Pharmaceutical system
- System sponsored by one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies to promote their products at chemists' shops and help them deliver medicines to consumers.
- Uses Perl as the underlying technology.
- A good example of our ability to work with other companies in system development, and produce large-scale systems and applications.
It must be mentioned that we cannot take full credit for the development of the system, as one of the components to be used for PDAs using PalmOS was developed by another organization.
The system is based on three dedicated servers, one of which receives requests from mobile devices and is used to synchronize mobile applications with the main system database using 'Net Update' module, developed by another company. The other two servers used for the work (a database (DB) server and HTTP server) were developed by us.
The DB server used a mySQL database to store the broad assortment of products from the pharmaceutical company. The front/back end server is an HTTP server that provides the system administrators with the ability to handle the base depot/ warehouse by keeping track of items and their assortment in the store.
We chose Perl as a platform for the back-end for two reasons:
- a) to let HTTP server communicate with the Net Update server using the same programming language, and;
- b) the loading on the server is very high and we use threads to handle clients' requests to the server.
Users of the system are authorised personnel or attorneys from the pharmaceutical company. Usually, attorneys are the owners of drug stores and are authorised to enter new attorneys in the system. Attorneys provide "floating" pharmacists access to the system to let them see medical goods available to them.
There are different types of floating pharmacists who are authorised to do different kinds of work for the system. Floating pharmacists visits patients to provide them with consultations, to sell pharmaceuticals or to provide them with nursing services. They immediately record all the services provided via the PDA application or via the back-end admin interface using a computer connected to the Internet. The floating pharmacists are able to prescribe medicines via PDA to end consumers.
Drugstores reserve required quantities of medicines. Every time the inventory falls below a specified level, the goods are replenished to the required quantity. The system also provides a credit system to let some drugstores order products using an "after sold" payment method.
Detailed reports are available to let the company keep track of key sales data and the most profitable drugstores as well as help devise strategies to incentivise drugstores.
In the subsequent phase of the project that we are working on now, the customer would like to allow the system to include multiple drug manufacturers. This is a complicated phase of the project, where we have to cater for a much higher system loading than at present. The basis for granting rights and privileges/powers for different users will also be much more complicated than it is now. Besides allowing members to work with different drug manufacturers, the latter will also be able to set their own price for the services offered by the floating pharmacists. However, the price bracket will be set by the main system administrator.
Scalable ProjectSeptember 2010 -
WebDevs doubles up: Records phenomenal growth in the last year
Economic downturn or not, we're thrilled to announce our exceptional growth during 2009. We're literally double the size now, both in terms of revenues as well as our team size! Equally importantly, it was a year when we delivered on some large, exciting and innovative projects, and in the process enhancing our capabilities and augmenting our strong development portfolio. We successfully executed one of the largest iPhone application development projects, involving a dedicated team of 4 iPhone developers, a designers and a team of testers who worked on this demanding application for about 10 months.
Further strengthening our mobile application development capabilities, we have now increased the size of our Android team to work on porting the aforementioned application to the Android platform.
We've also added Adobe AIR development capabilities to. After a successful Adobe AIR pilot project for a well-known client, the client has entrusted us with ongoing development of desktop applications to be used in their showrooms necessitating the formation of a dedicated Adobe AIR team.
We'd have loved to talk more about these projects to give a better idea of the depth of our expertise; unfortunately, client confidentiality and NDAs take precedence.
May 2009 -
G'day Australia!
WebDevs.com's highly competitive and efficient solutions are now available to you from our Brisbane office, we look forward to pushing on with our expansion in the coming months.