Aspire SoftServ Private Limited

Abstract: 

Using Learning management system our customer wants to redefine possibilities in the classroom and anywhere.

The objective is to create new LMS system is to make it easy and simple for the end user, which could eliminate all the complexities and confusion are available in any normal LMS systems. Our customer like to keep things simple and effective because they just want to make teaching easier and learning more engaging.

Client: 

Our US based customer is a company, who developed an internet-based application suite specifically built for the needs of schools and school districts serving students, teachers, administrators, and parents.

Problem Statement: 

• Need easy-to-use, effective and affordable student/staff document and information exchange solution.

• Find a technology solution that allows students to complete and submit work electronically on their devices.

• Implementing technology to engage students without entirely changing the way teachers teach.

• To catalog, collect, and digitally distribute the large number of student assignments without relying on the old-fashioned of email as workflow ‘solution’.

• IT support and backup for student files.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Third party system integrations - It was very difficult to integrate and work together all systems with LMS.

• Annotation tool on documents for meaningful feedback on each assignment. 

Aspire’s Solution: 

• LSM can automatically create classes and groups for teachers. Also, it provides the perfect platform for every assignment and assessment.

• Teachers can choose what content category it belongs to (homework, classwork, quiz, etc.), grading options, and student turn-in rules.

• Built-in Annotations - Using a mouse, finger, or stylus, students and teachers can utilize our industry leading Mark It tool to write, highlight, draw and drop in stamps for more engaging assignments and meaningful feedback.

• Classroom workflow solution - students can submit homework electronically for teachers to grade via the device. Entire workflow can be done on the application itself.

• Parents can view their student’s upcoming and missed assignments, grades, and feedback.

• The application uses “Learning Tools Interoperability” integration (Like Turnitin, Khan Academy, Quizlet, Wikipedia, Youtube and much more!) allowing users to access learning tools that will engage and excite students.

• The application has developed extensive integrations with student information systems (PowerSchool, Skyward. etc.), Gradebooks (Powerschool, PowerTeacher Pro, Skyward etc.), Storage (Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive), Single Sign On / SSO (LDAP, Google+, and much more!)

• Cloud-based paperless workflow solution accessible from any device. 

Benefits Delivered:

• Instructors and students have moved to a paperless approach

• The educational/school IT Department has been relieved of having to securely store student work. 

• Teachers can easily share documents across all classes, quickly disburse assignments or other information to students or parents.

• Helping teachers ensure their students’ digital literacy for the 21st century. 

• Students are more organized and up-to-date with their assignments.

• Live updates to parent on their students progress.

• Student-teacher interactions can all be done on the iPad; no need for traditional computers or even laptops; student and teacher engagement on the rise.

• Free from toner expenses.

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Bower, Gulp, Node(npm), Yeoman,  RequireJS, UglifyJS, minifyHtml, JSHint, Karma, Git, Cordova, Ruby and Rails

Abstract: 

The application is a platform for the customer to attract maximum number of end users to download the application and participate in the Raffle Draw.

The participation of the Raffle Draw based on the number of coins accumulated and the ticket value of a particular product. End user has multiple options to earn points like., Watch reward video, refer a friend, birthday coins and many more.  

Client: 

Our UAE based customer, was interested to develop a mobile application, which is focused on the principle of a Raffle Draw. 

Problem Statement: 

Our customer officially arranging a raffle draws in local tarittary, but he wants to cover the global market.

There are several drawbacks of the manual draw management:

• High cost to market the new raffle draw.

• Hard to attract new people.

• Only possible to cover local region.

• Only limited type of draw options are possible.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Conceptualization of the application to monetize application in many ways for increasing revenue.

• Multi language and layout support to cover global market.

• Real-time data updates for end user.

• Easy to use web based admin control panel for raffle management and reports.

• Collect data for user behaviours to analyze data for future decisions.

• Application should support more than 1,00,000 concurrent users.

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire established an end to end product development offshore team, starting from the concept building to finished product delivery to support. 

