Projects

National Cardholder Database

National Cardholder Database is a multinational portal and a system that implements the most important commercial, manufacturing and distributional GTS ALIVE card processes. Only in the Czech Republic NCDB uses approximately hundreds educational institutions and the system manages hundreds of thousands ISIC, ITIC and ALIVE IYTC cards. The new application uses the latest technology trends and it replaced the outdated system of 2006.

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o. 
  • Years of realization: 2008 – 2011
  • Technologies: Java EE / Spring Framework, XML-RPC, SOAP, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: more than 10 countries, hundreds of organisations, thousands of users, millions of cardholders

Press news: Orchitech newly innovated system for production and administration of ISIC cards

ISIC Global Office CRM

The management of identification cards publishers looked for a suitable method that could consolidate and process a large number of regional marketing and business data and information. A suitable solution was found in deployment of CRM system vTiger, which was supplemented with custom-developed modules. IAS thus provides an effective marketing tool with clear reporting and integration with other applications

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Year of realization: 2011
  • Technologies: PHP, vTiger CRM
  • Deployment sizing: tens of users, management of hundreds of organizations

Identity and Access Management

Orchitech Solutions participated in the development of an identity and access management system, which was awarded a special prize in the category „Integrated Identity & Access Management" at the European Identity Conference 2011.

  • Customer / end customer: Siemens IT Solutions and Services, s.r.o. / Telefónica O2
  • Year of realization: 2011
  • Technologies: J2EE, Siemens DirX Identity Manager
  • Deployment sizing: around 18 000 user identities, integration of more than 400 applications

Press release: Orchitech participated in the winning project

ISIC Global Office – B2B Webshop

B2B Webshop represents a significant innovation for ISIC issuers. Now they have possibility to purchase cards, printers and some other commodities necessary for card issuing business in their country directly from ISIC Global Office. Direct profit of this project will be easier, faster and well defined treatment of the orders and reduced necessity of communication with issuers.

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Years of realization: 2011 – 2012
  • Technologies: Java EE / Spring Framework, PHP / Zend Framework, REST, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: worldwirde

ISIC Global Office – Co-brand Manager – Phase 1

ISIC issuers around the world cooperate with many partners who use their own cards with ISIC logo and design and bring so their holders a lot of ISIC benefits.  Co-brand Manager in its 1st phase is aimed at collecting of information about co-brands from card issuers and analytical tools. Later phases of the project should also contain web service access to the data and output to isic.org website, Extranet or applications.

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Years of realization: 2011 – 2012
  • Technologies: Java EE / Spring Framework, PHP / Zend Framework, REST, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: worldwirde, partners of 150 regional card issuers

ISIC Extranet - Community Portal For ISIC

The client wanted to create a space to connect all tools needed for daily work of regional members of the ISIC Association. Emphasis was therefore placed on easy integration with existing applications and scalability for other tools. The solution in itself also included a platform for sharing information, but also a communication tool for both individual members of the ISIC community and to partner organisations.

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Year of realization: 2011-2012
  • Technologies: J2EE, Liferay CE, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: tens of organisations, hundreds of users

Case study: Extranet - the portal for the ISIC community users

Central Cardholder Database

Orchitech Solutions supplied its Dutch klient with a technologically challenging project of a central repository of data issued by the international ISIC cards. An integral part of the data repository was the integration with B2B applications for issuing ISIC cards (CardMaster.net) and also with verification services of third parties (CJP and NUS cards).

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Years of realization: 2010-2011
  • Technologies: Java EE / Spring Framework, PHP / Zend Framework, REST, SOAP, Postgres,
  • Deployment sizing: worldwirde, manage around 10 millions cards

Benefit Manager 2 + isic.org

Orchitech Solutions implemented a system for managing student benefits as well as the international portal isic.org. An important part of the solution was implementation of complex benefit model with support of worldwide geo topology.

  • Customer: International Association Services (now ISIC Global Office)
  • Years of realization: 2010-2011
  • Technologies: Java EE / Spring Framework, PHP / Zend Framework, REST, SOAP, Bing Maps, Google Maps, Postgres (originally MSSQL), Orchitech CMS
  • Deployment sizing: worldwide, hundreds of organisations, thousands of visitors per day

Online Issuing a Online Ordering

Orchitech Solutions supplemented his client, publisher of the international ISIC cards, online ordering and issuing application of identification cards. The application supports printing cards directly from the browser using a custom Java applet and is integrated with the international payment portal Docdata payments.

