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Mobile DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentEmbedded SoftwareIoT Solutions

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Fast Facts

HeadquartersHouston, USA

Development CenterMinsk, Belarus

70% USA 20%

EUROPE 10% OTHER GEOGRAPHIES

CLIENT LOCATIONS:

Full-timeEmployees

SecureEnvironment

Yearsin business

160+ ISO 27002 18+

What makes Softeq a trusted long-term vendor

• Highly professional team• Established development environment• Mature QA procedures• Full protection of Client’s IP• Passion for R&D• Full process transparency to Client• Easy contracting, US HQs• Very competitive pricing

Specialization

• Full-cycle firmware development

• Drivers and BSPs, middleware

• Embedded software testing,

debugging and optimization

• HMI/UI development

• Enterprise mobility

• Mobile game development

• Native mobile app development

• Cross-platform development

• Application porting

• E-commerce

• Enterprise web

• Digital asset management

• Web back-ends for mobile

• Extract, transform and load

75% Expert and Senior Level

25% Intermediate Level

EmbeddedMobile Web

Embedded SoftwareService spanDomain expertiseTeam experienceSuccess stories

Embedded Software Development



Enclosure designHardware and PCB designRapid prototypingFull-cycle firmware and embedded software developmentDrivers and BSPs, middleware Firmware SDKs, graphic libraries, data representationEmbedded software testing, debugging and optimizationHMI/UI development

Service Span

15%


• Internet of Things• Wearables• Industrial automation

• Consumer electronics• Networking solutions• Hi-tech gadgets

• Automotive electronics• Medical solutions• Digital signal processing

Domain Expertise

Quick Highlights

One of our tech leads was a brain behind EtherCAT fieldbus system

We have accumulated solid expertise in AUTOSAR compliant solution creation for the Automotive industry

Softeq’s rugged handheld device and assistive technology system supporting IR, WiFi, GPS and RFID technologies is installed in more than 20 US national parks

Our current big tech thing under development is drone-based unmanned aerial oil pipes inspection solution

We were engaged in most innovative flash technology projects and made several inventions in flash memory below 20-nm technology


All-in-one Solution Provider for the Internet of Things and Wearable TechSofteq’s unique differentiator is its one-of-a-kind combination of hardware-level and application-level engineering skills. We deliver the full range of services required for a new product launch:

• Hardware engineering• Schematic and PCB design• Enclosure design• Firmware development• Embedded solutions• Rapid prototyping

• Driver development• Mobile development• Server software development• Data analytics solution development• Advanced web solutions• Cloud/SaaS development


Creating Advanced IoT Systems


Softeq Embedded Software Department is a team of seasoned professionals with an average experience of 10 years:

Team Experience

Team Experience Breakdown

Over 20 years

10%2 – 5 years

25%

5 – 10 years

27%10 – 15 years

20%

15 – 20 years

18%


Vertical skills breakdown: percentage of specialists with appropriate experience

Horizontal skills breakdown: percentage of specialists with appropriate experience

Team Skills

0% 100%50% 75%25%

0% 100%50% 75%25%


Softeq’s embedded software development team is highly skilled in a number of relevant technologies, programming languages, architectures, as well as in firmware debugging and performance optimization.

Team technology skills breakdown: percentage of specialists with appropriate experience

Technology Expertise

HDL

Java

Assembler

.NET

Python

C

C++

0% 100%50% 75%25%


Specific technology skills breakdown: years of active use

C/C++

Architectures

Protocols

8051 X86-64 Renesas PIC xScale ARM AVR 0

5

10

15

years

0

5

10

15

20years

0

5

10years

CANOpen ProtocolsSATA

Success Story

Reducing Drilling Equipment Downtime with Embedded TCP/IP Stack Enabled Solution for Optimized Data Transfer

A drilling equipment manufacturer aimed to optimize the way the data captured during well boring was transferred from the internal memory integrated in a drill bit to an external computer. Softeq developed an embedded TCP/IP stack driven solution that helps significantly reduce the data acquisition span, while minimizing production losses that were caused by extended equipment downtime.

Success Story

Engineering of Standalone Temperature and Humidity Data Loggers Equipped with Sensors

Softeq implemented a set of standalone temperature and humidity data loggers equipped with sensors. The instruments, which support PoE and autonomous operation, are part of a comprehensive end-to-end solution that also includes a custom Android application to work with collected data along with a web-based portal for online data processing and storage.

Success Story

Firmware for Smart Watch: Seven Touchscreen Smartphone-like Features Packed in 192 kB Firmware.