• Our Business Analysts got in touch with the customer, understanding the core idea and the main problem we are targeting to solve by the proposed solution.

• Helped the client with “Go To Market” strategy, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and phasing the relevant features. 

• Proposed the best-suited technology stack keeping in mind the short-term and the long-term goals.

  • Developed a web portal where owner can manage Raffle and reports from anywhere. 

• Integrated many Ad. Networks using google AdMob for reward videos.

• Integrated Oauth2 based authentication for security of data using google FCM.

• Used google FCM for real time data update and push notifications.

• Developed intuitive UI to attract users.

• Integrated Branch.io to share the application details to other people via application’s existing users, which market the application globally and help to attract the new users.

• Setup up cluster based environment for J2EE based REST server with load balancing which support more than expected concurrent users load. 

Benefits Delivered:

• Less staff is required to manage draw.

• Approximate 60% cut down on operational costs. 

• Marketing cost is negligible, end users market the application to earn the coins.

• 20% of users is increased after release same.

• Provided bias free secured algorithm to choose winner.

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Angular 4, Ionic 3, Webpack, Java 1.8, Spring boot 4, Spring Security, Spring oAuth2, Hibernate 4, MySQL, Maven, SonarQube, Swagger.

Abstract: 

Our customer’s ambition is to fuel passions that nurture physically, mentally and creatively alive individuals. He decided to create application offers a comprehensive platform that helps user to search for the right activity that resonates with passions. Currently, it is Spread across Pune, but planned to reach out to major cities across in India soon. 

Client: 

Our Pune, India based customer started search engine to find activities nearby user’s location. Our customer wants to help people to find in his(er) passionate activity in nearby user location. 

Problem Statement: 

We were not involved in this product from inception and was not part of product conceptualization. When the customer came to us product was partially developed.
The following list of problems customer explained us, to help him in this product.

• Reskinning of existing modules for intuitive and attractive user interface components.

• Responsive UI support

• Elasticsearch based activity provider searching functionality, which was not giving proper result. Also, it is a heart and soul of the product.

• Revamp activity provider details module.

• Third party authentication support.

• Admin management console development

• Product optimization for performance

• Production environment setup

• SEO friendly URLs

Challenges & Limitations:

• Understand the customer needs design perspective and make him happy with the new application design.

• Mobile application support

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire provided expert resources to solve design and development problems in the existing product. 

• Designer provided a number of designs to the customer for the reskinning application. Customer chooses one out of provided design and at the end, he was very happy for new application design.

• Fixed issues in activity provider search functionality using elastic search.

• Application code refactoring to improve application performance.

• Successfully integrated Google and Facebook authentication.

• Added Bootstrap SCSS standard style to support responsive UI.

• Added Admin console support for easy to manage admin activities like., Provider management, user management etc.

• Cluster based production environment setup - automation integration. 

• Applied necessary changes in the application for SEO support.

Benefits Delivered:

• Initially, each page took more than 20 seconds to load contents, after code optimization we are able to achieve same in hardly 3-4 seconds.

• Able to keep the customer coming back to application after resolving an activity provider search result issues.

• After introducing new production     

• Due to the new intuitive user interface desktop users are increased 20%.

• After adding a responsive UI support, Mobile users tremendously increased by 85%.    

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Bower, Gulp, Node(npm),   RequireJS, UglifyJS, minifyHtml, JSHint, BitBucket, Django, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

Abstract: 

The crowdfunding portal is the UK's fastest growing and most advanced funding platform to exclusively support creative projects by online social crowdfunding. Traditional crowdfunding platforms have lower success rates for creative or design related projects because they are pitched against other highly competitive categories 

In the past, to fund a project would require large amounts of funding from a corporation or investor. Crowdfunding gives this power to the masses and supports to independents.

Crowdfunding is an alternative way to finance your business, idea or project. It allows anyone to invest into a new venture. This means that the project or venture is funded using many small investment amounts from a large number of people.

