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Developing an Interview Tool for Creating Custom Websites for 1&1 Internet SE

Developing an Interview Tool for Creating Custom Websites for 1&1 Internet SE

Website builders have been extremely popular for years, due to the fact that they allow even less tech-savvy users to showcase their ideas and businesses online and thus to considerably increase their reach. Working with inovex GmbH, 1&1, Europe's leading webhosting service (www.1und1.info), has expanded its 1&1 MyWebsite website builder to include an innovative design service which allows customers and web designers to interact in real time.

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1 & 1 Mail & Media GmbH: geo-redundant Kubernetes hardware cluster created in just six months

1 & 1 Mail & Media GmbH: geo-redundant Kubernetes hardware cluster created in just six months

Creating a modern microservices platform within an organically developed infrastructure is no easy task, either in theory or in practice. That such a project can not only succeed, but can also turn the division involved into a kind of role model is demonstrated by a joint project undertaken by 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH and inovex in which a 1&1 infrastructure was deployed on modern Kubernetes clusters in just a few months.

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Big Data: Optimised Fraud Detection in Microsoft Azure

Big Data: Optimised Fraud Detection in Microsoft Azure

arvato Financial Solutions is collaborating with Microsoft, Cloud and Big Data specialist inovex GmbH, and three pilot e-commerce customers on an innovation project to create a Big Data architecture based on Microsoft Azure. The team will use the project to evaluate how the combination of Cloud Computing, Big Data and advanced analytics can improve fraud prevention and facilitate the development of new financial BPO services.

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beyerdynamic: Headphone Production 4.0

beyerdynamic: Headphone Production 4.0

beyerdynamic has stood for high-end headphones, microphones and conference systems since 1924. The products manufactured by the company, which is headquartered in Heilbronn, Germany, deliver audio technology with outstanding sound quality. As a leading audio brand, beyerdynamic integrates innovation into both its audio-technology products themselves and its production processes. It was for one of their innovative production projects that beyerdynamic leveraged inovex's expertise.

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Developing an Enterprise App for Auditing Vendors

Developing an Enterprise App for Auditing Vendors

Every year, the long-standing vehicle parts manufacturer Bosch uses hundreds of audits to keep tabs on its global vendors at their various premises – a complex process which will, thanks to a customised mobile app from inovex, soon run seamlessly and digitally from the factory floor to a central database. The result? Better quality data is more efficiently collected and more quickly available.

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C. H. Beck Verlag: Implementation of a Flexible Image Service Based on Microsoft Azure

C. H. Beck Verlag: Implementation of a Flexible Image Service Based on Microsoft Azure

Product photos are an integral part of the user experience in online shopping. What users generally don't see, however, is the tremendous amount of storage these images require. The online shop belonging to the C. H. Beck Verlag, Germany's market leading publisher of legal literature, contains over 7 million products. In the publisher's online store solution each book is represented by at least four versions of the same image. inovex worked with Beck to develop a state-of-the-art Microsoft Azure-based architecture which solves the storage problem.

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dm-drogerie markt: Development of New Self-Service Offerings Based on Web Technologies

dm-drogerie markt: Development of New Self-Service Offerings Based on Web Technologies

Customers in dm-drogerie markt stores can use self-service terminals to access various pieces of information, such as product pricing or loyalty points. As the previous terminals relied on unwieldy PC hardware and outdated touchscreens, the company joined forces with inovex to develop a flexible, future-proof solution.

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Development of a Fully Automated Data Centre for the Online Shop at www.dm.de

Development of a Fully Automated Data Centre for the Online Shop at www.dm.de

When a major brand like dm strategically enters the online market, it creates high expectations. For this reason, their IT subsidiary FILIADATA, which has been responsible for all dm’s IT systems since 1988, launched a project in 2013 which was aimed at laying the foundations for reliable, fail-safe IT operations for dm.de. These included creating a large, fully automated Linux infrastructure in the data centre on which sophisticated web services like the online shop can be operated. inovex provided support for both the architecture and setup of the platform, while simultaneously enabling the FILIADATA teams to operate and further develop the highly automated web infrastructure themselves.

