Engineering secure software and excellent experiences
We’re on a mission to help pioneering businesses shape their future with
innovative, thoughtful and secure software solutions.
Since 2001, we’ve partnered with forward-thinking businesses to build custom
software development solutions – from multimedia and communications systems
to world-class mobile and embedded services.
Developing the future from concept to code
Since 2001 we’ve built thousands of world-class, custom devices and systems in mobile and embedded services for forward-thinking companies all over the world – from companies of one to some of the biggest of them all – including Microsoft, Hitachi, Schneider, Vaisala, T-Mobile and many more.
We believe cybersecurity should be an integral part of the development process, not an afterthought. So we combine expert software development skills with cybersecurity insight to create resilient architecture – with security and privacy built right into the code. The solutions we engineer ensure the optimal functionality and reliability of our customers’ products and services, helping to strengthen their business.
At Movial, we build great solutions by building great relationships with our clients. Whether you’re looking to launch a new app, develop a new mobile service, write software for a complex business solution, or embed new components into an existing solution, we will be there to support you from concept to code. Together, we can turn your ideas into innovations that are smart, secure and a joy to use.
Our expertise
Cybersecurity
Expert design and implementation of custom software that is fine-tuned for optimal security and privacy during development.
Software Development
World-renowned experts in customer open source design and optimization.
User Experience (UX) Design
Consistent omnichannel design experiences for service and device users based on detailed consumer insight.
User Interface (UI) & Interaction Design
Multi-channel interface design for interactions that have the potential to reach millions of users.
Cloud
Accessible and seamless customer experiences for user-centric cloud computing.
Ideas & Innovation
Smart solutions, rich in technological insight for optimizing revenue-based services in a multitude of hardware platforms.
Device Creation
Custom-engineering OS and software stacks for customers optimized for usability, connectivity and robustness.
System Level Engineering
Deep expertise in acceleration, profiling and optimization for converged Linux platforms and system-level engineering.
Internet of Things (IoT) & Connected Devices
Cross-channel experience design in sensors, hardware and systems.
Full-stack
Development of all layers of a software project – from the hardware and OS kernel all the way through to the graphical user interface.
Some of our clients
Engineering cybersecure, people-first software
Our world-class security experts have vast experience in cybersecurity. They’re also highly-skilled software designers and developers, which enables them to build software and systems that are cybersecure by design, not as an afterthought. Our approach is to build security into every project we work on through continuous threat analysis, architecture-level threat mitigation, developing and maintaining a secure programming process, and by avoiding common mistakes by automating tooling and verification.
Making sure that the systems and devices we build don’t just start secure but also stay secure takes careful design and constant maintenance. All of our developers are highly trained and are always up to date on latest developments in the constantly-changing threat landscape. Our processes always follow the current best practices and international security standards.
Security Audits and Penetration Testing
If there’s a way in, attackers will find it. Our security audits and testing are designed to keep your solutions, devices and business safe – today, tomorrow and in the future.
White box security audit
White box testing validates security functionality and whether the code implementation follows the design, and uncovers potential vulnerabilities. We’ll review the system and application security of your architecture, code and technology choices, document the risks, and propose cost-effective mitigation strategies.
Basic penetration testing
Penetration testing identifies vulnerabilities by launching an authorized simulated attack. We’ll test your target systems using reconnaissance and exploit techniques that follow the best practices in penetration testing, document the findings and provide suggestions on how to harden the security.
Advanced penetration testing
This approach goes even deeper to identify the gaps in the target systems and network security and even your employee knowledge by simulating a targeted attack against your systems. To do that, we’ll use custom scripts and/or tools to find vulnerabilities through automated testing like fuzzing and other means, developing proof of concepts of potential exploits.
Software development process and tooling review
Code review is the key to build secure software solutions – if the code isn’t secure, nothing is. We’ll review the software development process and its tooling from a cybersecurity point of view, recommending improvements to make sure your code is always secure.
