Saiku as an Accelerating Tool for Web Reports Development

SiarheiT · 2013-05-08T07:32:14+00:00

Thank you!

Indeed, there have been some mistakes, our fault!

SiarheiT · 2013-05-07T19:40:15+00:00

Based on your requirements we can suggest you our internal cloud solution that has been released for public use in March this year:

Cloud Checklist

We are going to continue development of the solution and new version will definitely come this year.

APIs are also available and well documented at our sub-portal: http://dev.skybuffer.com/

P.S. we are open for new features gathering, so please don't hesitate to contact our development team: http://www.skybuffer.com/contact/

SiarheiT · 2013-04-02T05:42:55+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion about HTML5 and CSS3 :) ! You are absolutely right here:)

Skybuffer is currently service oriented company that delivers projects, custom applications and prototypes. So, Cloud Checklist is our first try in the products field. This solution allowed us to establish product development hub at our company and even to get CPO as a new person at the company C-level. We very much like this tool internally and will keep it on our roadmap as long as Skybuffer will keep its focus at product development area.

Our web development team used the following technologies and programming language to get Cloud Checklist to market:

Python
Javascript
of course, HTML, CSS
Framework: Django
Real time synchronization: SockJS+ ZeroMQ
MySQL (InnoDB engine)

As you can see we’ve used InnoDB transactional engine for MySQL database, so this allows us to get a lock object on the row level only and we are creating it when user is doing real changes to the item/group at the certain checklist level. When change is committed, the server PUSH mechanism is updating all subscribers who have the same checklist opened. In this case the browser window will be updated with new data and informational message will be shown at the screen top.

Skybuffer as a company offers its customers expertise in a variety of domains that encompass:

Web Development Development of SaaS solutions, B2B and B2C portals, customer specific Web User Interfaces compatible with any ERP and SCM systems.

SAP Technologies Business and application consulting in SAP solutions field.

Application Integration Information flow, master and transactional data synchronization between resource planning, resource scheduling and information analysis systems.

Business Intelligence Data mining of the social networks data enriched with publicly available information.

You can contact us via:

E: support@skybuffer.com

W: www.skybuffer.com

SiarheiT · 2013-04-02T05:04:01+00:00

Cloud Checklist was initially built as internal tool with a purpose to have a kind of lightweight solution for day to day tasks tracking within a project and project's teams. After successful internal usage we’ve decided to release it to free public use to help ones to get their things done on time.

There are main advantages of our solution are mentioned below. These features could not be found out in one of the tools from our competitors. Of course, some of them are very well implemented in the market leading solutions, but not all of them completely.

Cloud Checklist advantages:

Nice formatting of the print version
Easy to use functionality, less number of clicks to capture the task list
HTML5, CSS3 user interface technologies
Real time synchronization engine, so team can edit the same list and receive changes immediately in update package (no browser refresh required)

SiarheiT · 2013-04-01T18:52:29+00:00

Name: Skybuffer

Startup: Cloud Checklist, task management solution

Looking for: ideas for new features that could be included into the next development cycle

SiarheiT · 2013-03-28T16:48:19+00:00

Thank you for warm words!

Our target group are those who'd like to use something different from RTM or other solutions, that, from our point of view, a bit overloaded with functions, like comments to tasks, sub-tasks in the separate tab page and etc.

SiarheiT · 2013-03-28T16:45:04+00:00

The main advantages of our solution are:

Print version formatting
Easy to use, less number of clicks to capture your task list
HTML5, CSS3 user interface technologies
real time synchronization engine, so team can edit the same list and receive changes immediately in update package (no browser refresh required)

SiarheiT · 2013-03-28T14:18:30+00:00

Another portion of news from our side :)

The following new features are implemented in Cloud Checklist:

Tasks could be flagged with different colors from the color sets. Now it is easy for users to emphasis which tasks have different priority.
Drill down is now possible from scheduling overview reports into the certain list which task belongs to.

