Enlight Research is a company that provides its customers the latest economic, industry and financial trends and studies. These customized reports enable the board of directors to stay on top of industry and company news and deliver incremental value to their shareholders. Enlight Research wanted to furnish their customers with an iPad app for real-time in order to get access to the latest information. Board Brief was thus born.
In-depth study of traditional business model
A detailed study and analysis to understand how Enlight’s traditional business model works
Flexible back end and dynamic UI
Keeping a flexible and dynamic back end, while rendering a dynamic UI
Complex and large data storage
Working on the complexity in storing data, since data was sourced from about 50,000 sources daily
Building Middleware and CMS
Building complex middleware and custom role based CMS interface.
Access management configuration from the web
Working on the complexity in storing data, since data was sourced from about 50,000 sources daily
Stock ticker
Building the stock ticker was a challenge as it was to be a real time feature
Multiple API challenge
There were multiple APIs, one for every module. Working with all of these together posed a challenge.
Strategy
To port current solution available on email or current legacy software on smart software like tablets, which the C-Suite uses.
Development
Develop an in-built filtering mechanism
This would intelligently filter out the unimportant and irrelevant information, passing only information that is relevant to the executives
Information sourcing and parsing
The middleware enabled information sourcing and parsing by keywords and tags for effective information assimilation and distribution from 50,000 sources. Every midnight, a crone job was scheduled to accomplish the same.
Algorithm development
We built an algorithm to extract information from this huge mass of data, based on what the C suite is looking for
Intelligent middleware for server
We built a middleware with business intelligence for the server that would synch with their current legacy software
Robust Architecture
The back-end supported a robust, scalable architecture for data collection to import excel sheet
Information edit interface
We built a special purpose interface to edit the information based on dynamic up scaling of parameters.
Automated and manual interface for every module
There is an interface each, for Strategic Economic Data, Board Governance News and Industry Metric Comparisons.
Our UX studies revealed that the app needed both – a table and a grid view. Unlike most other iOS apps , we gave users a grid view. We also added scrolling both ways- horizontal and vertical, another uncommon feature. Information had to be identified as high, medium and low priority, which was then structured into the UI.
Board Brief is an enterprise level iPad app developed for Enlight Research to provide the C-Suite that forms its customer base with real-time customized industry insights and financial information so they can make smarter, more focused decisions in quick time.