Clients & Case Studies

Arches - Cultural Heritage

A selection of our commercial Arches work, an open source data management solution. We are recognized Arches providers, an open source cultural heritage management platform, with GIS capability and suitable for movable and immovable heritage assets.

Our in-house expertise allows us to transform and customise Arches to your needs, whether that is within heritage, research, science and more. Serving public and private sector alike through open source cultural heritage. Get in touch to see what Arches can do for you.

We developed ESG dashboards capable of inputting data to generate reports, graphs and capturing geo-spatial data.

❝Boards123 innovates Board Performance. We do this with our software, services and training products. We work with Flax and Teal as our technology partner, as they are experts in transforming complex data and management systems into easy-to-use, highly accessible and intelligent software solutions.❞

We partnered with Big Motive to develop cutting edge fasttext algorithms to work in the background of their pain-based application. Our data and architect expertise ensured project was delivered on time and to specification.

❝We, at Big Motive, have worked with Flax & Teal on multiple technical projects and have benefited significantly from their ability to provide agile planning and delivery of technical work. From the early stages of the projects, Flax and Teal worked extremely well with all stakeholders, including the design and client teams to fully understand the project and co-create requirements.❞

Flax & Teal partnered with Deloitte to build an enterprise-level data gathering Human Resources platform. The digital transformation project changed the way resources are managed by quantifying time allocated to various departments.

This project involved an iterative Agile, full stack build and development of cloud infrastructure. The team deployed Kubernetes to ensure flexibility and resilience of service.

Our in-house team of web developers and data scientists are experts in guiding businesses throughout their digital transformation journey.

This knowledge transfer and upskilling can be through; digitalisation, web development, machine learning and data science. We aim to not only resolve initial problems and barriers to digital transformation, but to ensure these processes can continue without us involved.

We also provide training services in Python and Kubernetes, with highly positive feedback. Our Python course can be tailored to delivery, with modules focused to customer need. Our Director, Phil Weir, is one of Northern Ireland’s only certified Kubernetes architects.

Developed through the Belfast City Council’s HUB-IN Challenge Fund, we created a prototype that utilized advanced technologies to enhance the exploration of Belfast’s Maritime Mile.

This involved creating immersive virtual environments accessible via smartphones, allowing users to explore detailed 3D/VR recreations of historical sites along the Maritime Mile.

Improving upon governmental search

We worked closely with the Office of National Statistics to enhance and improve the search functionality on their existing site. This involved using advanced Natural Language Processing techniques, Kubernetes container orchestration, and enhancing geo-location searching.

We utilised ElasticSearch to augment location-based search functionality and improve search accuracy. We re-developed select pages within the front-end of the existing site to match the new internal design. Mile.

Flax & Teal were winners of the OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2020 & 2021, for our work surrounding Our Raging Planet and our work with open data and Covid-19.

We utilised Northern Irish open data surrounding Covid-19 cases and vaccinations, after conducting user-research with key stakeholders. We collated the data and displayed findings through interactive Python-based graphs.

We developed a web-based platform for HR management and dashboard analytics. Developing both back-end and front-end to client specification, to transform how skill gaps are addressed in employment.

Working closely with YFor, we developed tailored dashboards according to user requirements, and developed both client and user front-ends.

We have provided services and support in cloud architecture, focused on Kubernetes deployment and AWS.

We partnered with ASM to build a front-end web based application to replace their previous desktop-based system. This involved a full-build development, implementing new functionality and new UX design.

❝We have found the Flax and Teal team to be thoroughly professional, strategic and engaged. We can highly recommend working with them. Their expertise enabled us to kick start our frontend web development.❞