Client: 

Our London based customer had the vision to support projects in the creative arts and films by Social Crowdfunding. He hired us to help him in his vision to convert it into reality, by making an intuitive and beneficial social crowdfunding portal for investors and investee both.   

Problem Statement: 

For projects in the creative arts and filming, crowdfunding is notoriously difficult. Traditional crowdfunding platforms have lower success rates for creative or filming related projects because they are pitched against other highly competitive categories (e.g. technology).

At Social Crowdfunding Portal, planned to exclusively support creative projects, So, chances of success are much greater of project owners.

• Product should reflect a purpose precisely

• Features can attract users to place project for crowdfunding

• Unique concept to attract the investors

• Compete for market products

• Make it revenue generated as quickly as possible in the limited budget as it is a startup.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Branch project functionality conceptualization - the solution must be beneficial for all type of users. Like., Project owner, Inverters, Charity, Community.

• Payment integration and distribution in a single transaction(fund transfer) - Distribution of fund as per project configurations into a project owner, charity, user Commission who shared a project link and crowdfund portal fee.

• Discover project functionality based on artificial intelligence and machine learning

• Mobile application support is not available.

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire established an end to end product development offshore team, starting from the concept building to finished product delivery to support. 

• Wizard based easy project setup support

• Project branching - It is a unique feature of this product, where project promoters or investors can earn a commission every time they refer a friend who funds the project.

• Discover option to get Project of the day, Recommended Projects and Search Project by interest using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Predefined campaigns to discover the same type of project

• Dashboard for advanced visualizations and analytics - Graphical representation of Amount raised, contributions and Project visitor chart.

• In other crowdfunding platforms, all funding is lost if project fund goal not met. In this product, we proposed and implemented to keeping all funds as is even though not matches the project fund goal.

• Keep lower fees rate compare to other market crowdfunding products

• User can configure charity donations for good causes

• The user will get an option to join various community like., Funding, Creative and Partner Community. It will help the user to market his/her project through social networking and to get fund for the project easily.

• Chat option for users if both users are in same invited community circle.

Benefits Delivered:

• Since Social Crowdfunding Portal released, daily at least one new project has been published for the fund. 

•  In last one month, 1,46,966 USD fund asked by newly registered users to finish their project to investors.

• The total funded amount by an investor in last month is 57,159 USD, which is 39% of asking rate. It is really a good start, considering that it is the first month of social crowdfunding portal services.

• Out of all projects, 24% of projects are able to achieve their goal amount and others on the way to achieve their fund goals.

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Bower, Grunt, Node(npm),   RequireJS, UglifyJS, minifyHtml, JSHint, BitBucket, Prerender.io, Segment.io, Stripe payment gateway, Google Chart, .Net, SqlServer.

Abstract: 

The application is a platform for the customer to automate the NDT(Non Destructive testing) job testing reports along with the all back office work. 

It is a general platform for all the NDT testing companies, from where companies can manage customer/technician details, perform auto job assignment, get real time job progress, perform test result reports, manage invoices, inventory, and wastage of raw materials. 

Client: 

Customer is a reputed company in India for Non Destructive testings, Material testings, Third party inspection, Consulting services in NDT and Welding Inspection related technologies. Customer is pioneer in Casting Radiography with all other third party Inspection Agencies.

Problem Statement: 

Our customer is currently using desktop based application which available only from his computer. 

There are several drawbacks of the existing system:

• Not available in every machine.

• No real time job updates.

• Support only Radiology testing and reports.

• Not able to find wastage of materials.

• Dashboard is not available to know overall idea of business.

• Auto invoice reminders are not available.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Conceptualization of the application to monetize application with minimal investment.

• Real-time data updates for end user.

• Module based development to install it on subscription bases.

• Microservice based project architecture.

• Dashboard design to meet expectation of every company in same domain.

• Automate the job workflow to minimize manual task handling.

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire established an end to end product development offshore team, starting from the concept building to finished product delivery to support.

• Our Business Analysts got in touch with the customer, understanding the core idea and the main problem we are targeting to solve by the proposed solution.

