Gradient Software Development - A Team of Generalists

A team that can create, adapt, upgrade, or provide consultation for your next software project.

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Industry Generalists

Our software development skills have been applied across various industries, solving different business problems. Our solutions include quality control process optimization, efficient financial reporting, billing and invoicing capabilities, real-time visualization of relevant information, automating order shipping, building enterprise job marketplace solutions, web page performance optimization, and many other industry-specific business problems.

Our Involvement in Specific Industries

Manufacturing

Custom software solutions are developed, tested, deployed, and maintained. One such solution enables manufacturing process tracking, with full integration allowing each employee to log the production order they are working on and register their task is successful or not. If an unexpected issue occurs, the system enforces that a password-protected supervisor account must conclude the tracked task.

Another solution manages the entire quality control process—from configuring initial questionnaires, conducting inspections by employees, and tracking production orders and specific products, to generating PDF reports with control results that can be regenerated in different languages.

Finances

Solutions provided in the finance industry domain include processing transactions from different sources, aggregating data, and decision-making. While transaction aggregation is performed exclusively for synchronization and presentation purposes, decision-making focuses on crypto markets and automated trading based on specific trading strategies.

An additional delivered project involved working on a payment gateway anti-fraud system. The goal was to generate test data that represents fraudulent customers with seemingly valid billing information, adhering to different countries' requirements, correct BINs (Bank Identification Numbers), and appropriate payment gateways (Visa, MasterCard, etc.), all while fully satisfying the Luhn check (a static validation check for credit card numbers).

Equipment Maintenance

In the equipment maintenance industry, which often includes certification, the primary problems solved involve managing products through the system, from servicing to invoice payment. This management typically includes handling product and service records, accepting products from customers, transferring them between different locations, recording servicing results, issuing certificates, and issuing invoices.

One of the delivered and maintained projects in this industry was specialized in marine safety certification and equipment maintenance.

E-Commerce

Projects in the e-commerce industry involve data presentation and process automation, from showcasing available products and/or services to end customers, to delivering the products. These steps typically include the customer selecting products, completing an online payment, and the seller shipping the product (or providing a service). The entire process can be monitored by the seller through an admin dashboard.

One automation project we developed was a solution that regularly tracked sales across various sales channels (such as eBay, WooCommerce, etc.) and automatically created shipping labels in the USPS system for those customers. This minimizes the seller’s effort in tracking sales and generating shipping labels.

Energy and Utilities

Our projects in this domain primarily focus on data acquisition, real-time visualization, or a combination of both. One example is the 'Eco Monitoring' project, which acquires data at one-minute intervals on different substances emitted into the air as a result of electrical energy production at a thermal plant. Users can view charts of emitted substances over different time intervals and export the data in CSV format.

Another example, focused on real-time visualization, utilizes an OPC server at the plant to load real-time information about critical production parameters and display it on a web interface.

Marketing

In the marketing industry, our team focuses on building specialized software solutions to simplify the content presentation process. One such solution, 'Gradient Image Processing' (GIP), efficiently processes uploaded images and generates versions in the required resolution and format.

Another solution, 'Fast CMS', integrates GIP to enable relatively fast content insertion. This results in highly performant web pages in terms of loading speed and technical quality, as measured by Google's Page Speed Insights tool.

Technology Generalists

Our main focus is problem-solving, so we deliberately choose not to specialize in a single programming tool, programming language, or framework. Instead, we select the tools that feel best suited to the problems we are solving. This approach has given us experience with a solid range of programming languages, frameworks, and databases, allowing us to make relatively informed decisions about the best technology combinations for each specific problem.

Specific Tools

Programming Languages

Typescript

Javascript

PHP

Ruby

Visual Basic .Net

Java

C# .Net

Backend Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

Node.js

Nest.js

Express.js

Ruby on Rails

Laravel

Yii Framework

CodeIgniter

WordPress

Java EE

VertX

Frontend Tools, Libraries and Frameworks

Angular

React

Ember.js

jQuery

Bootstrap

Material UI

Sass

Database Management Systems and Libraries

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MS SQL Server

Sqlite

SQLite

MongoDB

Redis

Benefits of Software

Saved Time

Tasks get performed faster and with higher precision.

Data Quality

Input data and results are validated, resulting in decrease of errors.

Reliability

Due to software execution consistency, performed tasks have predictable results.

Connectivity

Multiple specialized systems are utilized to resolve complex tasks.

Software Usage Areas

Repeating Tasks

Repeating tasks pose a long-term pressure on businesses and their growth, as they occupy valuable time that could otherwise be used for business advancement.

Additionally, these tasks carry the risk of higher losses, which can result from potentially wrong or late execution.

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Intensely Interlinked Data

A single incorrect data reference can lead to the omission of a large amount of relevant data sets, or to the inclusion of irrelevant ones.

Mistake of this nature has the potential to put the entire business at risk.

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Precise Assignments

One mistake can affect all the next steps in the assignment.

It usually requires meticulous approach and additional reviews to successfully complete the tasks in place.

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Cross-Platform Workflow

Cross-Platform Workflows require streamlined usage of multiple 3rd party systems to achieve individual tasks.

Correct tasks coordination and results synchronization is necessary.

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Planning Software Integration

Identify Problem to Solve

Analyze your current business processes to identify one or more areas where Software Solutions are applicable.

Evaluate Costs and Benefits

Software Integration to a business is a long-term investment, that, if implemented correctly, pays off continuously.

Research the Options

Research available off-the-shelf, SaaS, and open-source solutions. If they do not fit, consider researching custom software development options.

Decide

Based on evaluation in point (2) and research from point (3), make a decision which option (if any) fits Your business.

Software Development Process

1. Preparing Requirements

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With decisions which Software Development option will be utilized, and which business problems will be solved, requirements are prepared.

2. Choosing Tools

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Some programming languages, frameworks and tools are more suited to certain problem domains than others.

3. Implementing Solution

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Software solution is built, configured and integrated in this phase.

4. Testing

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The final step is testing the integrated solution to make sure it works correctly and that the business improvement goal is achieved.

Additional Information

Software Development Process Described Through a Case Study

Case Study included: Zuma Level Designer

16 Customers / 40 Contracts

In the past six years, we have developed a variety of products and offered a range of services to our customers.

Two Team Members

We carefully choose our Team Members to essentially guarantee a positive impact on both your business and ours.

Three In-House Products

In addition to supporting individual businesses with our services, we are supporting wider range of customers with prepared "off-the-shelf" solutions.

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