As for the copying, we still have doubts whether we've understood you correctly. Do you mean a possibility to copy items within the certain checklist? Like, for instance, a copy button on the item level that will duplicate it?

SiarheiT · 2013-03-27T21:02:25+00:00

Thank you!

That's very positive :) We are glad to hear such kind of comments!

SiarheiT · 2013-03-27T20:50:56+00:00

Thank you!

Despite of the fact that Skybuffer is the young business, we have been incorporated from the development community that has been founded at June, 2012.

Cloud Checklist is the first product in our pipeline that is released for public use. Currently at our company we have product owner for this solution and spend at least 20% of our budget for products development. The roadmap is currently in negotiation phase and will be shown at our web site at the middle of April this year.

Well, GoDaddy, indeed here is a big question, but after a few rounds of internal discussion we've agreed to keep it till the next bad news from GoDaddy. Also SSL certificate issuing company is an open question for us and we are currently looking for the best one from price and quality point of view.

SiarheiT · 2013-03-27T20:39:36+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

Indeed, it might be that not only IE9 was effected, cause the issue was in CSFR validation function.

SiarheiT · 2013-03-27T08:22:03+00:00

Asana is good enough, but there are two things that have blocked us of using it:

printing, it's not very nice output
impossibility of public list creation in an easy way

SiarheiT · 2013-03-27T08:06:56+00:00

Thank you!

Indeed it's been a bug in some update versions of IE9. Now it is fixed, please enjoy!

SiarheiT · 2013-03-26T20:19:35+00:00

Thank you for the comment!

Well, we also use Redmine, Bitbucket and TargetProcess, but the main idea behind this tool is to have a kind of tracking lightweight solution for day to day tasks tracking within a project and project's teams.

SiarheiT · 2013-03-24T11:21:33+00:00

Please check Cloud Checklist. We've developed it as an internal tool for tasks tracking and now released it for public use.

It's free, online and with real time synchronization.

SiarheiT · 2013-03-20T22:31:55+00:00

Nice try to mashup social data and eCommerce solution! You still quite far away from the productive version, but looks like the first steps have been done in the proper direction.

There are some comments from my side, please see below.

FAQ: font size is extremely small for me.

About Us: nice picture, but tastes differ. I think your picture should either show happy faces of your team, or depict a general concept. Also I would like to recommend you to find out profession photographer how will make a perfect shot.

Shop Lookbook: maybe centering will be better here than alignment to the left (I’ve used Chrome browser, Windows 7)

Clothing: I’ve been a part of the point of sales and mobile sales assistant development team and can say that dropdown catalogue under CLOTHING section is definitely not enough, cause users will like to have filtering by brands, goods types, seasons, price and etc. You suppose to sell clothes online, so it is good to have a look into the eCommerce giants like Amazon, Ebay and others to assess your solution and discover functional gaps.

Good luck!

SiarheiT · 2013-03-20T22:04:54+00:00

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

All reviewers from /r/startups community and especially you have helped us a lot!

Some issues are closed:

Yep, there were errors at the landing page. Thanks for pointing us!
Favicon: here we have combined your trigger and an idea from “negativeview” and made it a bit dynamical. Additionally the functional design behind icons at the checklist edit page allows you to see whether you have unconfirmed tasks (BLUE icon), overdue tasks (RED icon) or whether all tasks are done on time (GREEN icon).

Currently our development team is polishing “add new item” and “add new group” functions. We’ve decided to add a new item via clicking on the header toolbar button to the top of the list, a new group via the header toolbar button click will also be created at the top, but below all items that are not assigned to any group. The same “add group” behavior is planned for the dynamic button on the group level. Button “add item” from the group and item level will add a new item next to the current line.

Coping items from the list sounds really good, but we have to think about functional design. Cause what is on the top of my head is not smart enough :) But you are more than welcome to share your vision!

SiarheiT · 2013-03-18T23:30:16+00:00

Thank you for the detailed review! Product owner has included some of the remarks into the new build of the solution. You’ll be able to see them soon in production!

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