For nearly 30 years, the Inc. Magazine list has been capturing the exciting evolution of the fastest-growing companies in North America. Inc’s past honorees have become world-class brands that include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Dell, and Domino’s Pizza. The companies on this year’s list amassed 237.7 billion in revenue in 2018, accounting for 1,216,308 jobs over the past three years, and with astounding three-year average growth of 454%. 

Intellectsoft keeps growing quickly and confidently as well. Last year was especially fruitful for us and our clients. We expanded cooperation with major existing partners in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to new technology areas, and added new clients to our portfolio, including legal, healthcare, real estate, and finance companies. Our recent accomplishments include an IoT solution for one of the leading luxury hotel chains in Asia that helped it deliver an exceptional experience to their guests, a personal items tracking product for American consumer electronics company Adero, and a transformative solution converging multiple cutting-edge technologies for one of the biggest construction players in Europe’s Nordic Region.

We also struck new ambitious partnerships in the fields of artificial intelligence and distributed ledger technology in 2018, and continue growing out technology stack to deliver cutting-edge solutions to our clients. 

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Ukraine and Belarus continue to gain more and more weight as destinations for B2B services among leading companies around the world. 

Ukraine has more than 1,000 IT companies working on its territory, which homes a vast talent pool of over 230,000 IT professionals. The country’s software development sector grows at an average of 17% yearly. Plus, 100 R&D subsidiaries of renowned global companies are located in Ukraine, including Microsoft, Samsung, Apple, and many more. 

Belarus homes over 1,000 IT companies providing high quality software and technology services. Its vast tech talent pool continues to expand, as about 4,000 new software engineers graduate from the country’s recognized educational establishments every year. Belarus’s IT services market grows at an annual pace of around 10%. 

IT services markets of both countries are projected to continue their growth in 2020 and beyond, according to regional reports. The countries would also continue strengthening and expanding their tech talent pools, while remaining cost-efficient as compared to other regions. Among other things, this means that Ukraine and Belarus will try to rival the likes of top outsourcing services providers like China.

Intellectsoft is proud to contribute to the growing recognition and technical savvy of both countries’ IT services markets, following the tech trend projections for 2019 we made roughly a year ago. Only this year, we have helped create a top IoT product recognized by Fast Company, performed a full-fledged digital transformation for a luxury Chinese hospitality operator, and developed a complex AR demo for a leading construction company in Europe, among other projects. 

Since we started our operation over 11 years ago, Intellectsoft continues to be a reliable long-term partner for top companies from different industries. Our efforts are regularly recognized by Clutch and similar platforms as well as top publications, including Inc. 5000. This year, me moved closely to the publication’s much-coveted Inc. 500 cohort, and Clutch named us a Top Software & Technology Services Provider in California, Top Emerging Technology Services Provider, and a Global Software Development Leader.

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“Clutch is proud to recognize the firms that truly take the time to understand their clients’ specific market,” said Clutch Business Analyst Dustin Sammons. “High-quality development or design skills are not enough. The best agencies take those top-notch skills and translate them into products that match their clients exact needs and industries.”

Over 11 years of operation, Intellectsoft has gained a reputation of a reliable long-term partner in mobile app development, specifically in long-term Enterprise and Retail projects. We have created mobile applications for EY, Jaguar, Eurostar, Guinness, a top American retail giant, and many more. 

Our comprehensive mobile app development services resulted in products that solve specific challenges in our client’s operations, helping them to grow revenue, empower employees with meaningful digital tools, deliver better experiences to customers, and strengthen the brand.

Our efforts are regularly recognized by Clutch and similar platforms as well as industry’s top publications. We have recently moved closer to the Inc. 500 cohort, and the product we helped bring to life was recognized by Fast Company alongside the products from Apple, Google, IBM, and other tech giants. In 2019, Clutch named us a Top Software & Technology Services Provider in California, Top Emerging Technology Services Provider, and a Global Software Development Leader. 

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Today, many news apps showcase that a life without print editions and newstands (or only a small number of them), which might come sooner than later, may not be something readers and media companies should be concerned about. If they are properly made, news apps not only carry over the look and feel of newspapers and magazines to mobile, they also give the media new ways and angles to provide coverage, in one place and to a global reader base.

