Innovation Forge: Milestones and Technological Background Overview

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"Explore the journey of Innovation Forge from its inception in 2007, including key milestones, technological background with XMPP implementations, and significant achievements such as first revenues and employee growth. Witness the evolution of the company through contracts, projects, and collaborations until 2009."

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innovation forge

2 2 2007

3 3 Kick Off Milestones We ve started with 5 collegues: zer, Ali, O uz, Kamer, Ata at March 1st 2007. We researched on J2ME and apps for restricted devices. We ve met with Verkata@USA We d applied for our first public fund We d started our first project: Mobile IM Client. July 19th 2007, Official Establishment of Company We d start our second project: Mobile RSS Reader We d started our first contract: Good Magazine Social Portal for a US Based Magazine

4 4 Technological Background XMPP implementations : OpenFire Customization: For integrating Gtalk, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Messenger and MSN Messenger under one mobile client. DSL Implementation: For rapid development of J2ME applications. Content Management System: Joomla and Wordpress customization. J2EE, J2ME: For both client and server sides of Mobile Applications PHP and Web 2.0: Good Magazine Social Portal.

5 5 2008

6 6 First Revenues, First Employees Milestones Second domestic grant from T B TAK. MUGA: Mobile Application Development Platform. 18 Months, 200K Euro. First employees: Ya ar Eren Biri (now in Goldman Sachs), zlem Ba ak skender , Burak Kocuro lu (Manager of Mobivisor@BOR) First Domestic Contract: MapRAYS GIS Based Licence Management Tool for Turkish Petroleum Co. First EuropaidContract: Establishment of Software Infrastructure for Vocational Qualifications Institutions Release of Good Magazine Portal and M&S contract. First Attendence of ITEA PO Days. 2 Proposals: OpenSaaS (Labelled) and UbiTest New Mobile Apps : Quiz Solver, Live Football Match Scores Announcement of Mobile Suite: KARYA (Karya IM, Karya Scores, Karya Quiz, Karya RSS, ....)

7 7 Technological Background Spring JSF ADF Integration First BOR Java Framework (Spring Struts - Hibernate integration) ESRI ArcGIS Implementation GIS Knowledge, Especially coordinate systems and representations. (WGS84 vs ED50) Struts JSF Integration under Spring (First Integration In Turkey) Linux based ESRI application (First Application in Turkey) Maintaining running Social Portal with 150K members Co-operation with International Teams: Ukrainen Developers, and Polish Graphical Designers.

8 8 2009

9 9 Micro to Small Milestones Co-operation with Anvato (lately bought by Google) on Video Analytics, Video Advertisement Serving, Infringment Detection First Domestic Private Sector Contract: EnerGIS for EnerjiSA First GSM Operator Contract: 17 mobile Apps for Vodafone Turkey First Celtic Proposal Tesla (labeled) Second M&S contract for Good Magazine Total number of People: 14 Recession has started in USA Ata left the team and moved to Boston as a postdoc, Kamer left the team for Postdoc position in Toulouse (then to Ohio State).

10 10 Technological Background Deep PHP knowledge: Converting OpenX web advertisement server into Video and full functional social portal : www.good.is Deep AS3, Flash knowledge for Video Players, OSMF of Adobe, OVP of Akamai ESRI ArcGIS implementation over Microsoft.NET 17 app release for Vodafone Turkey, Opera Mini Widget Projects. (70K app users on average)

11 11 2010

12 12 Stabilization Milestones Third domestic funds : Content based Internet Video Management System. 300K Euro, 24 months Second Europaid Contract: Establishment of Worker health and safety center First Public funded Development Project: Human Resource Scheduling System for Mobilization for Min. Of Employment Second Public funded Development Project: Constructional or Demolutional Contractor Management Information Systems. Third US Contract with Claveo at Boston Fourth US Contract: Lifegate Elderly Care Mobile App Three fast domestic funds: 30 K Euro each

13 13 Technological Background IOS Development Deep knowledge on Oracle DBMS and Microsoft.NET BI Knowledge Workflow management Plugin development for Mobile Browsers More mobile Development More CMS M&S

