Category: S – Software Quality Testing

Case Study: Performance Management, Benchmarking Product Development & Maintenance

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November 9, 2016

A performance management and benchmarking consulting business in Glasgow, Scotland asked Elegant MicroWeb to create a new solution. The consulting company had outgrown the simplistic reporting and analysis foundation provided by standard office tools and spreadsheets, and was concerned about the security of proprietary and confidential data and process models.

Elegant MicroWeb undertook a project to create a new solution that would produce clear, concise results, reports and direction so that consulting company customers could easily adapt and develop appropriate strategies and market direction enabling the business to reduce the time required to engage and complete a consultancy project. The resulting Performance Monitoring, Improvement and Analysis Tool provides integrated web-based performance optimization tools designed around the principles of knowledge and activity-based management.

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Case Study: UK Online Petition Management for eGovernance

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November 8, 2016

An internet community, market research, consultation and eDemocracy solution provider in the UK engaged Elegant MicroWeb to design and develop a solution to manage online petitions for eGovernance. The business focuses on thought leadership and on gathering feedback and opinion to help government and private organizations make sustainable decisions. The solution allows patrons to weigh in on topics, causes and issues of common interest.

Elegant MicroWeb worked closely with the business team from concept through solution design, development and implementation. The solution includes an administrative interface to manage petitions, accept and reject petitions, publish and email results. The User (client) interface, allows users to create, search and view petitions, sign a petition, open and close petitions and view rejected petitions. The solution was built for Windows operating system, on a .Net framework with a SQL Server back end.

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Case Study: Customer Loyalty Software Product Widget for UK eConsulting, Market Research Firm

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November 7, 2016

Elegant MicroWeb worked with a UK eConsulting, Market Research business to design a web-based widget to measure customer satisfaction and increase customer loyalty. Customers were asked just one question and the responses were analyzed to enhance and improve products and services offered by the organization over the period. In order to meet business objectives the widget had to be easy to configure, and easy to promote and use to obtain maximum responses. Personalized emails were sent, with a unique URL so the users could respond without the need to register. Feedback request could be offered via various web channels.

Elegant MicroWeb analyzed requirements, and designed and built a widget to allow customer managers to create just one question – loyalty question. Once a question is created, customer manager (administrator) can select respondents, design personalized email and rating scale for participant response. Response tracking processes allowed the business to follow-up non respondents and track responses. App also included response analysis and categorization to measure customer loyalty index over the period of time.

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Case Study: Web-Based Community Software Product for UK Idea Management Business

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November 3, 2016

A U.K. internet community, market research and consultation, eDemocracy solution provider selected Elegant MicroWeb to design a web-based software product that would enable users to create employee, stakeholder, customer and citizen communities and encourage collaboration, feedback and the structuring of ideas and innovation processes. The solution would support open communities, as well as communities requiring invitation and registration. The objective was to help the business gain deeper insights and deliberative engagement with customers, stakeholders and thought leaders.

The Elegant MicroWeb team designed an integrated suite of Idea Management tools, including user-friendly wizards to support users and allow for idea sharing, brainstorming, ranking and discussion of ideas, and archival capability. User roles include Administration, Registered users, Invited Users and Anonymous Users. Elegant MicroWeb services included requirements and feasibility planning and studies, design, development, customization, deployment and user acceptance testing (UAT).

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Case Study: Re-Engineering Business Software Development Improves Business Intelligence Software Ux and Scalability

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August 1, 2016

ElegantJ BI, an innovative Business Intelligence product, needed to improve the user experience (Ux) and architecture. This Ux improvement was necessary to make the interface adaptable and responsive to the growing number of device screen resolutions and sizes. With the growing importance of data visualization and user interactivity in the business intelligence market, these changes were imperative to sustain and improve a competitive market advantage.

The Elegant MicroWeb product engineering and Ux team undertook this project to improve the usability and overall Ux for this product suite. Software re-engineering and migration provided upgraded product architecture, improved performance, interoperability, integration and support for large volumes of data with optimized middleware to improve scalability.

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Case Study: UK eDemocracy Co. Achieves Dependable Application Security and Standards Compliance

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July 9, 2016

Elegant MicroWeb worked with a leading internet community, consultation and eDemocracy solution provider in the U.K. to help them achieve their application security and compliance objectives. The business wished to ensure compliance with government standards and best practices in application security to protect their data and business from hacking and security threats. Even the slightest security breach would damage the reputation of the business and have financial and legal implications, so it was critical that their solutions and systems were designed to meet or exceed industry and government standards.

