Service
When several firms in an industry have the same problem and the market offers no solution, we develop it. With the regulations, formats and documents of that industry as the starting point.
What it is about
Industry software is software for the rules, data formats and records of a particular industry. It differs from general business software in that it already knows the technical terms, regulations and documents of that industry and does not have to be adapted first.
dev2soft develops industry software for industries that the large vendors do not serve: too specialised for a standard product, too important for a spreadsheet.
Our example
Levora is our own industry software. These four things were in no requirements specification; they are in standards, contract terms and on the foremen’s tickets.
Bills of quantities arrive as GAEB DA XML. Levora reads phases X81 and X83, returns the bid as X84 and keeps the item numbers of the contract.
About the GAEB importQuantities are calculated to REB 23.003, a catalogue of formulas from the Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen, the Federal Highway Research Institute.
About measurement to REBOn site, things are written and signed on paper. Levora does not abolish the ticket, it reads it.
About ticket recognitionPublic clients demand XRechnung invoices with a Leitweg-ID to EN 16931.
About XRechnungApproach
1Read the regulations and formats
Standards, contract terms, format specifications. In the original, not in a summary.
2Collect real documents
Forms, files and exceptions from several firms. What is on the paper decides, not what is in the textbook.
3Build the smallest useful slice
One process, complete, in use at two or three firms.
4Extend it with the firms
What comes next is decided by the users’ work, not by a feature list.
Who it is for
You looked for a solution for yourself and found that your peers are in the same position.
A group, a guild or an association that wants to close a gap in the market.
You supply an industry and want to put a tool in your customers’ hands.
Common questions
Describe it to us. If you have documents on it, all the better.
