• Omnis desktop solution •
The Challenge:
Personal hygiene and beauty care are as old as mankind, and today the cosmetics industry is a multi-billion dollar global market and still growing. In this industry cosmetic companies must navigate between continuous pressure to innovate and strict national and international regulations regarding safety and labeling requirements. Therefore on-going compliance with changing regulations, process optimization, efficiency improvements, as well as reliable documentation are all essential in the development of new products and formulations in this industry.
The Solution:
About You is a brand new, web-enabled app from Italian tech healthcare specialists BiMind. Created via the Omnis Studio platform, this app facilitates system-wide monitoring, as well as the supporting and sharing of health data between patients and their primary caregivers, plus those health professionals and others more broadly responsible for maintaining the highest standards of patient care. And in this present era of social distancing and restricted contact with patients, the About You app can also alert clinicians about patients with a suspected Covid-19 infection.
An important must-have feature of the app design specification was the ability to continuously connect, consult and interact with a variety of users, platforms and devices across the entire Marche healthcare ecosystem. Fortunately, BiMind’s designers chose to work with Omnis Studio 10 development tools, a software environment which guarantees total network compatibility and facilitates seamless cross-platform access and connectivity. Being able to match this core requirement at a very early stage thus left BiMind’s team well placed to focus on the About You app’s functionality and shape the detail of the anticipated user experience.
For Marche’s healthcare professionals, About You has delivered an intuitive tool which supports and significantly upgrades their capacity to deliver comprehensive patient care. They can instantly call up and share information with patients, access the results of external clinical investigations, send appointment reminders, remotely monitor a patient’s clinical status and response to home therapies, consult with and update the respective GP about patient progress, and much more.
For patients and their primary carers, the new About You app is as much about safety and reassurance as it is about access to health information. From the comfort of their own home, patients can now actively participate in the management of their health, access information 24/7 from any device, and make direct contact with their own medical and nursing teams. Beyond communication channels, those who rely upon portable monitoring systems can also be linked to the About You app via a Bluetooth connection, a feature sure to make any patient feel much safer and more positive about their care.
The Company:
All these requirements are met by the Omnis application THE DRUID to such an extent that their clients – senior development and project directors, security and raw materials managers of well-known cosmetic companies and suppliers – are always generous with their praise: They emphasize “the high efficiency and flexibility”, the truly “paperless laboratory”, or they describe THE DRUID as an “all-round and easy-to-use package”, or in one word “magical”. One client gets to the heart by saying: “The druids are real wizards!”
So how did the creators of THE DRUID achieve such customer satisfaction and enthusiasm? By a profound knowledge in product development, guaranteeing optimization of all required processes within the enterprise based on reliable security standards; by personal, practical experience allowing the software to meet the real needs of employees; by providing direct benefits for customers (saving time, money and stress); and by competent and highly efficient customer service.
THE DRUID steps through the entire cosmetics development process and monitors it at the same time. The customer benefits are impressive: A survey among Swiss cosmetics companies showed that changes in products and new developments can be accelerated by up to 67 per cent when THE DRUID software is used. And this translates to real savings across the whole cosmetics business.
THE DRUID is so comprehensive that only parts of its functionality can be listed here, as the software includes, among other things, the raw material database DINCIDIC (legal guidelines and restrictions, cosmetic ingredients, active substances incl. the European, US, Japanese and Chinese INCI names), laboratory documentation, project management, completed declarations and documentation, safety assessments and automatic calculations, data collections for all required product information files and notifications, sampling and packaging management, manufacturing guidelines, management of product tests, missing content management, calculation of the appropriate natural cosmetics label as well as the transfer to ERP (e.g. SAP, MS Dynamics, etc.) and many other functions.
Why Omnis:
Another major factor in the success of THE DRUID is the use of Omnis Studio, according to JOVIS enterprises ltd, the developer of THE DRUID. Its flexibility and efficiency allows a small team to not only develop a large range of functions but also to continuously improve it according to changing conditions and regulations, and to maintain and customize it for clients cost-effectively. Thanks to Omnis Studio the end user experience can be oriented around the practical needs of users and includes various automatic security checks so that the handling is safe and intuitive, despite of the wealth of functions.
“I have been developing applications in Omnis since 1989, and to date I haven’t seen any other development software that could match the efficiency of Omnis,” said Daniel Herbert, Managing Director of JOVIS enterprises ltd. “So far I have developed three generations of our formulation software THE DRUID, and the practical and easy-to-use development environment in Omnis has always provided me with a very reliable foundation. Added to this, the support from Omnis is simply phenomenal: many other vendors should take this as the standard!”
