B2B Portal For A Publishing Company

The project involved developing a portal for a publishing company in the USA.                                  

Tools Used

.Net Framework MS Access ASP.Net, C# Java Script Email Automation

The Client: A publishing company in the USA

Business Model: Offshore fixed cost.

The Challenge

The timely and accurate delivery of Customer's orders, keeping track of the pending orders and the product inventory was a big challenge for the Client with limited manpower.

The objectives set forward by the Client included:     

• Capture and manage information about customers
• Create product inventory with automatic creation of thumbnails from the product image
• Automate e-mail about product stock falling below re-order level
• Shopping cart experience for Customers for placing of orders
• Informative reports tracking the customer orders, Customer Address book etc.
• Automatic generation of e-mails to the shipping department for every order placed by the customer
• E-mail notification to the customers for the shipped orders
• Password encryption for security reason
• Parameter driven application

The Solution

The solution centered on Web-based architecture using Microsoft .Net platform. It is implemented in Classic 3-tier architecture, providing good support for scalability and maintainability. MS-Access is used as the data storage layer, which communicates with the Data Management and Business Logic Layers through ADO.NET. The Data Management and Business Logic Layers are organized as a set of class libraries written in C#, operating under the control of Application Server (IIS and .NET Framework). The top level, the user interface is based on the Microsoft IE 6.0/HTML/Javascript to combine mobility gained through fully web-based interface with the advanced controls and user interaction methods provided by the IE 6.0 environment.                    

Benefits gained by the customer:

The application delivered to the customer by IT Elite offered:

·         Faster order placement with the much easy to use shopping carts method.

·        Automate the generation of e-mails to different departments based on triggers.

·        The customers can access the systems from anywhere. This helps the customers place the orders without depending on the Client's Customer Service Representative.

The project was completed with 8 person months of efforts.