OYM AG

soxes is a strategic partner for the software development of OYM and takes over the specification and implementation of new applications. The planned applications support the core processes in the organisation as well as the care and management of athletes. The first phase of the partnership included a first version of the OYM Planner. This supports the Athletic Training Department in creating individual training plans for their athletes and teams.

Intelligent planning

The tool allows OYM staff to define the goals of plan phases and then set weekly and daily priorities. When users open the team calendar in OYM Planner, they can see what has been planned for the athletes and prepare training sessions accordingly. Through the integration of Office365, the trainings are sent as Outlook meetings to all participants and rooms.

Active and agile sparring partner

The application was specified and implemented in less than four months and has been in daily use ever since. It is developed further every month and grows with further requirements. The added value soxes brings to OYM is the role of an active and agile sparring partner. In order to realise OYM’s vision, soxes has gained a strong understanding of their needs and processes. soxes sees the role as a sparring partner as crucial, as the constant reflection of new ideas is essential for the elaboration of effective applications.

Practical, efficient, modern

Thanks to this process, end products are created that are suitable for daily use and fit the long-term strategy. By involving the UI/UX specialist in the specification phase, the application is not only practical and efficient, but also fits OYM’s modern and distinctive corporate identity.

soxes is the strategic software development partner of OYM and takes care of the specification and implementation of new applications. The OYM Builder is an application that allows the user to customise both programmes and trainings for more than ten different sports (and growing). The tool is connected to the OYM Planner as well as to the OYM Tester and can complement the theoretically planned training foci with effective trainings. These can be created intuitively and flexibly from scratch or with the help of an existing training and are summarised with the help of dashboards. In doing so, soxes not only designed and developed the entire environment, but also created an ontology specifically adapted to the OYM. Ontology is understood as a different way of representing relationships. With OYM, this vision was realised with the help of soxes AG. Each tag reflects universal superclasses in the whole system of the OYM Builder, OYM Planner and in the future also the OYM Tester. Accordingly, a holistic ecosystem is created within the applications, which sets new standards for the development and planning of training programmes.

The added value soxes offers to OYM is the role of an active and agile sparring partner to be able to specify and implement their visions, soxes has gained a strong understanding of OYM’s needs and processes. soxes sees its role as a sparring partner as crucial, as challenging their ideas is important for both parties to create an application that is suitable for daily use and fits their long-term strategy. By involving the UX/UI specialist in the specification phase, the application fits OYM’s modern and distinctive corporate identity while being practical and efficient. OYM has a big vision for their industry and soxes is happy to take on the role of an active partner in realising that vision. By working in iterations and sprints, both companies are continuously evaluating the current plan and how it fits into the bigger picture.

Thanks to the close collaboration between OYM and soxes, synergies have been found to redefine their digital foundations. soxes provides a fully comprehensive front-end and an understanding of how the back-end needs to be developed, giving OYM the ability to incorporate their own business logic and use the application with future new data. OYM gains a flexibility that no standard software can cover.

Without data, research and diagnosis is very difficult, which is why a wide variety of diagnostic equipment is in use at OYM. This results in as yet unformatted (unstructured) data, which is processed by OYM in the first step. In a second step, the structured data must be visualised and presented in an understandable way for all participants in the OYM Tester application so that they can verify it. To make this possible, it is necessary to develop a dynamically expandable application that enables OYM to add further devices and test types largely independently. This approach will enable OYM to further digitalise test administration independently.

With the OYM tester, soxes has designed and developed a dynamic application that is specially tailored to the above-mentioned requirements. Individuality and flexibility are at the forefront of the OYM-Tester. OYM and soxes have jointly defined which data types and structures must be able to be displayed by the tester. This means that OYM can manage, extend or create the structure within the framework of the jointly developed data schemas, the test data itself. OYM approached soxes with the initial concept for the development of the OYM tester. The concept is that OYM prepares the data in its datalake and makes it available to the application, which displays this data dynamically. The application only has to know which data source and format it has to fetch, based on the agreed schema. For example, a non-editable number with the label “jump height” or an editable drop-down menu with the label “athlete name”, which is supplied already filled depending on the test device. The ontology here acts as a link between the application and the datalake. It gives the application information about how the different data must be linked and in which format they should be delivered. The development of the application, the schemas, the ontology extension and the surrounding systems took place in parallel, which requires intensive coordination and a high degree of flexibility on all sides.

The tester is the third application that soxes has implemented for OYM. Therefore, both sides can benefit from a well-rehearsed cooperation. The parallel development of several components always poses certain challenges. For this reason, soxes has placed a special focus on regular coordination with regard to scope and milestone planning in order to ensure smooth cooperation.

Summary: Which stars did soxes pull out of the sky from the customer’s point of view?

• Individuality: The OYM tester can be added to, changed and scaled at will without the need for further development work. This gives OYM the flexibility to adapt the tester to specific requirements.
• Simplicity: Despite its individuality, the OYM Tester is easy to use. This was achieved through close collaboration between OYM and soxes in the design of the UI/UX. The user interface was designed to be intuitive and user-friendly.