Fragaria

Made up of senior engineers, Fragaria is a software development company in Prague, Czech Republic. It says it has more than ten years of experience building server-side and browser-side systems, single-page apps and mobile applications. The company works in an agile way, delivering regular product increments that fit into a client's existing infrastructure, and it describes its aim as building software that works. Its portfolio spans travel, banking, civic technology and open-source projects.

Booking and tour systems for travel agencies

Working with long-term partners in the travel industry, the company built a booking management system for the travel agencies Adventura and China Tours during the Covid-19 pandemic. The system complements an earlier tour management system and the agencies' web presentations, and it is connected to Vario accounting software through a SOAP API. For the same clients it delivered a portfolio management platform that covers tour management, a photo catalogue and brochure print tooling, along with two client-facing websites, using the Scrum methodology.

Front-end strategy and banking platforms

Fragaria helped Komerční banka, a member of the Société Générale group, to plan its frontend development strategy for new internal and external web applications, updating the bank's technology stack for modern interactive apps. It also built a central logging facility for the bank, which stores logs that can be searched and visualised in Kibana, with the system scaled on Kubernetes to serve dozens of internal systems. Its work for Česká spořitelna includes the Moje zdravé finance app, a daily expense management tool that sits within George internet banking and is used by more than 200,000 clients. The bank's branch staff also use it as a financial counselling tool. The company was part of the team that delivered the first open banking REST API in the Czech Republic.

Project leadership for a fast-growing startup

For Kiwi.com, a travel company, Fragaria became an IT solutions supplier to one of the most successful domestic startups. The two companies cooperate on several smaller projects, and the company's contribution includes project leadership. It says its agile method keeps the work visible to the client as each product increment is integrated into the existing infrastructure, which the company describes as leading to mutual satisfaction.

Civic voting and public engagement

Fragaria was the sole technology supplier for D21, a civic participation and decision-making platform, from January 2015 until June 2018. The platform lets voters cast multiple plus votes and, optionally, minus votes rather than a single vote, and it was used by residents of Říčany to decide how part of their city budget should be spent. The company also built Prezident 21, an online voting game that ran during 2017 and 2018 as a supplement to the 2018 presidential vote and reached 3 million visitors. Its infrastructure was designed to handle peak traffic during offline and online campaigns.

Open-source projects and blockchain travel

Karmen is an open-source web-based controller for several 3D printers at once. It manages print queues remotely and offers a user-friendly interface. Winding Tree is a second open-source project, in which Fragaria takes part in a worldwide distributed development team. The platform aims to disrupt the travel industry by using the Ethereum blockchain and other decentralised technologies to reduce the role of intermediaries and admit more competitors. The company also builds tools that make it easier to start working with the platform. The technologies it lists for these projects include blockchain, Ethereum, React, Node.js and Solidity.