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Client Profile:
Large Transloading Company located in the south west specializes in rail
transloading of a wide variety of building materials including all forest
products, industrial products, bulk commodities, rebar, and steel coils &
beams. With over 50 acres of space dedicated to transload, as well as over
100,000 sq.ft. of covered space to handle any sizes of various products.
The company had a custom built application, developed by a local software
development company on a Linux platform using Postgres database.
Problems faced by the client:
The software application had a number of issues including:
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The application used to crash a number of times during the
day, which was affecting day to day operations of the client and user
productivity.
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The performance of the application was not acceptable and
it used to take a long time to do routine lookups.
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The local company supporting the application was not able
to resolve the issues promptly.
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The client was having problem in locating other companies
having good expertise in Linux, J2EE and Postgres database.
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There was no technical or user documentation on the
software application.
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How E-SoftSys helped client to overcome above problems:
E-SoftSys took over the application and immediately assigned dedicated
resources to provide day to day phone and online support to the users of the
existing unstable application. The prompt response and good support from
E-SoftSys support team ensured that the users were able to get through their
day to day operations with minimum downtime.
E-SoftSys, simultaneously assigned a team of resources to analyze the
application thoroughly and came up with a number of recommendations including
redefining the architecture and rewriting the application using J2EE, EJB and
JBOSS on Windows platform.
The release 1.0 developed by E-SoftSys was a rewritten application with
improved architecture and using JBOSS on Windows platform with MS SQL Server
2005 backend database. E-SoftSys made a number of releases, 1.1, 1.11, 1.2,
2.0, 2.1, 2.11 and 2.2 in a very short duration of 9 months and added many new
features, which significantly improved the application.
Benefits to the client:
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Low cost and high quality custom software development
services.
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Improved performance across the application including
faster searches.
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The application became very reliable after E-SoftSys took
over the project and re-engineered the existing unstable application in to a
very stable application.
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Improved communication with Union Pacific Railroad after
E-SoftSys automated the communication process.
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Fast and prompt response from E-SoftSys support team to
routine support calls and maintenance related issues.
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E-SoftSys developed design documents and source code
documentation and keep it updated through out the development phase of the
project.
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The application includes following key features:
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Prenotification: Prenotification about a rail car before
car arrival.
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New Arrivals: Information on the new car arrivals. This has
an email component developed that receives and parses the New Car Arrivals
email from Union Pacific Railroad and stores the new car information in the
system. Development of business logic to retain the new car arrivals
information for a number of days specified in the system parameters.
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Rolling Inventory: Rolling inventory, where material is
added to the old inventory account of same material of same customer.
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Car Based Inventory: maintains the fresh inventory for
every new car. Inventory information is maintained through various types of
Invoices and BOLs (Bill Of Lading).
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Generation of Invoices and BOL.
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Search Engine: the application has a robust search engine
in order to search for the Cars, Invoices, BOLs and Truck Logs.
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Car Release: The application has an email component
integrated with the Union Pacific Railroad car release system and the cars
released at the company’s premises get automatically notified to Union Pacific.
The application also interfaces with Transcentric ftp for car release
information by automatically creating a file in a format required by
Transcentric.
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Server Side Printing: Server Side printing option of
Invoices and BOLs in addition to client side printing option.
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The project involved re-engineering of existing application
from the Linux Operating System and Postgres database to Windows platform and
SQL Server 2005 database.
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Development Tools:
JBOSS 4.0, Eclipse3.0, SQLServer 2005, Windows Server 2003.
Technology:
J2EE, Struts and Hibernate, JSP.
Please contact E-SoftSys at 800-469-1740 for more information or send e-mail to
sales@e-softsys.com.
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