What was the Problem?

The client had an Logistics system that was built on old technology, and was therefore extremely difficult to maintain. The client was facing a significant increase in maintenance costs, as well as unpredictable downtimes. It was also getting hard to find adequately trained and experienced developers to support the old application. The stage was thus set for the development of a more cost-effective solution.
Difficult to maintain and use
More cost effective system
Built on Old Technology.

Aviana was tasked to design and implement this innovative system based on its well-recognized expertise in using Microsoft technology for providing custom solutions to Fortune 1000 and other large organizations, as well as its functional knowledge of the Logistics sector, including optimal route planning and freight rationalization. In addition, Aviana had prior experience with the design and implementation of Transportation applications for many clients, over many previous projects, spread over several years.

Aviana assisted a major Logistics company to develop a Transportation Solution application to process Freight bills. The new Logistics application will help the company's carriers to calculate the cost incurred during the shipment process and also help them how much they can save in the entire process.

The new application is being developed using Microsoft .Net technology (BizTalk Server, Eloader, C#, VB.Net and XML) as a robust and scalable application that integrates with the company's new corporate-wide message bus architecture with distributed queue management

Due to the nature of the .Net development environment, the application is easier to maintain and to extend by adding new functionality. In the future, the company wants to go to a web based application for the system and all they have to do is change the front end of the application. They would not be needed to do any changes to the middle tier and the back-end of the system.

Additionally, the new system has the following advantages as it is based on XML: XML makes all layers of the system loosely coupled. As each layer is loosely coupled, each layer can be modified without changing any other layer. As Contract Processing wants to move into web Application in the future, XML will make it very easy to move to a web based system. In the future, any new systems can interact with Contract Processing System very easily since XML is the universal communication language today.