BUSINESS
Not Even the Pandemic Could Stop Railsformers:
the Reservatic Reservation Platform is Now Used
by Hundreds of Operators
Innovation as a pathway for development is becoming more common among companies, one of which
is the firm Railsformers. Thanks to innovation, they were able to turn from a small local company
into an IT agency. They celebrated their success with their global reservation platform Reservatic.
The company is based in the T-Park of the MSIC, which is something they view as a big advantage.
Throughout his time in business, which
began during his studies at VŠB-TU Ostrava,
Managing Director Ing. Jiří Kubica has
gone through periods of success and crisis.
Currently, Railsformers provides complex
IT services for its clients and is developing
which have accommodated for the current
coronavirus pandemic. Right from the start
of the spring wave, Reservatic offered new
and current clients four months for free
and invested considerable resources into
development: for example, they added
payment options into the application itself
and offered users video consultations.
Success came towards fall of this year,
when the Reservatic project was picked
as a base component for the Rosomák
Central Reservation System, prepared
under the oversight of the National Agency
for Communication and Information
Technology and the Czech Army as part of
the project Smart Quarantine 2.0. Today,
the system is used by hundreds of clients,
the Regional Office of MSR, all hospitals
established by MSR, all hospitals in the
Pardubice Region and Hradec Králové
University Hospital being among the
most mention-worthy. The application
even offers the reservation of a tour of the
Czech presidential offices.
Thanks to T-Park and collaboration with
MSIC, the company has ample grounds for
its development and close cooperation is
beneficial to both sides.
multiple original projects aimed at the
global market. One of these projects is the
independent start-up Reservatic, which has
been in development since 2016 and was
created in cooperation with MUDr. Otakar
Lucák. Reservatic is a reservation platform
that allows users to make reservations
for doctor’s appointments, government
offices or service providers of any size in
the private sector through a single mobile
or internet application.
The project was planned to be very agile
from the very beginning, and has seen
many changes over the last year, many of
Throughout its existence, Railsformers has
used multiple support options from MSIC.
These included, for example, help with
the optimization of the overall company,
as part of the Expand 1 and Expand 2
programs, where a hired expert, Vladimír
Nakuda, helped with the transition in
company concept and the composition of
internal regulations and finances. Jiří Kocich
then followed up on this by supervising the
new company business strategy. “I can
confidently say that, without the changes
we made, the company would not be
able to exist in the form we know today.
In short, the advantages of the Expand
programs lie in the fact that changes within
the company do not have to be done
on a trial-and-error basis. Expand helped
us propose adjustments in a very timely
manner,” Kubica says.
Kubica tries to give back to the community
from the advantages gained by cooperation
with the MSIC. Through the MSR project
Start Up Voucher, a voucher for startup companies and others, he evaluates
projects and offers advice to businesses
in their early stages to try and pass on his
experience. Railsformers is also involved in
the MSPAKT project, where they organize
excursions and lectures for students in
the Moravian-Silesian Region, and, as
a socially responsible company, supports
MŠ Martinov, the Bílovec Shooting Club,
Žulová Voluntary Firefighter Unit, and
others.
As the managing director himself said,
innovation is not solely about a single
activity or product--it is a long, continuous
process. Often, it is the process of
innovation itself that has a larger effect
on the company when compared to
a single new product. “It is always about
people, however. It is not about a single
leader, but about the whole team being
united and knowing what, how, where
and why something should be changed.
It is only after three years that I can have
confidence in saying that we now have
a perfect team that works in unison,
and that the changes made through the
Expand programs were definitely the
correct ones to make.”
The people at Railsformers are never
idle, and are currently working on further
innovations. The most recent one is a smart
kiosk prototype called EvoCat which will
expand on other software products. The
design proposal for the kiosk is being
created as part of another project aimed
at supporting innovation, TechART, and
all companies that take part in supplying
EvoCat are from the Moravian-Silesian
Region.
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