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- 2. CONTENT Some facts about GNS About GNS 3 Our services 8 Methodologies 13 Pricing models 14 Case studies 15 Portfolio 17 Our clients 20 Get in touch 21
- 3. ABOUT GNS Some facts about GNS GNS: UKRAINIAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY We combine deep knowledge and great experience in accomplishing IT projects: from web development, QA testing, mobile application development to UX design 200+completed web solutions worldwide 9years in IT market 150+employees
- 4. ABOUT GNS Why choose us Why Ukraine High international rankings 1st outsourcing market in Eastern Europe; 1st in CEE by outsourcing volume; 2nd among most master level certified nations; top 30 outsourcing destinations in 2010-2014; top 50 most innovative countries. Why GNS International projects Ukrainian developers created Petcube (one of Top 15 coolest projects according to Inc.com) and Looksery (Best new app according to AppStore); took part in developing Skype, software used for visual effects in Avatar and many other projects around the world. Skill • Every year more than 16,000 IT specialists graduate from Ukrainian universities • Ukraine is in top-3 countries by certified IT professionals Growth • Annual Ukrainian IT industry growth is estimated at about 30% • $2.5 billion is the value of IT export in 2015 • IT outsourcing grew 20x within the last 10 years Experienced GNS has delivered more than 200 projects to 100 clients since 2007. Insightful Our professionals are happy to offer modern and efficient solutions to client's problem. Organized We meet deadlines and always keep our clients in the loop. Flexible GNS teams quickly adapt to changing environment. We easily implement any new requirement.
- 5. GNS and our partners employ more than 170 specialists that are passionate about what they do. We are a relatively small and dynamic company that can quickly adapt to your needs. We understand an essential role of communication in every day work. All our employees attend regular English training, specially developed for IT needs. We rely on agile methodology, particularly Scrum, in every project. We are used to adjusting the process according to specific project needs. 2007 2010 2012 2014 2009 GNS entered the market of web development in partnership with Ukrinsoft 2011 GNS entered the market of mobile development 2013 Together with ITEA, we opened a training center for IT professionals 2015 Starting a new direction of UI / UX Design OUR HISTORY 2016 ABOUT GNS Some facts about GNS GNS was founded as a new IT company Together with Blackthorn Vision, GNS opened a new direction of software development (.NET) In partnership with Osis, we started a new direction of IT consulting and system integration GNS started a new direction of Software and mobile testing GNS opened a new office in Lviv and founded an itHub co- working space
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- 7. OUR SERVICES Services provided by GNS Web development Software and mobile testing Desktop development Mobile development
- 8. OUR SERVICES Services provided by GNS Web portals Online stores Auctions Online catalogs Photo galleries Technologies: Website development of utmost complexity WEB DEVELOPMENT Projects and services for the web Products: Websites HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, Responsive, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, Ajax, PHP (Symfony, Laravel, CodeIgniter, Kohana, Zend, Yii), PHP (OOP, MVC), ASP.NET, Silverlight, DB: MySQL, Mongo, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, API (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), Rest API, RESTful development, JSON, Web servers: Ubuntu, Apache, Nginx, AWS, OS: Linux, Windows, VCS: Git, Issue trackers: Redmine; Trello, Jira, Slack, LAMP Stack (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP), Twig
- 9. OUR SERVICES Services provided by GNS DESKTOP DEVELOPMENT Projects and services for web WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) desktop application development Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern Complex WPF applications using Prism, MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) .NET application development
- 10. OUR SERVICES Services provided by GNS Responsive mobile apps development Objective-C (iPhone) Windows Phone Adobe AIR (iPad) PhoneGap Technologies: -Movements & animation -Physics -2d & 3d cross platform development -Filtering in real time -Augmented reality MOBILE DEVELOPMENT IOS/Android/Windows Phone Platforms: Java (Android)
- 11. OUR SERVICES Services provided by GNS Manual and automated testing SOFTWARE AND MOBILE TESTING Projects and services for web BDD (Behavior-driven Development) Creating testing departments for large projects/products Installing/testing the mobile applications Automated testing TDD (Test Driven Development)
- 12. The waterfall model is a sequential design process, used in software develop- ment processes. Progress is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of conception, initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, production/implementation and maintenance. The waterfall development model originates in the manufacturing and con- struction industries: highly structured physical environments in which after-the-fact changes are prohibitively costly, if not impossible. Since no formal software development methodologies existed at the time, this hardware-oriented model was simply adapted for software development. METHODOLOGIES About our processes AGILE (SCRUM) WATERFALL MODEL Scrum is a team process that begins when a client needs a product. The Scrum team includes three roles: product owner, ScrumMaster, and members of the development team. The product is built incrementally over a series of short time periods - sprints. A sprint is a fixed period, up to four weeks long but with a preference toward shorter intervals. During each sprint, the Scrum team builds and delivers a product increment. Each increment is a recognizable, visibly improved, operating subset of the product. It meets understood acceptance criteria and is built to a level of quality referred to as the Definition of Done. planning Analysis Design Implementation maintenance