For a pioneer product among smart watches, Softeq managed to jam a pack of features controllable via touch screen in a mere 192 kB:- 6 styles of time display- More than 70 time zones supported, 3 of them can be observed simultaneously- Stopwatch- Calendar / Lunar calendar- Reminder- Alarm clock- Calculator

Success Story

A Proof-of-Concept Smart Furniture Prototype: Reinventing Guest Experience in Entertainment and HoReCa Business

Softeq’s Embedded Programming Team worked against a tight deadline to develop a technical proof of concept for a smart furniture prototype featuring a set of 17” LED panels integrated into a table top. Designed to display tweets and images, playback a greeting message on detecting a human presence, as well as to support multiplayer games, the solution is set to reinvent guest experience across the Entertainment and HoReCa domains. The customer, a designer, developer, and manufacturer of custom-built commercial furniture, showcased the prototype at the HD Expo 2015 in Las Vegas.

Success Story

Sensor-rich Club and iOS App Helping Smart Golfers Mobilize Performance Data

Softeq helped a leading sports products manufacturer develop a solution that would enable golfers track, visualize, analyze and store their performance stats using a sensor-rich golf club communicating with an Objective-C iOS application. The middleware solution consists of a low-RAM, low power, high performance controller, 2.4 GHz retransmission unit and an advanced algorithm that would allow for progressive no-loss transmission of large data batches from the club to the mobile app.

Success Story

BlinkFX’s Wink: Redefining the Live Show Experience with an Innovative Wirelessly Controlled LED Lighting Device

Softeq’s team was to create Wink, a patent pending LED lighted disk that mounts to just about any wristband, lanyard or strap up to 25mm wide and 2mm thick. BlinkFX had a set of desired features for both the Winks and the IR DMX controllers. All functionality was to be implemented within the tight three months to be ready for launch at the SXSW trade show and a headline concert featuring the legends of Hip Hop at Doritos Bold Stage.

Success Story

Gantom’s DMX Updater: Enabling Pros to Keep Their DMX Compatible Lighting Equipment Up-to-date

To help Gantom support its customers — professionals working with the company’s lighting devices — in keeping the equipment up-to-date, Softeq developed a special mobile utility. It enables users to download and install latest firmware updates on the target lighting fixtures using an iPhone.

Success Story

#1 Assistive Technology Solution for Public Venues installedin 20+ National Parks across US, including Mount RushmoreNational Monument and Death Valley National Park

Durateq is a rugged assistive handheld based on the HP iPAQ platform with Softeq’s ALICE (Assistive LIstening and Captioning Engine) inside and content triggering wireless environment in background. Softeq performed full cycle development from conceptual design of the device, peripherals and production environment and to batch production and onsite implementations of the system.

Mobile ApplicationsService spanDomain expertiseTeam experienceSuccess stories

Mobile Application Development



Full-cycle mobile application

development

Distributed mobile solutions

Integration services

Mobile PoCs and prototypes

55%Mobile Development


• Mobile low-level apps• Mobile SDKs• Mobile PoCs

• Enterprise mobility• Event management• Digital imaging

• Video streaming on mobile• Media content distribution• Apps for smart devices

Domain Expertise

Quick Highlights

In 2013 Softeq became a preferred mobile development vendor for Nike

Large part of the apps we create are innovative solutions leveraging mobile devices’ and gadgets’ OS and components’ capabilities on a lower level

The overall number of downloads of the apps created by Softeq exceeded 5.000.000


Softeq Mobile Department is a team of proficient developers inspired by the agility and innovative ideas in the mobile space. The average team’s experience is 4.8 years

Team Experience

Under 2 years

7%

5-10 years

43%2-5 years

50%

Team Experience Breakdown

Success Story

NVIDIA’s Camera Awesome for Android: Redefining User Experience in Mobile Digital Imaging

Conceived to deliver unparalleled end-user experience demonstrating a brand-new approach to mobile image-taking, this powerful technology pushes the envelope of mobile photography with a host of next-generation tools and features.

Success Story

Becoming a Preferred Mobile Development Partner for Nike

Softeq demonstrated to Nike profound low-level programming expertise, including algorithmic data analysis and visualization, as well as hardware design, by delivering several advanced mobile app prototypes / solution prototypes. Impressed with the company’s skills and service level, Nike has awarded Softeq the status of a Preferred Mobile Development Partner.

Success Story

Achieving Convenience, Speed, and Cost-efficiency with a Mobile VoIP Solution for Business Communication

Softeq’s mobile team developed a Linphone technology based SIP client to underlie a mobile VoIP solution for business communication.

The app targets employees of a leading telco company in Russia, with further plans for distribution among the firm’s clients.

