Insights
IT informa’s consultants work on long-running assignments in complex systems across industry, healthcare, public sector and financial services. These are stories from those assignments.
Assignments
IT informa delivers anti-theft security features for major manufacturer of mobility technology
An eBike parked in public represents a significant investment. IT informa’s Magnus Borgström designed and delivered the lock and alarm features in a major mobility technology manufacturer’s companion app, giving riders reliable real-time theft protection.
IT informa aligns customs compliance requirements across 15 business units for major international retailer
Building a customs compliance solution for a global retailer’s import and export flows is as much a coordination challenge as a technical one. IT informa’s Tulika Choudhury aligned requirements across more than 15 business units.
IT informa modernises messaging infrastructure for major international retailer’s store integration platform
Real-time messaging between store systems is only invisible when it works. IT informa’s Ola Mattsson upgraded the integration messaging layer at a major international retailer from MQTT v3 to v5, including a complete client rewrite.
IT informa builds curated listing capability into AI-powered product discovery engine
Product discovery is driven by algorithms, but not all retail decisions can be left to an engine. IT informa’s Joakim Svensson built the tooling that gives merchandisers direct control over what customers see and when.
Articles
Managing requirements as system properties
Standard requirements methods work well for functional requirements. Non-functional requirements such as performance, compliance and usability work better when treated as properties of the solution rather than tasks to decompose.
The refactoring safety net
Unit tests that know too much about implementation details become a burden during refactoring, not a safety net. Mattias Olofsson explains how black box testing keeps that net intact as the codebase changes.
Our approach to regulatory requirements
Breaking compliance requirements into sub-requirements leads to fragmented solutions and makes audits harder. IT informa developed a different approach: treat regulatory requirements as properties of the solution, tested across healthcare, finance and supply chains.
Future-proof your architecture with aspects
Architecture drifts after refactoring when new code is not held to the same rules. Daniel Svedberg explains how compile-time enforcement with AspectJ can safeguard the design long after the refactoring work is done.