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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