application was to enable analysts to further develop the rating model without IT support. This was achieved through an administration front-end that allows the analysts to adjust the several hundred rating criteria at any time.

Furthermore, completed ratings were to be available for publication in real time.

The ratings are worked on decentrally at several locations in Switzerland and abroad in parallel, which is ideally supported by the web technology.

 

Kunde:	instaSOLUTION AG
Applikation:	instaGUARD
Technologie:	YII, PhoneGap, Angular JS

In the course of various projects in the field of alerting and mobilization, it became clear to soXes that in the field of alerting there are many providers, but not many comprehensive solutions that are based on or support modern platforms. soXes therefore decided to build a comprehensive real-time alerting system. After a development period of more than two years, instaGUARD and thus the company instaSOLUTION was born. instaGUARD is a technologically top modern and innovative alarm system for emergency, evacuation, mobilization, threats and technical alarms. It is a new generation in alarm management.

With instaGUARD it is possible to trigger an alarm in real time in an emergency situation or, in the case of team mobilization, to notify your team within seconds. An alarm can be triggered at the touch of a button on the smartphone, by SMS, phone call, e-mail or key combination on the computer. The software is centralized, cloud-based on an Internet platform and is operated by the user via an external client application, which is installed locally on a mobile or fixed end device.
This enables the recipient to be contacted globally via all communication channels. This significantly increases accessibility and enables a fast response time. The alerting process is more efficient, faster and easier than with conventional systems.

Thanks to the alarm configurator, different alarm types can be pre-defined and triggered according to the emergency situation. These differ, for example, in the ringing tone, the recipient circle, the priority, the escalation level or the instructions for action. Alarms can also be triggered by an external system by connecting instaGUARD to an existing external system (e.g. fire protection system). Depending on the medium, alarms can be sent with different delays and the recipient can be requested to acknowledge them. If an alarm was triggered, it is possible to locate the device from which it originated.

In this project, soXes resp. instaSOLUTION implemented all the work from the idea to the design, the technical concept and the implementation.
soXes has extensive know-how in the field of real-time communication with different media and a variety of protocols and systems.

For more information please visit the instaGUARD webpage at www.instaguard.ch

 

Kunde:	Novelis
Applikation:	Novelis
Technologie:	SQL Server with ASP.NET MVC 5, Angular JS Framework

Novelis is the global market leader in the field of machining aluminium into customer-specific materials. For the production of aluminium in the automotive sector, Novelis has developed an individual solution by soXes specifically for production planning, price calculation and forecasting of the aluminium volume with interface to SAP.

Functions:

• Management of projects and aluminium parts
• Forecasting of aluminium volume, unit and project price
• Excel interface to SAP for import of effective bookings at project level, export of forecast at project level for subsequent re-import into SAP
• CRM for recording customer contacts with Outlook connection

 

Kunde:	various hospitals and doctors
Applikation:	PASO
Technologie:	Delphi

The PASO application serves for the administration of patients with pacemakers, ICDs and event recorders. In the backend, a SQL server works to store the data records. The patient is recorded in the program. Details about the operation, the specific data of the pacemaker/ICD's are recorded. For each action concerning the patient a new entry is made in the patient database. The application contains all significant functions for handling pacemaker/ICD patients. Furthermore, the application offers various data exports. But also interfaces to the clinic's internal patient management software and to nationwide tools such as CHPACE WEB are available. Furthermore, patients can be moved easily and safely between the PASO hospitals.

An automatic patient data import is possible. Changes only have to be entered in the main system, they are automatically adapted in PASO. New cases are made available in PASO and already entered cases can be assigned to another patient within PASO.

Appointment requests, bulletins etc. are generated automatically. The application is used in the following hospitals: GZO Wetzikon, HerzKlinik Hirslanden, Kantonsspital Baden, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Spitalregion Rheintal Werdenberg Sarganserland, Spital Münsterlingen, Spital Uster, Universitätsspital Zürich and in the practice of Prof. Dr. Zuber. Paso is also used by companies like Agfahealthcare.

