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The Sebir concept was birthed by a local Northern Beaches businessman who was determined to simplify the process of coming up with innovate business ideas. iP Edge were engaged to help him map and refine the intellectual property he'd developed into a smart digital system that could power various web applications. Our ongoing partnership has allowed him to translate his complex high-level concepts and existing formulae into a working software system that can be taken to market.

Initially we built a website to help communicate what a Sebir is and how users can interact with the site to generate innovative ideas. Dynamic idea templates were also designed to visually describe the different components of ideas and allow for social media conversations about them.

Subsequently, we then built the Sebir Selector concept that allowed users to define parameters around what they would like an innovate idea for and receive the most closely matching samples with advice on how to adapt them to the exact circumstances of the user's business. This was complemented by an administration tool that gave the client the ability to enter the content and data to power the algorithms involved with the Sebir Selector tool.

Going forward, more applications of the intellectual property are in development to offer users greater tools to contribute, purchase and generate their own innovative ideas. Also reporting and analysis tools are being made available in the administrative tool to provide power in decision making about the content and usage of data.

We have worked with MGB Backline since 2009 in developing their software systems and website. These are forever being expanded as our partnership with the innovative owner comes up with new ways of streamlining their processes. It currently helps manage their clients, jobs, quoting and invoicing as well as an extensive inventory system. Inventory management allows them to keep detailed information on each of their pieces of inventory, the product catalogue, RFID tags, accessories and related items. This flows through to the website inventory lists as well as directly linking into the powerful quoting and booking systems.

The centrepiece of the solution is the RFID integration which allows their inventory to be tracked at various stages of a hire job through the use of RFID tags which are assigned to each piece of inventory using an Android app developed specifically to act as an interface between their inventory management system and the RFID reader/writer.

This bespoke software eco-system is MGB's key business asset helping them manage their operations as smoothly as possible and reflecting the inspirational intellectual property of their leadership team giving significant business value.

VETTING.com are a technology driven pre-employment screening company with a large customer base in the UK and an existing, highly proficient in-house technical team. They reached out to iP Edge at the end of 2018 while expanding into the Australian market in order to scale up their development resources in the Australian timezone and work with Australian data providers.

iP Edge have since helped them develop an enterprise grade SaaS platform ready to scale using the latest Cloud platform features such as a serverless function-driven architecture, highly available, flexible and scalable NoSQL database and an integrated CI/CD pipeline.

Providing Product Management, Development and Quality Assurance resources at different stages of the engagement we have established an important partnership with their existing technical and product teams, delivering high quality features in a timely manner and continue to be an important part of their technical team going forward.

iP Edge pioneered and built out the eBay Deals platform for over 6 years before the core eBay team eventually built out a replacement application for the global platform. Having built the original eBay Deals platform for the Australian team, iP Edge rolled out experiences for the Canadian market, Geo-Expansion team and South East Asia market (Malaysia, Singapore, Phillipians, Thailand & Vietnam). The front end site would surface all the best deals found on eBay with featured items, category breakdowns and daily deals integrated into a mobile responsive experience. For international markets, currency, language and content localisation would show with support for over 8 languages and currencies. The Geo-expansion site supported over 200 countries showing the best deals that would ship to that country from all the key worldwide eBay sellers.

Tools to support the collection, curation and surfacing of these deals were built to help the merchandising teams manage the workflow, approvals and relationships with the sellers. An external portal supports the sellers allowing them to submit suggested items and respond to campaigns and requests for certain types of items. Complex internal tools were built to trawl through the millions of items on eBay at anyone time and surface items matching the strict criteria needed to qualify for the Deals and Merchandising experiences do the heavy lifting for the teams. This platform allowed eBay to successfully merchandise and sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of items seeing a massive uplift in sales resulting.

Working with the internal Product team at eBay Australia, iP Edge helped in the conceptualisation and implementation of an iPad app to replace the visitor book at reception. This presented a more technologically appropriate face to a large tech company when visitors came to sign in. The app features a custom built animation for the screensaver which when tapped brings the app to life and allows the vistor to enter their details and select their host - who is then automatically notified of their waiting guest. A colourful badge is then printed for the visitor containing a bar code which can be scanned when leaving the building to make signing out a breeze.

The integration with the label printer, staff directory, camera for quick bar code scans and working within the local network's security restrictions were the list of key challenges on this project, all of which were overcome to deliver a great experience for the guest. In addition a web interface for the security team to monitor guests and know who was currently in the building with weekly digest reports added to the benefits over the existing visitor book system. Online step-by-step help for the reception team when printer consumables needed to be replaced give an enterprise feel to the whole application.

Novate Solutions is a UK company managing commercial and residential property claims within the insurance industry. They came to iP Edge having been told by their previous operational software supplier that the software their business relied upon was being phased out and that their only real option was to migrate to their new platform (that didn't handle many of their unique needs).

Seeing a chance to build out an asset for their business that they owned and had full say in the product direction, iP Edge were engaged to create a new bespoke piece of software. This has not only replaced their old software but enhanced it significantly beyond giving them the ability to manage complex jobs, communication needs and fully integrate with their accounts software. Additionally the system has provided enhanced audit capabilities and accountability across the breadth of their services.

The peace of mind of owning their own software, the flexibility provided by partnering with iP Edge in the design and build as well as the significant productivity gains have helped them grow the business and position themselves as a having a premium tier level of service.

As one of the fastest growing accounting firms in Australia through acquisitions, Kelly Partners needed their systems to be more easily implemented throughout the business and new office locations which centred around digitising their unique way of doing things.

Starting with a client profiling tool, iP Edge partnered with Kelly Partners to help them build out these digital systems expanding the tool to become a fully-fledged client app giving clients access to an onboarding experience, invoices, tax documents, financial planning tools as well as a plethora of quality content.

Next on the agenda was an internal tool for the client directors to help plan and implement the client's financial pathways with various system integrations to help the tool become a single point of truth. After establishing all the initial implementation and core foundational pieces of the application, iP Edge then helped with a transition to an internal technical team for them to take it forward.

HD Projects are a concrete pumping company on Sydney's Northern Beaches who approached iP Edge in order to build a tablet app for their various on-site compliance forms. This was to ensure all appropriate photos and information were collected in real-time on the job so that nothing would get missed in line with their ISO9001 quality management procedures.

A backend admin portal was developed so that head office could create and manage projects with a direct integration to the company's single sign on provider for user management and integration through to the cloud document and file storage so that folders and permissions for projects could be managed appropriately.

The Android app was built to manage all the different types of forms that the on-site teams needed to collect and send information back to base. This included the preparation of PDFs as well as data collection for future analysis. All images are uploaded into the cloud storage attached to the appropriate job.