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Case Studies: Espire Portal Development Capabilities

Project Snapshot 1 – Development of a e-governance portal for the Delhi

Electricity Regulatory Commission

THE CHALLENGE

DERC is a Govt of Delhi body which oversees the Electricity tariffs and regulations and policies

concerning power and power distribution throughout the capital state of New Delhi, India.

India’s government policies envisage E-governance as part of its vision for the 21st century.

As part of this drive made by the central government state government bodies like DERC have

also provided a public interface to most of its activities as part of transparent governance.

Espire was chosen to be the IT partner of DERC to provide IT services as part of this E-

governance initiative.

ESPIRE’S OFFERINGS

Espire designed and developed the Web site for DERC. The hallmark of the Web site is the

plethora of information available about the various departments at DERC. Informationregarding purchase tenders, regulatory policies, licensing, metering, and legal, recruitment and

publications are easily accessible by the public.




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Features of the Applications developed

In addition, the Web site provides the facility for online recruitment and legal petition

management.

The online recruitment module provided users to apply for a job online. It allowed the

administrators to publish jobs vacant at DERC and to view all online applications made throughthe system.

The petition module allowed the legal division at DERC to publish all the legal petition

information available to the public. The general public is able to search and track the progress

of there cases running at DERC. Petitions here involve legal cases which were being arbitrated

by DERC. These could be by two power companies or by any individual citizen against any

power company. Here the entire workflow pertaining to a legal petition is tracked through the

system which is from filing a petition to hearing of the petitions to a final order being passed.

This includes review and appeal petition management.

Espire's team participated through the design, development, test and deployment phases of

the Web portal. Espire's team worked closely with SME’s at DERC and ensured that the portal

was delivered true to the specifications and requirements provided by DERC while adhering tothe stringent Web site usability and accessibility criteria set by the independent consultants

and external agencies such as the NIC (National Information Centre, the IT statutory arm of the

Govt of India) engaged by DERC.

ESPIRE’S VALUE ADDITION

Apart from a thorough understanding of the significance importance of the e-governance

domain, Espire also enjoys splendid expertise in boosting the industry through suitable

technological augmentation. It has already made an indelible mark in serving this industry, and

is all set for further achievements. Espire's technological erudition is an organization's best bet

for accentuating the service quality, paving the way for fabulous business growth.

BUSINESS BENEFITS

Both the online recruitment as well as the petition modules was able to drastically bring about

automation within the departments as paper work was largely reduced. The departments were

also able to effectively track the working and efficiency was greatly enhanced across the

organization.

TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

System Architecture n-Tier Web Architecture

Server Apache Tomcat 6.0

Operating System Windows® 2003 Server

RDBMS Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Technologies J2EE, Hibernate, Ajax

Tools Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project





Project Snapshot 2 – Development of MS SharePoint based Portal for a

world bank supported organization

THE CLIENT

The client was established in May 1999 with the support of the World Bank. It aims to provide

high quality capacity building and training on infrastructure regulation, and related topics, in

South Asia and to stimulate research on the subject by building a network of regional and

international institutions and individuals that are active in the field. It also aims at facilitating

effective and efficient regulation of utility and infrastructure industries, initiate beneficial

exchange of knowledge and expertise, and set the trend of rapid implementation of global best

practices.

THE VISION

SAFIR aims to provide high quality capacity building and training on infrastructure regulation,

and related topics, in South Asia. Specific objectives of SAFIR are:

Provide a platform for experience sharing amongst the regulators of the region

Build regulatory decision-making and response capacity in South Asia

Facilitate the regulatory process

Conduct training programs to serve regulatory agencies and other stakeholders

Spur research on regulatory issues

Provide a databank of information relating to regulatory reform processes and

experiences

Create Awareness about the need for Infrastructure development across geographies.

THE CHALLENGE

The client had their Virtual Working group which met to discuss various issues. These groups

consisted of members spread across various South Asian Countries. The challenge was to

provide them with a platform where they could discuss and read about issues related to

infrastructure development.