A stringent security audit was performed by a 3rd party security expert. The Elegant MicroWeb team provided a stable, high performance application architecture based on Microsoft platforms to ensure web application security and accessibility standards compliance. Services included research, identification and interpretation of the best security practices, mapping of standards to technology platforms, identification, resolution, testing and implementation of all standards and coordination of third party security verification.

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Case Study: Re-Engineered Enterprise Software Development for Software and Services Co.

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April 7, 2016

A software product and services company in the U.S. engaged Elegant MicroWeb to re-engineer an enterprise software application with desktop-based client to upgrade its software product to a cutting-edge architecture for a seamless user experience. Elegant MicroWeb employed agile project management methodology and reporting systems to ensure effective communication between the client in the U.S. and the offshore Elegant MicroWeb team in India.

The client’s Java-based desktop architecture was used by a large number of users in aerospace, defense and other verticals, so it was crucial to ensure a smooth migration and re-engineering effort, and to provide continuous availability and adequate user training. Elegant MicroWeb designed a three tier application architecture for presentation, middle and persistence tiers with interoperability of the persistence tier to accommodate the relational database on Oracle platform. Elegant MicroWeb completed this and other projects, for this client and continues its mutually beneficial relationship with this client providing product development, maintenance and support.

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Case Study: UK-Based Co. Gets Integrated, Personalized Fulfillment Services for Merchants

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March 30, 2016

A UK-based well known logistics fulfillment and redemption business asked Elegant MicroWeb to assist in the development of a high-performance platform for off-the-shelf services to accommodate merchants and create a personalized fulfillment and redemption portal. Elegant MicroWeb created an easy-to-use interface so that merchants could easily and quickly create personalized stores, enable integration of order APIs, payment gateways, ecommerce sites, and provided alert, notification and reporting capabilities for finance, stock, redemption, shipment tracking and more.

The Elegant MicroWeb team designed architecture and developed a logistics fulfillment portal. The portal has four interfaces (administration, supplier, merchant, and agent) and allows for order dispatch, order and shipment tracking. eCommerce plug-ins allow merchants to send order details from ecommerce sites to the system. The solution also includes file import, reporting, email notification or voucher redemption, delivery and tracking and integration of popular payment gateways and shipping systems. With this solution, Elegant MicroWeb ensured swift delivery of quality products and services to merchants and end users.

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Case Study: Enterprise Software Company, Elegant MicroWeb Supports U.S. Social Dieting Business with Expert QA and Testing

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March 22, 2016

A U.S. based business promotes the concept of ‘social dieting’ through online games. Games are targeted to users who participate for about four weeks, betting money for a virtual pot and hoping to win through friendly competition. With the help of Elegant MicroWeb quality assurance and testing methodologies, this company created a stable, high-performance mobile app and website with seamless rollout of new features and upgrades. The Elegant MicroWeb team helped this client to best leverage its games and products by ensuring that they could support high-user and high-volume usage periods and upgrade and release products and features without compromising availability of the system or the user experience. For more than two years, Elegant MicroWeb has supported and sustained client services with trusted delivery of services. Its comprehensive QA and test support and planning for future growth and upgrades ensures stability and improves user satisfaction and adoption.

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Case Study: Re-Engineering and Azure Cloud Migration for Idea Mgt Solution

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February 29, 2016

Elegant MicroWeb helped a UK-based consulting and software company reengineer tools to serve a well-renowned clientele including the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Harvard University Law School Global eParliament Project, the UK Department of Trade and Industry and more than forty other local authorities. These consulting and software tools are designed to promote innovation in idea management by providing easy-to-use tools to share new ideas, rank and rate, brainstorm, debate and facilitate communication.

To complete this project, Elegant MicroWeb provided in-depth redesign and reengineering services as well as Cloud migration to Microsoft Azure. Because the business clients were dependent on this platform for ongoing activities, it was crucial to provide a seamless transition of data and application functionality and features. The project also required multilingual support to ensure that the business could manage labels and messages through a resource file using an easy interface for administrators. The Elegant MicroWeb team worked with the business to ensure robust application security, and a worry-free migration and transition and help the business to reduce hosting and management costs.

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