Alteche Information System

The system provides comprehensive project management and accounting for SMB's in the construction markets.

Customers:
3NF Co. (www.3nf.com)

Industry sector:
Building & construction

PROBLEM:

3NF Co. with headquarters in New York and Tokyo is an innovator in the market of system and application design and development. Additional manpower was needed to work with 3NF teams in Europe and Japan on this project for a Japanese corporate client.

SOLUTION:

The engineers at Simbirsoft worked with engineers from Hungary, Japan, and the U.S. on the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the system. Simbirsoft has continued to provide successful support for additional development and maintenance for several years.

General component description:

This system provides comprehensive project management and accounting for SMB's in the construction markets, and has been in active use by a building waterproofing company for several years.

The focus is on the project life-cycle, from estimate and budget submittals and approval management, to vendor invoice and payment tracking. Details such as discounts, negative value orders, deductions, etc. are all included.

The system also serves as the primary portal and knowledge base for the company, providing company announcements (general, daily, executive), calendar functions, extensive searches and filters, document uploads, and many other features.

Administrative features allow complete customization of business and accounting domains, enabling the system to adapt to a broad range of customers.

Platform:

Cross platform

Main technologies and libraries used:

It’s a Java project with the following technologies:

Project compilation: Maven;
IoC: Spring;
MVC technology: Struts;
view: JSP using Sitemesh, Display Tag Library and Struts-menu technologies;
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM): Hibernate;
report generation: JasperReports;
testing: JUnit, StrutsTestCase.