Carbox

Highly connected information system for carsharing

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Context

Carbox is the french leader in B2B carsharing service.

Carbox wanted their own tool to manage all the information system and a booking interface.

Testimonial

Alexandre Crosby : “Inovia is a strategic partner for Carbox that provides both highly competent engineers for the development of our application, and reactivity and flexibility of a human-sized company.”

Objectives

  • Integrate everything in a friendly user backoffice (vehicles, companies, contracts, users, reservations, transacations, invoices, messages, …)
  • Keep the system flexible
  • Integrate multiple external services to communicate with vehicles, send text messages, stock dematerialized invoices, online payment.
  • High availability/reliability
  • Plan and manage old systems migration

Technologies

  • Zend Framework
  • Gearman
  • PostgreSQL
  • Novapost webservices
  • Google Maps
  • High Charts
  • SOAP
  • SIPS





Key facts

  • Several major companies are using Carbox’s service. Parallel processing for actions that could take a long time to execute;
  • Communication with cars;
  • First development in 5 months. Delivered on May 2010, new features implemented every month since.

Team

Up to 7 Inovia’s members on the project