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Web application for care consultancy

compass pflegeberatung GmbH is an independent subsidiary of the Association of Private Health Insurance (Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung = PKV) which fulfills the advisory requirements of all privately insured persons and their relatives. The telephone care advice is open to everyone who needs advice on care. Free and independent. Our team was working on the development of a completely new modern solution (web-application) that allows compass to manage/provide care consultancy in the most effective and user-friendly way.

xitee, together with HBSN Consulting GmbH, supported and accompanied the client compass throughout the entire project, from brainstorming for a user-friendly and intuitive application to the design of application scenarios and the elaboration of technical requirements to the development of the new core application.

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The goal of the project was to replace the existing application with a new and modern web and mobile application that would improve the user experience and make it more intuitive. The result was a browser-based application based on Java, Spring Boot, MS SQL and Docker.

This was implemented in a hybrid project management with an interplay of classic and agile procedures. The core application was divided into individual functions that were specified together, taking into account the priority given by compass. This resulted in the content of the backlog for the work packages. Development took place in defined sprints with the aim of delivering an increment after each sprint.

The core application is a completely new development of an individual software, which was specially designed to meet the requirements and wishes of compass. It contains the complete documentation for the care counseling according to § 7a SGB XI and the counseling visits according to § 37 paragraph 3 SGB XI.

The intuitive structure of the system guides the care counselors as users through the entire processes from the creation of new clients in the basic data to making appointments and conducting the counseling on site or on the phone. The versatile functions include, among other things, comprehensive documentation, billing and the creation of invoices, sending of faxes from the system and an associated document management system. Also integrated is the technical solution of a calendar function including synchronization with Outlook. Furthermore, an assessment has been integrated.

For the users, a user-friendly environment and interface is provided in terms of layout and operability for work in the office (web application) and on the move (mobile). Access rights to the individual functionalities have been implemented with a detailed role and authorization concept.

The new development was conducted in 15 months and introduced “in time” in September 2020. Further development to integrate additional functionalities is planned for 2022.

Technologies: Spring Security, OAuth and JWT. Backend is in Java, Gradle, Spring Boot and Hibernate whereas Frontend is in JavaScript and Angular. As API we use Swagger and as servers Tomcat and Nginx. Database used is MS SQL DB Cluster. Realtime search via Elastic.

Recruiting Platform

ValYouBel is an innovative international service and technology provider in the personnel area. Bringing a new way of recruiting and managing talents, ValYouBel offers one of the strongest sourcing engines in the market.

Our team developed a unique tool – ValYouBel Platform to help to offer unique solutions to attract, to integrate and to develop talents.

ValYouBel Platform is a web based all-in-one recruiting system including sourcing and selection of candidates. It provides an integrated environment for recruitment which also adds emailing, reporting and a management platform.

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The whole system consists of several applications. It allows recruiters, employers and candidates to maintain job applications/offers. The system provides strong social network connection for both promoting job offers and finding new candidates.

The system is fully configurable for different customers including the external look & feel. Therefore it can be used by different employers while still having unique appearance.

Technologies: Java 7, Spring, Spring Security, Hibernate, Vaadin 7.1, Java Servlet, JSP, Tomcat 7, PostgreSQL 9.1, PL/SQL

Trading System

Eurex is one of the world’s leading derivatives exchanges offering a broad range of international benchmark products, operating the most liquid fixed income markets in the world and featuring open and low-cost electronic access.

Our company has been working on developing, testing and maintenance of the Eurex Trading System since 2006. During the time the system has been extended several times, starting with the version Eurex 10. Currently we are maintaining the system version Eurex 14.

The newest version of the system provides members with greater choice and enhanced flexibility in how they connect to the Eurex network through new interfaces, further clearing and risk management improvements as well as performance optimization.

Our team was responsible for functional testing for changed functionality of flexible options and futures. In the market risk management and data warehouse subsystems, changes of flexible options and futures were implemented and tested. In addition, existing restrictions of transaction and master data volumes were analyzed and extended according to the foreseen figures.

Technologies: OpenVMS, C/C++, Cobol, SQL, OpenVMS, Oracle RDB, DCL – Digital Command Language, TAFT, inter-process communication

M7 trading platform

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the largest exchange organizations worldwide. It is a provider of transaction services, an organizer for the trading of shares and other securities. It also gives companies and investors access to global capital markets.

Deutsche Börse Group operates several projects and covers several brands. One of them is 7 Market Technology. 7 Market Technology branding offers a variety of innovations in trade, clearing, risk management and connectivity. It consists of several infrastructures such as T7 – trading infrastructure, C7 – clearing infrastructure, N7 – global network, F7 – trading system and M7 – trading platform.

xitee team works on maintenance of M7. M7 is a trading platform for commodity markets which is used by wholesale brokers and exchanges to operate with futures and forwards. The M7 trading platform does trade mainly with gas, electricity and emissions markets and moreover, also with iron ore, oil, freight, pulp, paper, and fertilizers.

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Technologies: PostgreSQL, Java 8, Spring Hibernate, MyFaces

SMARD Energy Platform

German electricity visualized and explained

SMARD – the electricity market data platform of the German Federal Network Agency – is online since 3 July 2017. The new transparency platform deciphers the German electricity system for all interested citizens. Easily comprehensible graphics visualizes the most important information regarding electricity in Germany – such as planned and actual production from the wind, solar or other sources, wholesale prices or national consumption. Background articles explain effects and correlations in an understandable language.

