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Find Out What to Do Tonight in Your City The new Android app we’ve developed for one of our clients in Canada helps you find dining deals, lodging specials, daily events, nightly entertainment, and band venues. The app also comes in handy when you go on a trip and want to find activities you can enjoy during your stay. Let’s see what people have to say: Looking for what to do and where to go? From the business perspective, by […]

You might know or not, DB Best started in 2002 as a database migration technology startup. After years of migrating enterprise applications and databases, we saw an opportunity to expand into web and mobile development – it was back in 2008. And already in 2009 we started delivering mobile applications, including games, mobile commerce apps, and communication solutions. Using our smart methodology for designing and building technology products, we’ve created dozens of Android and iOS applications that have been used […]

Prologue In 1999, when I was in my first year of university, if I wanted to check my e-mail I had to come into a lab. I used to come into the class, open browser, type address and then go out to grab some coffee. Usually when I came back I was really happy to see that at least half of the page had been loaded. Today people are not so patient. They used to get response from the web-sites […]

Some of our customers ask: can DB Best deliver the complete ecommerce solution? Our answer is “Absolutely”. Whether you want to use an open source ecommerce platform, a plug-and-play shopping cart, or an enterprise-level ecommerce app, our talented developers and technical engineers have everything you need to create a successful online store. Choosing an Ecommerce Solution That’s Right For You In our portfolio we have several ecommerce projects developed by our team, from design and customization to deployment and marketing: 1. […]

Highlights from our Mobile Development portfolio – from entertainment and fun apps to educational, location, business and social apps. The Mobile eco-system has too many moving parts: apps, platforms, data, analytics, APIs, user experience, marketing. When we talk to prospects about their mobile initiatives, we always try to identify client needs, determine their audience, and then lay a framework in order to achieve the desired results. Regular readers of our blog probably know that over the last 10 months we’ve […]

One of our core value propositions at DB Best is to help our clients lower the costs of running their enterprise level applications and be more productive. After 10 years in the database migration business, we now have top experts, smart tools and established methodology which allow us to seamlessly switch apps over to Microsoft products. Let us give you an example of a very successful 3-week Siemens Teamcenter Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server migration project.     https://youtu.be/dKPo8ADgTlo In this video, our […]

View your assets, vehicles and any person anytime, from anywhere in the world from your phone. Almost all mobile devices these days come equipped with the GPS technology. And there are many state-of-the-art products on the market which help you capitalize on the location technology: in real-time you can locate and track vehicles, assets, people, and take care of your pets. There is a growing number of Location Based Service companies that provide wireless location products and services for small […]

Want to freak out your friends or really surprise someone using your iPhone or iPad? The app transforms your iOS device into a scanner and a trusted advisor. Inspired by the black light technology, the new mobile app we delivered to our client allows users to “scan” any surface, type in the answer they want to hear, and get fictitious results in both audio and written formats. Intrigued? Let the fun begin:

Takeaway: Booking a taxi from your phone can be relatively easy and there is no shortage of apps available on Google Play. But the Android app we developed for our client adds quite a few awesome taxi search and booking capabilities that make the app one of the most innovative and exciting taxi dispatch systems on the market today. A white-label booking platform, mobile and web-based booking engine. The cloud-based taxi dispatch system is designed for taxi companies and independent drivers. […]

Many of our customers ask: “If my application runs and I’m happy, why do I need to migrate?” Being in the database migration business for over 10 years now, we’ve found that a value proposition based on hardware savings, licensing advantages, and professional relationships – used together or separately – makes customers interested in moving to the SQL Server platform. As you probably know, our key migration offerings include conversion of Oracle, Sybase ASE, Sybase ASA, DB2, DB2 UDB, MySQL, […]