Systems we built, and what they do

Daniel Group, Port of Ashdod

Container discharge and loading planning and control system

The system runs the full life of a voyage: it takes in plan files from shipping lines, agents and the port, reconciles them, builds the discharge and loading plans, supports the tallymen on board with tablets, and produces the reports and EDI files for agents, port and vessel.

• Windows management application, Android tablet app and a secured API layer
• Intake and validation of BAPLIE (EDIFACT) files, manifests and port lists
• Graphical vessel plan with weight, height and dangerous goods warnings
• Work on board continues offline and syncs when the connection returns

Technologies: SQL ServerAndroidWindowsAPIEDIFACTBAPLIE

An Assembly product, a cloud service for businesses and organizations

DocsRobot: forms, documents, signatures and reminders

A cloud service in which a business builds its own electronic forms, generates Word and PDF documents from them, sends them for signature and gets a reminder for every important date.

• Drag-and-drop form builder with calculated fields and conditional display
• Document generator from Word templates
• Electronic signature on the Comsign infrastructure
• Email reminders tracked to completion, and an API

Technologies: Node.jsMongoDBAngularWebWordPDFComsignAPI

Student-Room-Flat, FIFTYFIVE SRO, Czech Republic

Student-Room-Flat: student room rental platform in Europe

A mid-term rental marketplace connecting property owners in dozens of European cities with students looking for a home for a semester or a year. It runs the whole journey: search, booking request and approval, payment, settlement with owners, and community life during the stay.

• Ten user roles, including hosts, tenants, booking, finance, community and landlord success managers, with role-based permissions
• Booking lifecycle as a state machine, with a ten-minute availability hold during payment and automatic expiry after 24 hours, run by a background service
• VITO, an AI agent on WhatsApp Business built on the OpenAI API and connected to the system's APIs, which a booking manager can take over at any moment
• Finance module with payment schedules, batch payment runs, cancellations and reversals, and payouts to owners through PayPal Hyperwallet
• Property import, booking synchronization and date blocking with partner housing platforms
• Community app for iOS and Android in React Native, with events and chat between flatmates, owners and support

Technologies: Angular.NET FrameworkASP.NET Web APIEntity FrameworkSQL ServerIISWindows ServiceReact NativeFirebaseOpenAI APIWhatsApp BusinessPayPal HyperwalletGoogle Cloud

An Assembly product since 2010. Clients include IKEA, Fattal Hotels, Playtika and the Israel Prison Service

TopContracts and TopKnowledge: contracts, suppliers and organizational knowledge

A modular web system that started as contract management and grew to manage any entity in an organization: contracts, suppliers, machines, procedures and knowledge. Every item type is built from configuration, without code, and a license key sets which modules run in each installation.

• Dynamic data model: field groups, tables inside an item, shared catalogues and calculated fields with a formula editor and calculation engine
• Three-layer permissions: per item, by role and organizational unit, and by item type and section
• Search with AND, OR and exact-phrase syntax that recognizes dates and numbers and also searches inside Word and PDF files
• Excel reports from templates with placeholders, and automatic reports on a Cron schedule sent by email
• Statuses with transition rules and escalations, sequential or parallel approval rounds, document versions and digital signature on a Comsign server
• Word and PDF documents generated through the DocsRobot API, and Excel import and export of items and catalogues
• Hebrew and English interface, and a background service that bundles alerts into a daily email and handles escalations

Technologies: C#ASP.NET MVCASP.NET Web APIEntity FrameworkLINQSQL ServerKendo UIKnockout.jsBootstrapWindows SearchExcelComsignDocsRobot API

A large media group

Media file management system

A system for managing hundreds of thousands of files for a media group, built around search speed.

• Very fast search across many attributes
• First results shown at once, the rest loaded in the background
• Manual thumbnails for files that cannot get one automatically
• Several thumbnails per file, with browsing between them

A commercial kitchen supplying schools and a shop, 2016

Ba-Bari: commercial kitchen management system

A system that runs the whole workflow of a food production kitchen: purchasing from suppliers, goods receipt, customer orders, daily production planning, stock by warehouse, and deliveries with invoices. At its core is a three-level recipe model that drives the quantity and cost calculations.

• Three-level recipes: ingredients, intermediate elements nested to any depth, and products, with a waste percentage per ingredient
• Recurring orders by weekday, with exception dates such as holidays, alongside one-off orders
• Daily production planning that calculates quantities from the orders, by how many days ahead each product may be made, and subtracts what is already in stock
• Cost range for every product, from the cheapest and most expensive supplier prices, including waste and the cost of the production process
• Purchase orders, sales orders and delivery invoices as PDF, and stock by warehouse and storage section
• Responsive Hebrew right-to-left interface built on consistent page templates

Technologies: ASP.NET MVCRazorAngularJSBootstrapDataTablesSelect2SQL ServerPDF

A consumer start-up

Real-time advice social network

An app in which friends ask for and give advice: they upload photos, vote, and get an answer in real time.

• Photos in different formats, shown in a preset order
• Votes, vote analysis and time-based closing
• Feeds for friends, groups and community
• Cloud back office for content and user moderation

A consumer start-up, 2015

Jinni: a marketplace matching people who need a service with those who provide it

A platform where users describe in free text what they are looking for or what they offer. The system analyses the text, identifies the trade or service and creates a card, and a background service matches demand and supply by field, keywords, location, time and price. Every match opens a conversation between the two sides.

• Free-text analysis with autocomplete, identification of a trade, service or resource, and a quality score for each phrasing
• Background matching engine with hierarchical locations, keywords from a field tree, time and price
• Chat, counters and dashboards updated in real time with SignalR
• Separate card and conversation states for each side, with pause, archive and blocking
• Several profiles per account, personal and business, with a choice of which details the other side sees
• Hybrid mobile and web app, email notifications, and links that open the app on a phone or the browser on a computer

Technologies: ASP.NETSignalRCordovaBootstrapSQL ServerNLP

An education initiative

Youth social network rating positive experiences

A network where teenagers share positive experiences, friends rate them, and the top-rated win prizes.

• Experience sharing and a scoring system
• Prizes for the highest ratings
• Sabbath-observant: no draws over the weekend

An optical store chain

Camera mirror for optical stores

Software that shows customers photos of themselves in different frames, side by side. It was the first project we developed entirely in India, in 2004.

• Moving carousel of photos for comparison
• Camera connection through drivers and a control card
• Photos emailed to the customer