 

Kunde:	Prisma World AG
Applikation:	Prisma
Technologie:	ASP.NET, .NET, Interfaces, C#

Today Prisma World AG has one of the most powerful Strategic Human Resource Management solutions. In cooperation with soXes, the Prisma World Solution has been continuously expanded since 2007 and further developed for new and existing customers. Clear personality analyses, success profiles of a position as well as an automatic comparison of the desired and the actual situation can be created. In addition, specific interview guidelines adapted to company or job requirements can be generated. The freely selectable modules offer support in the recruiting and onboarding process as well as in succession planning.

The Management by Objectives (MbO) control element has proven its worth in everyday management in order to achieve clearly defined corporate goals. The Prisma World Solution offers a simple and clear workflow for setting performance and competency goals and a personal development plan. Not only can employees be shown their development prospects - succession and career planning can also be created digitally with just a few mouse clicks. In addition to performance and competence goals, a personal development plan (PEP) can also be agreed with each employee. The CV tool is available not only to authorised superiors, but also to employees in the Employee Self Service (ESS).

Finally, a wide range of roles can be assigned in this application, depending on how many access rights and functions the user should have.

The product is developed in ASP.NET 2.0 and includes an SAP connection/synchronization, an interface to Abacus, a Silverlight organization chart view and many other extensive export and reporting functions.  In addition to English and German, some modules of the Prisma World Solution are available in other languages, such as French and Spanish, but also Arabic, Hungarian or Chinese.

The biggest advantages of this application are: web-based, decentralized availability, modular design, multi-client capability, to create customer-specific workflows, and to support the use of the Prisma World Solution. 

Within the scope of this project, soXes not only took over the technical part of the further development of the Prima World tool, but also contributed to the optimization of the business processes. Thanks to the large soXes development team, it is always possible to have the necessary resources and know-how at hand. Thus, the desired adaptations and customer-specific requirements can always be implemented promptly.

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telekommunikation und Sicherheit
Applikation:	TUS AIN
Technologie:	Graylog Cluster, Microservices, Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodik, Data Loss Prevention, Split Brain Prevention

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with brilliant future prospects.

TUS AIN (Automatic Intelligent Notification) was developed in order to bring the notification of system faults and alarms, which until then had mainly been personalised, to more modern technologies such as SMS, push, email, pager and automated voice call. In this way, a notification can be automatically sent by TUS AIN to the responsible alarm recipients and to the desired medium. If required, it can also be displayed and edited via a mobile app. A high-performance IP-based network is used to transmit the messages.

TUS AIN is supplied by the TUS alarmDispatcher system with information on the status of the subscriber terminals and their sensors and is mainly used as a notification centre that can be configured in great detail.

The following technologies and solutions are used specifically: Graylog Cluster, Microservices - including Log Service, Notification Service, System Monitoring (PRTG and others), Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodology, Data Loss Prevention, Split Brain Prevention.

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telecommunications and Security
Applikation:	TUS alarmDispatcher
Technologie:	Graylog Cluster, Microservices, InputChecker, System Monitoring, Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodik

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with interesting prospects for the future.

In line with this, the TUS alarmDispatcher, an integrated alarm management system for the systematic distribution of system faults, emergency calls and alarms, is designed and implemented using the latest technological possibilities. A high-performance IP-based network is used to transmit the messages.

The TUS alarmDispatcher is a switching unit which ensures that customer terminals (e.g. hazard detection systems) can send appropriate messages to designated alarm receivers (e.g. blue light organisations) within a few milliseconds while maintaining a specified persistence. Alarm receiving points include TUS AIN (Automatic Intelligent Notification) - the smart platform behind the alarmOBSERVER - or eAlarm (Swisscom's intelligent alarm receiving point).

At the same time, the alarm receiving point can send control commands (e.g. lock doors) to the alarm transmission points. Consequently, the TUS alarmDispatcher can function as a duplex.

