Custom ERP for Streamlined Resource Management and Business Process Automation

About Our Client

The Client is a European IT company.

Challenge

The Client needed to improve the transparency and flexibility of their internal business operations, such as managing resources, staff, document flow, working time, etc. However, the Client had difficulty in choosing a ready-to-go ERP solution that could address their business needs in their entirety.

Solution

Having analyzed the Client’s business needs, ScienceSoft’s team offered to build a custom ERP solution.

Experienced in web application development, ScienceSoft’s developers delivered all three layers of the new Web 3.0 application – a data layer, a business logic layer, and a presentation (UI) layer.

To manage the day-to-day business activities of the Client, ERP software offered rich functionality:

• Automation of major business processes.
• Secure team communication.
• Wiki-style content management, enterprise-wide file sharing, and coordination.
• Automation of workforce management, etc.

The ERP solution had a smart search mechanism based on the Apache Solr search engine. The content was organized using an intelligent tag system. Users could search by both content and document type (PDF, Excel, doc, txt, rtf, etc.). The advanced search mechanism allowed users to set up different search criteria for target search results.

Access privileges helped prevent document security violations, as they granted users access to different portions of data based on users’ department and business role.

The usage of the Zend framework contributed to the system’s flexibility and development speed. AJAX technology (jQuery framework) allowed dynamic loading of new content into a page without a reload.

Results

The new ERP boosted the company’s productivity and efficiency, helping manage the enterprise data with ease, speed, and accuracy. The system was easy to handle and required minimum efforts and costs for new integrations and functionality extensions. The sleek and user-friendly interface made it quick to learn and convenient to use.

Technologies and Tools

PHP (Zend), MySQL, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Solr, Open Graph protocol, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery.