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Flying Star Transport, a fuel transport company based in Amarillo, Texas, was in need of an Electronic Logging Device (ELD) solution that could integrate with their accounting software. Their previous provider’s ELD wasn’t flexible enough to connect properly with their accounting software. Additionally, the cost of their previous solution was high, with the company paying between $1,000 and $2,000 per unit for over 55 trucks. These challenges led the team to seek a new ELD provider that could offer a more cost-efficient and flexible solution.

Nybll, a health-centered food service company, was facing challenges in ensuring the safety of their drivers and tracking their vehicles in real-time. The company operates in the busy roads of San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and prompt arrivals are a crucial part of their business. They were using T-Mobile’s SyncUP FLEET for tracking driver behavior and vehicle location, but it lacked integration with a video camera. This became a significant issue when one of their vehicles was involved in a collision with a motorcyclist on a busy highway. Without video proof, the company could have faced a personal injury lawsuit.

Lee Health, a large hospital operator in Southwest Florida, had just completed construction of their new facility in a high socio-economic region. Due to changing government regulations, they were having to compete for market share where they had previously held a monopoly. They knew that being able to stand out from the competition from a patient experience perspective was a key component to their success. With a focus on IT as their differentiator, Lee Health set out on a journey to develop visitor-facing technology that would provide real value to their patients. The team had already developed a hospital mobile application that incorporated patient electronic health records (EHR) and were now ready to evolve it into a purpose-driven app that leveraged indoor mapping and positioning technology. Lee Health’s first attempt at implementing wayfinding was a crash course in location-aware technologies and challenges. After having struggled with attempting to build a solution inhouse, Lee Health came to the realization that in order to successfully implementing a real-time wayfinding solution they would require an experienced mapping and positioning partner.

Desjardins’ Vice-Présidence Accès D (VPAD) team recognized the need for a digital transformation to attract employees, improve staff collaboration, and optimize day-to-day business operations. The organization was planning to move to a new office space, the Montreal Olympic Stadium tower, which would involve relocating approximately 1,200 employees and hiring hundreds of new staff. The new office space would span seven floors with no assigned seating, and the company wanted to create a smart and connected workplace that would cater to the needs of both call center staff and corporate staff. The VPAD team wanted to ensure that the employees were active participants in shaping the move and the creation of the company’s new employee app. They compiled a list of 55 app features that they thought would resonate with their employees and used focus groups to narrow this list down to the twelve features that would make up the new employee app.

St. Joseph's Health Centre, a community teaching hospital, has a complex layout with multiple wings that face construction at various times. Visitors often find it difficult to navigate the hospital due to the lack of distinguishing features and landmarks. Existing wayfinding tools such as static maps, signs, and directories have been rated unsatisfactory by visitors. The only effective wayfinding aid has been volunteers, but there are not enough to keep up with the demand. Mappedin, a company that has created a best-in-class indoor mapping platform, recognized that its product, which was tailored to the retail environment, needed to be adapted and optimized for the healthcare industry.

Macerich, a leading owner, operator, and developer of major retail real estate in the United States, was seeking to enhance the shopper experience at its 48 retail properties. The company aimed to provide a robust set of digital touchpoints that could adapt to the evolving shopping trends and technologies. The primary challenge was to provide an easy and intuitive wayfinding solution for shoppers at all of its retail properties.

Hudson Yards, a 28-acre neighbourhood and private real-estate development on the West Side of Manhattan, was looking for a wayfinding vendor as part of the development project. The large-scale urban development had many goals in mind to provide space for a wide variety of groups and visitors to intersect. Hudson Yards prides themselves on working towards the future of retail, and interacting and developing as a thought-leader in the industry. This project has created a landmark development in the United States - the first of its kind and the most premium to date. Related envisions the future of living through mixed-use spaces in a mini city. With retail, offices, play, and commerce all happening in one spot at Hudson Yards, they wanted to be an interactive REIT with a focus on expanding the experience within their property rather than the property itself.

Emaar Properties, a pioneering developer of integrated master-planned communities, sought to provide a seamless wayfinding experience enabling customers to easily navigate The Dubai Mall’s 1,200 stores and 5.9 million square feet. They also wanted to provide its facility managers with a flexible solution for property management. Having accurate maps in a space as large as the Dubai Mall is critical to a positive visitor experience. The challenge was to create a fully-integrated solution to power wayfinding on the Dubai Mall's website in addition to an in-app experience that caters to their active user base.