In order to comply with the high availability and alarm technology compliant guidelines (EN50518, EN50136), the following technologies and solutions are used: Graylog Cluster, Microservices - among others Log Service, InputChecker, System Monitoring (PRTG among others), Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodology, Split Brain Prevention

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telecommunications and Security
Applikation:	TUS BatchMerger (BTM)
Technologie:	.NET, SQL, C#

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with interesting prospects for the future.

The TUS BatchMerger (BTM) is mainly used as a data supplier of the object configuration for the TUS Automatic Intelligent Notification (AIN) system. The object data comes from two different ERPs and three different locations in Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano. In the first stage of expansion, a UI is still being used for processing the object data, but this UI will be removed later. The object data can be enriched with additional information in the BTM or cleansed of superfluous information.

The ERP object data is loaded cyclically into the BTM and then prepared for processing in the BTM UI. All actions on the object data are historized in order to detect changes to the ERP data and then pass the adjustments on to BTM.

The BTM runs as a classic .NET MVC Client Server application with a MS SQL database server in the background.

With the introduction of TUS AIN, the change to the new media for notifications is completed, which is a great relief for TUS.

 

Kunde:	instaSOLUTION AG
Applikation:	instaSOLUTION
Technologie:	PHP, Python, Angular, .NET Core, Percona Cluster, Redis, Graylog Cluster, High-availability systems, Maria DB, JSON, Java Script, Lora, REST, Microservices

instaSOLUTION AG offers a modern and efficient communication and management solution in the areas of alerting, crisis management, mobile collaboration, messaging and IoT. With our modular, highly secure and flexible connectivity platform instaCORE we connect what needs to be connected. The instaSOLUTION app is highly performant, modular and based on microservices.

It combines 5 solutions in one: 

1) instaGUARD is a security solution that helps you to successfully manage critical events, thus increasing the protection of people, buildings and systems. We hereby support companies in the areas of personal security, mobilisation, technical alarming and IT-alarming. instaGUARD is a virtual alarm server.

2) instaCRISIS is an emergency and crisis management solution which provides additional security in exceptional situations. After the automated alerting of the crisis management team, the members have access to the emergency plan, role-specific documents and todo checklists on a mobile basis - also for collaborative use with encrypted group chat.

3) instaCOLLAB is a mobile collaboration solution, with which mobile documents can be distributed in addition to an intelligent chat. Thanks to standardised communication, reduced to the essentials and automatically evaluated, time is saved. Mobile surveys, trainings or quizzes can be started here. Simple to use, encrypted, effective.

4) instaMESSAGING is the solution when it comes to communicating via different channels using a simple interface - App, SMS, Text2Voice, Paging.

5) instaIoT is an IoT (Internet of Things) solution which, by linking the physical and digital worlds, makes it possible to make a large number of processes in an organisation more efficient, effective and transparent.

 

Kunde:	Provider in DeFi Sektor
Applikation:	Arbitrage Trading Tool
Technologie:	Blockchain, .NET, ASP.NET, Angular JS, C#, Excel, JavaScript, REST, SQL Server

A provider of decentralized financial products operates a platform for cryptocurrencies, which was to be supplemented with a tool for arbitrage trading. The tool was to be based on a trading algorithm and thus function autonomously, making it possible for customers to passively generate income. soXes was commissioned with the implementation of this project.

In arbitrage trading of a cryptocurrency, the price differences on the different exchanges are exploited by buying the cryptocurrency from the cheapest provider and reselling it from the most expensive one. The price difference remains as profit.

For the algorithmic implementation of this trading method, the various exchanges must first be accessed. All prices from these are then collected and fed into the algorithm, which makes the specific buy and sell decisions. Due to the high volatility of cryptocurrency prices, fast access times and efficient algorithms are critical for the successful operation of the tool. Here, soXes was able to draw on a lot of experience in the fintech sector and build a stable and high-performance application using ASP.NET and C#.

With the help of the tool, end customers can now automate time-consuming arbitrage trading and use their crypto assets to passively generate income. The algorithm was designed in such a way that the tool can be easily used by anyone without any prior knowledge.