Here are five hand-picked news apps that deliver on that promise today. Use our list to get inspired for your own news app, find yourself a new news sources, or simply explore examples of all-around great mobile products. 

The New York Times (iOS)

Even if you prefer paper editions of newspapers over news apps, it is hard to deny that the New York Times did a great job of carrying over their long-established aesthetic and reporting to mobile. It is just that: the same New York Times, only more visually appealing and handy and available anywhere you want to read it. 

The user experience and design are outstanding: sections are well-organized (with quick access to Saved for Later and Recently Viewed), navigation is quick and simple, and the app’s clean visuals are really easy on the eye. Whether you want to quickly read the morning briefing or enjoy evening articles from the newspaper’s many sections, you will have a pleasant experience. 

Everything’s good under the hood as well: there are no crashes and bugs, and the pages load quite quickly even with poor internet connection. The app has ads, but they are non-intrusive and fit into the design organically. 

When it comes to sections, the New York Times app has it all: from the standard Opinion, World, Business and sport — to sections on health and wellness, entertainment and arts, as well as video and podcasts, among many others. You can also access the day’s paper in the corresponding section. 

With a well-produced “Immersive” section that is dedicated to AR and VR news content, the NYT doubles down on the notion that mobile and digital technology hold the potential to give new life to the media by giving readers new exciting perspectives and angles. 

Readers can access a limited number of articles for free every month or subscribe to one of the plans.

Al Jazeera English

Apart from its appealing and intuitive design, what makes the Al Jazeera app stand out is the emphasis on live news. They are quickly accessible in a video or audio stream and equally comfortable to watch on a smartphone or tablet. 

Al Jazeera understands the needs of modern users better than other media companies: the app has two more video sections alongside the Live broadcast — on-demand programming and documentaries. Other sections feature top stories, latest news, and  opinion pieces. 

You can personalize your feed in the “My Feed” section, which provide quick access to bookmarked topics, saved pages, and programmes. That being said, navigating Al Jazeera English is a breeze. Even on smaller screens, there is a lot of breathing space, and the sections are well-organized in general. 

Sections include: Arts & Culture, Business & Economy, Environment, Poverty & Development, Human Rights and more, as well as a separate section that covers different regions of the world. Readers can also access archived content. 

Al Jazeera English is free-of-charge. 

New Yorker Today

Like the New York Times, The New Yorker magazine has managed to go mobile with great success. Capturing the look and feel of the magazine really well, New Yorker Today serves three goals: delivers the latest news, opinion pieces, articles, and writing; provide quick access to the decade-spanning library ot its widely celebrated cartoons; give fast access to the magazine library with the latest and archive issues.

Although its website and magazine app can stand on their own and can be used separately, New Yorker Today seems to be aimed at readers who want to access the most popular parts of the The New Yorker’s digital experience in one place. 

Sections:

• Latest news and writing
• Cartoon randomizer
• Digital edition of the magazine (differs from the magazine app)
• Bookmarks and history

There is a limited number of free-to-read articles and a range of subscription options available for readers.

Pocket

As far as news apps go, Pocket is not a typical media product. At its heart is a simple promise of letting users save articles and web pages for later reading and viewing, but it delivers on it to the fullest. If you read news alongside articles from different publications, but do not want to assault your eyes with the endless stream of headlines of news aggregator apps (or simply find the look and feel of Instapper uninspiring), Pocket will your top choice.

Pocket is integrated with all popular browsers on desktop and mobile and with over fifteen thousand apps, making it quick and simple to save articles anywhere you find them. There are many instruments for managing them too. You can always locate the right article quickly with tags and a number of sections — all put together nicely in an extremely comfortable-to-use design. Other features include choosing the background color and highlighting text, listening to any article, and following friends to find out what they are reading.  

All of this comes for free, but you can get extra features like advanced search and fonts with the paid premium version. There is also a section of curated articles from numerous different publications updated everyday as well as a tool to look for them yourself across different categories. 

Pocket is continuously updated, bug-free, and the user experience is equally satisfying in the web app and native apps (although you cannot listen to articles in the web app). Interestingly, It is in-built into the Firefox browser and is owned by its creators, the Mozilla Corporation. 