• Helped the client with “Go To Market” strategy, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and phasing the relevant features. 

• Proposed the best-suited technology stack keeping in mind the short-term and the long-term goals.

• Provided jHipster based solution using microservices and module based product development. So, our customer can easily sale out the product to other companies on the subscription basis.

• Provided dashboard to know companies profile/loss, wastage of material, inventory, business growth etc statistics in graphical way.  

Benefits Delivered:

• Employee can update job details from anywhere.

• Job completion cycle is improved by 25%, that means each employee can perform 25% jobs more per day.

• Customer is aware on each job status easily.

• Zero human error in job result and to generate test report.

• Company owner can easily know staff performance by waste material report.

•  Auto invoice generation and reminders.

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Bootstrap, Typescript, Angular 4, Websockets, Yarn, Webpack, Bower, Gulp, Browsersync, Protractor, Java 1.8, Spring boot, Spring Security, Netflix OSS, Hibernate, Liquibase, MySQL, Maven, EhCache, Hazelcast, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Thymeleaf, Swagger, jHipster .

Abstract: 

A web-based SaaS application for the small and mid-level organizations and freelancers. It allows a user to keep track of clients and their projects’billing information – estimates, invoices, expenses, time tracking and schedule emails and payment reminders with customized email text. It provides different payment gateway options configuration so that client can process payment.

Client: 

A customer is a software as a service (SaaS) company behind the leading billing and time management solution system designed for freelancers and small businesses.

Problem Statement: 

it is very difficult to manage expenses, estimates, and invoices on the papers. It takes more time in managing all the stuff manually. 

There are several drawbacks of the manual processing of following finance and organization process:

• More than 60% operational overheads to maintain data on the documents, send over to the clients and receive payments from clients.

• Track time for each of the tasks assigned to a team member.

• Generate client and reports on the weekly, monthly and quarterly basis after evaluation

• Managing project information and track time and generate for specific to project.

• Generating of recurring invoices at regular intervals.

• Manage expenses specific to the project.

• Process payment for each invoice and update the status.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Implement online portal for organizations which helps them to maintain organization specific financial information in real-time without doing paperwork.

• Generate dynamic reports with clients.

• Generate work reports for the team members

• Link estimate and expense with an invoice.

• Recurring invoices at the regular interval

• Web-based time tracking tool along manual offline time entry.

• Processing of payments with different payment gateways.

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire provided a web-based product development offshore team since the concept building to product delivery to enhancement, maintenance, and support. 

• Our business analysts involved with the customer to understand the core idea and the problems they are facing in the day to day life.

• Delivered the end product by dividing the work into the different milestones so that all the work is being reviewed by the client at the end of each milestone. 

• Proposed the best-suited technology stack keeping in mind the short-term and the long-term requirements

• Integration of Spring Security for purpose of providing role-based authentication and HTTP/HTTPS based access to URLs

• Integration of different payment gateways - PayPal, Authorize.Net, Google checkout & Stripe.

• Integration with Google Calendar for invoice due reminders

• Import Google contacts to send out invoices and estimates

• Integration with Donanza web application store

• Development of custom time tracker to track time.

• Development of major modules - Client, Project, Estimate, Invoice, Expense, Time tracking, Staff Management, Management Reports 

Customer Testimonial:

Aspire Team is a quick learner and was able to move with development at high speed. Definitely Recommended. Great job, thanks Aspire for the great work! 

Benefits Delivered:

• Approximate 60% cut down on the paperwork.

• The new application is user-friendly for clients.

• Ease of managing and processing information of clients, projects, invoices, estimates, expense and time tracking.

• Get paid quicker by integration of payment gateways.

• Improved quality of service, better service provided to clients.

• Less human involvement and eliminated dependency on third-party software.

• Improved efficiency and better response time

Technologies:

Java, Spring, Spring Security, Hibernate, Struts, Tiles, Flying Saucer, iText, Quartz, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, jQuery plug-in – jqGrid, Maven, Ant, Git.

