25-May-04

The eSP Consortium Delivered Innovative Business Solutions to its Clients

The companies of eSP Consortium developed and integrated software solutions to allow Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, World Travelvision and Stein's Garden and Gifts to operate their businesses more effectively.

WG Softpro of eSP Consortium helped Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant to manage revenue and business process workflow automation.

The WG SoftPro was engaged by the biggest in Europe Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (Ukraine) to develop the corporate desktop/Internet application to manage revenue and business process workflow automation. The solution facilitates personal and group activity scheduling and financial monitoring.

The application is based on Advantage Database Server platform (Extended Systems, Boise, USA) and control huge data volumes, which are measured by many gigabytes.

As a part of the complete solution, Web-client is designed via WEB Application Adapter from Alaska Software Inc. (WG SoftPro is a authorized technology partner of Alaska Software Inc.)

The project was developed and started in 9 months. A next stage is being planned, where WG SoftPro will expand the application to control other departments of nuclear plant. Now it extends to the judicial office and to next parts of accounting department. Software will be adapted to provide the system integration with other applications, which are already used at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

Eclipse Software Programming of eSP Consortium (also marketed as Tech Data Solutions in the USA) delivered a Microsoft.NET-based content exchange Internet portal to World Travelvision.

The client (WTV) has pioneered and perfected the design, development and distribution of Digital Brochures. WTV also produces Videos, CD-ROMs, E-Cards, DVDs and Web sites. The Hollywood, Florida based company works with a wide variety of travel clients including American Airlines, American Express, major international hotel chains as well as small hotels and travel suppliers.

WTV creates content for hotels (such as Pictures, Virtual Reality Shows (IPix) and Videos) and then distributes this content to partners in form of Digital Brochures and as stand alone items. Partners place links to WTV content on their web sites so that consumers can look at the content when they are searching for a hotel or a destination and make a better educated decision.

WTV Interactive Content Exchange Portal is a reliable and scalable web platform for visual content management and delivery, having the following key features:

• Ability to create and manage content
• Streamlined process of signing new hotels and creating digital brochures for them
• Easy to use GUI for the portal visitors to become a partner of WTV and place WTV content on partner’s web properties
• Ability to generate statistical data on use of WTV content
• WTV control of availability of their content links on partner’s sites (smart links)
• WTV control to manage distributors, hotels, digital brochures, outside sales representatives

The following technologies has been utilized during development: ASP.NET, MS SQL Server 2000, IBuySpy portal.

The KIT Group of eSP Consortium helped Stein's Garden and Gifts to simplify the process of applying the discounts to its goods

Challenge:

The Client owns a network of shops selling plants (flowers, etc). There was the business requirement to provide the employees of the front office with the ability to implement easily and quickly a single discount system for all the branches. Each branch should print signs (advertising coupons indicating products and discounts for them).

Approach:

There's a single intranet (VPN) in the company. The employees of the front office can set discounts and then create advertising coupons with the help of a special sign creation engine using Crystal Reports. Printing service is set up at the main server, that's an application which connects to the main server automatically in certain time intervals and gets information about discounts, and prints advertising coupons (signs) for the chosen shops. Besides, a separate email service sending notifications to all the administrative department about the activity of the application is created.

Features:

• Windows 2000 Active Directory Authentication
• Use the Steins Active Directory for Authentication and security. All users of the system are already defined in Steins Active Directory.
• Web Service that runs on a schedule to print signs that have "ready" status for printing.
• Maintenance of Events
• Creation of signs with print preview (Crystal Report Engine used)
• Ability to reprint signs
• Ability to remotely browse all printer jobs
• Ability to remotely cancel printer job

Technology:

• Language: C# (.NET Framework 1.0, 1.1 supported)
• Database: Microsoft SQL Server
• Additional: Crystal Reports Engine

About eSP Consortium

eSP is an international Consortium of top-quality Ukrainian and American software development and hi-tech companies, specializing in professional software services, custom software solutions and business process outsourcing across vertical markets.

Originally founded in 2000, today eSP Consortium employs over 150 IT professionals jointly covering a wide area of technologies and target business expertise. The members of Consortium are Eclipse SP, MBS, The KIT Group, SoftPro Workgroup, Insart and Macfadden & Associates, Inc.

Location of eSP Consortium at Kharkiv — Ukrainian technological and scientific center allows to provide its clients with the best in technology and design expertise at very competitive rates.

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