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The Sebir concept was birthed by a local Northern Beaches businessman who was determined to simplify the process of coming up with innovate business ideas. iP Edge were engaged to help him map and refine the intellectual property he'd developed into a smart digital system that could power various web applications. Our ongoing partnership has allowed him to translate his complex high-level concepts and existing formulae into a working software system that can be taken to market.

Initially we built a website to help communicate what a Sebir is and how users can interact with the site to generate innovative ideas. Dynamic idea templates were also designed to visually describe the different components of ideas and allow for social media conversations about them.

Subsequently, we then built the Sebir Selector concept that allowed users to define parameters around what they would like an innovate idea for and receive the most closely matching samples with advice on how to adapt them to the exact circumstances of the user's business. This was complemented by an administration tool that gave the client the ability to enter the content and data to power the algorithms involved with the Sebir Selector tool.

Going forward, more applications of the intellectual property are in development to offer users greater tools to contribute, purchase and generate their own innovative ideas. Also reporting and analysis tools are being made available in the administrative tool to provide power in decision making about the content and usage of data.

We have worked with MGB Backline since 2009 in developing their software systems and website. These are forever being expanded as our partnership with the innovative owner comes up with new ways of streamlining their processes. It currently helps manage their clients, jobs, quoting and invoicing as well as an extensive inventory system. Inventory management allows them to keep detailed information on each of their pieces of inventory, the product catalogue, RFID tags, accessories and related items. This flows through to the website inventory lists as well as directly linking into the powerful quoting and booking systems.

The centrepiece of the solution is the RFID integration which allows their inventory to be tracked at various stages of a hire job through the use of RFID tags which are assigned to each piece of inventory using an Android app developed specifically to act as an interface between their inventory management system and the RFID reader/writer.

This bespoke software eco-system is MGB's key business asset helping them manage their operations as smoothly as possible and reflecting the inspirational intellectual property of their leadership team giving significant business value.

iP Edge have been working with Assign Recruitment since 2004 when they initially approached us to build a system to help them manage rosters for their temporary workers supervising university exams. Over the years this system has been upgraded constantly to meet the changing needs of universities, supervisors, regulations and the rostering team at Assign. In 2018, a complete system overhaul was implemented to upgrade the software to the latest technologies, improving key workflows, ensuring the underlying framework was up to date from a security standpoint and unlocking new pathways for future features.

The system features various administrative tools that saves staff huge amounts of time by creating rosters outline and link in with billing and payroll to do the grunt work for the Accounts team. Interaction with the exam supervisors is done through a public website showing them details of upcoming exam sessions, online training tools and the ability to enter availability and receive various relevant information.

This key business asset has allowed Assign Recruitment to grow extensively over the past 14 years and are now efficiently managing multiple universities with a system that grows with them.

VETTING.com are a technology driven pre-employment screening company with a large customer base in the UK and an existing, highly proficient in-house technical team. They reached out to iP Edge at the end of 2018 while expanding into the Australian market in order to scale up their development resources in the Australian timezone and work with Australian data providers.

iP Edge have since helped them develop an enterprise grade SaaS platform ready to scale using the latest Cloud platform features such as a serverless function-driven architecture, highly available, flexible and scalable NoSQL database and an integrated CI/CD pipeline.

Providing Product Management, Development and Quality Assurance resources at different stages of the engagement we have established an important partnership with their existing technical and product teams, delivering high quality features in a timely manner and continue to be an important part of their technical team going forward.

iP Edge pioneered and built out the eBay Deals platform for over 6 years before the core eBay team eventually built out a replacement application for the global platform. Having built the original eBay Deals platform for the Australian team, iP Edge rolled out experiences for the Canadian market, Geo-Expansion team and South East Asia market (Malaysia, Singapore, Phillipians, Thailand & Vietnam). The front end site would surface all the best deals found on eBay with featured items, category breakdowns and daily deals integrated into a mobile responsive experience. For international markets, currency, language and content localisation would show with support for over 8 languages and currencies. The Geo-expansion site supported over 200 countries showing the best deals that would ship to that country from all the key worldwide eBay sellers.

Tools to support the collection, curation and surfacing of these deals were built to help the merchandising teams manage the workflow, approvals and relationships with the sellers. An external portal supports the sellers allowing them to submit suggested items and respond to campaigns and requests for certain types of items. Complex internal tools were built to trawl through the millions of items on eBay at anyone time and surface items matching the strict criteria needed to qualify for the Deals and Merchandising experiences do the heavy lifting for the teams. This platform allowed eBay to successfully merchandise and sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of items seeing a massive uplift in sales resulting.

Working with the internal Product team at eBay Australia, iP Edge helped in the conceptualisation and implementation of an iPad app to replace the visitor book at reception. This presented a more technologically appropriate face to a large tech company when visitors came to sign in. The app features a custom built animation for the screensaver which when tapped brings the app to life and allows the vistor to enter their details and select their host - who is then automatically notified of their waiting guest. A colourful badge is then printed for the visitor containing a bar code which can be scanned when leaving the building to make signing out a breeze.

The integration with the label printer, staff directory, camera for quick bar code scans and working within the local network's security restrictions were the list of key challenges on this project, all of which were overcome to deliver a great experience for the guest. In addition a web interface for the security team to monitor guests and know who was currently in the building with weekly digest reports added to the benefits over the existing visitor book system. Online step-by-step help for the reception team when printer consumables needed to be replaced give an enterprise feel to the whole application.