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Years of realizations: 2010-2011
  • Technologies: Java EE / Spring Framework (custom Java applet), PHP / Zend Framework, REST, Postgres,
  • Deployment sizing: worldwide

Facebook app pro ISIC

Orchitech Solutions modified the application for online ordering of international ISIC cards and on this bases developed a facebook application for ordering cards in an environment of this social network.

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Year of realization: 2011
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres,
  • Deployment sizing: worldwide

Amerex Praha – web presentation

Orchitech Solutions created a web presentation for Amerex Praha, which is a part of Amerex International Group.

  • Customer / end customer: Trilabit s.r.o. / Amerex Praha spol. s r.o.
  • Year of realization: 2011
  • Technologies: PHP, Orchitech Custom CMS
  • Deployment sizing: Czech Republic

Card Issuing

Orchitech Solutions completed the GTS Alive system of an application for self-publishing of ordered ISIC cards. The application is fully integrated with the NCDB (National cardholder Database) and contains a range of functionalities such as checking card validity etc.

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o.
  • Year of realization: 2010
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: Worldwide (Argentina, Czech Republic, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore)

ISIC Check

Another Orchitech Solutions portfolio project for GTS Alive is the application ISIC Check. It performs both online and offline verification and validity cards check. The application must therefore be integrated with the NCDB (National cardholder database), which then checks the cards licence. The application is used by ISIC publishers as well as by discount providers and other partners.

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o.
  • Year of realization: 2010
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: Worldwide (Argentina, Czech Republic, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore)

Online Ordering

Orchitech Solutions implemented a portal for ordering international ISIC cards. The portal integrates orders to NCDB (National cardholder Database), applications for ordering insurance to ISIC cards and several payment gateways.

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o.
  • Years of realization: 2009-2011
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: celosvětově Worldwide (Argentina, Czech Republic, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore)

Mojepexeso.cz – E-shop

Orchitech Solutions implemented e-commerce solution for MojePexeso.cz. The application is based on the open-source system OpenCart, which guides the user through the ordering process from creation of a custom memory game to final electronic payment by integration with payment portal.

  • Customer: Trilabit s.r.o. - typographic studio
  • Year of realization: 2011
  • Technology: PHP
  • Deployment sizing: Czech Republic

ISIC Sales module

Orchitech Solutions implemented a tool that allows international publishers of ISIC cards recording the results of their business activities. In the frame of the ISIC community are registered not only historical information about sold cards, but also predicted expected sales.

  • Customer: ISIC Global Office
  • Year of realization: 2011
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres,
  • Deployment sizing: worldwide

Insurance – B2B and B2C Portal for Travel Insurance

Orchitech Solutions supplied GTS Alive a B2B and B2C system for selling of travel insurance. The implemented solution was also fully integrated with information systems of the insurance company and in addition provided an integrated gateway for electronic payments (gp WebPay).

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o.
  • Year of realization: 2010
  • Technologies: J2EE, Spring framework.
  • Deployment sizing: Czech Republic.

E-shop for sale of ski and summer tours

Orchitech Solutions designed and implemented an e-shop for the sale of ski and summer tours with discounts for ISIC card holders. The basic e-shop functionality was offers synchronization with systems of travel agencies and links to applications managing ISIC.

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o.
  • Year of realization: 2009
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres
  • Deployment sizing: Czech Republic

Chytrepalice.cz - web for czech ISIC card holders

Orchitech Solutions implemented B2B and B2C portal services for Czech ISIC card holders. In addition to standard functionalities the portal itself was hiding integration with NCDB (National Cardholder Database), payment provider and other applications and systems.

  • Customer: GTS ALIVE s.r.o.
  • Year of realization: 2008 – 2009
  • Technologies: PHP / Zend Framework, Postgres, custom CMS
  • Deployment sizing: Czech Republic

AAA API + High Availability system

Orchitech Solutions implemented a mission critical system for accessing data on identities of the The Czech Social Security Administration. The deployment contains high availability solution - RedHat Cluster Suite.

  • Customer/ end customer: Siemens IT Solutions and Services, s.r.o. / ČSSZ
  • Year of realization: 2008
  • Technologies: J2EE, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Cluster Suite, IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
  • Deployment sizing: ČSSZ, thousands of queries per second