- 13. PRICING MODELS How we work FIXED PRICE TIME & MATERIAL DEDICATED TEAM IDEAL FOR Small- and mid-sized projects with no unknowns and clearly defined deadlines. Such a model is used when the customer does not want to delve into technical details of the project and plans to get ready-made solution within the determined project budget and timeline. IDEAL FOR Medium and large projects with many unknowns and flexible project scope or for the projects in their maintenance phase. This business model is quite flexible and highly efficient when it is hard to predict the final cost of the project and when the customer's requirements depend on different factors. IDEAL FOR Projects constantly innovating and developing and having own project management staff. If you have your own management team and well-defined project idea, GNS can provide you with dedicated team of designers, developers and QA who will work particularly on your project from its very start up to release. This low-risk model assures that the final solution will match the requirements and correspond the agreed scope. At the same time we meet the expected timelines and deliverables offering you reasonable project cost. There is a certain risk for the client in case: - it is hard to predict the precise cost, time limits, efforts to be spent; - the development process needs control and improvement at any stage. It means Time & Material or Dedicated Team Business Model is more desirable. Time & Material is one of the most efficient pricing models. It offers enormous flexibility and control over your budget. Utilizing this model with consumer-oriented projects enables you to: - quickly and efficiently respond to the market trends; - deliver solution with minimum time-to- market. If you want to get more control over the project budget or define the time limits more clearly, you should choose another pricing model: Dedicated Team or Fixed Price. Dedicated Team engagement model allows you to manage our engineering team as your own development department or as an extension to it. We either form your team out of our development staff or provide a team with an experienced project manager.
- 14. Financial Internal Portal Oil & Gas Oil Wells Monitoring System Web based solution designed to sample, compute, analyze, control and communicate the certain parameters. The purpose of these parameters is to optimize the production of natural flowing wells and wells using any artificial lift method at the well site or remotely. The client is a USA company and a leader in Digital Oilfield Solutions to the Oil & Gas sector. System advantages among analogues: • Flexible architecture, that can be widely applied in Oil & Gas sector. • User friendly and modern interface which considerably simplifies using the system. Result • Ready to use monitoring system. An easy to use interface was made possible due to special extra features. • Software development expenses reduced by 35%. • Increased number of potential buyers, such as Kuwait Oil Company. Internal portal for the Financial Services Company based in the USA. The main purpose of the system is to unify the actual entry of knowledge within a company, offering a simple way to access functionality provided by different applications, such as MS Exchange, SharePoint, Document Management system, Knowledge Management system from one convenient location. Result: • One time login: all internal systems are integrated in the Internal Portal for which only one time login is required. • Enterprise-grade role-based security and centralized search engine. Front-end Services Home Page, Messaging Center, Knowledge Management, Document Management, Workflow Management, Personalization, Search Administration Login (user authorization and authentication), Content Management, Access Control, User and Group Management CASE STUDIES Published reports
- 15. CASE STUDIES Published reports Hospitality Restaurants Web Management System Telecom Testing services Implementing testing processes acceptance in a big Ukrainian telecom company for billing systems. This project included the analysis of the billing systems range, testing strategy design and all testing docs for all systems, as well as testing environment setup and providing testing services for the customer. Result: • No need to hire and train new employees • No need in resources for creating and supporting of the testing environment. • Incidents with the billing system decreased by 30%. • Quality of the development documents increased due to additional testing review. A complete back office system for restaurant chains developed from scratch. Provides functionality for managing articles, prices, amount, and staff working in the restaurant. Allows getting a rich set of reports for management. Provides data mining with OLAP cubes. All data is synced to the central HQ database. The system was created for fast growing Belgian company that has developed various tools for more efficient restaurant businesses management of all types. This system is scalable and used by various chains of restaurants (up to 40 units in the chain). System advantages among analogues: • Due to using modern technologies and techniques the application is easy to setup and use. • System was developed as a web-application for all popular browsers and as a mobile application for Android, iOS, Windows Phone. Result: • Workflow automation: from taking orders to managing reports. • A set of web and mobile applications for all popular platforms. • Provides functionality for managing articles, prices, amount, and staff working in the restaurant. Allows getting a rich set of reports for management. • Software development expenses reduced by 50%. • Software is widely sold in the EU and the US.
