Our goal is to provide solutions that best satisfy our customers' needs, while respecting the deadlines and budgets set on the project. We help large companies as well as SMEs in the design and development of innovative solutions centered on the expectations of users.
Brainstorm Consulting is a spin-off from the University of Namur specialized in the creation of virtual advisors.
We have developed an innovative methodology for designing and developing virtual advisors, for the purpose of automating business decision making process.
Brainstorm Consulting is an IT services company specializing in the development of custom applications, the management and analysis of business data, and in training courses.
Specific advice based on the requests from our customers. Our service includes the completion of functional analysis, technology solutions consulting, implementation of ERP or CRM, the implementation of technical architectures, IT strategy, outsourced project management or implementation of Business Intelligence tools.
Development of custom applications on the .NET platform. Many companies and public institutions call on BStorm to develop applications dedicated to their business. All those applications rely on the following technologies: SQL Server, C#, WPF, WCF, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, MVC, MVVM.
Professional training for training centers or in-company. The technologies taught by the trainers are those they practice daily: .NET development (C#, SQL Server, WPF, WCF) and the Web development (Javascript, Angular, Node JS, PHP, Symfony). Besides technological trainings, BStorm is also an important actor in job/functional analysis and in project management (UML, BPMN, PMI, ITIL, SCRUM).
Brainstorm Consulting implements Web applications and sites. Depending on the needs and constraints of every customer, we analyze the opportunity to realize a custom development or to use existing tools (CMS, CRM, ERP). We have expertise in several recognized technologies: .NET, Java, PHP, Android, Javascript.
Our research led us to develop a design and development methodology of virtual advisors. The virtual advisors are highly specialized programs, created and used to react to the user’s behaviors in a way to recommend them decisions to make and/or actions to take. Thanks to that methodology, we can help you automate your business process or provide you with recommendation software allowing to guide the users in maintenance tasks or during sports trainings.
Your company gathers data from various sources (data base, ERP, CRM, documents, emails) and you'd like to analyze those data to derive added value from it. Brainstorm Consulting can carry you in this process. We have a broad expertise in data modeling, business intelligence and data mining.
One of the Brainstorm Consulting's main activity concerns the implementing of virtual advisors for which it has a design method developed within the University of Namur.
2015
The company Brainstorm Consulting, spin off of the University of Namur, is created.
2015
2011
Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner and Caroline Herssens submit a First Spin Off draft to the Walloon Region and receive a 4 years funding to develop their virtual advisors design method.
2011
2011
Ivan Jureta publish the book Analysis and Design of Advice, results of his research.
2011
Some of our customers
Industry
Media
Services
Services
Industry
Training
Media
Education
Trade
Training
The solutions we offer are always focused on customer needs. Our work process is as follows
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The goal is to gain insight into the problems of our customers, and understand if reasonable solutions exist to deal with those problems
We start by analyzing the best solution to implement, taking into account the customer's requirements
Based on our analysis, we establish a proposal for solution
At this point, we describe to the customer the technologies that will be used, and we set up a budget and a schedule
Once the specification is validated by the customer, we start the development
We involve our customers in the development process; we organize meetings during which the progress of the implementation is discussed, we show intermediate states of the solutions, we communicate pro-actively with stakeholders
We deploy an environment that let customers track the evolution of the project
The customer is free to issue any comment on the solution during the implementation
Based on our understanding of business requirements et following information collected from various stakeholders, we create a specification document
This specification intends to be as complete as possible in order to clarify the expected functionalities of the future solution
The document is intended for both customers and our technical teams. Using the same specification document, we reduce the risks of misinterpretation
We create a first prototype of the solution, as a way to confirm the satisfaction of business requirements and let customers evaluate its functionalities
To ensure customer satisfaction, we deliver solutions that correspond to what has been defined with the customer
The customer has the opportunity to test the solution in real conditions before the final release
We remain present after the release to ensure that the solution is running well
We can intervene in the training of end users to help them make the best possible use of the newly designed solution
Our Offices are located in Louvain-la-Neuve, next to E411, N25 and N4