IDEA Project Week 2024

Last week the IDEA Product Development team descended on Düsseldorf to work collaboratively on projects they had identified that could improve both the way we work internally and our market-leading yacht management software.

Joined by fellow Omegro company Akuiteao, the team set about completing tasks within the week whilst enjoying all that Düsseldorf had to offer.

The projects included:

Migration from Freshdesk to YouTrack – Michael and Patryk

The IDEA Support Team use Freshdesk software to track tickets and PD Team use YouTrack software to track tickets for Development and Q&A. Patrik and Michal were tasked to migrate the support system over to YouTrack to streamline our operations. Now, with all tickets in one software, we can ensure we give the highest standard of support to our vessels and gain a great insight into improvements that can be made.

IDEA Areas Editor – Diego

This exciting project is to implement an editor to define areas inside our IDEA layout.

The scope of the project includes:

• Allowing users to define at least 3 points to create a polygon on the map.
• Automatically detect the elements included within the area
• Enabling users to search for elements within the defined area.
• Providing filtering options based on the selected areas.

IDEA Cloud App – Ionel

Our Snag List functionality has gone from strength to strength, with a key component of its functionality being that shipyards, offices, and management companies can communicate with the vessel to see what may need fixing when the vessel returns for refit. Ionel was tasked this Project Week with creating a standalone app to allow them to communicate with vessels – so the IDEA CLOUD App was born. Watch out for its release in the coming weeks.

IDEA AI Vision support – Anton

As we look to utilise technologies to make life for a superyacht crew even easier, Anton was tasked with creating and AI model to identify text from documentation to fill IDEA YACHT with information with the touch of a button. The results were really impressive, and the model could recognise even the most illegible of writing to populate data fields with ease. Watch this space!

Internal Manual manager – Yehya and Sebastian

Did you know that IDEA can take care of all your vessels manuals? Well, we are now organising them even more efficiently than ever after the Project Week task to create a new tool for our Professional Services team to do all manual related work: manual checks, indexes, binder sets.

The Manual Manager will consist of a local Windows app and a backend/API for requesting and creating manual data that will make life easier for our Professional Services team.

Vue.js framework version migration – Roman

Roman’s task was to upgrade the IDEA YACHT frontend framework and dependent components to the new major version VUE 3. Working hard to test possible errors and creating some workarounds when other integrations failed, it was a great project to ensure we are always on top of the latest script and versions.

Our next major release 2024.3 will be released soon, so stay tuned for some big developments to both IDEA YACHT and the IDEA YACHT app