Members of the Elemental team have worked with our Client over many years on a variety of projects to build, upgrade and improve core systems, to include the design of the Client’s largest core back-office system.
Additionally, the Elemental team has played a key role in the design and implementation of the Azure based cloud infrastructure that supports many of the Client systems.
Today EC continue to be a key supplier of IT development services across various areas of operations.
Below an overview of some recent projects
1) Technical POC
EC was engaged to work on a variety of technical POCs using the unique blend of skills, experience, and functional knowledge across the EC team. This includes a deep understanding of the core business challenge of improving the efficiency of the collection of data.
EC was tasked with demonstrating how we could digitise the process of assessing how customers are copying and using copyrighted materials. This would ensure the rights holders (authors/publishers) receive the appropriate royalties for use of their content.
Through the development of the POC, EC demonstrated the ability to integrate with the software deployed on Customer (i.e. schools / colleges) photocopiers and automatically scan to a central service. Then, using OCR technology, scan the copied material to assess if it was copyrighted so that usage of the content could be assigned to the correct rights holders. This included the use of platforms such as Google Books to automate the process of identification as well as, in the future, integrating with the Client’s own databases to increase the accuracy of the process. This was all delivered using cloud based services readily available on the Azure and Google platforms, with EC providing the ‘glue’ to bring the disparate parts together.
EC’s role was key in identifying whether the technologies were mature enough to achieve the goal and to ultimately identify the correct architectures and tools to build a solution. The project required working collaboratively with 3rd party vendors across the globe.
This solution will transform the current manual paper collection activities.
2) Support & Maintenance Services
Built by a previous consultancy, EC picked up the on-going support and development of a core platform when the incumbent supplier left the sector.
The platform contols and calculates the funds distributed for copyright protected content. It connects to a variety of systems, including a data warehouse.when the incumbent supplier left the sector.
EC provide application support to tight SLAs as well as development of new features.