- 16. CASE STUDIES Published reports Analytics Charting Library Agriculture Genetic Planning Tool A complex charting library plus applications to demonstrate, deploy and support this product. Library contains about 25 WPF chart types and 8 WPF 3D charts with record performance, unlimited multiple X/Y axis, interactive zooming and panning and rich annotations API. Result: • Building of new features involving complex and high performance graphics routines and development of WPF / XAML API; • Bug fixing & investigation; • Building of support systems such as complex, rich WPF UI for the demonstration application; • Direct contact with customers to provide technical support; • Teamwork and general productivity in this high-velocity team; • We also work on iOS and Android charts to be released soon! Workflow: The team of 6 developers + QA is working using a Kanban/Lean methodology and uses Teamcity, NuGet, Github, Skype for voice communications and participates in daily standups with the tech leads in London, UK. Technologies: C#, Java, Objective C, C++, HTML 5, JavaScript, WPF, DirectX, OpenGL, Android, iOS, TDD Genetic planning tool is used to make it easy for producers to identify needs and help make decisions based on their own unique economics realities. The software is delivered on a tablet with lots of easy to read graphs and delivers a genetic plan with clear return on investment numbers that help producers understand where the real value comes from in the myriad of genetic traits. Result: • user-friendly, easy layout that turns the complex world of genetics into something quite understandable; • a lot of custom UI controls; • use DevExpress and Syncfusion controls for reporting and best UI experience; • data is securely stored in the cloud and is accessible through WCF Services; • enabled users to work offline by implementing custom data synchronization between cloud and local database on the tablet; • To ensure application stability and quality we apply different testing techniques that includes manual and automated testing! Technologies: C#, WPF, Prism, Azure, DevExpress, Syncfusion, WCF, SQL Server, REST, TDD
- 17. CASE STUDIES Published reports Financial Trading Platform Analytics Simplifying Budgeting and Cashflow Forecasting Electronic platform for transparent trade negotiation for Over-The- Counter (OTC) transactions Result: • High available, autoscale and guarantee delivery WCF services: like in all systems related to finance sphere services must be close as much as possible to 100% work time and even no single message might be missed. Due to highly loading of services they should be scalable to satisfy performance needs. • Distributed database on different engines: our app works with data that sometimes stored in multiple databases like main database on SQL Server, clients’ databases that might be any database and local database on sqlite. Operations should go within single transaction between all DBs to keep data in consistent state. • Real-time data delivery: it’s important for trades operations like bids and asks that must be shown to all users in real-time. • High security: we have bunch of services that require authentication and communicate through secure channel only. To achieve this we use Windows Identity Foundation that was fully integrated into .net 4.5. • Dynamic objects at runtime: each user can create own objects with own properties that he will use during using application. The data can come from different market data vendors like Bloomberg, our customer and others. Technologies: C#, WCF, WPF, Azure, Service Bus, WIF, REST, Bloomberg API, Active Directory, TDD, JavaScript, HTML5, OpenFin, FIX Calxa uses accounting system data as actual and lets users to edit and calculate budgets and cashflow forecasts. Calxa executes calculations and generate highly customizable reports. Our product aim is to build software to make complex things simple. Different business people should be able to see their company data in different wished projections. Result: • Multiple budget versions. Unlike spreadsheets, multiple budget versions are easy to manage • Report templates. Select from over 40 report templates. • File management. Store data locally with SQL Server or online with Microsoft Azure. • Automated updates. Software Updates are available every 6-8 weeks and are easily downloaded when you next open the software; • Budget factory. Create next year’s budgets for dozens of projects in just a couple of minutes. • Account trees. Simply re-arrange and group your accounts to produce the reports you need without complex spreadsheets. Technologies: Windows XP/Server 2003, Visual Studio 2008-2015, Visual Studio Online, .NET 3.0- 4.6.1, C# v3 – v7, Base Class Library, WPF, WCF, WWF, EF Code First, LinqToSql, ADO.NET 1+, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.JS, Knockout, Windows Installer XML…