TechCrunch 

The shiny look and handy navigation of TechCrunch’s website can be enjoyed in any browser, but you might just opt for the publication’s app instead. It bares the visual style of the website, but provides a more focused, personalised, and ad-free experience. 

Following the latest tech news with the TechCrunch app is easy, fast, and comfortable. You can browse the headlines of the latest news and bookmark them right in the feed. One more section gathers topics of your choice in one place, and you can manage or stay notified about them right in this section. Finally, there is “Saved for Later,” where you can read the bookmarked articles. You can also access the latest TechCrunch videos at the beginning of the main feed. 

In sum, the TechCrunch app streamlines reading tech news to the maximum, delivering a snappy experience without ads, bugs, and free-of-charge. 

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You Will Learn:

• How to implement a scalable, feature-rich IoT smart room system across a large number of luxury properties in Hospitality, and how much time does it take
• What are AI-driven smart moods in hotel rooms
• What is the real potential of AI assistants in the guest experience
• How to use a shared ledger to create a secure cross-location loyalty program
• Intellectsoft’s in-depth real-life cases of digital transformation in Hospitality and Entertainment
• Technology challenges the industry faces

Speakers of Webinar:

• Andriy Kashcheyev — CTO, Chief Solution Architect at Intellectsoft

Experience: 20+ years

• Tim Kozak — Head of Technology at Intellectsoft Blockchain Lab

Experience: 10+ years

• Iurii Odnorogov  — Sales Director at Intellectsoft

Experience: 7+ years

You will benefit from the webinar the most if you are:

• Chief Innovation Officer and VP
• Chief Information Officer and VP
• Solution Architect
• CEO looking into Digital Transformation

Watch the Webinar:

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For the second straight year, we have been named a top B2B provider of software and technology development services in California state, according to a Washington-based B2B services ratings and review firm Clutch. We have gained the same recognition in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, and Connecticut. 

Clutch’s ranking featured over 450 companies in the U.S. The analysis is based on factors like ability to deliver high-quality work to their clients, quality of customer service, and the variety of solutions and clients in the portfolio.

One of our recent projects for the U.S. market involved helping a Santa Barbara-based company Adero build a unique Consumer IoT (Internet of Things) product that helps users keep track of their personal possessions at all times. 

Shortly after the launch, it quickly gained recognition from users and a top tech publication Fast Company, who put Adero beside Apple, Google, and other tech giants in their list of the Most Innovative Companies of 2019 (Consumer Electronics segment).

 “Smart devices were supposed to make our lives better.  However, over the past decade we’ve discovered that users are quickly becoming overwhelmed in this overly-connected blue-chip stuffed IoT driven world,” said Adero’s Chief Executive Officer Nate Kelly. “More apps to manage, more devices to keep an eye on, more cords to untangle and remember about—it’s way too much! Adero is giving the users  an opportunity to passively manage and keep track of their essentials in a non-invasive way that allows for confidence and a peace of mind for our customers. Our system of tags, effectively “taking care” of the items,” freeing consumers’ minds to focus on more rewarding matters. Without Intellectsoft’s expertise, getting a product of this quality to market, especially within the outlined time constraints, would have been nearly impossible.”

We also helped Guest Services, hospitality management services provider that has been operating in the U.S. for over 100 years, streamline their food service management with a web portal for the company’s chefs. The multi-functional solution allows them to create comprehensive recipes and labels with nutrition facts and lists of allergens in a matter of minutes. 

“Guest Services is very happy with the Chef Recipe & Menu web portal developed by Intellectsoft,” said Steve Jacobs, Director of Information Technology at Guest Services. “  Intellectsoft’s designers and programmers communicated directly with our Chefs and Nutritionists and developed a program that works very well for our company. Our Chefs at restaurants, cafeterias, and other dining facilities throughout the US can create recipes, labels, and menus on a common web-based platform.”

As a result, the company improved their operations and further solidified their leading positions in the U.S. hospitality management services market.

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Performing DT is not an easy task. To grow and stay competitive, companies in both industries need to plan ahead in times where customer demand changes almost every month, adopt several advanced technologies at once, and face numerous other challenges.

