| An Intranet Solution For
a Manufacturer of Textile Accessories |
Client Case Study
Providing a Web based interface to access company sales information
across the Company |
| Situation |
| A leading textile accessories manufacturing
company has numerous branches, factories scattered across the country.
With its head office located in Bangalore, the company has to provide
access to information from its centralised MS SQL server to its
branches and factories. The people in the company experienced that
the task of teleneting through VSAT and accessing the data through
database commands is time consuming, tedious and requires sufficient
knowledge of the database commands. |
| Objective |
| The Company required a user-friendly interface to access
the required information from the server. And it should have the
capability of accessing from different locations with less effort. |
| Solution |
| MeCOM
delivered a solution that connects all the people in the
company to the database in a user friendly environment using state-of-the-art
Web technology. The solution is to provide a Web interface that
communicates with the backend system of Company and avail browsing
of information with the options to place queries with the database
on the Net. |
| The
user can make use of any web browser at the front-end and log in
to the web server. The response is picked up from the database to
present to the user as a web page. The complete solution is integrated
with the home page of the Company India. |
| Some key features
of the software are as follows: |
1. Authenticates
the user with username and password
2.
Allows the user to query the database using different options/parameters
3. Provides user
friendly interactive Web interface
4.
Mobile users can access the database from home, customers place
as they used
to access from the office |
|
| Results |
| The solution offers huge benefits to the
Company in terms of accessibility, convenience and choice. It has
found this web interface convenient to use without requiring any
technical knowledge. The database can be accessed even by mobile
users. It has opened a new avenue to access information across the
organisation using the existing hardware and software investments.
|