Introducing Pikaba Social Commerce SaaS Platform
04 Jan 2013

The ecommerce world as we know it is becoming more complex and getting bigger. Let us give you a few examples: in-store location based services touch commerce mobile payments social gifting social data With all of these changes, what’s really to be expected from a social community software in 2013? What’s the next big thing in ecommerce? For over a year now, we at DB Best Technologies have provided social commerce marketplaces for local businesses and brands that wanted a secure […]

Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Technologies – Part 1
31 Dec 2012

Big Data – Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) 001 (click to download) *~:~* Happy New Year *~:~* My last blog (Column Oriented Database Technologies) discussed the differences between Row and Column oriented databases and some key players in this space.  Concepts and technologies on Big Data have been discussed in previous blogs (Big Data & NoSQL Technologies & NoSQL .vs. Row .vs. Column).  From these blogs one should surmise that deciding upon the best database technology (or DBMS vendor) really depends on schema complexities, […]

How We Use SharePoint 2010 for Creating Internal and External Sites
29 Dec 2012

We continue a series of posts about our expertise with Microsoft SharePoint. As you probably know, DB Best created a SharePoint Based Solution for a Photo Restoration Community. Now we’d like to show you a few more projects from our pipeline. SharePoint as a One-Stop Shop for Team Collaboration and Project Management People keep asking us why we are so excited about SharePoint. Well, here are some reasons when SharePoint can make your life a little bit easier: If a […]

Portfolio Spotlight: An Android App For Restaurant Savings
21 Dec 2012

Uncover potential customers on mobile and turn them into loyal buyers. As you probably know, we’ve been developing our social commerce platform – Pikaba.com – for a few years now. The platform can be used as a white-label ecommerce marketplace for any niche or industry. And now we’re proud to share our expertise to help our clients succeed. The big idea behind a new Android app we delivered for our client is to have a platform that can serve as […]

We Do Not Code For Food. We Deliver Apps That Rock
19 Dec 2012

Why working with our team is better for your business than hiring a freelancer. If you look at the end-to-end process of developing a mobile app, it involves a number of different things beyond coding – specification, business discovery, user interface design, user experience, marketing and, of course, testing. Take a minute and watch this video where our CEO Dmitry Balin (@dbalin) goes into the details about working with a development team vs. hiring a solo programmer.     https://youtu.be/Ndr2RMmVXIg […]

Portfolio Spotlight: Efficient List Management App for Your iPhone
17 Dec 2012

In the digital era there is too much to remember. The good news that that information can be used better, if we create an organized framework that makes retrieval more efficient. Create Lists for Everything Important Using iOS SDK, our mobile development team designed a simple and really easy-to-use iPhone app that allows you to create and manage lists: checklists, shopping lists, wish lists, lists of lists. You can also use it for storing sensitive information – passwords, pin numbers, […]

Mobile Walkie-Talkie Or A Skype-Like App Based On SIP Protocol
14 Dec 2012

The R&D part of our mobile division always comes up with new ideas and smart solutions. While experimenting with VOIP technologies and reimagining routing engines, they created a very special app that enables you to call people on their phones, anywhere in the world for free. The app supports iOS and Android platforms, and it makes calls to a mobile device by using its ID (or UDID). All you need is Internet connection and the app installed on your mobile […]

Portfolio Spotlight: ASP.NET Multi-Store e-commerce Solution
11 Dec 2012

Our client asked us to create a solution that would make it super easy to clone their existing e-commerce website but with different content and design. The good news for us was that they didn’t find any software on the market so we needed to create something absolutely unique. They also wanted the CMS to be as SEO-friendly as possible. So in this project, we’ve combined the best of two worlds: e-commerce web development and search engine optimization. The website […]

Portfolio Spotlight: A B2B Website For A Telecom Company
07 Dec 2012

Tadiran Telecom is a privately held company owned by Afcon Industries, which is part of the Shlomo Group, a financially robust conglomerate involved in developing a wide variety of businesses in the industrial and services sector. The company’s global presence is well established, with over 200 Business Partners and affiliates around the world. Our web development team created a fast, clean and easy-to-navigate website that provides Tadiran’s customers and partners with Intuitive navigation Products / Solutions categories PDF downloads The […]

Portfolio Spotlight: SharePoint Based Solution for a Photo Restoration Community
04 Dec 2012

As a collaboration application, SharePoint (sharepoint.microsoft.com) helps simplify business intelligence, content management, search, and sharing for intranet and internet sites. Using SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight 4 (microsoft.com/silverlight/) – as per the client’s requirements – our web development team created a portal for photo restoration artists with features ranging from File System and Image Viewer (we used jQuery for the latter) to online collaboration, file moderation and sharing. We did this short video review so you can see the website in […]