ABOUTPeach Media connects all the players in the TV and VOD markets by operating advanced market wide campaign management systems and data standardisation portals for video advertising. PROJECT DETAILSCopyCentral is an application for copy clearance. Its goal is to allow advertisers to check their ads against the requirements of the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising. Using CopyCentral, you can create brilliant and innovative video ads and stay sure they will meet all acceptance criteria. CHALLENGEPeach Media wanted the team to deliver a complex solution within a short timeframe as a replacement for the previous ad clearance system used by Clearcast. SOLUTIONSTX Next was chosen among other companies and joined the Peach Media team to develop a complete solution which covers various workflows for different types of users, including top UK broadcasters and hundreds of advertising agencies. The solution needed to be able to handle heavy traffic and the upload/download/streaming of large video files.

ABOUTBuildFax provides business-critical property condition and history data to the largest insurance and financial institutions in the world. Based in Austin, Texas, the company delivers detailed data on remodeling, solar installations, major systems, new construction, maintenance history, and more. Their database encompasses over 84 billion data points on commercial and residential structures. In 2019, BuildFax was acquired by Verisk—a leading data analytics provider in the US. CHALLENGEOur goal was to provide BuildFax with modern tools for handling big data. Before working with STX Next, their speed of receiving data sometimes took up to four times longer than the maximum time business logic allowed.Our solution to BuildFax’s challenge was using the Spark technology; or, more specifically, its Python implementation: the PySpark and Databricks tools.To accomplish this, STX Next provided a team of three developers whose task was supporting the BuildFax team throughout that difficult and trying process.BuildFax were very happy with our services and expanded their team as time went by, most notably with 24/7 maintenance and monitoring.

ABOUTTBSeen is a startup run by 12 British female celebrities, including the founder Kate Thornton. TBSeen.com brings together money-saving deals, offers, and rewards from 500 carefully-curated brands, blended with original, entertaining and helpful content. CHALLENGETBSeen is a unique start-up case. Due to celebrities bringing in followers that immediately converted to sales, the site is making money from day one. The problem was scaling up: with a London agency of just a few devs, TBSeen could not keep up with the pace of their business growth. The need to scale rapidly and within budget brought TBseen and STX Next together. STX Next provided TBSeen with discovery workshops, a full Scrum team, full-stack development, automated testing, business analysis, continuous integration and product design services.