Redevelopment of a customized order management system under MS-Access 2002 and Firebird SQL Server for currently 5 desktop clients. Detailed examination and weakness analysis of the previous system under Lotus. Extensions and major improvements in usability and navigation. Rapid prototyping with zero specification and continuous implementation of amendment requests after several tests in our environment and 1-2 days of testing at customer's site (on-the-job).
- data transfer interface from Lotus Approach data model by means of specially developed software to avoid importing inconsistencies from the old system (missing references, etc.)
- articles and customer management with contact persons
- offer management, calculation and automatic generation in MS-Word
- task creation and confirmation workflow
- automatic generation of invoices in MS-Word, implementation of proprietary numbering scheme
- search and filter functions, "learning" drop-down menus
- mailing through Outlook interface and MS-Word, mail merge features
- integration into backup concept
