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Systems and Software Design, Inc. was approached by a national organization to review
the design and construction of their application, and develop
an approach to stabilize their FoxPro for DOS application. |
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The initial phase of the application
was written in FoxBase for one location. As the
company expanded nationally to 30+ locations with over 450 workstations, the original application
was introduced into each new location. With this expansion, numerous
modifications, additions and patches were incorporated into the
application, enlarging the application to over 86,000 lines of
code. As these changes occurred, the application began to experience
continuous loss of data files, application lockups and extreme
time delays in performing the simplest tasks.
After reviewing the condition
of the application, the following goals were established for
the project:
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- The application will be made
stable, preventing loss of files and lockups.
- The application would not be
rewritten as a Windows application.
- Parts of the application,
which run correctly without a negative impact on performance,
will remain unchanged.
- The renovations will be accomplished
in four phases with no delay between phases.
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With completion of the first three phases, the application
no longer experiences the loss of data files, the occurrence of lockups and numerous programming bugs. Phase four was then completed providing for accounting, project security and an on-line help system.
After the
completion of Phase Four, the application will continue to be
run as new features are added - sending faxes, adding a spell
checker, processing e-mail, zipping files, exporting files to
corporate headquarters' FTP site and introducing a report writer.
Consideration is now being given to converting the application
over to a web base application with a centralized database.
Let
Systems and Software
Design, Inc. construct a custom
solution for you!
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