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XML/XSLT
ELEKS is a software development company that provides the technical skill, accountability and industry knowledge needed to deliver custom applications on time and on budget for banking and financial, insurance and reinsurance, legal services, government, media & publishing, 2D / 3D CAD Software Market, transportation, logistics, entertainment, healthcare and other industries.
ELEKS has completed a number of complex projects that have used XML / XSLT, including:
- a sophisticated stage control system
- comprehensive localization services for a global leader in 2 D / 3 D CAD software
- learning content management system
- vehicle registration system
- other automation, planning and management systems
- web portals.
Why XML / XSLT?
- XML provides the ability to separate data from their representation, to store information in an easily understandable format, a standard which is clearly specified
- XML maks solutions flexible, reduces time and cost of system development
- XML provides opportunities for integration and data exchange, multi-purpose use of information
- XML is best suited for storing and transmitting structured data over internet
- XSLT can provide an easy and flexible projects integration
- XSLT enables syntactic and semantic transformations, i.e. transformations at the structural level, thus providing a very important role of language in integration projects based on the use of XML.
Below is a sampling of featured software projects that have used XML / XSLT.
Team Extension for a Leading Provider of Financial Technology Solutions
Case study
Region: North America
Industry: Banking & Financial
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: Microsoft .NET, C / C++, Delphi, Oracle, UNIX/Linux, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET, HTML5, Perl, Ajax, JavaScript, Solaris
What ELEKS Did:
Outsourced software development services have been provided to Eagle Investment Systems since 1999. ELEKS has completed a number of projects related to enhancing Eagle’s existing solutions for accounting and data management and migrating them to new technologies. The projects’ nature has allowed ELEKS to develop a deep understanding of the investment accounting market. ELEKS has also been involved in the development of process automation tools for internal use.
Having worked with Eagle for so many years, ELEKS has become an extension to the company that has allowed them to expand their technology capabilities; reduce their cost of software development, and speed-up the product development cycle.
"It is a true pleasure to work with ELEKS. We have been working with the ELEKS team for many years, and they have made a number of significant contributions to our development process. We look forward to expanding the scope of the relationship to encompass more projects. ELEKS has successfully resolved many of the hurdles related to offshore development and has provided Eagle with an exceptional level of design, development and support services. They understand Eagle's objectives and work with shared passion towards common goals. Once a recommended design is agreed upon, ELEKS has excelled in executing the design with very capable engineers. ELEKS has certainly been an important contributor to Eagle's mature and professional development process. We wish ELEKS the best in their future efforts.”
Marc J. Firenze, Chief Technology Officer, Eagle Investment Systems
Custom Solution for a USA-based Oncology Practice
Region: North America
Industry: Healthcare
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: XML/XSLT
Business Challenge:
Grow its business, improve patient care, increase satisfaction and facilitate information flow.
What ELEKS Did:
A custom solution developed by ELEKS for a small oncology practice in the U.S. comprises a web portal developed to accumulate comprehensive information on cancer, its types, their diagnostics and treatment.
Most important, the web portal provides a platform for extensive collaboration between various specialists who deal with cancer diseases, such as oncologists, radiologists and pathologists. Both US Oncology Practice and their patients, not only can find any information they wish to know about cancer and the medication required, they also can obtain a consultation from the specialists in the field of cancer, including world-renown physicians, who are affiliated with the largest cancer centers. These consultations are provided directly from the web portal. The portal provides extended possibilities for communication among patients and doctors, online chatting and an easy-to-use bulletin board area that provides fast interaction between users. In addition, the portal became a popular site for nationally recognized experts to post audio and video presentations and various articles, etc.
Benefits:
US Oncology Practice managed to significantly grow its business while improving patient care and increasing customer satisfaction.
A Courier Service Automation System
Region: Europe
Industry: Transportation
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: Delphi, XML/XSLT
Business Challenge:
A management information system which tracks a complete shipment cycle.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS developed a courier service automation system that enabled the customer to manage the entire shipping lifecycle and to obtain quick access to up-to-date information on the status of all cargo shipments. The designed system provided a fully automated system for managing and tracking cargo and delivery status. The customer's benefits included increased cargo turn-around times, reduced tracking errors and misdirected cargos, reduced customer claims, and increased profitability due to enhanced control efficiency.
A Web Portal for a Bank in Europe
Region: Europe
Industry: Banking & Financial
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: Microsoft SharePoint, XML/XSLT, PHP, ASP.NET, WPF, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Generation of greater revenues by provision of additional services.
What ELEKS Did:
The web portal supplied by ELEKS for one of the European banks was designed in compliance with modern web site requirements for the banking industry. Development of the web portal was planned as a part of the rebranding strategy of the bank. The new web portal provides comprehensive information on banking products, services and rates for bank services, as well as enables its employees to interact with its customers. The customers of the bank have access to the “Client-Bank” system and Internet-banking services directly from the web portal. Customers can also take advantage of various tools such as credit, deposit, mortgage loans and currency calculators available on the portal. A constantly updated exchange rates base is of great use not only to the bank’s clients, but to the industry professionals as well.
