Sofides - Your partner in software and IT

What can we do for you?

Providing complete solutions based on your needs. From development of specialized software to delivering useful IT solutions for small businesses (SME's) and starters. Integration of desktop, web and mobile applications. Your one stop place for all your software development needs. Together we can define all the software requirements and have predefined feedback along the project development. All software is stored on a secure version control system, which provides safe location to host all required software data.

Software development
Mobile integration
Desktop applications
Creating small automated scripts
Software development life cycle (SDLC) setup
SDLC management & automation
Refactoring & upgrading existing software
Creating robust, scalable and maintainable solutions

Web applications
IT advice and support
Automated database integration or migration
Multi language integration (i18n)
Translations are based on Simplified Technical English (STE)
Interaction with countless services
Introducing test driven development
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Google analytics setup

Code signing & security certification:

All our software code is digitally signed
Certification is done based on an "extended validation certificate (EV)"
Signing code will protect the software against threats
It prevents unnecessary warning messages
It increases user confidence and security
Safeguard customer valuable data
Detection of modified files or pieces of code

Securing documents with a certificate
Proofing that documents have been signed by the correct persons (proof of identity)
Signing of legal documents (e.g. invoices, leases, contracts, forms, ...)
Support for signing different documents (Microsoft Office, Adobe pdf, LibreOffice and OpenOffice)

Database migration and integration:

Transferring data from one database to the other can be done fast, quick and automatic without making mistakes by entering data manually on another system. By migrating your data automatically no errors or inconsistencies will be introduced. Lower the risk and boost the compliancy of your data migration. Your company critical data can be migrated to one of the following database structures:

Access (e.g. .mdb, .accdb)
Excel (e.g. .csv, .tsv, .xls, .xlsx)
MySQL
Postgresql

Oracle
H2
DB2
MSQL

Deliverables provided during development:

Requirements gathering documentation
Acceptance testing description
Story writing and use case documentation
Issue management (tickets, improvements, task, ...)
Complete database diagram (DDL and ORM - relationships)
Unit testing documentation (coverage and test result reports)
Automated manual creation (user manual, system manual, support manual, ...)
Sprint planning, estimation and review documents

Software development approach:

Searching for best practices
Writing guidelines for implementation and how to use the software
Creating design patterns
Set up coding rules
Doing code review
Help with use of standards
Creation of example projects
Making prototype software (user interface - GUI)

Why we do code review:

We do code review for our own software applications made in house, but also for your custom made software (applications, websites or other). Because we belief in the following advantages:

Improve the quality of the software
Knowledge sharing
Enhance and maintain code
Adherence to coding standards and conventions
Increase collaboration

Reduce project time and cost
Enhance customer satisfaction / retention
Its more than static analysis
Setting expectations
Strengthen competitive advantage

What we also can do for you (e.g. building a website)

If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got. -- Albert Einstein

Why do we provide you these services?

Finding new business opportunities
Implementing new creative ideas
Helping businesses and sharing knowledge
Creating and maintaining software applications
Being more flexible and customer oriented
Using new software technologies
Being able to provide complete solutions to customer needs
Refactoring applications to be more robust, scalable and maintainable

Some possible integration components

We have an active codebase with different configurable components, which can be integrated into any software application. Suiting all you possible needs for now and the future.

SMS (e.g. sending automated text messages)
VCard creation and interpretation (with CardDAV/WebDAV support)
QR-code creation and validation
Barcode image processing
Social media API integration (facebook, linkedin, twitter, dropbox, google drive, ...)
Localization API integration (google maps, leafletjs)
Chart generation (bar, line, pie)
E-mail (e.g. automated mailing)
Secure mailing (GnuPG - PGP)
Gravatar API (e.g. get person avatar)
Doodle API (e.g. schedule meetings)
VAT validation API
IBAN and BIC validation
PDF creation and signing
Editing pictures and streaming of video
XML generation and validation
JSON generation and validation
Security API
Authorization and authentication API
Authentication with (ldap, oauth, eID)
License key API (validation of product license keys)
Version control system for documents
Data validation service (mail, phone, iban, vat)
All validations are based on regular expressions and web services
Automated database fill-up (data population)
Automated database creation and integration (DDL)
Reading and writing different file formats (csv, txt, pdf, xls, doc, ...)
Automated invoicing API
Automated job scheduling (running time based tasks)

Country & City API
Postal code integration
Multi language configuration (i18n)
Full blown calendar integration (with ICS/iCal support)
Vacation information
Holiday integration
Calendar item entry
Recurring calendar entries
Remote calendar option (reading and writing via CalDAV/WebDAV)
Automated creation of manuals (latex - pdf)
User manual
Service manual
Product manual (flyer)
Support manual
Automated version labeling of software components
Shipment information API (track & trace - e.g. TNT, Bpost, DHL, Kiala)
Advanced and simple search options
Server configuration, logging and statistics
Online payment support (Ogone, bitcoins)
FAX service API (sending and receiving faxes)
Import of bank data (payment information)
Graydon service API (request company data)
Domain name API (registration, renewal, transfer)
Certificate (creation, registration, renewal)
Signing documents
Signing websites
Integration with custom web services
Link with stock exchange
Analytics API (web & mobile)
Privacy (encryption and decryption of data)
Hardware backed keys

