Trimble

Buildings consume about 40% of global energy, which makes the design of high-performing buildings a priority for reducing global energy consumption. 

Based on deep expertise in building physics and close collaboration with building designers, Sefaira’s goal was to develop leading software for high-performance building design, which would help them create great, high-performing buildings. 

ASSIST Software has been working on the Sefaira product since 2014 by augmenting the clients’ development teams in New York & London through joint development flows and Agile ceremonies. 

Learn more about Sefaira’s tools here: http://sefaira.com/how-it-works/ 

Following the acquisition of Sefaira Ltd. by Trimble Inc. in 2016, ASSIST continued the relationship with further assignments including the development of SketchUp PreDesign, maintenance and DevOps. 

ASSIST Software has been involved in architecting and developing various microservices, an application for user and entitlements management, custom integrations and plugins for Sketchup tools. Previously, we created Sefaira’s corporate website and newsletter system, as well as autoscaling on AWS. The AWS solution provided by ASSIST Software brings numerous advantages, like: on-demand delivery of IT resources, pay-as-you-go pricing, no upfront investment, low ongoing cost, flexible capacity, speed & agility and global reach. It also allows the team to focus on projects that differentiate the business, not on the infrastructure. 

The biggest technical challenge was building a complex orchestrator using docker containers, enabling developers to spin up development and testing environments quickly and easily.