Join Intellectsoft’s innovation leaders on July 18 at 12 PM (ET) as they discuss the challenges, trends, and real-life use cases of digital transformation in Hospitality and Entertainment.

The discussion will focus on Artificial Intelligence solutions (machine and deep learning), IoT, Blockchain, and Mixed Reality (augmented and virtual reality) solutions. You will get hard-to-find industry insights, an in-depth look at Intellectsoft’s projects, and have a Q&A session with our top minds.

Register For Our Webinar To Learn:

• How to implement a scalable, feature-rich IoT smart room system across a large number of luxury properties in Hospitality
• How to use blockchain in the Entertainment experience, loyalty programs, and security
• AR hologram virtual assistant for upscale hotel rooms: how it works
• Intellectsoft’s In-depth, real-life cases of digital transformation in Hospitality and Entertainment

Speakers of Webinar:

• Andriy Kashcheyev — CTO, Chief Solution Architect at Intellectsoft

Experience: 20+ years

• Tim Kozak — Head of Technology at Intellectsoft Blockchain Lab

Experience: 10+ years

• Iurii Odnorogov  — Sales Director at Intellectsoft

Experience: 7+ years

After the webinar, all participants will have a chance to discuss the topic with our experts in a Q&A session.

Click here to register and learn more about the webinar.

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Michael Minkevich, CEO of Intellectsoft, commented: “ Premier customer service, in-line with requirements of the 21-st century when customer audiences define which company should stay in business, is achieved through premier digital culture. Correctly and timely placed digital enhancements not only help insurance companies reduce underwriting risks, they also reduce friction in the B2C ecosystem, capturing more revenues while providing enjoyable, effective customer experience. We are very pleased to have forged this alliance between our companies.  Elafris and Intellectsoft, being ingrained in the sector and following currently-trending innovation, have rich experience working with enterprise customers and deep understanding of emerging technologies, existing enterprise ecosystems, and institutional and retail consumer preferences.”

Intellectsoft has many years of experience serving the segment.  Just recently, utilizing its proprietary IS360 framework, it helped Sweden’s top insurance provider EuroAccident perform impactful digital transformation with a mobile and cloud solution. The company’s expertise also includes wide-ranging projects with several major U.S. insurers. End-to-end solutions delivered by Intellectsoft automate, simplify, and consolidate all aspects of insurance process, which now can be experienced on any device.  Intellectsoft also has been providing chatbot solutions to an industry-leading eyewear company and a top U.S. basketball team, among others.

Elafris platform enables insurance providers automate and simplify premium collection, claim management, and reminders; use social data to reduce underwriting exposure; investigate information on social media for claims; offer mobile payments via Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, PayPal, and other popular systems.

Jake Diner, CEO of Elafris, commented: “The platform is aimed at helping insurers improve sales, reduce service costs, and improve customer satisfaction by introducing useful and meaningful digital technology. Elafris has a diverse client and partner portfolio, whose work and products are aimed at re-invigorating the insurance process. Synergies between Elafris and Intellectsoft deliver deep expertise to our clients in FinTech and Insurance space.  This alliance will enable successful progression along digital transformation by engineering vision for the business though the means of Blockchain / smart contracts, AI/ML, UX/UI, and XR technologies and seamlessly integrating it into the existing infrastructure of startups and generations-old providers alike.”

About Elafris

Elafris is a trailblazer for the integration of artificial intelligence with customer communications. Tailored specifically for the needs of banking and insurance industries, Elafris’ messenger chatbots are precisely designed to meet the needs of companies that want to keep in step with the expectations of today’s consumer.

Founded by FinTech and IT veterans, Elafris offers unparalleled expertise when it comes to understanding how to blend the needs of digital and mobile-focused consumers with the rigorous compliance requirements of the industry. Our technology enables our clients to move beyond emails and texts to the next-generation messaging platforms.

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Palo Alto, California, March 21, 2019  – Intellectsoft, a boutique digital transformation consultancy that provides cutting-edge engineering solutions for global companies and emerging technology leaders, today announced that its solutions helped Adero earn a place on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Companies 2019.” Adero has taken the top 10 spot in the Consumer Electronics category alongside Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dell.

