The client is Aplana Software Services - a rapidly growing Moscow based outsourcing company, member of a leading Russian technology group I.T.Co. The company provides high quality outsourcing services for global customers with a focus on custom software development, maintenance and testing.
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 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 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.
