Project Title: Corporate Information System

The Challenge

The actual customer was a large Russian investment holding that has more than 15 separated businesses with the main company headquartered in Moscow. Every company has its own data management processes, necessary for business workflow maintenance, mainly using standard Microsoft Office facilities and MS Outlook as a mailing service system. So the necessity in a coordination system development has emerged. The system had to provide collection and storage of information and its ergonomic presentation in the form of screen forms with the opportunity to print them.

The main goal of the system’s development was providing company management and its juridical, financial and corporate departments with actual present-day data about corporate events in the business units, and also with the information about financial state of projects and subsidiary companies.

It will augment coordination between affiliates, ease tracking of the actual status of important events, allow on-time correction of potential discrepancies and increase efficiency in dealing with scattered business units.

The Solution

The application is designed as distributed corporate information system, based on client-server architecture and intranet technologies. It is founded on the "open systems" concept that declares possibility of interaction with other systems and extension based on new functional modules assembly principle.

The system features two primary modules:

• Subsidiaries and their projects management, including
  • Complete subsidiary data registration
    
  • Custom view templates to easily obtain frequently used sets of data
    
  • Important events management, such as certain information editing and etc.
    
  • Constant changes tracking and history management
    
  • User actions logging
    
  • Export of custom view forms to specified MS Office file format for viewing and printing
    
  • System backups and restore
• Administration and reference data management, featuring
  • Flexible rights management
    
  • Assignment of data and actions to Important events
    
  • Management of reference data with internal validity checks

The application is based on the .NET Framework 2.0 and use SQL Server 2000/2005 as primary database. System was designed in the way that allows usage of different database servers, such as Oracle, SQL Server due to the creation of its own data access framework (library) based on Microsoft Application Blocks. Client application was developed as "thick" Windows Forms MDI application with rich user interface and complex business logic, enhanced security, search functionality and dynamic filters. System has good performance characteristics due to profound performance tuning work and caching mechanisms.

Tools and Technologies

.NET Framework 2.0, Windows Forms; SQL Server 2000/2005, Excel, HTML; Visual Studio 2005, Rational Rose, MS Project, ADO.NET

Related links

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