Abstract: 

It is a product to handle all cab booking problems from a Handset (Mobile device). This system has 3 major modules: 

1.       Operator Module: For driver registration process and 24/7 customer support.

2.       Passenger Module: Android application to book cab, pay fare, track driver who picks up him/her for journey.

3.       Driver Module: Android application which shows a booking placed by passenger.

Client: 

Cab booking system is an idea that has been conceptualized by one of a leading analyst working with a fortune 500 company. He have faced many issues while booking a cab in London, with quite a few app giving accurate results. He started this project with the vision to provide niche cab booking services, which will help users to book cabs easily.

Problem Statement: 

1. Drivers were unable to find customers easily.

2. Customer engagement with driver was not easy at all. So, drivers were not able to get repetitive business.

3. Unable to find best suitable cab for any journey.

4. No accurate updates from driver, whether coming on time or not

5. Customer security was the major concern.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Algorithm to find best possible cabs for search parameters

• Job chaining algorithm for each driver

• Live tracking of cab

• Auto fare calculation algorithm

• Real time updates from system to driver and passenger both

Aspire’s Solution: 

1. We were created own job chaining algorithm, which gives enough weekly job to each driver.

2. Created a auto fare calculation algorithm based on junrey distance.

3. Real time web updates using sockets to track cab with integration on map.

4. Designed driver registration flow for quality and background checking of each driver for passenger security.

5. Offered driver work schedule module for driver’s ease.

Benefits Delivered:

• Driver’s weekly business grown by 25%.

• Drivers can do job at his/her preferable time.

• Passengers are able to save average 15% of time while waiting for cab.

Technologies:

Eclipse, Java, JSP, Servlets, Struts, Spring, JPA, Android, Spring Security, AOP, Quartz, OSM(Open Street Map), JSON, JQuery, Mysql

Abstract: 

Our Bangalore, India based customer created a portal for elderly age people. Using portal anyone can buy a product, which is useful for aged people.like., Washing & Toileting, Cervical Pillow, Walking Stick, Exercise Ball, Cervical Collar, and much more! Portal has an option to get services from verifies doctors, also offer services for home modifications for senior citizens, classes, and activities for senior citizens, forums for question and answers on specified topics. The portal helps people to find best senior care services and products.

Client: 

Our client had the vision to provide services and products to keep all aging parents safe, secure, and comfortable by making home senior friendly. Initially, they started physical stores and make an alliance with doctors to help seniors. Afterwards, they planned to become online to help more people citywide.

Problem Statement: 

• Our customer decided to create a portal, but they did not have much exposure and also do not have experienced team on it. So, they want us to help them in initial product development phase(s) and solve following issues for them.

  • Product conceptualization and management

  • Define Scope for each phase

  • Choose best-suited tools and technologies for portal development

  • Define system architecture

  • E-commerce module development

  • SEO and analytical tools integration

  • Payment gateway integration (PayU Money for INR support)

  • Integration of logistic services (FedEx) for online shipment tracking

  • Product quality assurance by manual and automated testing

  • Define deployment process and strategies

  • Production environment setup

Challenges & Limitations:

• Broadleaf customization to create custom REST services to achieve customer’s specific requirements.

• Native mobile application support

Aspire’s Solution: 

• Discussed and defined product scope, with a list of each feature in details.

• Prepared a product execution plan for each release.

• Prepared testing plans with detailed test case documents.

• Defined system architecture and implemented same with best available tools and technologies.

• Choose broadleaf commerce platform for backend REST services for fast development.

  • Used angularJs and bootstrap for front-end development to support responsive UI. Also, it is very easy to convert same application code in Mobile cross-platform applications in future using Cordova.

• Followed continuous integration development practice for auto build, test, and deployment process.

Benefits Delivered:

• On-time almost bug-free portal delivered as promised in project execution plan.

• Expansion of their market.

• Business growth achieved up to 200%, in 2 quarters of launching portal.

• Improved customer relationships with Forums and online 24*7 support systems.

