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eMan, the leading Czech software house, won the tender issued by the Publications Office of the European Union. The total value of the order – 3.5 mil EUR (around 90 mil CZK) – only confirms the fact that Czech IT companies are becoming a global player in the field. The contract is set for four years.
During the following four years, eMan, as one of four successful companies, will be developing and maintaining mobile applications for the Publications Office of the European Union intended for the general public of the EU. The aim is to offer a more clear and simple way of obtaining information from individual offices to EU citizens. The users will then have easy access to new legislation, statistics, and other data.
“We are very happy that we succeeded in very tough competition with European developers. Working on large projects for EU institutions will be a valuable source of new experience for us,” said Tomáš Čermák, the Marketing Director at eMan.
The tender lasted almost five months and a lot of European companies competed.
The tender started in June 2017 and 16 European companies competed. The contract was signed on Friday November 24, 2017 in Luxemburg.
“The toughest challenge was to develop the structure of the application while designing the solution for the tender. We had to design a solution which would be able to work with an enormous amount of data, because the Publications Office of the European Union has a database containing millions of pages of text, and every day more are added. We are talking about one order but the specifics of this tender are that it contains a lot of various applications for individual EU offices, all of which will have different requirements,” commented Gabriel Szalay, the Account Manager at eMan who is in charge of this project.
A special team will be set up and dedicated to the development and management of the apps. The target group is very diverse, ranging from high school students to seniors, and that is something that will have to be considered carefully, while, at the same time, also considering people with vision impairment. And an interesting fact is that the apps will be localized into 24 languages.
About eMan:
eMan is the leading Czech software house, specializing in the development of mobile and web applications, and integrated solutions. The company cooperates with clients mainly from the automotive, banking, insurance, and energy fields and services. Among eMan’s clients, you can find companies like ŠKODA AUTO, Honeywell, E.ON, ČSOB, Allianz, Česká pojišťovna, and MND. The mobile solutions developed at eMan have received a number of awards, for example the Mobile App of the Year, Internet Effectiveness Awards, WebTop100, IT Project of the Year, and Zlatá koruna.