Espire redesigned the whole web portal with various advanced functionalities and interfaces as

required to make it as user friendly as possible with enhanced CMS capabilities and richer look

and feel. Espire redesigned the web portal such that the proper workflow was maintained,

content was effectively managed and day-to-day updations were made possible without help

of any vendor. The features added by Espire to the existing portal are enumerated as fo llows:




Features of the Application

Portal with Document Management System ( E library )

Discussion Forum where members of the Virtual meeting group could discuss different

topics in hand without having to actually be physically present.

Controlled access grant to the partner organizations for content accessibility

Enhanced look and feel

Better user experience

Safe data maintenance mechanism




Project Snapshot 3 – Development of an Award Winning Suite of 53

Tourism Promotion Web Portals

THE CHALLENGE

While VisitBritain had an existing Web site for promoting Britain; it had to be designed and

developed afresh to serve the business needs. However, for England, the Web sites were to be

designed and developed from ground up. For promoting England, a suite of 5 Web sites

(variants) and for promoting Britain, a suite of 48 Web sites (variants) was thought of. These

Web sites needed not just to provide information on tourism in England and Britain, hotel

accommodation, and various events & attractions, but also ensure that England and Britain

were positioned in the customers' mindscape as the choicest tourist destinations.


Espire designed and developed the Web sites for promoting England and Britain for VisitBritain.

The hallmark of the Web sites is the plethora of information pertinent to various tourist

attractions across the English regions and Britain, the various places to stay, holiday ideas,destination guides and maps, journey planner, best deals on accommodation & eating out and

various events & attractions that could appeal to the prospective international or domestic

tourists.

In addition, the Web sites provide the facility for online shopping for theatre, train and

museum tickets, guidebooks and maps. Together, the Web sites are the most widely used Web

applications for tourism and travel information about England and Britain.




Features of the Application


the Web sites. Espire's team worked closely with VisitBritain’s in-house technical teams and

other suppliers and ensured that the Web sites were delivered true to the specifications and

requirements provided by VisitBritain while adhering to the stringent Web site usability and

accessibility criteria set by the independent consultants and external agencies engaged by

VisitBritain.

Espire also implemented the Tridion CMS v5.2 in the Web sites. It ensured maintenance of

various types of data and access of data at other sources across the network, thereby aptly

addressing VisitBritain's business objectives. It provided comprehensive functionality to

VisitBritain, applying strategic content to its Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites. It also

incorporated workflow management and the ability to allow content to be used for non-Web

purposes, such as brochures, PDF f iles and other marketing collaterals.





ESPIRE’S VALUE ADDITION

Apart from a thorough understanding of the significance importance of the Travel & Tourism

industry, Espire also enjoys splendid expertise in boosting the industry through suitable

technological augmentation. It has already made an indelible mark in serving this industry, and

is all set for further achievements. Espire's technological erudition is an organization's best bet

for accentuating the service quality, paving the way for fabulous business growth.

BUSINESS BENEFITS

The 5 variants of the Web site for promoting England were launched on September 18, 2006

and the first Britain promotion Web site was launched in April 2007. Espire's technological

expertise enabled VisitBritain achieve its challenging business goals of marketing England and

Britain as tourist heavens. As a testimony to VisitBritain's vision and Espire's acumen in design

and development of Web portals, the England promotion Web site was awarded the most

coveted award of “Europe's Leading Tourist Information Web site” at the World Travel Awards

2007 (http://www.worldtravelawards.com/winners2007-8). It would not be out of place to

mention that VisitBritain has been nominated for the award of world’s leading tourist Board

and London has been nominated as the world's leading destination

(http://www.worldtravelawards.com/nominees2008-1).

Further, VisitBritain has been nominated for the award of Europe's leading tourist board and

London has been nominated as Europe’s leading destination

(http://www.worldtravelawards.com/ nominees2008-8). Another indicator of the success of

the two Web site suites is the approximately 10 million Web page views received by the

England promotion Web site and 18 million Web page views received by the Web site suite

promoting Britain in the 2007 - 08 fiscal (source: VisitBritain).