• Repeat customer rate increased up to 35%.

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Bower, Gulp, Node(npm), Yeoman,  RequireJS, UglifyJS, MinifyHtml, JSHint, Karma, GIT, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Solr, Broadleaf e-commerce platform(CE), JUnit, PayU Money, FedEx Logistic service, Prerender.io, Google Analytics, Google Pagespeed, Yahoo YSlow, Amazon AWS cloud, Jenkins.

Summary: 

Our customer is looking for a cloud based portal for schools packed with enhanced features including collaboration, community, calendar, news and many others. It is flexible and scalable letting you manage features and permissions and can be integrated with your existing systems to suit your current and future needs.

About client: 

A client has been delivering pioneering website and portal solutions to schools for over two decades. With emerging digital technologies and continuous changes to implement new systems at schools has been a challenge that most of the schools faces today. With this in mind, they pride themselves on delivering an innovative portal solution that can integrate with any existing systems, providing collaboration for the school community users.

Problem Statement: 

Our customer wanted a cloud based portal for schools packed with enhanced features including collaboration, community, calendar, news and many others. It is flexible and scalable letting you manage features and permissions and can be integrated with your existing systems to suit customer current and future needs.

Our customer wanted to create a portal to deliver a simple, reliable and one-stop solution for school management system. Using 3 different option the portal was provided to the end user.

1. Cloud Model: A white label solution that can be setup within minutes and hosted with AWS providing 256-bit AES encryption for your data.

2. Hybrid Model: We understand the complexity of school systems with data spread across multiple systems. The hybrid model allows you to use the cloud model and display relevant information from your in-house systems on to the portal through integration.

3. Bespoke Model: A fully customised portal hosted within your infrastructure and integrated with your systems. It provides enhanced flexibility like having your own design and features based on your specific requirements.

Benefits Delivered: 

• On-time bug-free delivery of portal as per the project execution plan.

• Improved customer relationship with an online 24*7 support system.

• Developing new market trends into education domain with the portal is the first of its kind.

Challenges and Limitations: 

• Theming the whole portal based on the color scheme selected by the admin dynamically.

• Integration of OpenOffice with Liferay.

• Mobile platform support.

Aspire Solution: 

• Involvement in this project for enhancement of existing features.

• Understanding the system requirements.

• Liferay Portal Installation and Configuration.

• Liferay Theming for overall reskinning of the portal with new look and feel.

• Integration of OpenOffice for a preview of the documents present into the portal.

• Development and releases using the agile model of development.

• Release  Management of the product to make sure all the release components are in place during release.

Technologies Used: 

Liferay 6.2 GA3 (CE), Java, Liferay MVC, Liferay Service Builder, Liferay DDL, Liferay Calendar, MySql, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, SVN, SSO

Abstract: 

Our customer is involved in the business to support doctors in their appointments with their patients. The hired secretaries help them in booking the hospital, room, and devices they require for the patient.

The VoIP integrated portal solution helped in booking appointment as well as various assets required and automated the billing process to the doctors. A appointment bot was designed to automate the appointment booking process.

Client: 

Our Germany-based customer is closely working with doctors (Majorly Psychologist) to support them in their appointments with the patients and helping them in booking the hospital, rooms and the devices they require for their patients.

Problem Statement: 

Doctors handles the patient’s appointment booking manually either by their own or hired personal staff or hire professional agency

There are several drawbacks of the manual booking:

• Up to 20% Operational overheads, resulting in fewer appointments in a work day.

• High cost of maintaining full-time staff

• Rigid appointment record system

• Unavailability of data when needed

• Patient history records are not easily accessible

• Missed and/or Dissatisfied Clients

Challenges & Limitations:

• Since the doctor can visit multiple hospitals, we had to maintain a consolidated doctor’s calendar to show the doctor’s availability and booking. 

• The system had to be fully integrated with the VoIP system so that as soon as the customer calls the doctor the call is routed to the assistant. The assistant is presented with the doctor’s calendar and a questionnaire related to the specific doctor. Also since the doctor is being charged for the time the assistant is on the call, the call duration is recorded and is charged to the doctor.