For more than  a year now Intellectsoft has been a trusted development partner for Adero’s first product, the intelligent organization system. Positioned at the intersection of consumer electronics, hardware, the internet of things (IoT), mobile, software, and wireless, Adero offers customers a simple but smart solution for organizing belongings of different sizes. The system consists of small tracking devices, parent trackers, and a custom mobile app. Users place the parent beacon (called a Smart Tag) on a bag, the smaller trackers (called Taglets) on the belongings they usually put in that bag, and then register the bag and its tags in the mobile app. When a user leaves something from the bag behind, the app sends a notification after communicating with trackers. The bags, trackers, and notifications can be organized by the user in the app.

A solution to the ever-present problem of the busy modern lifestyle, Adero’s product was challenging to bring to life successfully. Adero got in touch with Intellectsoft to tap into the company’s wide-ranging expertise in Mobile, IoT, and Cloud and make their innovative idea a reality. Closely working with the Adero team on- and off-site in Santa Barbara, CA, Intellectsoft brought its extensive expertise and technical standards in iOS and Android apps MVP architecture, AWS, and microservices management. Intellectsoft’s IoT engineers have created a mobile solution and established fail-safe communication between the app, the parent trackers, and the smaller tracking devices, ensuring a successful release of Adero’s product to the public. Shortly after launching, Adero made it to Fast Company’s list of the world’s leading innovation companies.

Michael Minkevich, CEO of Intellectsoft, commented: “Innovative products and devices excite us and make our lives easier and better. Under the hood, truly innovative solutions also demand a lot of hard work, serious technical skills, dedication, creativity and much more — not only to bring to life, but also to consistently and successfully deliver on their promise. As Adero’s premier engineering partner, we are honored to have had the opportunity to bring all these necessary skills to the company’s product and help Adero receive such high praise from both the top tech media and the consumers. Intellectsoft is always focused on helping emerging leaders like Adero get a solid foothold in the competitive tech world by making their innovative efforts materialise, tick all the necessary boxes, and exceed expectations.”

“Smart devices were supposed to make our lives better but we’ve discovered over the past decade that connecting anything and everything possible to the Internet is adding to our burden instead of alleviating it,” said Adero’s Chief Executive Officer Nate Kelly. “More apps to manage, more devices to keep an eye on, more cords to untangle—it’s too much. Adero is giving your essentials awareness and intelligence to keep track of themselves so you don’t have to. We’re transferring the anxiety from you to our system of tags, effectively telling them to “take care of this bag” and “take care of the essentials in this bag,” freeing your mind to focus on what matters most. Without Intellectsoft’s expertise, getting this product to market would have been nearly impossible.”

About Adero

Adero (formerly known as TrackR) is a Santa Barbara, CA-based technology company that provides an intelligent organization system aiming to end the stress and chaos that comes with managing your things. Powered by Bluetooth technology, and made easy with an intuitive app, Adero’s Smart Tagging system enables your life’s essentials to manage and keep track of themselves.

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Throughout more than a decade of operation, Intellectsoft has established a solid foothold in the IT market as a boutique digital transformation consultancy and software development company that provides cutting-edge engineering solutions. We helped Fortune 500 companies and leading enterprises solve complex issues that always emerge during the digital evolution of a business organization.

Today, the company’s mission is to help businesses accelerate adoption of new technologies and orchestrate ongoing innovation. Intellectsoft maintains its advanced domain expertise through five dedicated labs: Cognitive Computing, Decentralized Applications (i.e. Blockchain), Internet-of-Things (IOT), Premier Customer Experience (CX), and Mixed Reality (AR, VR). Each lab focuses on a single technology, allowing us to extract maximum value for our clients

Technology experts and niche skilled engineers that work at Intellectsoft Innovation Labs are faced with complex and challenging tasks. With the rise of trended technology, over the past years we helped many clients to transform digitally, working on projects of different scale and complexity: from building blockchain-based digital wallets and IoT-driven consumer electronics products, to enterprise-wide industrial IoT solution for machine vision company, and decentralised platform for peer-to-peer, revolutionizing the entire banking industry.

As part of their annual report on the leading service providers in major U.S. cities, Clutch identified the top emerging technology developers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco to draw attention to their innovative techniques and transformational technologies.

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