Case Study Medical Instrument Online Shopping Cart System
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Client
Requirement
The client is a startup online retailer and looking out for an ecommerce platform to facilitate online transactions in the medical market. Some of the specific opportunities that client would like to capitalize on during the project development are: To provide an opportunity for professionals to buy and sell their expiring medical equipment before it depreciates in value. Number of registered buyers and sellers. Number of transactions. Value of transactions. Number of alerts scheduled by buyers and sellers.
The client demanded the following: An iOS mobile app for customers willing to make purchase online of numerous medical products. A common platform for customers who desire to research, rate, review and recommend the products. Catalog Management, Order Management, Reports, Customizable Order Emails, Call Center Order Creation and much more.
Project
Challenges
Team faced the following challenges:
The app to run smoothly with optimized resolution for varied version of iOS.
Payment Gateway Integration came as a challenge to the team.
To effectively handle newly placed orders, order cancellations and sending bulk mailers for payment release.
Applying various set of business logics associated with Magento Enterprise Edition backed product shipping management.
Harmonizing the simultaneous execution of various integrated features and options while maintaining consistency.
Ensuring safe and secure transfer of data.
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Technologies Operating System & Server Management
Development Tools & Environments
Used iOS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server Optimization, Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups, Alert Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at regular intervals, Software Firewall Configuration & Maintenance iOS SDK, Magento Ecommerce Platform, XCode 5.0, Objective C, Core Data Framework etc. SQLite Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master Slave Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups
Database
Manpower
Project Leader
1
Developers
2
Designers
2
Quality Assurance Testers
2
Planning The following development approach was adopted to equip the app with numerous features and functionality mentioned below: Introduces high level of server and data fetching technology. Designing the app interaction and flow for user-friendliness and interactivity. Development – High Level Coding Standards has been followed for managing backup data volume simultaneously synchronization with the server for recent updates. Syncing existing and newly available data for backup with our database required specific attention. This helped in result generation.
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Architecture iOS Architecture
The Core OS and Core Services layers contain the fundamental interfaces for iPhone OS including those used for accessing files, low-level data types, network sockets and so on. These interfaces include technologies such as Core Foundation, CF Network, SQLite and access to POSIX threads and UNIX sockets among others. The Media layer contains the fundamental technologies used to support 2D and 3D drawing, audio and video. This layer includes technologies like OpenGL ES, Quartz and Core Audio. The Cocoa Touch layer provides the fundamental infrastructure used by your application. For example, the Foundation framework provides object oriented support for collections, file management, network operations and more.
Development
Highlights
The app managed the entire gamut of online activities successfully handling all the orders, shipping, payments, checkouts amongst others. Extensive pre-development research was carried out to create a robust mobile app in minimum time while dealing with extensive customizations. Core data framework is used to maintain and store all the details across the project scope. The app was developed and fully functional within a span of 6 months.
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