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1. Built the Whole Gamut of Reporting Features for
a B2Bi EDI Solution Provider in North America
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2. Executive Summary The Client
Built on Ruby on Rails, the The client is one of the leading providers of SaaS based EDI solution for
client’s EDI solution is a SaaS manufacturers, logistics providers, sourcing companies, expeditors,
based offering. The client freight forwarders, and other business partners in the retail supply
chain. The client is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
was looking to quickly build
reporting functionalities
into their solution which
could support a full range of
transactions such as purchase
Business Case
orders, price updates, and
The client’s SaaS based EDI solution was lacking complete reporting
invoices. Sigma Infosolutions functionalities. They wanted their various reports like invoices,
leveraged its expertise in purchase orders, etc. to support all popular output formats like
business intelligence and Adobe PDF, HTML, RTF, and plain text. Therefore, the client wanted
reporting to develop the to partner with a team who could help them quickly develop, test,
entire set of reports in a short and integrate these reporting features with their core application.
span of 3 weeks.
Challenges
Sigma Infosolutions’ team was only building the reporting capabilities.
Therefore, every time the team had to test export functionality with
the core system, they liaised with the client’s core development
team. This was quite a challenge since the client’s core development
team had a hectic schedule and it was difficult to coordinate the
timings when the testing could be performed. The client’s team was
not quickly responding to queries as well as the details for the next
set of reports. This pushed Sigma Infosolutions’ team to be doubly
responsive and fast while building core reporting capabilities so as to
ensure an on-time and on-budget delivery.
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3. The Solution Technology
Sigma Infosolutions proposed to use Pentaho BI tool to build core Sigma Infosolutions used the
reporting functionalities. following technology for this
project:
The client’s application needed to convert a document to a format
based on the requirements of the trading partners. Hence, the • Pentaho
reporting solution was built to support all popular output options
including Adobe PDF, HTML, Rich Text Format, and plain text. Since
the solution offers role-based security capabilities, the reports
were designed to follow these role-controls to protect security and
integrity of information.
Sigma Infosolutions took 3 weeks to exhaustively understand the
EDI solution, gather requirements, develop, test, and deploy the
reporting functionalities on the client’s server. The team also
worked along with the client’s development team to integrate the
functionalities with the core engine of the solution. Business Benefits
Since, Sigma Infosolutions got closely associated with the client’s
business vision and had in and out knowledge of the EDI solution; the The reporting functionalities
team leveraged its domain understanding to extend various types helped the client to achieve the
of functionalities that could enable the client to build a sustainable following business benefits:
competitive advantage. Some of these recommended functionalities
included advanced dashboards, single sign-on, and building a fantastic • An empowered solution to
business intelligence engine to offer it as a separate service for all optimize processes across
the customers. the retail supply chain
• 40% cost savings on
functionality development
• A trusted offshore
technology partner for any
future development needs
Invoice reporting
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4. “ 40% cost savings on functionality development
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About Sigma Infosolutions
• Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing &
Export, Handicrafts Manufacturing & Export, and Software Development
• Sigma Infosolutions is a TUV certified ISO 9001:2008 company
• Headquartered in US with presence in India
• Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics,
Birla Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc.
• Sigma Infosolutions’ services comprises of application development, application management, IT consulting, offshore
testing, and website and portal development
Sigma Infosolutions LLC-USA, California Sigma Infosolutions Ltd.-India,Bangalore
2082 Michelson Dr. Sigma Towers
Suite 100 #66/A, 13th Cross
Irvine, CA 92612 6th Main, JP Nagar
Telephone: (714) 717-1826 3rd Phase, Bangalore- 560078
Fax: (866) 405-6750 Telephone: +91-80-40865100
Toll Free No.: 1-888-861-7360 Fax: +91-80-40865103