Infrastructure, policy and practices audit
Often the biggest security risk to organizations are its people and practices. We’ll review your information technology infrastructure, policies and practices by performing key personnel interviews and executing the most relevant manual and/or automated cybersecurity scans. Once we’ve identified any vulnerabilities in your organization, we’ll suggest ways to improve.
Cybersecurity mitigations and defense-in-depth solutions development
Guaranteeing bug-free software is pretty much impossible, especially when you consider that most software projects depend on hundreds, if not thousands of 3rd party components. Platform-wide cybersecurity mitigations, also known as defense-in-depth solutions, help to prevent bugs from becoming exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Hardware-based mitigations
- Trusted Execution Environment
- Trusted Platform Module
- Replay Protected Memory Block
- Immutable Root of Trust
- Pointer authentication
- ARM TrustZone, Intel TXT
- Privilege separation architectures
- Software architecture design from cybersecurity point of view
- OS-level system hardening (e.g. SELinux, privilege separation, host firewalls, etc.)
Cybersecurity training
Let our team help your team. We offer peer-to-peer coaching to help software teams to develop more secure and robust code and improve their software development practices. Courses can be tailored to your individual needs and cover a range of cybersecurity topics.
Building secure software for a connected world
In the digital world of today, your software needs to be built secure and built to adapt. Since 2001, Movial’s skilled and passionate experts have been helping businesses of all sizes build secure, custom software development solutions. We can help with everything from developing the initial idea to implementing and running software systems across all kinds of devices, stacks and environments – from embedded, mobile and cloud-based services to multimedia and communications systems. Whether it’s a turnkey solution or helping you solve a specific software development challenge, our team will be there to support your team every step of the way.
Today, the only constant is change. Our goal is to make change work for you
We’re on a mission to help companies thrive in the digital age. To do that, we help you truly understand your customers and build world-class service systems and applications that are secure, robust and a joy to use. But that knowledge doesn’t come out of nowhere, it’s the result of research and insight-gathering that’s geared towards imagining future experiences and designing and building services that meet real customer needs, inspire your own organization and help your business grow.
Software project deliveries
If you can envision it, we can build it. We can build you a complete custom turnkey solution, help your own team of experts with a specific challenge – or really anything in between. We’ll support you with planning and production, support and maintenance, project management, process consulting and more.
Embedded services
Embedded services can help you build innovative connected solutions that delight and deliver real value to your customers. Let Movial’s experts help you develop and build secure software services that are embedded into new and existing products and devices like special-purpose industrial, medical and consumer electronic devices.
The tools we use
Linux-based embedded devices
FPGA programming Microcontrollers
Full-stack development – from board bring-up to a production ready device
Mobile devices
The digital world runs on mobile devices. We’ll help you build secure native and cross-platform applications that run on them. And if needed, we can also help you build new special-purpose mobile devices or customize existing mobile operating systems to meet your needs. From Android OS customization to new feature implementation, and from things like audio and video component integration to building entirely new apps, we’ll be there to support you.
Traditional software
When it comes to digitalization, the only constant is change. We can help you adapt with software that runs natively, across platforms and devices. Our skilled and experienced team can build software designed to be used by individual consumers or across your entire enterprise – in development environments like Linux, Windows UWP, MacOS and languages like HTML5 and Qt/QML.
Architecture design
Your software’s architecture is the foundation for success, and it’s all in the planning. Designing and developing software to be futureproof helps keep project costs down and ensures that the software you’re building will do what it should. Flexible and modular software architecture is easier to maintain and extend. But is also increases clarity, which makes it much easier to build software that’s secure and reliable. Let our experts help you design architecture for mobile, embedded, cloud, desktop, microservices and more.
User interface (UI) development
If you make software that people love, they’ll use it. Our team has extensive experience in building human-centered, highly functional and lag-free user interfaces that are customized to different device types using the best native or cross-platform technology for each case. From touchscreen, industrial and cross-device interfaces to things like high-performance 3D visualizations, we can help you create a world-class user experience.
Cloud-based systems and services
Movial has extensive expertise in the server, client and infrastructure side of software development, as well as in integrations, building cloud-native solutions and various hybrid solutions. We can help with microservice and API design and development on platforms like Amazon Wen Service, Microsoft Azure and Heroku.
