Business Challenge:

• Customer faced difficulty in being able to schedule, assign, and track the tasks assigned to technicians.
• Test Plans & Test Reports were lying in the network shared folders and managing access control was very hard.
• Effective and timely reporting was lacking. Collecting and consolidating the data for management reports took almost a week.
• There was no scheduling software out there, which would meet all the custom needs.
• There was a lack of visibility of the work executed in the testing department to the client.
• The supervisors were unable to properly manage leave requests, holidays, and planning.
• Managing audits performed every quarter was becoming a nightmare.

Ivesia proposed Solution:

Ivesia proposed to build a web-based online schedule tracking accounting & reporting system, which would have logins that authenticate against customer’s network active directory.

Modules were built with the following features:

• Monthly, Weekly, Daily, Yearly Calendars for scheduling, collaboration and visibility.
• Leave requests, approvals, and rejection performed online.
• Document storage inside the Database and search inside a document using powerful Full Text Search.
• Drag & Drop based scheduling tool for easy scheduling.
• Managing skill certifications (with automatic certificate expiry notifications) to manage the credentials and eligibility of a technician.
• Documents & document templates stored and custom document approval workflow that extends to external customers.
• Powerful reports with drill down, link back to, saved search options and output formats in PDF, Excel, Html, Printer, CSV formats.
• User, User group Role based security with option to change access on the fly by logging into the application.
• Extensive on-line help with index and search capability.

Business Benefits Achieved:

• Vast improvement in lab productivity.
• Click and run management reports – runs immediately, not weeks.
• Customers can see the progress of their projects real-time.
• Thousands of documents can be easily searched online.
• Planning (including leave tracking) has been significantly streamlined.
• Powerful access control & audit trial.

Customer retained Ivesia for repeat work based on Ivesia’s performance and the success of this project.

Technologies used:

ASP.NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Active Directory, Lotus Notes, ActivePDF, JavaScript, DHTML