Concepts & prototyping
We help in discovering and tailoring winning solution concepts from early ideas to fully operational prototypes. Concept verification through end user research and testing is always preferred option when designing consumer products, applications and services.
In prototypes we use the most convenient platforms: flipcharts and drawing boards, mobile and tablet platforms, laptops and desktops, game consoles - what ever makes the best sense to evaluate the feasibility of an idea. Prototyping brings all stakeholders to the same page and helps bringing visionary items to evolve even further with iterative dialog between service owner and their potential customers.
BLStream has lot of experience in facilitating concept creation and prototyping process to get solid proof of concept for an idea. One crucial part of this process is end user service experience analysis. This supports concept owners to make the right product decisions that meet the needs and expectations of the demanding end-users.
Digital Product Strategy
For those ideas that are good enough to find their way to commercialization we help our customers to build competitive product roadmaps that takes into account the whole lifecycle of a product from the early platform choices up to release and feature planning, differentiation strategy, defining digital channel strategy, monetization, platform choices, marketing and advertizing.
As a publisher of many TOP-10 iTunes, Android Market, Amazon, Nintendo and OVI consumer apps for mobiles and tablets we have valuable marketing and publishing insight to make your digital rollouts also successful.
You can try luck as the key component of your digital product strategy - we have tried that too and learned through the hard way. Based on our experience mastering and extending successful product life cycle is not possible without great ideas and creativity - but as much of that you need meticulous planning that takes into account the sustainable value of your service proposition, business and target audience benefits, product life-cycle monetization strategy, visionary feature roadmap, flexible plug-in architectures to enable convenient software upgrades and also quick rollouts for new platforms.
User Experience
We think that great digital products equals great user experience. Bringing stellar visuals on the surface of your application can make a big difference in creating WOW experience - but it rarely improves the fundaments of poor usability, user interface and interaction design. For us superior user experience is build around basic ingredients of usability, ergonomics, to the point interactions, clever context management and all the tiny details that make user interface or application stand out in the crowd.
We often evaluate great public UX references first intuitively: where comes the WOW, why do I want more of this, how can I feel love@1st touch. Then we analyze and aim higher. We want to offer our customers distinguishing user experience that touches emotionally.
Visual Design
Originally as a sidetrack of our game and application design we ended up using our visual artists in cross industry exercises related to branding, typography, logos, storyboarding, flash animations, 3D rendering, cartoonizing, widgets and iconography. This all has evolved to own service proposal, which helps our customers to make powerful branding campaigns and product launches.
Design for marketing purposes supplements our holistic design service offering.
Digital Evolution
In most of the digital strategies companies are answering to increasing customer requirements and needs by extending their existing solutions with new digital channels and devices. The bigger the company the more it's about evolutionary approach to converge legacy with leading edge technologies.
We help our customers to identify technical pre-requisites for such journey. Auditing existing architectures objectively and defining critical path for implementing new are crucial steps for going forward. Recommending best practices with most suitable tools, techniques and frameworks guarantees best outcomes of any software project. Most of our 250 professionals are powering such implementation projects as we speak.
Delivering Upon Promises
Realizing customer's business plans and dreams in digital world involves hardcore technology skills and software craftsmanship - both key elements of BLStream DNA. To become the preferred software development partner for leading technology, communication, media and content publishing companies require dedication for excellence. That's what we call Software Craftsmanship.
Our professional services toolbox builds upon proven track record and excellence for multiple mobile operating systems, enterprise back-end systems and web technologies. We deliver upon promises with uncompromised customer orientation and quality - always focusing to meet and exceed customer's expectations.
We apply Agile methodologies with perspective, use different programming languages depending on the case from traditional C/C++ and Java to Scala, Erlang and Sencha frameworks to name a few. Building individual solutions with millions of source code lines and years of 24/7 non-stop stabile operations justifies us to say that our way of doing software is the right way. We are excited to share this knowledge with our customers.
Mobile Applications
Moving product's center of gravity to mobile world is a challenging endeavor. After all, this is one of the most dynamic and fragmented environments. Our mobile team has world-class expertise and references accumulated virtually since emergence of smartphones. Our roots are deep inside Symbian since its very early days over 10 years ago. Nowadays, we have over 250 years spent cumulatively on mobile platforms development and our portfolio includes virtually all Mobile OSes. We proudly power - iOS, Symbian and Qt, Android, Windows Phone, WebOS and J2ME.
BLStream's unique capabilities include developing cross-platform offerings supporting multiple mobile platforms and large-scale development programs. There is no silver bullet which solves portability problem. Depending on the case: isolating common code, utilizing cross-platform frameworks or creating a web application may be the best solution.
We are happy to hear your story and help executing the digital strategy in the most efficient and future proof way.
Data Driven Services
We are ready for serious data mining and prepared to bring your systems and infra intel to mobile. You want your data to be available and packaged into usable form, still naturally keeping company secrets secure. This is our domain; we are able to go deep into existing infrastructure to reach the systems and the data most wanted. Depending on your needs we can create Mobile and Web apps to access this data.
Our team is experienced in creating service middle layers that work as a Intelligent bridge between back-end systems and end-user applications. We tailor solutions to our partners that are both flexible and scalable, making rapid implementation of new features and services possible. Today's business environment is highly competitive and you need to run faster than your competitors. We know what time-to-market means and by intelligently harnessing your data, by bringing it to wisely mobile, we offer speed boost to your operations!