A Nationwide News Web Portal
Region: Europe
Industry: Media & Publishing
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: XML/XSLT, PHP, WCF, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
A modern convenient solution to provide a greater level of service to readers.
What ELEKS Did:
Built by ELEKS for the largest financial group in Ukraine, a nationwide consolidated web portal brings together information from news agencies and provides on-line services to the public. The main component of the web portal is a news aggregator, which assembles news from the largest Ukrainian media providers, such as UNIAN, Glavred, Kiev Newspaper, Telekritica, and many others. Besides that, the news aggregator automatically groups information assembled from different sources by various criteria, e.g. by geographical region or topic, based on built-in business rules. The processed tags and keywords are available in the cloud for the end-user convenience and provide an easy access to information. The web portal also serves as a source of information to other news web portals and web sites.
In addition to the news aggregator, users of the web portal can benefit from a number of useful tools available on-line, such as business calendars, diaries, financial and exchange rates, banking services, entertainment blocks, etc. The web portal front-end is managed through ELEKS CMS, an originally developed content management system, which allows to easily customize web pages look and feel and pages behavior via an easy-to-use WISIWUG editor.
A Web Portal for a Western-Ukrainian Media Provider
Region: Europe
Industry: Media & Publishing
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: XML/XSLT, PHP
Business Challenge:
Gain of a larger market share by providing a more convenient way of using their services.
What ELEKS Did:
The web portal was the first Internet resource in Western Ukraine that was both an analytical magazine and news agency. The number of visitors averages over 8000 users per day. The maximal registered daily number of unique visitors to date is over 50,000.
The web portal supports three languages - Ukrainian, Russian and Polish. ELEKS created an enhanced "advertisement and banners" management system that makes billing, banner placement and tracking much more efficient. The web portal includes a user blog area, expanded search function, RSS feed, a mobile web version, and a high level of security.
SEO of the Web Site of the Leading Coffee Producer in Western Ukraine
Region: Europe
Industry: Other
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: XML/XSLT, PHP
Business Challenge:
Introduction of online services to increase market awareness.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS SEO services helped Galca Company, the leading producer of coffee in Western Ukraine, to significantly improve the company's web site ranking on the web. By conducting a detailed analysis and recommendations given by ELEKS experts, the company's web site moved from ranking of 500+ to a top performing ranking of 5 for the keyword "KABA" (a Ukrainian word for "coffee").
An Entertainment Web Portal
Region: Europe
Industry: Entertainment Technology
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: XML/XSLT, PHP
Business Challenge:
Retaining the market share and introduction of new services targeted at online users.
What ELEKS Did:
The web portal developed for a Finnish company. It allows users to upload their video (one per user identified as one per e-mail address) and send the link to the video to a list of e-mail addresses.
An Enterprise Resource Planning and Management System
Region: Europe
Industry: Enterprise Solutions
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: Delphi, XML/XSLT
Business Challenge:
A solution for anyone who bills for their services and wants to turn more of their time into money.
What ELEKS Did:
TeamPro is a sophisticated system developed by ELEKS and facilitating every aspect of company's activity. TeamPro provides effective instruments for company management (accounting modules, employees database, inventory database), project analysis (cost, schedule, status analysis modules, team workload status and workload forecasting), project tracking (issue tracking system, requirements management, employees' time reporting).
One of the European Banks' Web Site
Region: Europe
Industry: Banking & Financial
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: XML/XSLT, PHP, HTML5, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Gain a larger market share by providing a more convenient way of using their services.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS developed a banking web portal that would improve the customer's clients' ability to conduct business with the bank in a secure environment over different geographic regions. The web portal features up-to-date information about services and interest rates for different bank branches, exchange rates/deposit/credit calculators, financial analytics and the ability to import financial data from various external and e-banking resources. Additionally, a custom Content Management System allows bank employees to easily manage and maintain a large number of banking system functions.
Driving Theory Test System
Region: Europe
Industry: Government
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: Delphi, XML/XSLT, HTML5, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Easy to use, multi-lingual driver, touch screen driver test system.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS created a computer-based driving theory test system integrated with a web-based test booking system (“TTS”). The system is touch screen based and has an intuitive user interface as well as invigilator console. Our team imported test questions and voice-overs (in English and Portuguese), as well as provided translation and voice-overs services from ELEKS Localization Services. The system’s innovative features, unavailable in alternative systems, include a generation of unique tests for each candidate and the facilities for the administrative staff to add/edit questions as needed.