• To decrease the number of the assistant required to handle the requests, there was a requirement to create a bot which can help in booking without human intervention.

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire established an end to end product development offshore team, starting from the concept building to finished product delivery to support. 

• Our Business Analysts got in touch with the customer, understanding the core idea and the main problem we are targeting to solve by the proposed solution.

• Helped the client with “Go To Market” strategy, building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and phasing the relevant features. 

• Proposed the best-suited technology stack keeping in mind the short-term and the long-term goals.

  • Developed a web portal where doctors can access patient data from anywhere. 

• Provided solution for a Lucene based search facility to get patient history and appointment data easily without violating the privacy of customer data.

• Integrated third party VOIP system with Healthcare Assistant, which can help to give patient history data automatically on patient call and to Autofill booking forms.

• Quick & Easy Calendar based appointment booking solution. 

• Suggested to develop a bot to help a patient in booking appointment which would help to reduce the work of the physical assistants and save a lot of money.

• Automated appointment notification system to remind appointment to patient

Benefits Delivered:

• No need to hire personal staff to manage appointment booking operations.

• Approximate 80% cut down on operational costs. 

• Doctors are able to handle 35 sessions a week with patients, which was targeted by them to achieve before Healthcare Assistant system introduced.

• Automated appointment booking using Emil Adolf Behring bot patient can book an appointment anytime easily.

• VOIP integration with system helped secretaries to handle 35% more calls. 

• Easy to find Hospital resource availability at booking time.

• Easy to search the right doctor and at the right place.

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Java 1.7, Liferay 6.2 GA1 (CE), Liferay MVC, Apache OpenNLP, Vaadin, FusionPBX, MySQL, Maven, SonarQube.

Abstract: 

Customer employs a team of advisors who deliver to clients total holistic InfoSec risk management solutions through advisors’ products and services. Advisors digitally capture, manages, analyzes and communicates data through Risk portal. The captured data allows organizations, through using Risk Portal, to assist in meeting customer and regulatory information security expectations, reaching legal compliance and managing third-party risk with continuous visualization and monitoring of risk factors.

Client: 

Customer helps organizations to satisfy the ever challenging demands set by regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission and Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. Additionally, helps organizations to understand and manage the Information Security risks of their vendor network handling the organization’s private data.

Problem Statement: 

Customer’s clients face increasing Written InfoSec Program (WISP) challenges and pressures from their business partners, customers, and regulators. 

• Organizations face increasing information security pressures from regulators, customers, and business partners. 

• Those parties require a heightened awareness and sensitivity to information security and have high expectations of the organization in regards to private and sensitive data. 

• Business partners are typically now including contract provisions requiring the counterparty to represent and warrant that organization has a compliant information security program.

Challenges & Limitations:

• Implement vendor hierarchy along with multiple vendors can associate with one vendor. 

• Display maximum survey data on the dashboard for users to identify security risks.

• Implement dynamic survey to handle multiple surveys.

• Manage Assessment with dynamic data with workflow

• Service Provider/Business Associate Invitation

• Managing of organization policy documents and templates.

• Implementation of the assessment workflow for vendors and advisors so that advisor can provide their remediation for the assessment.

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire provided a web-based product development offshore team since the concept building to product delivery to enhancement, maintenance, and support. 

• Our business analysts involved with the customer to understand the core idea and the problems they are facing in the day to day life.

• Delivered the end product by dividing the work into the different milestones so that all the work is being reviewed by the client at the end of each milestone. 

• Proposed the best-suited technology stack keeping in mind the short-term and the long-term requirements.

• Implementation of basic survey management and removed third-party dependency with the application.

• Generate dynamic assessment form for the different sections and maintain the assessment data.

• Implemented the process workflow for managing and reviewing the assessment.

• Support for the previous version of the assessment and survey reports.

• Managing the N level of the hierarchy of the vendors.

