Application Development

 

Kunde:	Hypothekenzentrum AG
Applikation:	Hypothekenzentrum
Technologie:	VBA, ASP.NET, SQL

HypothekenZentrum AG is an operationally independent company of the VZ Group. It specialises in the management of mortgages for private and institutional clients. Its organisation and work processes are lean and computer-supported, which minimises administrative costs and enables it to offer cost-effective financing for mortgage borrowers.

HypothekenZentrum AG is supported in handling of their core processes by a modular application. This is based on an SQL database and is a further development of an old MS Access solution. soXes ensures the maintenance and support of the complex application environment. On the other hand, soXes supports HypothekenZentrum AG in reacting to changing customer requirements by developing extensions or new modules.

Thanks to its specialist knowledge in a wide range of development environments from VBA to SQL and ASP.NET, soXes can not only guarantee the smooth operation of the existing application modules, but also provide individual further development based on the latest technologies.

 

Kunde:	CelsiusPro AG
Applikation:	Celsius Pro
Technologie:	C#, .NET, Python, Web services, Mongo DB, Big Data, DotNetNuke

CelsiusPro is the leading provider of weather derivatives in Europe. CelsiusPro's products enable companies to protect themselves against weather-related risks.

In order for a business model of this complexity to work, a large number of components must interact: Weather data from hundreds of global weather stations must be converted into a uniform format and their retrieval must be made efficient. Statistics and probabilities of weather events are computed and prices are calculated based on them. Prices for the weather derivatives can be queried and purchased via a web portal. CelsiusPro employees also manage customers and products within this platform.

For this task CelsiusPro relies on a completely individually developed environment that seamlessly combines the .NET Framework with the programming language Python, which is well known from the open source scene. While the website and the back office system are programmed in C# and are based on DotNetNuke, the price engine and the system for loading weather data is based on Python. A web service, which allows the calculation of a price via internet, combines both languages even within one program. Python becomes IronPython (the implementation of Python in the .NET Framework). The system is freely configurable and allows the creation of new products, pricing engines and the connection of new weather stations.

Visit the website www.celsiuspro.com and see for yourself how a combination of the programming languages IronPython and C# covers the requirements of a state-of-the-art web application including a mathematically complex pricing engine. Within this project, soXes is responsible for the entire environment and continuously develops the platform further.

 

Kunde:	Worldwide Equity Research AG
Applikation:	GoPIN
Technologie:	C#, Windows Presentation Foundation

Bloomberg requests historical market data on securities, evaluates it using various methods and processes it graphically into charts. This data is enriched with statistical data from Lohrmann WER AG, which are integrated into the charts.

The user has the possibility to search for securities either by their name or by their statistical characteristics. It is also possible to create and manage portfolios of these securities. Statistics on various characteristics of entire markets can also be analysed graphically. Daily news and information on current stock market events round off the offer.

 

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:	Gertsch Consulting & Mode Vision AG
Applikation:	POD - Pattern on Demand
Technologie:	ASP.NET, Windows Applikation, Outsourcing

Gertsch Consulting und Mode Vision AG offers consulting and software for the clothing and fashion industry. This includes software for style development, the creation and editing of cuts as well as solutions for individualised tailor-made clothing. Since individualised made-to-measure clothing is currently one of the most important megatrends in the clothing and fashion industry, Gertsch Consulting und Mode Vision has commissioned the soXes GmbH team to help develop a solution in this area.

The aim was to develop an application for the acquisition of measurements for garments, which once acquired can then be automatically sent to a garment production company, where the corresponding garment is produced to measure. Gertsch Consulting and Mode Vision already had a software solution in use. Within the scope of this project, the task was to have soXes develop and improve the existing solution from scratch and make it web-capable.  

