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.

ABOUTBlocktrade is a state-of-the-art crypto trading platform that prioritizes speed, reliability and safety. It allows retail users, brokers, professional traders as well as institutional money managers to trade with crypto assets and indices in a fully audited and highly secure way.CHALLENGEBlocktrade’s challenge was to build a top-of-the-line trading portal in the shortest possible time window and build an internal team of experts who will take over the development of the solution provided by STX Next. Working with Blocktrade, we created a web application that will allow retail users, brokers, professional traders as well as institutional money managers to trade with crypto assets and indices in a fully audited, highly secure way, performing similarly to Nasdaq.

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.