www.poido.com
POIdo is NTR Lab’s internal startup.
 

POIdo is a pay-per-action location-based advertising (LBA) platform providing ads targeted to users’ precise location, context and behavior in applications on mobile phones and internet sites.
POIdo launched in Moscow on March 16, 2010.
Winner of the StartupPoint contest at the Russian Internet Forum 2010.

Description:
POIdo is the world’s first LBA platform that creates a competitive marketplace where the price of advertising is determined by the market (advertisers compete for ad visibility).
POIdo is the world’s first LBA platform where virtual billboards can be placed at optimal locations, not just the business location. The user sees the ad message within the application in use when approaching a virtual billboard or as a result of searching for a nearby address.
POIdo provides API for both advertisers and publishers, allowing development of innovative applications with location-aware monetization/advertising built in.

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Client: www.mobiubiq.org

Task:
To provide a system that allows users to scan barcodes and provide access to object-based services, i.e. perform actions with the recognized object, such as viewing information, opening a website, blogging, saving the barcode as a bookmark, etc.

Solution:
Develop an application that enables services based on the recognized QR barcodes and EAN 13 (EPC) barcodes on the phone.

The client runs on mobile phones and decodes barcodes. The camera runs in video mode to extract the image to decode either a QR barcode or an EAN-13 barcode when available.

The user need only point at the barcode and wait until it is recognized; upon recognition a request is sent to the service directory with the string of the decoded barcode. The service directory returns data for the object and a list of relevant services.
The application has a customized, user-friendly GUI.

Technologies: Symbian S60 3rd edition FP1 and FP2, Symbian s60 5th edition, C++, Web service, iPhone, Objective-C, Twitter API
 

Task:
This tool is intended for a dating agent. It maintains a database of clients and monitors potential matches for each client on various dating websites.

Functionality:
• Maintain client database; activate or deactivate clients;
• Maintain database of to-be-monitored websites;
• Maintain response database: each response has text and color;
• Monitor websites for each client by providing client ID markers on the profile’s web page;
• Track whether a client’s response was answered (status) and remove if necessary;
• Display response (status) on the client’s page;
• Switch quickly between clients.
The tool is a Mozilla FireFox extension that stores all required data in the local SQLite database.

Technologies: Mozilla XUL, JavaScript, SQLite.

Client: The Moscow City economic policy and development Department
Contractor: Project Management Administration "Economika"

Task
Develop an automated system for budget expenditures and budget recipients.

Solution
The subsystem provides for electronic document management, including creating, saving and exchanging documents internally and with related information systems; correlation checking and printing.
The subsystem also

• Preserves a register of expenditure commitments;
• Defines tasks for providing state service to budget administrators and recipients;
• Creates budget financing targets;
• Registers and distributs budgetary provisions, commitment limits, amount of financing of junior budget administrators and recipients;
• Creates, registers and corrects budget estimate;

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Client: The Moscow City economic policy and development Department
Contractor: Project Management Administration "Economika"

Task
Develop an automated system to implement, control and monitor dedicated programs, including a registry of the programs, contracting authorities and their activities.

Solution
The main functions of the dedicated program subsystem:

• Collect initial data for a list of dedicated programs;
• Record target codes and rates used for evaluation of implementation (projects and reports expertise);
• Monitor programs;
• Provide records of program activities for implementation;
• Control program development, approval, financing and implementation;
• Store historical records of budgets and financing and estimate future financial requirements;
• Create a list of the city’s dedicated programs, including a draft budget for the next fiscal year, for submission to the Moscow City Duma;

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DocsMaster was created and developed by NTR Group; PNTN is a document storage system integrated into DocsMaster and is improved and supported by NTR Group.

Purpose: allows structured, web-based storage of large numbers of documents.

Main functionality:

• Structuring documents by customizable metadata;
• Search by metadata;
• Associates images with documents and allows manipulation of the images;
• Accounts and access management.

Technologies: MS SQL 2005, ASP.NET, .NET Framework 3.0, MS ActiveX

Idea and design were provided by IT MAX Group, LLC; modeling and implementation were performed by NTR Group.
This project supports creating and processing of special dialing campaigns. It facilitates call list creation, dials the call and includes the ability to transfer the call to an operator.

Purpose: it can be used in various ways, including telemarketing and expired credit card reminders.

Main functionality:

• Web-based managing and tracking of campaigns and their status.
• Support of wave and text phrase input (for audio messages).
• Export/import call lists.
• Call Center operator’s workplace: start/stop conversation and tracking call status.

Technologies: MS SQL 2005, MS Visual Studio 2005/2008, MS IIS 6.0, C#, .NET Framework 2.0/3.5 SP1, MS ActiveX, MS Speech Server 2007

Idea and design were provided by IT MAX Group, LLC; modeling and implementation were performed by NTR Group.

Task
Automated call answering, voice and dial-tone navigation, payment processing.

Main functionality:

• Receiving and processing calls and payments.
• Managing voice texts in both wave and text formats.
• Support of transferring to call center in compliance with business hours.
• Web-based administration module.

Technologies: MS SQL 2005, MS Visual Studio 2005, MS IIS 6.0, C#, .NET Framework 2.0, MS ActiveX, MS Speech Server 2007
 

IT MAX Group, LLC, in collaboration with NTR Lab developed a web-based solution that provides the means of processing different types of payments and enables paperless document delivery from all points of service to the main office. The main office personnel are able to view documents by point of service or view all documents.
The idea and design were provided by IT MAX Group, LLC; modeling and implementation were performed by NTR Lab.

Task
Support processing and accounting of vaccination operations in airports, railway stations and any other transport locations.

Main functionality:

• Controlled access by authorization level.
• Provides both magnetic card and paper document scanning.
• Provides for payment processing (by cash, CC, checks) through various billing groups
• Manages multiple dictionaries.
• Generates all required documents.
• Flexible event reports with charts and graphs.

Technologies: MS SQL 2008, MS Visual Studio 2008, MS IIS 6.0, C#, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, MS ActiveX
 

Project: Intranet for the Renessans Strakhovaniye / Renaissance Insurance Company.

Customer
Renessans Strakhovaniye a leading company in Russia’s modern insurance market.
Renessans Strakhovaniye has an A++ rating, the highest possible, from Expert RA, a national rating agency assuring its financial stability and solvency.
Renessans Strakhovaniye is licensed for all types of insurance and offers clients a full range of products backed by more than 10 years of experience in the Russian market.

Task
The initial idea was to develop a modern corporate portal, which transformed into the development of full a corporate intranet, in accordance with the design concept proposed by the Design Bureau Artem Gorbunov and with the full support of Renessans Strakhovaniye’s HR unit.

Solution
The intranet is integrated with multiple in-house information systems, including personnel, documents, information guides, and implements the majority of the functions specific to corporate portals.

Major competitive advantages from the new intranet include

• a new, integrated telephone directory combined with the other information that helped the company streamline the data on the administrative structure and various units of Gruppa Renessans Strakhovaniye / Renaissance Insurance Group LLC;
• simplifying and assisting new employees in learning the company;
• organizing and improving accessibility of corporate information, including current internal projects, competitions, career opportunities, etc.; and
• facilitating efficient communications between management and staff.

Technologies
A separate portal platform (portlets, integration elements, etc.) was developed for the project based on ASP.NET/MS SQL. The portal platform provides better usability and target functionality than the standard implementation of MS Sharepoint.