Greenfield Development of an enterprise mobile solution

1. Greenfield Development of an enterprise mobile solution
with Rich Social Networking features
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2. Headquartered in United States, the Client offers effective and efficient
mobility solutions and services for enterprises across globe.
The Client
Client envisioned a versatile, dynamic and an interactive mobile application
for Photos, Videos, Audio, Notes, Contacts (and their info).The applications'
iOS client is an universal app for iPhone and iPad that will connect with the
applications' web services. These web-services will be available through an
API, which is developed bu Sigma Infosolutions. Since the application is
designed to use on a mobile internet connection, some data should be synced
with the device upon authentication (contacts, tags). The application
features an option to user to designate a determined amount of the device’s
hard-drive for storage of offline Zips.
Business Case
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“40% cost savings
on functionality
development
Executive Summary
Sigma Infosolutions leveraged its
expertise on Mobile Engineering to
develop the mobile application along
with its web engine for an enterprise
mobile solution provider company in US.
The mobile application is an automated
engine which allows the users to collect,
organize and connect the cherished
moments of your life anywhere, any time
in a visually dynamic way.
Client wanted to built an universal app
for iPhone and iPad creating sets of
similar files called “Zip”. A Zip can
contain Photos, Videos, Audio, Notes,
Contacts (and their info). Each Zip will
also have an optional title, description,
rating, geotag, and tags. The user may
also specify to share a Zip with a social
network (such as Twitter or Facebook).
Sigma Infosolutions built and delivered
the solutions from concept to beta launch
in 8 months (Around 25 man months).
Solution
t.
Sigma Infosolutions’ mobile engineering team successfully compiled mobile
architecture required for the project. The home screen is the menu of the
application and has the following buttons that direct to the subsequent
sections:
Home screen modules developed
o New Zip: Create a new Zip
o Review: Review existing Zips
o Gifts: Send Zips to another user
o Pending: Zips that have not yet been synced with the server
o Account: Modify account & user setting
Some other set of modules developed
o Share With: Share the New Zip with social networks and add a custom
message for social networks. The mobile app will connect with a server that
connects with the social network. Throughout the app, when you “share” a
dot, this page will appear
o Tags: The user may add multiple user-defined tags as attributes of the
Zip
o Rating: The user may assign 1 – 5 stars as an attribute of the Zip
o Location: The user may specify the location of the Zip using the geo-
coordinates or Google places

3. Technology
 iOS
 Android
Business Benefits
 Monthly technical availability is
more than 98%
 40% cost savings on functionality
development
 Complete set of data, functioning
alarms in real-time
 Ongoing operating costs at or better
than budget
 Low system Overhead and lower
support costs
o Contact: The user may choose to add a contact to a Zip. This will also create a new
contact in the devices Directory
o Audio: The user may record an audio clip to a Zip
o Photo: The user may add a set of photos to a Zip. Each photo may have distinct
tags for people and objects
o Video: The user may add videos to a Zip. Each video may have distinct tags for
people
Gifts module developed
The user will be able to share gifts with other users. Gifts are groups of Zips. The user
can send gifts to contacts, groups or emails.
o Inbox: The User can accept, remove and view gifts. He can also edit them before
accepting the Zips. By clicking in a Zip, the user will be able to view all the
attachments in Full View mode
o Outbox: When a user chooses to send a Gift, he selects the Zips in application
which subsequently appear in Outbox. The user must select another user or group to
send the Gift too. (SeeAccount)
o Sent: The user may review sent Gifts and resend them to other users
API Integration
There was no direct 3rd party integration done, but everything was done with the
server. Server had integrations with weather api’s, google map, foursquare, apple
itunes for music search etc. and the same was used by the mobile app.
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Next Phase
Version 2.0 is being worked upon and
requirements are getting finalized which
will have much enhanced features.
Challenges
Having a circular menu instead of using regular native apps controls was a big
challenge. The uniqueness of this app is that the concept and design is very fresh and
does not use anything similar to other apps. Generally ios or android apps will be based
on tab bar or navigation based.
Letting user capture multiple photos swiftly was yet another big problem that we
faced. The problems compounded as we had to support similar functionality for ios and
android.

4. Sigma Infosolutions’ Mobile Engineering team designed a sleek and custom
animation circular menu that can be launched from anywhere in the app. If
the user presses for 2 seconds a very catchy circular animation will start and
finally will explode as circular menu. It was pretty challenging to build this
with the limited memory capability and fragmentation in android and ios.
To capture multiple photos Mobile Engineering team built highly customized
algorithms to solve the complexity. Instead of launching the native camera,
the program launched the video camera and captured the frames in the video
instead of using native camera controls.
The app got launched successfully and with the beta launch, the database
contained close to million dots which is a huge success. The client also
exhibited this app in a leading event in Austin, Texas and had a good number
of visitors visit their booth.
Successes
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Application Screens
Customer’s behavior
The client had a proper understanding of the requirements but not able to
express as functional requirement and was not technical, but just business
folks. From the initiation of the project we were constantly communicating
with them making them understand how mobile development is different
from web app development and also taught them the intricacies of handsets.
The client was just pushing to get more requirements done, but we had been
constantly educating them and finally they were satisfied with the delivery
(beta launch).
The team was highly distributed – New York, Hong Kong and the API & UI team
in Mexico, but with agile product development methodologies Sigma
Infosolutions delivered the project within schedule delivery time.

5. Build a robust mobile application on social networking
About Sigma Infosolutions
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 Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing & Export,
Handicrafts Manufacturing & Exports, and Software Development
 Sigma Infosolutions is a TUV certified ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001: 2005 company
 Headquartered in US with development center in India
 Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics, Birla
Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc.
 Sigma Infosolutions’ services comprises of application development, application management, IT Consulting, Offshore testing,
and Website and Portal Development
Sigma Infosolutions, Sigma Towers, #66/A, 13th Cross
6th Main, JP Nagar, 3rd Phase, Bangalore- 560078
Telephone: +91-80-40865100
Sigma Infosolutions, 2082 Michelson Dr.
Suite 100, Irvine, CA 92612
Telephone: +1-714-717-1826
Fax: +1-866-405-6750, Toll Free: 1-888-861-7360
Website: www.sigmainfo.net
E-mail: sales@sigmainfo.net
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