Simon Property Group, a global leader in retail real estate ownership, management, and development, was facing a significant challenge. Their primary issue was the lack of tools required to keep their mall maps up to date. As store and amenity locations are always changing, customers were finding it difficult to locate what they were looking for. Simon needed a solution that would allow them to manage map updates easily and provide a seamless navigation experience for their shoppers. To stay true to the Simon brand, this solution had to be delivered through best-in-class systems.

Taubman, a publicly-traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) that operates high-end retail centers throughout the USA and Asia, was looking to enhance the shopping experience in their malls. They wanted to provide their clients and merchants with an exceptional experience that would drive sales. The challenge was to implement a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based indoor positioning and navigation (IPIN) system throughout 18 malls by the end of 2015. They aimed to provide shoppers with a concierge app to help them at every turn and improve the overall visitor experience at the shopping malls.

Carmel Medical Center, a top-ranked regional hospital in Haifa, Israel, was looking to improve patient care and quality metrics. The hospital, which is part of the Clalit Health Services network, the largest healthcare organization in Israel, wanted to provide a complete mobile app experience for patients and staff. The app was expected to provide live navigation, hospital directories, and contextual notifications. The hospital's unique layout, built into the side of a mountain with a 6-floor facility, presented a challenge for navigation and location-based services.

Arkansas Children’s hospital, the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest pediatric medical providers in the United States, was facing a challenge. The hospital, with 359 beds and more than 4000 employees, was a complex facility that was difficult for patients and visitors to navigate. This was causing stress and anxiety for patients and their families, and was also impacting staff productivity as they were frequently interrupted by people asking for directions. The hospital wanted to improve patient care and quality metrics, reduce the stress experienced by patients and families, and build a complete mobile app experience for patients and staff that would provide live navigation, hospital directories and contextual notifications.

The corporation is moving its global headquarters from a suburban location to downtown Chicago. This move is aimed at gaining access to younger tech-oriented talent. However, the real-estate costs in city centers are much higher, requiring the company to be more cost-efficient in their space utilization. The company aims to use location and mapping technologies to optimize the utilization of resources and to make informed decisions regarding the structuring of its internal spaces based on actual utilization data. The company also aims to transform its headquarters space into a modern setting that fosters collaboration and connectivity.

Veritix’s transactional database was used for both production purposes and reporting. As a result, it wasn’t optimized for analytics and performance was a concern. Running analytics on the production machine would have overwhelmed system resources. Rojas’ team decided to create a separate data warehouse which would store a decade of event data, as well as additional information to enrich analyses such as weather, drive times, and fan income. The project goals were twofold: to develop a high-performance analytics data warehouse and to tune the existing production database for transactions. Veritix was primarily using Oracle, but they also had some Microsoft SQL Server databases. As they looked to expand their data warehouse, they performed a cost analysis of a traditional, on-premises data warehouse and found that it would cost millions to achieve the performance levels that they required.

When Ian Kane, Senior Data Warehouse Architect, joined Wombat Security Technologies, his job was to build a data warehouse from scratch. With the Wombat Security Technologies already on the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) in MySQL, moving the data to a Postgres database Amazon RDS was a natural choice given that they were already on the Amazon Cloud. Most of the ETL coding would be usable on a standard Postgres RDBMS. Because they regenerate their data warehouse every 15 minutes doing ETL, they needed a solution that could do log-based change data capture (CDC) to migrate their data continuously.

The Ottawa Paramedic Service was facing challenges with its static and siloed data. The service was relying on a reactive dispatch procedure for proactive care, which was not efficient. Hospitals had little access to information about when ambulances would be arriving, what injuries the patient had sustained, and what treatment had already been provided by paramedics. This lack of information led to a manual process susceptible to delays. With millions of rows of data being generated every week, the Ottawa Paramedic Service knew they could do more than plan for the next 24-hour period. They needed a way to improve patient response times, and effectively plan resourcing availability.

Travis Perkins, a British builders’ merchant and home improvement retailer, was facing a significant challenge due to the presence of many data silos within its operations. These data silos made it difficult for the company to quickly access a single truth, leading to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies in decision-making. The company needed a solution that would allow both internal users and external suppliers to have fast access to the same information, thereby improving operational efficiency and accuracy.

AFAS Software, a fast-growing ERP software provider, was looking to extend the benefits of enterprise-ready Business Intelligence (BI) to the more than 740,000 users of the AFAS ERP suite. The company wanted to go beyond modernizing business practices and advance to innovation by letting customers see the whole story hidden in their data.