The platform in detail

SMARD consists of four major areas: Electricity market news, Visualize market data, Overview of Germany, and Electricity market explained.

Electricity market news contains some news stories on selected trends of the German electricity market as a pillar of our supply chain. New articles are added constantly.

In the area Visualize market data, you can graphically plunge into different data categories, such as electricity production and consumption, electricity trading and system stability. One advantage: You are able to open different graphics in parallel in order to better comprehend correlations and to compare numbers. The data you see there comes from the platform of the European grid operators association ENTSO-E. First, they get checked whether they are correct and complete, then treated and conditioned, and finally published on SMARD. This process assures a correct data presentation near real time.

Overview of Germany renders data visible on a map of the German market area. This map allows a geographical overview of the power production landscape: Where are the most power plants, which energy sources dominate in which region? There is also information about the real-time electricity feed-in for power plants with more than 100 Megawatt per generating unit.

Electricity market explained is the contextualizing part of SMARD – and is a unique feature of the platform. Interested citizens can read intelligible background information about the functioning and the technical terms of the electricity market. This editorial accompaniment distinguishes SMARD from most existing pure data platforms.

A log-in area lets you personalize SMARD. Graphics created with SMARD can be stored here; in so doing, users can easily return later and find it again with just some clicks. Same applies to articles from the areas Electricity market news and Electricity market explained.

A platform for the general public – and for experts

Germany’s electricity landscape is in full transformation. This change requires explanation – renewable energies are gaining in importance, networks are being expanded, and power plants are being decommissioned. People keep asking questions. SMARD fills this gap. It is addressed to the general public as well as to energy experts and analysts. People interested in the electricity market can dive deeply into the matter.

The website is developed by the digital experts of EWERK and xitee, two companies with profound knowledge from the energy and data sector. Both are a long-standing IT partners of several exchanges and energy suppliers in Germany and Europe. On behalf of the Federal Network Agency, the teams of both companies are now developing together a digital, interactive world of energy facts with a clear design and smooth data flows. The website will be further developed continuously.

Technologies: Java 1.8, Spring, Hibernate, Vaadin 7, RabbitMQ, Apache POI, TomCat, SQL, PostgreSQL, Power Shell, Windows Server

Web-based application for the insured

AOK Sachsen-Anhalt is a German health insurance company based in Magdeburg (with another 44 branches in Saxony-Anhalt). With its 750.000 clients, AOK Sachsen-Anhalt represents the market leader in Saxony-Anhalt.

xitee worked together with HBSN AG on the development of a web-based application “GESUNDESKONTO”. With the “GESUNDESKONTO” the AOK offers its customers a budget for additional services such as professional dental cleaning, osteopathy or travel vaccinations which can be applied for and tracked easily, conveniently and quickly via an online portal. Customers can make a contact via the online office in the “GESUNDESKONTO” and find there the range of services and the corresponding provider. After using the services, the insured persons upload their invoices online. These are prechecked by the application and the customer may receive information about errors or missing information. Afterwards the invoice is automatically forwarded to the AOK inventory system, oscare®, and the insured persons will be reimbursed their expenses after a short time.

In this application, customers of AOK Sachsen-Anhalt can check their bonus-status, upload invoice for reimbursement and find other useful functionality like contact details for all branches (and have a chance to check their details and “favorite” them for their personal dashboard). The goal was to create a customer-oriented, user-friendly service saving customers’ time and therefore creating added value.

AOK GESUNDESKONTO was launched on 01.02.2020 after an intensive marketing campaign in Saxony-Anhalt. The individual programming and technical implementation were carried out by the xitee team with a short development time. A special challenge was to integrate “GESUNDESKONTO” into the AOK Saxony-Anhalt’ system oscare®. We are more than happy that our successful cooperation with AOK Saxony-Anhalt continues further since our team is now co-responsible for the support of the GESUNDESKONTO and is developing another functionality for the application.

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Technologies: JAVA 11, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Flyway, MariaDB Galera Cluster, SonarQube, Tomcat, Spring Security, SAML,/OAuth, 2FA , JWT, Ldap, Spring Data Rest, Spring Integration, Angular 8, RxJS, Apache httpd, Docker, CENTOS/RHEL, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Maven, JUnit, Jasmin, Selenium

Lotus Notes

Deutsche Börse Group is one of the largest exchange organizations worldwide. It is a provider of transaction services, organizer for trading of shares and other securities and it also gives companies and investors access to global capital markets.

The company has been using IBM Lotus Notes/Domino platform mostly for internal communication and collaboration – emailing, messaging, calendars, booking system, workflow applications, data-exchange tools, intranet and some other corporate tools. Moreover, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino is also used for several business-critical applications used by external customers of the Deutsche Börse Group (finance institutions, such as banks) or even public (media relations).

Our team is responsible for 2nd level support and maintenance of all Lotus Notes based applications – we manage over 300 active templates and over 3000 instances /mailfiles excluded/. Our tasks involve fixes in the code, modification of existing and creation of new applications.

Our team has an expert knowledge of most of IBM Lotus Notes/Domino development options, such as LotusScript programming language, Java with all its possibilities, JavaScript, HTML/XML/DXL, CSS and formula language (@ functions).

Technologies: IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, LotusScript, Java, HTML/XML/DXL, CSS, JavaScript, Formula language, LEI

Services: Managed IT Services