BIOMERIEUX Investment Tool

BIOMÉRIEUX

Investment tool

The project consisted in developing an application that allows BioMérieux’s Investment Department to manage their investment plans and projects, to synthesize and export the data to enable an accurate and detailed analysis of the needs of each department and sub-department.

Total project duration: 4 months
The total cost of the project was 50 man-days

Details of the project :

Problematic

The Investment Department carried out the management of the investment requests with classical office automation tools (Excel files). This approach required manual entry by the different departments, then centralization of all requests. This mode of operation proved tedious and led to errors. In order to optimize this process, the department decided to develop a specific tool allowing :

A single entry of investment requests
Unified management of plans and projects
Propagation of information to the services concerned

Mission statement

Development of a client-rich application including :

Screens for entering and consulting information on plans and projects
Synthesis interfaces
A customization and configuration interface

Organization

For the realization of the project, 2 persons have been allocated :

1 project manager and functional manager
1 development engineer

This contract was executed entirely with Tana Corp resources dedicated to the project.

Main characteristics of the client

A global player in the field of in vitro diagnostics for over 40 years, BioMérieux offers diagnostic solutions (reagents, instruments and software) that determine the origin of a disease or contamination to improve patient health and ensure consumer safety.

BioMérieux’s distribution network is present in more than 150 countries. The company is listed on Euronext Paris with sales of more than one billion euros per year.

Conduct of the project

Advice and support role provided throughout the project

A real force of accompaniment: The organization of the project gives a primordial importance to the quality of the accompaniment, to make the customer benefit from the expertise and the know-how capitalized by Tana Corp on its projects of the same type.
Consulting strength : Our solid experience on management applications in the field of distribution and fixed-price projects has enabled us to provide the customer with the best market practices in this field. Moreover, Tana Corp is a force of proposal in the highlighting of functional options likely to bring a strong functional added value.
Expertise on client-rich application: The management and results exploitation interfaces have been realized in the form of a client-rich application to facilitate its use. We used our expertise in this field to create ergonomic and easy-to-use screens to maximize user productivity and facilitate user access to information.

Proposed methodology to validate the project steps from a client’s point of view

Proposed project reporting
A monthly steering committee enabled us to steer this long-term project in close collaboration with the client.
Tools chosen for the project management
Project Management: MS Project
Incident follow-up : BugX (based on Mantis, http://www.mantisbt.org/)
Version and configuration tracking: SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)

Solution features

Business processes covered by the solution

Management of investment plans and projects

Multi-axis statistics engine
Exports of information to the services concerned
Configuration and customization

Technical platform elements

Software package, software or development languages used

After analysis of all the constraints, Tana Corp proposed the realization of a custom application, based entirely on a Microsoft :

Microsoft .Net Framework, C# language
SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

Reasons for the choice

Microsoft .Net Framework with C#: development platform allowing an excellent cost/delivery time/quality implementation ratio.
SQLServer 2005 Compact Edition: high-performance in-process database engine that does not require the installation of a server application.

Share of pre-existing developments used on which the Supplier has capitalised to complete the project

The entire project was developed from scratch.

Challenges and key success factors

Ergonomics: daily use of the application in a production context, rapidity of screens and interfaces.
Scalability: the application’s configuration interface allows the addition of other investment plans or projects, as well as new services or sub-services.

Business result

Today, the developed application is in production and is fulfilling its role to the full. It allows an easier management of investments.

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