Benefits:
The business benefits of the system are:
- Provides a standard way of conducting driving theory tests
- Minimum effort on maintenance of the testing process
- Easy to operate during the test - even for people with low computer literacy
- Automatic assessment of the test results
- Immediate communication of the results to the participants
- High level of test results validity – as a result of even topic and difficulty distribution of the questions
- Support for multiple languages for non-English speaking people. The system is highly expandable to support additional laungages
- Reports and statistics are available in seconds to management staff
The project was delivered in strategic alliance with teleologica.
"I have been impressed by their willingness to listen to our requirements and translate them into practical realities."
Ian Le Breton, Customs and Excise Department of States of Jersey
Customs and Excise System for Administration of Revenue
Region: Europe
Industry: Government
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: Delphi, XML/XSLT, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Replace an outdated CES solution to streamline and simplify business processes, eliminate data duplication and manual processing, and provide its users with more focused and useful management information.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS replaced the customer’s legacy system with the new Customs and Excise System for Administration of Revenue (CAESAR). The new system provided far greater security, allowed declarations to be entered into the system using browser-based remote access, provided a facility for Customs Officers to discreetly monitor declarations in order to verify their completeness and accuracy, provides a process for split consignments and drawbacks, and handles passenger and postal duty collection.
The system also makes it possible to streamline and simplify business processes, eliminates data duplication and manual processing, and provides its users with a more focused and useful tool for managing the flow of information.
The project was delivered in strategic alliance with teleologica, a partner to ELEKS.
"I have been impressed by their willingness to listen to our requirements and translate them into practical realities."
Ian Le Breton, Customs and Excise Department of States of Jersey
Vehicle Registration System (VRS)
Region: Europe
Industry: Government
Service: Corporate Application Development
Technology: Delphi, XML/XSLT, HTML5, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Streamline the process of duty collection within the vehicle registration operation.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS delivered a Vehicle Registration System, a browser-based front end that allows access for diverse departments, including police, parish officials and authorized third-party parking fine systems. ELEKS also provided comprehensive data migration from older legacy systems to a new hardware platform. Significant enhancements have been added over subsequent years, including an interface with State of Jersey Customs systems following the introduction of vehicle excise duty and a module for automatically capturing and storing vehicle test results.
The developed system allows its users to enjoy the following key benefits:
- intuitive and simple user interface
- streamlined business processes, including the facility to allow electronic bulk submission of vehicle registration data from the car dealership that a vehicle was sold from
- elimination of manual cashbook reconciliations
- elimination of vehicle owner data duplication through the introduction of a normalized database design and the provision of algorithms for identifying possible name and address mismatches in the unstructured data stored in the previous system
- interfaces with third party systems for parking control and policing
- interfaces with vehicle testing equipment to automatically capture test results and manage inspection workload and correspondence
- integration with customs duty collection system
- implementation of a full audit trail of events and construction of an audit trail from available imported data
- facility to download vehicle registration data to a laptop for mobile use during road checks
The project was delivered in strategic alliance with teleologica, a parnter to ELEKS.
"I have been impressed by their willingness to listen to our requirements and translate them into practical realities."
Ian Le Breton, Customs and Excise Department of States of Jersey
Complex of SCORM Standard Learning Management Systems
Region: North America
Industry: Education & E-Learning
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: Java, XML/XSLT, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Develop a fully integrated environment for authoring, managing, and publishing XML-based online courseware, instructor-led materials, mobile learning products, and performance support tools.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS developed and supports a complex of SCORM standard Learning management systems, consisting of complex GUI application for course creation, applet run-time environment, and web-applications providing access to various back-end services.
Works performed by ELEKS for Xyleme Software include:
- Developing course package creation and deployment utility;
- Procedures profiling and optimization;
- Verifying run-time environment against the newer SCORM 2004 standard and upgrading it to be conformant;
- Planning and implementing security model for courses and students’ web application;
- Developing proxy software that allows courses to run on previous versions of run-time environment;
- Developing XSLs for course file creation;
- Lop optimizing performance of WebDAV server and client subsystems, etc.
Benefits:
- Reduced product development costs;
- Improved software quality and made it easier to support; thus reducing longer term costs for the customer;
- Great cooperation with ELEKS development team;
- Low cost, yet high quality support.
Mobile Applications for a US Provider of Distributed Time Entry Software
Case study
Region: North America
Industry: Legal Services
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: Microsoft .NET, XML/XSLT, ASP.NET, JavaScript, iPhone, BlackBerry
Business Challenge:
Automate and streamline the staff time and attendance process.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS delivered several software applications for iPhone and Blackberry to a leading provider of distributed time entry software. The applications are designed to address the needs of attorneys and legal staff and allow to track billable time efficiently and accurately. The end-users enjoy the highest level of performance, connectivity, and functionality.