This successful cooperation resulted in the successful software solution POD - Pattern on Demand, which is used today in various clothing companies. Via the B2B2C-capable (Business to Business, Business to Consumer) webshop, the customer can act as a co-designer and individually create his or her fashion according to the offer of the supplier. For example, it is possible to design his individual shirt/blouse or suit/costume to measure. The customer sees by means of visualization what he changes, selects and how he designs the garment.
The platform provides a very extensive range of functionalities from which a supplier of individual fashion can choose. Fabrics, linings, contrasts, materials, embroideries and variants can be recorded and managed. In addition, the customer has the possibility to individually print the fabric. This includes the colour-controlled selection of brand logos, the upload of own images (e.g. club or company logos), as well as the generation of text images to mark an article with your own lettering. The integrated solution also offers the possibility to inform customers or retailers fully automatically about the progress of an order via e-mail templates. The status of the order is also logged in the web shop.

Thanks to this solution, Gertsch Consulting und Mode Vision AG can generate significant added value for its customers.
Because more and more companies nowadays want to offer customers the opportunity to help shape their personal clothing style as co-designers. This concept also breaks up the classic production and supply chains, as production and delivery is only done on demand. The POD solution takes these two circumstances into account.

 

Kunde:	Testex
Applikation:	Testex ULU
Technologie:	ASP.NET, SQL Server, C#

TESTEX AG, headquartered in Zurich, is a privately organised, independent Swiss testing and certification company with worldwide operations since 1846 and specialises in the textile sector. The range of services offered extends from classic textile physical and textile chemical testing through analytical residue and pollutant analysis to the factual clarification of damage claims. As an accredited testing laboratory, TESTEX certifies all types of textiles. The most well-known certificates include Confidence in Textiles, Made in Green by OEKO-TEX®, Oeko-Tex® Standard 100, STeP by OEKO-TEX®, UV Standard 801, Eco-Passport, Product certification of PPE.

TESTEX's testing facilities are designed in such a way that a comprehensive test programme can be provided for all textile raw materials, intermediate and end products. In addition, TESTEX acts as a consultant on environmental and quality issues.

To make its processes even more efficient and faster, TESTEX wanted to provide seamless support for all processes from order placement and planning through to execution by means of a comprehensive software system. As part of this project, TESTEX asked soXes to implement this wide-ranging project, which could be divided into several areas.

The core of the UniLab solution consists of order entry, planning (forecast) and order execution for sales and production (single and batch processing). This also includes the process chain definition and checking the execution by means of checklists.

The customizable product design of all services (physical and chemical tests, assessments) in the sales process is possible, whereby the solution supports a wide range of languages and country-specific units of measurement.

UniLab supports the automatic processing of test data from the laboratory. Static as well as dynamic data and evaluations can be exported in a uniform form/layout to various file formats and data can be transferred in uniformly structured interface files to downstream locations for further processing. Key figures and test data can be individually adapted.

Statistical evaluations in the areas of finance, sales and production are based on a real-time transaction system.

Business process-specific documents can be created with a document creation system (Document Factory) based on the rich data sources. 

The development of UniLab is based on the .NET programming language using the Telerik framework.

The comprehensive IT solution has been successfully in use since 2016 and is continuously being developed. 

 

Kunde:	Vertrieb Schweiz AG
Applikation:	VAC
Technologie:	Desktop Applikation, C#, SQL, VBA

Vertriebschweiz GmbH (VAC) stands between insurance brokers and companies. It accepts insurance applications from the independent brokers and passes them on to the companies. Depending on the type of application or company, the brokers are remunerated or paid commission per application.

The VACPro application has been developed by soXes with the aim that VAC employees can enter the applications as efficiently and easily as possible. The application enables the management of applications in a structured and orderly manner. Various export and import interfaces simplify the work with the tool. The commissions are defined and calculated directly by VACPro. The application can be edited and personalized by the user almost without exception through master data masks.

VACPro is a Windows application programmed in C# and offers Excel exports based on VBA. CristalReports is also used as a built-in tool for creating reports, statements and commission summaries. In the background is a MSSQL database.

Thanks to soXes, VAC was able to switch to a tool specifically designed for them and tailored to their needs. At the same time, soXes GmbH in cooperation with Hotz & Koch Informatik AG took over the entire IT responsibility of VAC.