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Best of both worlds: creation of a hybrid BI architecture with Big Data components for dmTECH

Best of both worlds: creation of a hybrid BI architecture with Big Data components for dmTECH

The IT subsidiary of dm, the chain of cosmetics and healthcare stores with the biggest sales in Germany, has more than 800 employees focused on digitalising the company’s retail operation.
The emphasis is on the development of innovative solutions: for the online shop and customer and employee apps as well as for the IT infrastructure in the dm stores, distribution centres and headquarters. With a number of innovations, a key role is played by the efficient handling and analysis of large amounts of data in order to produce added benefits from the combination of data sources (Big Data).

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EXARING AG: Development of a scalable microservice backend for the waipu.tv streaming service

EXARING AG: Development of a scalable microservice backend for the waipu.tv streaming service

EXARING AG proves that linear TV and innovation are by no means mutually exclusive. The company worked with inovex GmbH to develop the waipu.tv streaming service.

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EXARING AG: Developing Android and iOS Apps for the waipu.tv streaming service

EXARING AG: Developing Android and iOS Apps for the waipu.tv streaming service

Linear TV and innovation are by no means polar opposites. This is demonstrated by EXARING AG which, with the support of inovex GmbH, developed the waipu.tv streaming service. inovex was able to get in on the ground at the Development of waipu.tv and was significantly involved in the design and implementation of the Backend and the Mobile Applications for Android and iOS, as well as in assembling the development teams.

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EXARING AG: Distributed, Scalable Agility in the Development of waipu.tv

EXARING AG: Distributed, Scalable Agility in the Development of waipu.tv

A team of experienced leaders from the TV industry came up with the idea of using this exclusive broadband infrastructure to set up the leading IPTV brand. The aim was to bring digital TV to an increasingly digital audience, while simultaneously transforming the TV advertising market. inovex was able to get in on the ground at the development of waipu.tv and was significantly involved in the design and implementation of the backend and the mobile applications for Android and iOS, as well as in assembling the development teams.

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Development of a State-of-the-Art Online Customer Portal for FONIC

Development of a State-of-the-Art Online Customer Portal for FONIC

When FONIC, a major German provider of discount mobile services, was looking to completely overhaul its customer portal, the company selected application development specialists inovex GmbH to handle the implementation. The portal, which was implemented using state-of-the-art technology, not only improves service for FONIC customers, but also increases customer conversation rates and creates savings for FONIC.

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Platform search and automatic content linking for the H-Hotels group

Platform search and automatic content linking for the H-Hotels group

Making quick and easy room reservations through the H-Hotels website is one of the key digital assets for the company's business model. Together with inovex, H-Hotels have now set themselves the goal of automatically making the existing website content searchable using the latest search technologies in order to further enhance the platform’s usability for customers.

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Creation of an Analytics Platform for HORNBACH

Creation of an Analytics Platform for HORNBACH

inovex has created a customer reviews analysis platform for HORNBACH.
One of the motivations for the project was HORNBACH's goal of analysing reviews on social platforms such as Google Maps. These reviews are provided by customers after visiting one of HORNBACH’s hardware and DIY stores. They include such information as which store the customer visited, how they felt about their buying experience, etc. The aim of the analysis platform is to use anonymised data to determine how customers view their shopping experiences at HORNBACH stores. The company also wanted the analysis results to be presented visually and attractively, with the end goal of identifying potential for increasing sales.

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Migration of a Data Warehouse to SQL Server 2014 for Hussel Confiserie Confectioner’s

Migration of a Data Warehouse to SQL Server 2014 for Hussel Confiserie Confectioner’s

After Hussel GmbH was sold by Douglas Holding, the existing data warehouse needed to be transferred from the infrastructure it had hitherto shared with the Douglas perfumery to a new data centre. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we were able to collaborate with Hussel to complete the analysis of the current situation, the design of the BI architecture, and the planning and implementation of the data warehouse migration within a tight deadline – a mere 4 months.

