Case study: Einstar.io

Key highlights

Client location:

Belgium

Industry:

Any medium to large business

Type:

Web-application

Duration:

10+ months

Employees:

Platforms:

Web/Cloud

Main features:

Knowledge management
Knowledge base
Lesson & course creation
Interactive video lessons
Integration with Edson
ELO rating system

Technologies:

Backend: JAVA, Node.js, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Docker, Feathers, Express.js
Frontend: Vue.js, Three.js
Architecture: REST API, Microservices, AWS

Overview

No matter how big or small your company is, you need to have an efficient instrument to inspire your employees. Einstar is a learning platform that will help to share knowledge between peers, capture user-generated knowledge from the experts in your organization, rate and analyze skills of your workers and find out the strengths and weaknesses inside the company.

Background

Every mid to large company has a lot of knowledge to share within their company, Einstar makes this extremely easy by giving you the possibility to create and internal, interconnected Wikipedia-like knowledge base. And by creating small posts and files which can be linked or shared anywhere, bite-sized information nuggets. This way the knowledge becomes more easy to consume.
Of course the integration with Edson is also a very important aspect, as these tools are complimentary to each other and create a unique learning environment for the company.

Technologies

Einstar is a single page application, these are the main technologies that were used on the project;

Backend: Node.js, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Feathers
Frontend: Vue.js, Three.js.
Architecture solutions & devops stuff: REST API, Microservices, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Docker, Gitlab CLI

The team consisted of: one backend developer, one frontend developer, one QA-tester, one UX designer, and one project manager.

Advantages

Some of the advantages that Einstar provides to it's users:

Innovate & stay ahead

Einstar is a solution for companies who want to innovate and stay ahead of the pace of change, by providing their employees the most up-to-date trainings and instructions.

Inspire & share

Einstar is a solution for companies that want to inspire their team by providing easy to access tool for sharing ideas and knowledge.

Connect generations

Einstar is a solution for companies that need effective transfer of baby boomers’ and generation X experience to the newcomers and generation Y users, connect your employees regardless of their age.

Centralize knowledge

Einstar is a solution for companies that want to centralize and enrich their knowledge, provide unique lessons and engage their staff.

Custom tailored

Einstar is a solution for companies that need to provide specific learning courses for different groups of employees depending on their position and role in the team.

Grow your potential

Einstar is a solution for companies that want to find opportunities for growth and create a learning culture for their employees.

Problem Solving

The main problem that Einstar tackles is the lack of a centralized knowledge platform, and a lack of interconnection between the content within this platform. The added value lies also with using the combination of Edson and Einstar to actually link specific product groups to specific training and documentation.

Einstar can be used on it's own or in combination with Edson and Esla. The tool can also be integrated with any existing database, if you want to have the ability to dynamically pull content from there. Users can access the application from any device, as long as their account has the right permission settings.

Solution

When you break down the solutions, you'll receive the features at the core of the application, the combination and interaction of these features creates the complete user experience.

Post & activities

Inform and organize events for your team with internal news-feed and virtual schedule assistant. Stay tuned to the latest updates and testing results of your team.

Collect & analyze statistics

Observe how additional trainings help your company to make important decisions about your personnel and management based on factual results.

Team management

Organize user groups in order to provide specific training for different teams and focus on needed skills in each specialization.

Courses and lessons

Create training programs for employees and improve their skills with vast variety of lessons including video courses and interactive lessons.

Complex knowledge library

Store articles, presentations, video lessons and instructions in one place. Link them to your database or use them in courses and lessons for your employees.

Testing

Test your workers and detect their strong and weak spots. Adapt your training programs and review employees’ performance based on the results.

Rating systems

Receive instant feedback about employees’ performance on tests. That feedback can be used to screen rising talents and dedicated team members, and support those who need additional assistance.

Automatic translation

Anything within Einstar can be translated to almost any requested language. The automated translation is provided by Google Translate API, and is as good as it gets.
This makes it extremely easy to create different course versions for different languages.

Course taking-reminders

Set up deadlines and required courses that need to be taken by selected user groups. They'll receive different follow-up emails as the deadline nears for these courses.

Efficiency creates time for creativity

Einstar strives to make knowledge management simple and easy to use. Splitting large chunks of knowledge into small learning-nuggets makes it easy to consume them for your employees.