• Policy document template management and generate dynamic policy document.

• Implementation of custom roles & permissions for the internal users. 

• Implementation of custom invitation templates for sending an invite to vendors and users

Benefits Delivered:

• Approximate 60% cut down on the operational costs.

• No need to manage separate data each vendor and user.

• Vendors can add their service providers/business associates.

• The new application is user-friendly for vendors and internal users. 

• Dashboard design helps vendors to easily identify the risks with associated service provider/business associate and take immediate action.

• Ease of managing and processing a huge amount of surveys and assessments.

• Improved quality of service, better service provided to clients.

• Less human involvement and eliminated dependency on third-party software 

• Improved efficiency and better response time.

• Increased customer satisfaction by immediate notification of emails.

• Security measures for managing confidential information.

Technologies:

Liferay 6.2 CE GA6, Liferay MVC portlet, Liferay Plugin SDK, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Apache Tomcat, Apache Web Server, Maven, Java 1.7, My SQL, SVN

Summary: 

Our customer was looking for creating a portal which would be working around handling the information security. It is a platform that integrates network client insights, operational objectives and risk needs, providing a single client profile. This system creates an intuitive solution from which Broker and Enterprise Risk Management Groups operate. Offering an organic loop that delivers comprehensive risk management solution that is a foundational component of our business.

About the Client: 

Our client is a risk management firm focused on information security. It provides a suite of products and services to enterprise risk management groups and independent retail insurance brokers to efficiently deliver assessment, training, compliance, information security, and casualty risk insurance products to employees, customers, partners, and vendors.

Problem Statement: 

The portal is a platform that integrates network client insights, operational objectives and risk needs, providing a single client profile. This system creates an intuitive solution from which our Broker and Enterprise Risk Management Groups operate. Offering an organic loop that delivers comprehensive risk management solution that is a foundational component of our business. There are three main features for the portal:

• Risk insights provide expert risk analysis and general commentary how global cyber and casualty risk are affecting economic and business climate while suggesting best practice strategies for dealing with the increased organizational issues.

• Risk Binder manages submissions, negotiations, and binding within the Risk- Portal. Enables broker collaboration with insurers and clients to facilitate rate and term discussions to provide comprehensive cost effective coverage.

• Risk Surveys are proprietary surveys provided to brokers and their clients via the Risk smart Portal enabling them to efficiently identify corporate risk areas. Brokers and corporate risk managers email these surveys to clients and corporate users to highlight corporate exposure and focus their sales process.

Benefits Delivered: 

• Prospectus clients including some of them in Fortune 100 companies appreciated the portal functioning, along with the proceeding of the seed investment into the portal future enhancement.

• Developing new market trends into information security domain with the portal is the first of its kind.

• On-time bug-free delivery of portal as per the project execution plan.

Challenges and Limitations: 

• Customizing Liferay internals DDL functionality to provide the client full featured editing options dynamically along with the mapping for the survey form displayed to customers of the portal.

• Database Encryption for the MariaDB along with the data migration from MySQL database.

• Dashboard page design for displaying the multiple larger surveys’ information for each of the customers.

Aspire Solution: 

• Involvement in this project since the concept building to the development and enhancement.  

• Understanding the system requirements.  

• Liferay Portal Installation and Configuration.

• User management based on the role of the system.

• Risk index calculation algorithm for deriving the insights for each of the surveys filled by the customer.

• Report Generation based on the different kinds of surveys filled by customers into the portal.

• Database encryption along with SSL enabled for better security of the data stored into the portal.

• Functionality & Regression testing for all the features at each release cycle to ensure that the product works well with each release.

• Development and releases using the agile model of development.

• Release Management of the product to make sure all the release components are in place during release.

Technologies Used: 

Liferay 6.2 GA6 (CE), Java, Liferay MVC, Liferay Service Builder, Liferay DDL, MariaDB, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, jQuery, HandleBars, Git, Google page speed, Yahoo YSlow, Amazon AWS cloud, Google Analytics