Success Story

NVIDIA’s NVContacts: A Multi-platform Mobile Contact Management Application Enabling Unified Secure Access to Organizational Data

Softeq’s team successfully delivered the solution, which was set to significantly facilitate daily interaction among NVIDIA’s employees. We created 4 mobile applications with unified look & feel for the target mobile platforms (Android, iOS, WP8, and WinRT) and also delivered special UI designed for the iOS and Android based tablets.

Success Story

Atlas Copco Mag: iPAD Newsstand App for a Fortune 500 Industrial Giant

Careful attention was paid to synchronizing opinions and vision on the project flow between the Softeq and Atlas Copco teams in order to mitigate all risks of misunderstanding or ambiguity, which is especially important for Fixed Price projects like this one.

Success Story

BlizzCon 2013 Guide: Android-based Mobile App Enabling Event Sessions Scheduling, Up-to-the-minute Updates Accessing, and Live Video Streaming

The developed application codenamed BlizzCon 2013 Guide builds on a client server connection, utilizing web services for fetching up-to-the-minute updates about the show activities. To make the app even more valuable and appealing to the users, it was integrated with a third-party video platform twitch.tv, to support live video streaming.

Success Story

A Fully Functional Media Content Distribution App Prototype for Samsung: Streaming Smart TV Media Content on Smartphones and Tablets

Softeq created a fully functional prototype of the app runnable on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and Samsung Galaxy Note II, thus targeting the multi-million army of the Samsung fans. Softeq was engaged as a second-tier vendor possessing relevant technology expertise.

Web SolutionsService spanDomain expertiseTeam experienceSuccess stories

Web Solutions



Full-cycle web application development

Advanced database development

Load-resistant applications

Data and application integration

UI and frontend Development

Web Development30%

Web Solutions

• ETL solutions• Digital asset management• Content management• Portals and Collaboration

• E-commerce• Enterprise web• Back-ends for mobile• IPTV and Video streaming

Domain Expertise

Quick Highlights

Softeq is one of the very rare software developers combining web expertise with low-level programming experience. This allows us handling projects a typical software development company is unlikely to handle.

Softeq’s web development team’s average experience is 6.5 years.

The division is led by Paul Filipovich, Java guru with 15 years of extensive experience in software development and architecture, worked on projects for Sotheby`s and MTV, as well as for large European banks.

Web Solutions

Softeq team uniquely combines proven web application and mobile application development skills with extensive firmware and low-level programming expertise.

Development Skills

Business LogicPersistence Layer

Data Retrieval

Integration

Mobile

Web

Web Solutions

Technologies and Frameworks

ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAXJavaScript, jQuery, KendoUIMVVM and SPA (Angularjs, Backbonejs, Knockoutjs) Windows Communication Foundation Windows Workflow Foundation WebAPI, ServiceStack EF, NHibernate, Dapper, LINQ2SQLORMLite Microsoft Sharepoint Message Queues (MSMQ, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ)

Java EE, Java SE, Java MESpring FrameworkApache Struts, Apache Struts 2Apache VelocityApache SlingApache RabbitMQJava Applets, Java Servlets, Java Server PagesOSGi FrameworkJCR (Day CRX, Alfresco, Apache JackRabbit)

Symfony 2Zend Framework 1-2Kohana, Yii 1-2CakePHP, CodeIgniterLaravel, Doctrine 2jQueryNodeJs, NockoutJsViews, AngularBackBone

Databases: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, IBM DB2, RavenDB, Redis. We build highly interactive and smooth user interfaces and rich internet applications by extensively utilizing the AJAX stack.

Web Back-ends for Mobile

Best-fit Back-end Solutions

• Very thin client vs performance boosting back-end• Future-friendly server-side design• Open Architecture to ensure scalability• Reduced maintenance costs

• Full-scale mobile integration layers for existing web solutions• Smart data connectors, ETL solutions• Mobile networking, data and content interchange optimization

Web Solutions

• Workflow/user journey modeling, intuitive navigation• Clean highly interactive layouts• Highly interactive controls/widgets• Data visualization

UI and Front-end DevelopmentAt Softeq we build web solutions, mobile apps, and visual interfaces for devices with an eye towards a rewarding and productive user experience. To achieve this goal, we incorporate such essential system properties as clarity, intuitiveness, interactivity, and responsiveness.

Support and Maintenance

• Tracking system access for the customer /using customer’s tracking system

• Introducing monitoring and backup / restore• Regular and ad-hoc reports

• Configuration and fine-tuning• Issue reproducing and fixing• Improvements and new featureimplementation, new releases

SLA-based Support Level 1, 2, 3

Quick Highlights

Softeq offers strong re-engineering and maintenance expertise with yearsof hands-on experience in supporting, improving and customizing solutionsdeveloped earlier by a third party.

