Client:
A
full-service internet company, offering a full range of web-solutions and
services to kmo’s, organizations and big enterprises.
Challenges:
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The client needed a partner for
design and development of web application using Grails framework.
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The online reservation tool should
allow selling up to 150% of available chairs. The tool should be managed online
in an administrators back-end and shown to the visitor in the restaurants
website
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A portal where all the special offers
from restaurants are collected. The visitor buys a place in a restaurant for a
certain time/date and pays for it online.
Solution:
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We worked very closely with the
client to understand software requirements and proposed the software
development on LAMP platform.
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We provided dedicated offshore team
on BYT Engagement model with desired functional and technical competence for
developing online reservation tool for restaurants portal with special offers
from restaurants
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The
key functions includes:
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Creating and managing restaurants
profile
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Highly configurable restaurant
settings for defining time slots, distribution of couverts for each slots,
discounts etc.
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User friendly wizard for reservation
of day, couverts & timeslots
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Configurable dashboard and reports at
restaurant level for statistics analysis
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Super admin interface for managing
all restaurants information including discounts and statistics
Benefits:
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The application has handled the
increased traffic due to its flexible & robust architecture
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Client’s revenue has grown substantially
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Been able to handle peaks and troughs
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ROI on initial investment in 3 months
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More than 50% of cost saving in high
quality offshore support and maintenance
Technology Platform: LAMP
(Linux + Apache + MySQL 5.0 + PHP 5.2) as open source web platform and CakePHP
as an application framework.