Tooling and software development process development (DevOps, DevSecOps)
Today software development is more of an evolution than a one-time delivery. We’ll provide you with tool and technology development customized to your needs in various software development situations, particularly in embedded and mobile development and cybersecurity. We’ll also help you develop custom and also automated tools to test performance, power usage and cybersecurity resilience.
Performance, graphics and power usage optimization
A key part of delivering a great user experience is building a software system that works, looks beautiful and is lag- and glitch-free. Our team of experts can help you avoid problems during the development process and perform a system-wide profiling and optimization analysis to identify and react to problems when they do come up.
Research and insight
We’ll work closely with your management team to help you make a successful shift to strategies aimed at delivering lifetime value to your customers. Our approach uses qualitative user and technical insights and we’ll support you through the strategy process. When it’s done, we’ll provide you with a comprehensive report outlining your strategic vision and actionable steps on how to achieve it.
Conceptualization
Based on the research findings and market demands, we’ll provide you with a range of actionable ideas around meeting customer needs. The end result is usually an efficient prototype that utilizes the full potential of the target software stack and provides detailed specifications for development.
System and UI design
With our vast technical and design experience, we can help you develop and build service systems and integrated devices that have passed feasibility, viability and desirability testing every step of the way. We’ll create visual prototypes of the user interface (UI) design concepts and continue tweaking the selected concept throughout the prototyping and testing phase.
Movial Data Science and You
How do you improve your customer experience, optimize processes, and make right business decisions? By drawing insights from data through structuring and mining—in this process Movial is your partner.
How do we do it? By helping you plan what type of data needs to be collected and how it can be used. Personalising content based on your customer behaviour and profiling, we can identify high-value customers and harness machine learning to uncover new insights from existing data.
Customer experience
Netflix, Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google search; these companies use data science techniques behind the scenes to help improve their customer experience. We are keenly watching this space for ideas and inspiration to help your organization as well.
Service design
When designing digital services we consider both your business goals and your users' (UX) experience. The goal is twofold, to design a service/system that not only contributes value to your business but also reduces customer confusion.
IoT is a force multiplier
Suppose your organization has repetitive, autonomous, remote,
high-risk processes that could be done using less human work, there’s
nothing more suited for the job than devices that can communicate with
each other and over the network.
The result is cost
reduction, quality improvement, stability, and predictability for your
business operations.
Data warehousing
Storing data securely and efficiently is an important task. At Movial, we build an emerging data management architecture called Data Lakehouse, which combines the flexibility of a data lake of your raw data with the management capabilities of a data warehouse.
Machine learning
Modern AI uses the Machine Learning (ML). In short, data provided by
you is used for training ML models to learn the patterns hidden in the
data.
Depending on different use cases Movial can classify
the problem into 3 main categories providing an easier view of what
can be done with the existing data. This allows you to come up with
better direction on planning AI applications from the beginning.
User interface (UI) development
If you make software that people love, they’ll use it. Our team has extensive experience in building human-centered, highly functional and lag-free user interfaces that are customized to different device types using the best native or cross-platform technology for each case. From touchscreen, industrial and cross-device interfaces to things like high-performance 3D visualizations, we can help you create a world-class user experience.
Descriptive & Predictive analytics
When the complexity of the problem is out of the ability of AI models
and requires human decision, Movial provides an analytic service to
assist your business in making predictions.
An in-depth
look inside the data with explainable variables/ features helps the
decision-maker quickly try and iterate the strategy.
Data visualization
Data visualization is essential for you to make data-driven decisions.
The plainest graph could be too boring yet the most stunning
visualization could utterly fail in making the point clear.
Movial offers a wide range of visualization options: from static reports,
interactive charts to dynamic dashboard. The visualization could be integrated
directly into your website with real-time updates—no need to have a separate
platform for business intelligent.
References
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric is on a mission to empower people and companies
to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and
sustainability for all.