Both Web site suites had advanced Internet-based data management and data integration

technology to deliver interactive visitor information services. It also ensured easier nominated

for the award of world's leading tourist board and access for tourism businesses and

organisations to manage their own data online, and to source business intelligence andelectronic government information. This enhanced their capacity to conduct business via the

Internet.



Server Microsoft Internet Information Services Version 6.0



Technologies Microsoft .NET 2.0, Tridion Content Management

System v5.2, Adobe Flash, XML, XSLT, CSS, TridionContent Management System v5.2





Project Snapshot 4 – Developing webportal for a leader in education

sector

Client

Client is a major education provider in India. Client has impeccable infrastructure facilities for

quality teaching and learning activities spread all over India. The beautiful school buildings take

care of children at every step. Client’s school campus provides extensive support for the

physical development of the child. Every part of the system & infrastructure is unique and

brings with it a distinctive charm to the learners.

Challenge Client wanted to have a web based School Management System with different modules like

Student Management System, Human Resource Management, Client Management System and

Project Management System. Each of these systems has different set of users and needed to

have different access credentials. The Client desired to have a Single Sign-on (SSO) access

mechanism.

Espire Offering

Espire developed a School Management System with all the required modules. The application

was a web based system, where user can access the system both from Internet and Intranet.

The user needs to sign one time to get access to all the embedded system in the portal.

Reverse function “Single Sign Off” was also implemented in the developed application. The

system was designed to minimize the number of times that users must type their ID and

password to sign into multiple applications. The E-SSO solution automatically logs users in, and

acts as a password-filler where automatic login is not possible




Key Features

Single sign on access of the system for the concerned users.

Data Consolidation and report generation.

Role based access system for Admin, Faculty, Staff, Students, Parents and Management

Designing and sending the newsletters to the subscribers.

Added functionalities of Attendance Management System with Student Assessment

System

Tracking bounced e-mail newsletters, newsletters sent and opened by contacts.

Business Benefits

This project became a testimony to Espire's celebrated dominance of key Microsoft

technologies such as WSS and CMS services. By effectively exploiting its command in these

technologies, Espire developed an Intranet portal for Client, which is working as a robust

information system.

Improved information sharing and collaboration across an organization

Integrated and Distributed Computing Environment.

Increases Productivity and Effectiveness by promoting sharing of knowledge and ideas

and provide a single, secure, reliable access to a company’s private information.

Tools and technology





Technologies Microsoft .NET 2.0, Adobe Flash, XML, XSLT, CSS,





Project Snapshot 5 – Development of a web based tourism portal for a

government organization

Client

The Client is an autonomous organization of the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, isone of the premier institutes in the country offering education, training, research and

consultancy in sustainable management of tourism, travel and other allied sectors.

Challenge Developing a tourism portal which could give a boost to the tourism sector

Having a facility to search various types of information on website

Providing easy functionality for creating and updating of user profile

Modern look and feel with easy to use and download facility

Providing security features

Espire Offering

Espire designed and developed the Web sites for promoting the Indian tourism with focus on

Madhya Pradesh state. The hallmark of the Web sites is the plethora of information pertinent

to various tourist attractions across the Madhya Pradesh regions and India, the various places

to stay, holiday ideas, destination guides and maps, journey planner, best deals on

accommodation & eating out and various events & attractions that could appeal to the

prospective international or domestic tourists.




Features of application


the Web sites. Espire's team worked closely with Client’s in-house technical teams and other

suppliers and ensured that the Web sites were delivered true to the specifications and

requirements provided by Client while adhering to the stringent Web site usability and

accessibility criteria set by the independent consultants and external agencies engaged byClient.

Benefits

Espire's technological expertise enabled Client achieve its challenging business goals of

marketing Madhya Pradesh as tourist heavens. As a testimony to Client's vision and Espire's

acumen in design and development of Web portals, the Client promotion Web site was

appreciated by all the stake holders.

The Website had advanced Internet-based data management and data integration technology

to deliver interactive visitor information services. It also ensured easier nominated for the

award of world's leading tourist board and access for tourism businesses and organisations to

manage their own data online, and to source business intelligence and electronic governmentinformation.






Technologies Microsoft .NET 2.0, Adobe Flash, XML, XSLT, CSS


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