We adjust our support and maintenance activities to your business hours tokeep mission-critical processed intact while supporting uninterrupted work of all apps and systems.

Help Desk and Atlassian Jira are in place to ensure activities’ transparencyto the client with a streamlined issue processing approach and escalationscheme.

Success Story

Long-term Dedicated Development Team for a Comprehensive Online Service Solution

Softeq continuously works on improvement, refactoring, and new features implementation to a very complex and comprehensive online system Legal / e-Government domain. The tasks carried out by Softeq span from paymentgateways integration to load testing and test automation.

Success Story

Comprehensive SaaS-based Sensor Data Acquisition and Management System

A laboratory equipment supplier was looking to strengthen customer relationships, while securing a revenue increase, by providing a value-added service to equipment buyers.

Softeq developed a comprehensive data acquisition and management system that taps hardware and software component capabilities for aggregating, processing, and storing information retrieved from the humidity and temperature sensors installed in a laboratory.

Success Story

Editorial Back-end For NVIDIA’s TegraZone

A special back-end created by Softeq allows NVIDIA to fast-track the game selection and launch process via its Tegra-focused application portal. NVIDIA’s editors can now conveniently manage game related digital assets online, while the game developers can securely upload their game artifacts, track the review progress, and receive timely feedback on their submissions.

Success Story

A Multi-content News App for Android with a Full-scale Web Version

Designed by Dialect Inc., a San Francisco based Brand Engagement agency specializing in creating interactive digital magazines and content distribution, the app covers a wide spectrum of industry news. To maintain the app — quite popular with the users — in the most current state in terms of look and feel, usability, and functional features, the agency planned to revamp NVision on all these fronts. In addition to the mobile version, the application was to have a full-scale web counterpart. See more at www.nvisionapp.com

Success Story

Fully-functional Web Front-end Transforms Traditional ERP-style System into Powerful SaaS Solution

Softeq developed a front-end system that supports window retailers and providers of related services in their day-to-day operations spanning windows manufacturing and installation. Bundled with several back-end applications, the solution handles order, inventory, customer, and vendor management, as well as finance and accounting activities.

Success Story

HP iPAQ Developer Program — At the Forefront of AppDevelopment Support: Custom SDKs, Technical Support, Web Portal Maintenance

HP engaged Softeq to serve as the key system integrator for its web portal created to support HP iPAQ Developer Program. The initiative was launched to encourage development of advanced apps for HP’s flagship Compaq/HP iPAQ PDA series by fostering a collaborative and knowledge-intensive environment across the developers’ community.

Building Dedicated Teams

Building Dedicated Development Teams

• 18+ years experience in managing offsite and geographically distributed teams• Largest dedicated team exceeded 115 FTEs• Step-by-step involvement schema to build a well-balanced team• High staff retention and excellent team motivation

Softeq’s Approach to Staffing and Scalability

Quick Highlights

Softeq leverages its efficient resource management techniques to helpclients quickly staff or ramp up their project teams with software specialistspossessing the best-matching skillset: resource bench, regular skill profiling,training and certification, HR screening, qualification roadmaps.

Softeq continuously monitors workload utilization and employs rationalworkload forecasting for efficient project management and planning, whichhas proved to deliver excellent results in terms of workload balance andactivity visibility while bringing better team’s overall performance.

Knowledge Transfer

From communicating the Client’s business goals andhelping shape the requirements, through learning theClient’s architectural and technological approach to sharing documentation and source code. High staff retention and excellent team motivation

Existing and newly developed project artifacts anddocumentation stored in well-structured document / media repositories and/or project management / issue tracking tools for further team’s reuse.

Scheduled and ad hoc online meetings, including videoconferences, IM, telephone, and onsite visits.

Faster Onboarding and Shorter Learning Curve

Initial knowledge transfer

Encoded knowledge availability

Transparency and communication

Success Story

Scotland, UK Belarus

Israel

India

China

USA

Cooperation on a large scale.

115-strong ODC for SanDisk

SanDisk R&D SanDisk ODC SanDisk Production

Softeq team has been developing Firmware for SanDisk for 6 years. We maintained and managed a large dedicated Offshore Development Center for SanDisk within our office in Minsk, Belarus.

What makes Softeq a trusted long-term vendor

• Highly professional team• Established development environment• Mature QA procedures• Full protection of Client’s IP• Passion for R&D• Full process transparency to Client• Easy contracting, US HQs• Very competitive pricing

Thank you!

SOFTEQ DEVELOPMENT CORP.1155 Dairy Ashford, Suite 125

Houston, TX 77079

281.552.5000, 281.552.5001888.552.5001 toll-free

[email protected] www.softeq.com

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