With our long-term cooperation
we are helping Schneider Electric in developing their next
generation modular, user friendly fire detection panels for
buildings of all sizes. Working as a part of the software team, we
were involved in implementing the UI, kernel-level and FPGA
programming. We also provided training and guidance in architectural
decisions.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a world leader in computer software, computers and
related services.
When Microsoft began planning their
next generation concept device, Surface Duo, a dual-touchscreen
Android device that is a part of the Microsoft Surface series of
touchscreen hardware devices, we supported them in realizing their
vision of this new product category.
KEVA
KEVA is Finland’s largest pension provider, administering the
pensions of public sector employees. For them and their customers,
quality cybersecurity is an absolute must.
Movial has supported KEVA by providing world-class cybersecurity expertise,
including a risk-driven, privacy-focused investigation into the cybersecurity
of one of their services, resulting in a concrete list of identified
risks and actionable steps on how to improve. We also supported the KEVA
team with in-depth design and verification of algorithmic cybersecurity
hardening and penetration testing of enterprise-class wireless networking
infrastructure.
Habita
Habita was born in Finland back in 1989 and since then has grown
into a global real estate operator specializing in residential,
commercial and property brokerage.
Our ongoing co-operation with Habita focuses on automating the global
real estate network’s workflow and creating a scalable, cloud-based software
platform that connects the work of agents all over the world and coordinates
marketing and support functions. The system is designed to work on mobile
and desktop so that teams can reach their shared goals together. We are
supporting Habita with strategy and architecture, CX and conceptual design,
DevOps, front-end for both mobile and desktop, and more.
Vaisala Liquid Measurements
Vaisala Liquid Measurements (K-Patents) is a leading manufacturer of
liquid analyzers and process refractometers for the control and
optimization of industrial processes.
Movial helped
Vaisala (K-Patents) to build a next generation refractometer for
in-factory use to measure, control and operate processes involving
liquid substances. The device is a Linux-based computer connected
with multiple peripheral boards, hardware modules and sensors and
controlled via a touch screen user interface.
Our tasks
span from technical architecture design, BSP integration, custom
data architecture implementation (including e.g., different software
daemons, CAN messaging, applications etc.) to design of intuitive
user experience and implementation of appealing user interface.
Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science
Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science is a global leader in the
design and manufacturing of high-tech tools for industry and
research.
In our long-term and ongoing partnership, we are helping Hitachi High-Tech
Analytical Science’s product development with their family of handheld
measurement tools optimized for portability, fast start-up time and ease
of use in the analysis of metal concentrates for on-the-spot inspection.
We have designed a custom Microservices-oriented
architecture and a separate HTML5-based UI with WebSockets for
interfacing modules and used JSON as the language and
platform-neutral data interchange. Paired with the customer’s own
APIs, this enables the easy implementation of remote management
scenarios and manufacturing line-level automation.
Nexstim
Nexstim develops world-leading targeted neuro-stimulation technology as personalized and effective therapies and diagnostics for challenging brain diseases and disorders. Movial has supported the Nexstim team along the R&D journey, helping with both UX design and software development across many phases of the design and development process.
Wonderia
Wonderia is in a mission of offering new innovative environment for
learning. Daring to think in a new way is Wonderia's driving force.
The possibility of free expression and raising awareness in an
inspiring way are Wonderia's core values.
Movial designed
and produced a virtual learning environment for Wonderia. It is a
unique combination of online course platform, online coaching,
events and the learning community. This WordPress-based application
will bring a new kind of innovative learning and teaching experience
for its users.
Life and work at Movial
Working together – from concept to code
Founded in 2001, Movial is on a mission to help pioneering businesses shape their future with innovative, thoughtful and secure software solutions. We’re a diverse team of software development experts working in Finland, Romania and the US and with companies of all sizes, all across the globe.
At Movial, we build innovative software solutions by building great relationships with our clients and our colleagues. We understand their challenges, their needs and their desire to create software and services that delight. And we’re passionate about using our skills to help them do that.
Our clients and their needs are at the heart of everything we do. But we’re also dedicated to help every person at Movial to maximize their own potential. We believe that trust, respect and being part of a supportive community are keys to our success – as individuals, as a company, and together with our clients.
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