User entry validation:

Address validation
Email validation
Phone number validation
Reverse phone number lookup (Caller ID - only for US)
Date & time validation
ISBN validation (ISBN-10 or ISBN-13)
Domain name validation

VAT number validation
IBAN & BIC validation
Credit card validation
Number validation (currency)
IP address validation
URL validation
Custom user entry validation

Fun:

IMDb & movie information

Logic games

Social media integration:

Facebook
Linked-in
Twitter
Doodle
YouTube
Evernote

Flowdock
Gravatar
23andMe
Poken
Dropbox
Google drive

Integration with web services:

Jenkins API (continuous integration)
Jira API (issue management)
Localization API (google maps, leafletjs)
Domain name API (whoapi, domainapi)
Gogle CardDAV API
VAT API

Aether (artifact respository management)
My movie API (IMDb)
Caller ID (opencnam, truecaller)
Ogone API
IBAN & BIC API

Shipment information API (track & trace):

TNT
DHL

Kiala
Bpost

Other API providers:

APIhub

Mashape

apigee

Technologies used

Technologies we are using to create our software applications:

Lift webframework
Play framework
Java swing
Squeryl
Maven
Readability
wurfl
SecureApps
Apache Shiro

JQuery & CSS
Phonegap (Cordova)
UML/SysML
Ajax
W3C
Apache Solr (Lucene)
Hibernate
Bitcoinj
MyFax

eID
JSON & XML
Spray
iText
Restfull webservices & URLs
Database migration
Jetty
ZXing
yFiles

Digicert (certificate authority)
GnuPG (secure Pretty Good Privacy)
Wordle / Wordcram (word cloud)
Translation of applications
Jackrabbit (WebDAV)
Quartz (job scheduler)
Bloomberg open API (stock exchange)
Imaging (JAI, Commons imaging, jMagick)
Shopify Dashing (creating dashboards)

impress.js (powerfull presentation tool)
chart.js (creating web charts)
Apache POI
Typesafe (building reactive application)
Talend (migrating databases)
Google CardDAV
CalDAV
markdown (simple text to html conversion)
Graydon (request company data)
Video streaming (jffmpeg)

Development tools:

Intellij IDEA
Netbeans IDE
Mindmapping (Xmind)
GitHub
BitBucket
Vagrant

Eclipse IDE
Enterprise Architect, ArgoUML
Visual Studio
MonoDevelop
Android studio
VirtualBox

Relational databases:

MySQL
Postgresql
Oracle
H2
DB2
MSQL

NoSQL databases:

MongoDB
CouchDB
NoSQL
Cloudant
Cassandra
Neo4j

Programming languages:

C/C++
Java (J2EE, J2SE)
Scala
C#.NET
Python

HTML 5/XML
CSS
PHP
JavaScript
VB/VBA

Unit testing frameworks:

jUnit (java)
NUnit (.NET)
Scalatest (scala)
Mockito (test data)
CppUTest (C/C++, gcov, lcov)
PyUnit (python)
Cucumber (behavior driven development)

Unit testing methodologies:

Whitebox testing
Graybox testing
Blackbox testing
Fit (Fitnesse - acceptance testing framework)
Selenium
Sikuli script

Agile methodologies:

Scrum - agile practice
Continuous integration build server (Jenkins)
Nexus - sharing artifacts
Git source control (SCM)
Rescuetime
Flowdock

Jira (Green hopper) - issue management system
Sonar (code analysis tool)
Barkeep (code review)
TDD (test driven development approach)
Producteev
eXo platform (intranet - extranet)

Packaging and distribution:

Heroku
AppFog
Cloudbees
Amazon EC2

izPack - install4j
Puppet labs
Artifactory
Bintray

Apps & software management:

BES10 server (mobile device management)

Sonatype Nexus server (sharing artifacts and repositories)

Graphical user interface:

Java Swing
Qt/Qt-jambi
iconshock famfamfam
Seaglass

Synthetica
JTattoo
JIDE software
WindowBuilder

Supported operating systems (dependant on device platform):

Windows
Mac
Linux

Andriod
Blackberry
iOS

Supported web browsers (dependant on device platform):

Safari
Internet Explorer
Firefox

Google Chrome
Opera
Maxthon

Hardware integration:

Dymo label printing

Beveiligde micro SD

Some other nice things:

DeskWanted
oDesk
coderwall

Asterisk
Disc profile

What we also can do for you

Not yet a need for advanced software applications, maybe a simple, maintainable and scalable site is what you need right now? Sofides can also develop your website and host it on our private servers. Simple and fast configuration for all your needs.