14 14 2011

15 15 First Problems Milestones Loosing US contracts due to high unemployment in US and low value of USD against TLY Financial Problems Due to freezed payment from government due to elections at 2011 Third and biggest ever Europaid contract: Turkish General Staff, Training and Doctrine Command. Mehmet ik i in Yurtta l k E itimi (Politische Bildung f r unsere Mehmetschen-Soldaten). IPTV Training system for privates Release of IGPS and YAMBIS (public contracts) Having an investor due to financial and managerial problems. Number of People: 18

16 16 Technological Background Hardware software Integration : Encoders, cameras, audios, lightning User Trainings for hunderds of public users. Introduction to android, and porting MUGA to Android and IoS More experience on online / onsite maintanence Strong experience on AQAP, IEEE and CMMI

17 17 2012

18 18 First Product Milestones Release of MIYE First Commercial Research Project: Custom Android ROM development for Civilian Cops 3 different Android and IoS app development for clients Meeting with Christoph Niedermeier at Madrid and being part of BaaS and Demwatch Couple of Portal projects as a module for big projects. Packaging IVME as a result of MIYE project.

19 19 Technological Background Deep Android knowledge on OS level (Customizing and re-compiling Android 2.3) Deep Knowledge of video streaming, encoding, transcoding Deep Knowledge on Web2.0 (Not only php but also Ruby and Python) Giving up on Microsoft.net

20 20 2013

21 21 Evolving from Service to Product Milestones Release of Custom Android ROMS Many contracts from public and private sector Continuing Maintanence & Support Promoting IVME Kick off for Demwatch, BaaS Next Public funded R&D projects: Enterprise Mobile Communication Platform (600K Euro for 24 M) Rolling sleeves for next product: Mobivisor Enterprise Mobility Management Suite Restarting USA : Main Partner of Wowza Streaming Server in Turkey, Partner of Adobe on OSMF Total Number of People:25

22 22 Technological Background Changing development approach from service to Product Deep Learning: Agile Development, Continues Integration and Deployment Integrating state of the art into products New Toy: Html5. (Steve Jobs started to shoot on Flash)

23 23 2014

24 24 Concrete Product Company Second contract for Custom ROM First official clients for IVME Establishment of M&S team for on going M&S. Introduction to Data Modelling and new approach to DSLs: MPS Being a concrete member of ITEA First H2020 application, Second H2020 application, first Eurostars application (all above the threshold but not funded) Another Public Funded R&D projects: VIBRO Interaktive digital streaming and teleconference platform (add-on for IVME) New Product idea : BEY Building Inventory Management, operation tool for BAS.

25 25 Technological Background Wearable Device knowledge through Demwatch IoT and BAS knowledge through BaaS Maintaining released product: IVME Creating new product: Mobivisor

26 26 2015

27 27 Hazy Ways Two Big Implementations for IVME: Ministry of Justice (through Europaid Project) and Izmir Municipality. Release of Mobivisor and first clients. Release of BEY- Alpha and first clients Several small implementations for IVME Contract Based Implementation: Fund management system for Ministry of Agriculture. Kick off next ITEA project: Insist. Joining Consortium for 2 other labelled projects: SecureGrid, Mos2S Applying Eurostars with Prodevelop Finalizing Demwatch (technically successful, commercially unsuccesful) Being an official subcontractor of ASELSAN (Biggest DoD company of Turkey) and first contract. Politically unstability (two elections) Negative balance sheet for the first time Number of People: 35

28 28 Technological Background Smart City Applications, (City Advertisement Server-Extension for IVME) Getting to learn more about IoT and BAS Experience on BAS lifecycle One of the key expert company on Rich Media and Mobile OS in Turkey Strong knowledge on OSGI (Karaf with BaaS, Ekinoks with Aselsan)

29 29 2016

30 30 Unressolvable Jigsaw Being a Partner of Turkcell for MDM Being a Partner of Samsung Turkey for MDM 6 small IVME implementations 2 Big IVME implementations: Min. Of Urban Planning, Ankara Uni. Med. School Being a Premium Partner of Wowza New Project Ideas on IoT ... Second DoD Contract Eventhough having big troubles turning balance sheet to positive again

31 31 Technological Background Deeper IoT knowledge Concrete Products: IVME and Mobivisor Expert on New Rich media Technologies: WebRTC, HLS Strong Hardware Software Integration Maintaining Training system with 1000 instant video viewers. Experience on Consultancy for Rich Media and Mobile OS