- 18. CASE STUDIES Published reports Mobile App for timely schedule about the train service Mobile The virtual fitness trainer app This app provides easy access to publicly-available information – accurate and timely schedule about the train service. Must-have app for the Caltrain commuter! Caltrain timetable allows you to quickly find the next train to your destination or plan ahead for tomorrow. Result: • Train schedules between any two Caltrain stations; • Train schedules for any station at any time of the day; • Train schedules for any date; • Train fares; • Trains within the next hour; • Live train schedule updates and news; • Live tile with the latest news delivered to your home screen. The virtual fitness trainer assesses user needs and fitness level, that way every workout is challenging but doesn’t crush him. The app offers workouts crafted by master trainers and shows the correct techniques of exercises and tracking user’s progress in time. Result: • Auto-generated training program, based on user’s fitness level; • Ability to track user’s training progress for every supported exercises with logs and exercise charts; • Ability to track best achievements with logs and exercise charts; • Ability to track a custom set of exercises, based on your training needs and goals; • An ever-expanding list of exercises to chose from; • Exercise voice prompts (for supported languages). Technologies: C#, Objective-C, Java, HTML5, Windows Phone, Azure, SQLite, JavaScript Technologies: C#, Objective-C, Java, HTML5, Windows Phone, Azure, SQLite, JavaScript
- 19. CASE STUDIES Published reports Industry Industrial Sensors UI Retail Point of sale system for jewelers The project is a UI client for industrial sensors. It is a profound application that allows to provide complex configuration for sensor devices. It communicates with devices via Thrift (software framework for scalable cross-language services development). The device with application (v. 1.2) is in production already. Result: • Apache Thrift for creating an interface for communication between the client application and the sensor device that was even harder because client application was created with C# and the sensor’s software – with C++ • the generic control that allows to visualize any parameter with corresponding UI control, depending on attribute value in xml schema file • Developed a dictionary of rules , which were described in xml schema. Each parameter was able to contain own set of rules and changing of each parameter triggered execution of it’s rules to provide changes of all dependent values. Orderica POS will help you gain better control of your business is through reporting features. You can slice and dice sales data in a variety of ways to determine what products are selling best at what time, and to figure out everything from the optimal ways to arrange shelves and displays to what promotions are working best and when to change seasonal promotions. Result: • Comprehensive custom POS system developed on .NET Platform; • Integration of the inventory, financial and reporting system; • Hardware integration for multiple locations (printer, barcode scanner, cheque scanner, etc.); • Item inventory, customer management, vendor management, purchase orders, users and roles system; • Service tracking – repair, custom order, appraisal and special order; • Advanced search provision and complete inventory item reporting features; • Bar code labels to track inventory and prevent thefts. Technologies: C#, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, Entity Framework, DirectShow.NET, WCF, WPF, WIX, TDD, Telerik, Unity Technologies: WPF, Thrift, XML, MEF, NUnit, MVVM, LINQ, TDD
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- 21. GET IN TOUCH Our contact information HEADQUARTERS 20-22 Wenlock Road Great Britain R&D OFFICES 31-33 Smolenska street Kyiv, Ukraine 80, Heroiv UPA, Lviv, Ukraine 72, Heroiv UPA, Lviv, Ukraine Lviv, Ukraine +37 254 999 406 (London) +38 044 222 94 76 (Kyiv) [email protected] gns-it.com gns.it We are open to your questions and offers! SALES OFFICES Oscars Gate 27 Oslo, Norway Stawki street 2, (INTRACO) Warsaw, Poland