 

Kunde:	Wilux Print AG
Applikation:	Wilux
Technologie:	Delphi, C#, SQL

Wilux Print AG is a specialist in the field of labelling. It solves labelling, marking and scanning tasks for all types of companies and industries reliably, simply and cost-effectively. Wilux Print AG specialises in the customer-specific manufacture of transport, scanning, printing and labelling systems.

In this project, soXes has received an order from Wilux Print AG for the reengineering of an existing software solution for one of their customers. Specifically, this order involves a Windows Forms application that is installed locally on the relevant PCs. This application is also connected to an SQL server and, via Windows Services, to various other devices such as label printers, EAN printers, wireless hand scanners and label scanners. 

The challenge with this application was to ensure the high printing and scanning cadence at all times. It was also important to guarantee simple and intuitive user guidance. There was also a requirement for a real-time status overview of all jobs and devices or connections.

Thanks to the commitment of soXes, the project was successfully implemented. 

Today soXes is working on further follow-up projects for Wilux Print AG. 

 

Kunde:	WILUX PRINT AG
Applikation:	Various
Technologie:	.NET, C#, SQL Server

WILUX PRINT AG is a specialist in the field of labelling. WILUX PRINT AG specialises in the customer-specific manufacture of transport, scanning, printing and labelling systems. WILUX PRINT AG's solutions are reliable, simple and cost-optimised.

The individual software solutions for WILUX PRINT AG's end customers were developed in-house. In recent years, soXes has taken over the maintenance and expansion of the Delphi applications. The applications control the automated creation of labels and their verification after printing. For this purpose, the application communicates via various interfaces with the end devices used. The aim of the project was to modernise the applications to a more up-to-date technology and to prepare them for future development. The locally operated clients should be able to access a shared centralised database in the future. The applications would then serve as an interface between the job data in the database and the printing and verification hardware provided by WILUX.

In a first phase of the project, the existing applications and processes were analysed and properly documented. In the second phase, the applications were built from scratch using the new .NET technology. In addition, desired adjustments of the applications were made during the new implementation. In a third phase, the system integration of the completed applications took place on site at the end customer's premises and was also supported by soXes.

By creating a cleanly structured documentation of the applications, future maintenance can be carried out efficiently and sustainably. In addition, the modernisation of the application from Delphi to the modern .NET technology provides a solid basis for further developments and ensures operation in modern system environments. With the help of the central databases, the processes of the end customers could also be sustainably optimised.

soXes will continue to provide maintenance and support for the modernised applications to ensure long-term operation of the solutions.

 

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.

 

Kunde:	SolExperts AG
Applikation:	GeoMonitor 3
Technologie:	Json, WPF, TDMS and C#

SolExperts AG is a recognized Swiss company that participates in renowned projects worldwide with geotechnical and hydrogeological instrumentation and field tests. The activities of SolExperts AG are in the fields of tunneling, hydraulic engineering, special civil engineering, wind energy plants and in research projects for nuclear waste disposal as well as for the sequestration of CO₂.

The main activity of SolExperts AG is the monitoring and evaluation of the collected data. For this purpose, it operates a technical monitoring software, which utilizes information about connected devices, their parameters, alarms and functions. This information is organized and interpreted in JSON format. SolExperts AG commissioned soXes to create a new, more intuitive user interface for the application in order to be able to offer it to its customers as independent software.

In the first step of the project, the software was analyzed in detail. Due to the lack of a clean documentation and the high complexity of the tool, a re-factoring of the software had to be done. For this, a specification for the further procedure had to be created in an elaborate next step. The specified functions were discussed in detail in a subsequent UI workshop with SolExperts AG and the design experts from soXes. With the help of these inputs, a UI concept could be created and subsequently implemented.

For the implementation of the JSON tool the programming language C# was used. The back-end logic of the desktop application was implemented with the .NET framework and the user interface with the WPF class library. The basic building blocks of the project are so-called JSON files, which are interpreted and manipulated by the application. The tool also provides an export function to the TDMS file format, which is used by SolExperts AG to display the information graphically.

By creating a clean specification and then re-factoring the tool, SolExperts AG gained deeper insight into the complexity and depth of the application and now has a user-friendly and intuitive application with the new UI design.

 

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.