About Hazardous Frog

We are a software engineering company. We have specialised in building complex applications that most companies tend to shy away from. A significant amount of our work has been in project rescue, where we have taken over an existing project from some other software company when they have failed to complete or failed to deliver what was required.

Integrating rail is quicker and easier with Hazardous Frog's APIMany software developers

It was one such project rescue commission that brought us into the rail development business. A very experienced and capable company dropped out of the contract citing inadequate experience and knowledge to complete the project. We stepped in to complete the project and launched the first Web TIS for Raileasy.

We learned a lot from completing that project and from maintaining the project. Several years later we were commission to build a new TIS which would provide to be the UK's first rail TIS with a full featured API completely separate to any display application.

Raileasy has used this to build a successful affiliate network. The concept of an API based TIS was quickly copied and now most TIS offer this facility. Many unique features from our API have been copied. We have had a great deal of feedback as a result of supporting that API from developers who have looked at all available TIS and their API. The consensus was from the outset and continue to be that ours is the most powerful and easy to use. We are extremely proud of that given that we are a small engineering company completing against companies like The Tranline and ATOS who have hundreds of developers at their disposal.

Our new API

As you would expect, we have learned a lot along that way and in hindsight would have built certain features differently. We have made very effective use of that hindsight in order to build smartix. It would have been very easy to just built a better version of what we had built before. Indeed, we started down that path twice before abandoning those projects.

smartix has been designed by engineers, for engineers in order to provide the best possible product for our customers and the best possible service for their customers.

In our minds, smartix should not just be an incremental improvement on what we had build before. It had to be a complete rethink, and re-architecture, from the ground up to be much easier to use, in fact, as easy to use at it could possibly be, faster, more reliable, easier to maintain and extend, more cost effective to operate (so that our fees could be lower). It had to be groundbreaking...

That determination to keep going back to the drawing board until our design achieved all of those goals has resulted in smartix being the first TIS that allows you to choose any journey planner. The first TIS where you do not need to maintain any rail data in your customer data. The first TIS with virtually unlimited, instant scaling in response to demand. The first TIS to offer concurrent versioning. Probably the first application to offer anything as powerful as our automated error tracking system for unparalleled reliability.

smartix is the first TIS not to use NRS for seat selection, our own seat selection system providing a far superior service for your customers.

Prior Art

Hazardous Frog's ability to tackle the most complex of projects is a result of the training and prior experience of its staff. We have contributed to avionics software for the military aerospace industry, we have developed mobile phone network systems, designed insurance quotations engines, content management systems, airline booking systems and accountancy applications to name but a few.