Calltech, a provider of computer telephony integration and media management solutions, was facing the challenge of providing its customers with the ability to report beyond traditional operational contact center management KPIs. They needed a solution that would allow their customers to drill down, analyze, and understand their data. Additionally, they wanted to retain their cutting-edge position in the market without diverting resources to build a solution that already exists in the market. They also wanted a solution that would be user-friendly and would be quickly adopted by their customers.

eCare, an IT service provider specializing in 'whole care' healthcare solutions, was looking to enhance its value proposition. The company wanted to deliver easy-to-use visual analytics to business users and provide a software-as-a-service solution that lets users access software from any device. Additionally, eCare aimed to take its solution beyond traditional healthcare technology, providing new ways of visualizing and analyzing daily and historical health data.

Moody’s Analytics, a global provider of financial intelligence and analytical tools, needed a way to enhance their existing capabilities in order to offer new insights to their customers. They required a solution that could handle vast volumes of data about borrowers for benchmarking and risk assessment. The challenge was to present this data in an intuitive and easily accessible format that could be explored to granular levels.

MTech Systems, a company operating in the live protein industry, was facing a growing demand from its customers for faster access to more robust reporting and the ability to interact with data in a visual format. The company was also looking to broaden its target audience within its current segments. Furthermore, the industry was experiencing an explosion of new data as equipment, house controllers, gauges, and more were coming online. This presented a challenge for MTech Systems' customers to benefit from and better manage this influx of data.

Tagetik, a leader in innovation, was looking to differentiate itself and deepen its competitive advantage in a crowded market. The company wanted to embed visualization, analysis, reporting and dashboards, and an associative in-memory analytics engine directly in its solution. The challenge was to integrate these features into their existing platform in a way that would provide their customers with visibility into all financial processes.

Unified Logic, a company specializing in IT asset management, security, and infrastructure solutions, faced the challenge of presenting their vast amount of data in a meaningful and flexible format. Their core product, Movere, integrates more than 1,000 data points and their largest single data set contains more than 50 million rows. The company needed a way to allow their customers to reshape their experience in a meaningful way using this data.

StoreNext, a leading research and analysis firm in the consumer goods market in Israel, was looking to improve its value proposition. The company wanted to launch a next-generation self-service Business Intelligence (BI) solution that would allow its clients to analyze millions of transactions to better understand market trends. Additionally, StoreNext's clients had been requesting mobile capabilities, which the company was keen to provide. Another challenge was the company's reliance on external consultants for the development of the solution, which they wanted to reduce.

CEGID Group, a provider of management software for organizations in multiple industries, was looking to enhance its software-as-a-service offering. The company wanted to provide its clients with a seamless experience that would allow them to easily collaborate and explore data through customized dashboards. However, the company faced challenges in achieving this goal without requiring special training for its clients.

Xn protel, a global provider of business-critical applications for the hotel and leisure sector, was looking to leverage and integrate key hotel subsystems into one synthesized dashboard. They wanted to transform their business intelligence tool into a true end-to-end solution, which would open access to a new global user base. The challenge was to provide significant cost savings and increased service levels to their customers.

The intensive care units within the Swedish healthcare organization Region Skåne handle patients that need around-the-clock observation and treatment due to very complicated health conditions. All employees are specially educated in intensive care methods and are continuously trained to be able to offer the best possible treatments at all times. The intensive care unit employ approximately 900 people throughout Region Skåne. Intensive care is the most resource intensive area within healthcare and therefore the need for follow up and optimization is particularly great. Region Skåne runs a unique cooperation between its five largest hospitals. For a few years now, the intensive care units have systematically developed common job descriptions for all healthcare tasks. This makes it possible to compare invested resources and results between the hospitals and thereby also draw valuable and meaningful conclusions about how to improve their quality and efficiency.

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is striving to become the preferred TransPacific hub for passengers traveling between Asia and the Americas. To achieve this, YVR needed near real-time data analytics to gain a clear understanding of how passengers, bags, and planes move through the airport. This data would enable YVR to optimize its minimum connection time and enhance the passenger experience.

Namaste Direct, a non-profit organization, was struggling with data management. They were dealing with mountains of paper records and had to manually transfer data into Excel spreadsheets for analysis. This process was time-consuming and prone to errors. When they received large requests with strict deadlines, such as pulling data on 50 clients’ businesses for a report due the next day, it was stressful and challenging. They needed a data analytics platform that could streamline their operations and provide clear, actionable data quickly and accurately.