Business Directory Mobile App Covering 300,000+ Companies

Client

Austria’s market leader for local search and direction solutions. Besides this core business, the Client offers a variety of products ranging from websites for SMEs and high-quality data for direct marketing to special interest products and products for search engine marketing.

The company has 75,000 customers. About 580 employees work in the Client’s offices throughout Austria.

Challenge

In order to strengthen its leading position in the competitive business directory market, the Client needed to increase its market share. As there is a growing number of mobile users, the Client decided to attract new clients and increase the satisfaction of existing ones by creating a mobile solution for performing its main services. Therefore, the Client came to ScienceSoft to develop a mobile application that would provide users with business information about various companies in Austria, including route directions to its locations.

Solution

ScienceSoft created an app with intuitive navigation that allows users to find detailed information about numerous companies of different business domains in Austria, as well as people’s home addresses and telephone numbers.

To find the information about an appropriate company, users are able to set diverse criteria, such as city, zip code, name, business area, or services. While using the app, users can find the following information about the companies:

• Company name, business area, and address. Users can choose the option to display the address on the map.
• Telephone number (by clicking on it, you can make a call).
• Web address and e-mail.
• Rating and reviews.
• Company’s description, products, opening hours, and other useful information.

Thanks to GPS, a mobile device detects users’ location and helps them find necessary companies in the immediate vicinity, as well as provides them with detailed route directions to get to the one they need.

In addition, the application enables sharing the contact information through e-mail, SMS, and social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.

Results

ScienceSoft’s team created a practical application that enables access from mobile devices to over 3 million Austrian telephone numbers, including the contact information of more than 300,000 companies. The solution helped the Client enhance the convenience of its services and, thereby, broaden the number of clients, as well as increase the satisfaction of existing clients with mobile devices.

The Business Information application was uploaded to the Google Play and App Store and received a broad response among users.

Technologies and Tools

REST API, Core Location Framework, UI Kit, Flurry, Social Framework

Java, Android SDK, XML, Android RPC, Design pattern, Eclipse, DDMS, ADB, AAPT, Hierarchy Viewer, sqlite3