Project summary

Stakeholder:

The company is a leading provider of hosted solutions on the Internet.
 

Internet based office: mail, calendar, file system, address book, events, news, and etc.

Business Challenge / Situation

Today's corporate e-mail system is an imperative communication tool for companies.

However, in many cases, the use of corporate e-mail by employees is limited to company offices only. As a result, there is a market demand for web-based e-mail systems that could be accessed and used via a web browser having Internet connection.

Our customer decided to fulfill this market need. To perform that task, they contracted our team. The requirements for the Web-based e-mail system were very rigorous.

The system was to have a full range of work tools assisting users in performing their duties, such as a calendar, to-do list, web-based file system, and others.

Solution / our approach

In response to their business needs, our team developed a high-quality, web-based e-mail system. One of the major advantages of this system is that each company can customize the system to fulfill its unique business needs.

The solution consists of many modules, such as an address book, calendar, to-do list, POP3 collector, e-mail filters, tab navigation bar, etc. A company-user can decide which modules should be included into the'company's corporate e-mail system.

The client may as well customize the interface of the system according to the preferences of the company employees. The solution is a unique offer on the market. Unlike most free web-based e-mail systems with very low storage volume, the capacity can be customized to any size. The solution allows users to manage the content using a branding wizard. That enables employees to create both public and private folders.

System Highlights

To develop the solution, our team used well-known technologies and open source solutions, such as Jakarta Struts, etc. The advantage of these solutions and technologies is that it enables a developer to reduce the cost of development and testing. As a result, our customer received a state-of-the-art system at a reasonable cost.

Tools & Techniques & Environment

J2EE, Apache Struts, JDK 1.3, JDBC 2, Servlets, JSP, DOM, XSLT, Tomcat HTTP server, JNDI, JAF, RMI clustering, UML, JMS, Java Mail, EJB, Tyrex transaction manager, RDBMS (Oracle, Informix, InterBase), Mail Servers (Sendmail, Postfix).

Value Received

The company benefits from obtaining a high-class tool, enabling its employees to easily communicate from any location.

The system is an extremely scalable and expandable solution, capable of supporting up to a million users and allowing the addition of any extra applications.

The solution improves the internal efficiency of the organization, speeds up decision-making processes, and as a result, turns the customer into a more competitive market player.