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mobile.de: Use Cases for Online Portal Recommendations Using Data Products

mobile.de: Use Cases for Online Portal Recommendations Using Data Products

mobile.de is a marketplace for the buying and selling of vehicles. Every month, the web platform draws 13.5 million visitors who can choose from the more than 1.6 million vehicles on offer. Each visit to the platform creates a stream of data which contains information about the demand for particular vehicles, the quality of the vehicles for sale, and user requirements. mobile.de wants to use this data to continuously improve the user experience for both vehicle sellers and purchasers.

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DevOps for ProSiebenSat.1’s Channel Portals

DevOps for ProSiebenSat.1’s Channel Portals

ProSiebenSat.1’s online portals are among the most frequently visited networks in the German Internet market. The sites belonging to the group’s popular TV programmes receive more than 1.3 million visits every day. Behind this success is a sophisticated IT landscape which owes its setup, control and operations to the knowledge of inovex’s IT Engineering & Operations specialists. A close collaborative partnership between the two companies ensures a high level of quality.

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Development of Big Data and Data Science Solutions for ProSiebenSat.1

Development of Big Data and Data Science Solutions for ProSiebenSat.1

ProSiebenSat.1 is greatly interested in the specific contributions made by TV ads to the added value of the e-commerce company advertised. Exactly how many visitors visit the e-commerce website because they saw the TV ad? How much revenue is generated by those visitors proven to have come to the website from the TV ad? The challenge was that standard solutions for analysing web traffic cannot explain the correlation between TV ads broadcast (events outside the online world) and the online behaviours they trigger. For this reason, ProSiebenSat.1 decided to develop a customised big data solution to answer these questions. inovex implemented a data science project based on a Hadoop cluster for ProSiebenSat.1.

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Smyle: Agile Development of a Comedy App with Intuitive Content Discoverys

Smyle: Agile Development of a Comedy App with Intuitive Content Discoverys

Using a target-group-focused approach, inovex worked with ProSiebenSat.1 Digital GmbH to implement a snackable comedy app, one which shows its users comedy clips in an intuitive way. State-of-the-art technologies and an agile project setup enabled the team to advance the innovative concept to a testable stage in the shortest possible time and to publish it in a timely manner.

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Agile Data Science Optimises REWE Digital’s Supply Chain

Agile Data Science Optimises REWE Digital’s Supply Chain

In optimising the group’s supply chain, inovex has worked with REWE’s IT subsidiary, REWE Digital. This arm of the company is responsible for all the REWE Group’s strategic online activities and aims to become the leading provider of online solutions in all REWE’s associated supermarkets and supply warehouses. These include those distribution warehouses that REWE set up specifically for their home delivery service, as well as the group’s in-store delivery and collection points all over Germany.

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Demand Forecasting for REWE’s Delivery Service

Demand Forecasting for REWE’s Delivery Service

inovex and REWE’s collaboration in the area of supply chain optimisation has focused particularly intensively on REWE’s IT subsidiary, REWE digital.
This particular project involved developing demand forecasting for REWE’s delivery service, leveraging big data technologies to enable easy scalability.

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spotsize: AI helps shoe shoppers determine the right size for a better user experience

spotsize: AI helps shoe shoppers determine the right size for a better user experience

spotsize has developed a solution which turns online shops into the shoe-shopping experience customers are familiar with from brick-and-mortar stores. Using an augmented reality (AR) solution, the spotsize application takes over the shoe-fitter’s role. With the help of machine learning, the program uses a smartphone camera to measure customers’ feet to determine the appropriate shoe size.

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Südzucker: Developing a self-service app for sugar beet cultivation

Südzucker: Developing a self-service app for sugar beet cultivation

As the largest sugar manufacturer in Germany, Südzucker recognized the potential for digitising the delivery processes and thus ensuring greater transparency for its growers. With inovex’s assistance, an app solution which both met these requirements and provided a central information platform was created – in just six months: beet2go

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TimoCom: Agile Data Warehousing using BIML and Microsoft SQL Server

TimoCom: Agile Data Warehousing using BIML and Microsoft SQL Server

The core business of TimoCom Soft- und Hardware GmbH consists of various IT-based services in the transport and logistics sector. As the company’s existing BI solution was no longer able to reliably fulfil these requirements, inovex GmbH and Axians GmbH helped to analyse the current situation, design a new system architecture, and plan and implement the migration of the company’s data warehouse.

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