The iPhone applications developed for the customer allow to capture validated time-based billable activities directly on the device and have that information automatically transferred wirelessly into a time and billing system. The application utilizes features built specifically for iPhone such as the touch screen and slide options.
A BlackBerry-based application is designed to keep track of employee’s time and costs, thus improving their efficiency. Any expense-specific information can be entered directly from a BlackBerry. The users can wirelessly access their mail, a time and billing system or any corporate information at any point of time from any location. The application utilizes features built specifically for Blackberry smartphone such as the tracking ball, security, and mobile data services. The application is integrated with BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and supports “working offline” mode.
The customer succeeded to expand their technology expertise, speed up development processes and increase cost-efficiency.
A Web Portal for an Eastern European Holding Company
Region: Europe
Industry: Banking & Financial
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: Microsoft SharePoint, XML/XSLT, PHP, ASP.NET, WPF, JavaScript
Business Challenge:
Generation of greater revenues by provision of additional services
What ELEKS Did:
A sophisticated web portal was developed by ELEKS for a large Eastern European holding company whose main function was to manage distribution, logistics, retail and real estate holding’s activities. The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) web portal was also intended for the on-line access to general information about the company, the company’s employees and source for reference information. Additional functionality included: resources reservations and work orders management for materials ordering and fixed assets. Authorized users can access most of the system’s capabilities from off-site WSS/SharePoint terminals.
Comprehensive Localization Services for a Global Leader in 2D / 3D CAD Software
Region: North America
Industry: 2D / 3D CAD Software
Service: Localization Services
Technology: Flash, XML/XSLT, Perl
Business Challenge:
Our customer, a prominent multinational corporation that specializes in 2D and 3D design and engineering and entertainment software, decided to supplement its staff with external localization teams to be able to achieve greater cost efficiencies while maintaining the high quality of its products.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS provides a broad set of localization services for the customer's software solutions as well as online and printed documentation. For a number of years, skilled and experienced ELEKS localization specialists have worked as an extended team to the customer helping localize its products for global markets.
The customer reduced its operational costs, improved its time-to-market criteria for products that are frequently updated and delivered large scale projects on time and on budget.
A Sophisticated Stage Control System
Region: North America
Industry: Entertainment Technology
Service: Research and Development
Technology: C / C++, Delphi, XML/XSLT, QNX
Business Challenge:
A state of the art stage control system with human safety in mind.
What ELEKS Did:
Since 2002, ELEKS has worked closely with a leading supplier of mechanical automation and control equipment to the theatrical, themed attraction, motion picture, and touring production markets to develop a sophisticated stage control system aimed at operating entertainment automation machinery to improve the customer’s line of theater equipment controls, eventually culminating in an entire redesign of their stock equipment and software package to meet the various technical requirements of different artistic performances and shows.
The ELEKS hardware team worked on development of the core system components, including safety devices, axis motion controllers, handheld control devices, operator consoles, and other support hardware. Additionally, ELEKS software team developed a comprehensive 3D modeling system for the stage automation system that assisted in defining flight paths. These flight paths are fed to a real time system that control multiple high-speed winches with a number of built in safety features meant to protect human life.
The key functionalities that were implemented include: Real-time hardware control and monitoring; Motion algorithm designs; Network performance optimization; Real-time monitoring of large networks; Rule-based system control and protection scripting.
An Application for Selecting Appropriate Air-Conditioning
Region: Europe
Industry: Wholesale, Distribution & Retail
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: XML/XSLT, iPhone, iOS
Business Challenge:
Create an iPhone productivity application that would simplify users’ and air-conditioning service personnel’s choice for selecting the appropriate air-conditioning system based on the environment that the system was to be installed.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS created a custom iPhone application for calculating required cooling capacity for selecting an appropriate air-conditioning system for a given living or work space. It roughly calculates the cooling requirements for that given space, and with the resulting data, helps the user to select an appropriate Fujitsu air conditioning system.
To simplify the selection, the application supplies related specifications and images of Fujitsu Air-Conditioning appliances.
This productivity application is targeted for both end user and a service personnel use and provides remote mobile access to important specification data and images.
This iPhone app can switch between German and in English.
An iPhone Application for an Online Magazine
Region: Europe
Industry: Entertainment Technology
Service: Commercial Product Development
Technology: , , , XML/XSLT, iPhone, iOS
Business Challenge:
To give an iPhone user an opportunity to share their passion of photography, styles and trends with the others, exchange their opinions, get news and play games.
What ELEKS Did:
ELEKS created this iPhone lifestyle application to be an online magazine for those users who are constantly on move, looking for the hottest street styles and to share views on current fashion trends. The application allows its users to show their stylish photos in a gallery, be evaluated by other users who use the same application, and receive the news on shopping, trends and people daily. It also offers information on the online magazine events and free game installation.
This iPhone application can switch between German and in English.
