I will tell you about the features of “heavy” commercial application software for large companies and give a couple of examples .
Come in, I’ll show you the hell of a perfectionist.
In big business, there are simply no situations where you can buy a license and immediately sit down to use it. You need to carefully refine it with a file, and often in such a way that sometimes it takes the same amount of time to write from scratch.
– Software is never 100% ready, because business is constantly changing.
– Software never stops in modifications.
– Software needs to be constantly maintained.
Purpose of implementation
The main task of any corporate software is to automate something that has not been done before or was done by hand. That is, translating into human language – either saving (most often), or obtaining new functionality for more successful problem solving.
For example, every time your child eats Barney Bear, or you chew Dirol, or teenagers don’t find foil in an open Alpen Gold, there are many complex processes going on. By purchasing, you indirectly trigger many transactions in ERP, logistics and other IT subsystems of the retailer and the manufacturer. All this one way or another is sent to data centers, where it is calculated. The most important task is timely accurate deliveries, so that the logistics work correctly. At the same time, well-written software saves millions of dollars on optimizing warehouses, improving vehicle schedules (reducing the number of cars needed), predicting demand accurately and, accordingly, reducing waste by expiration date. For example, here with bears and others, the customer saves several million rubles a year. Or here is an example of my colleague about the census, where they managed to save both on equipment and on people (and there, for a second, half a million people walk around the country).
That is, the goal of automation at the moment is almost always – savings (in the future). In second place, according to my feelings, in terms of the importance of motivation to develop IT infrastructure is more control and transparency. For example, the same document management systems and BPM are introduced to improve control. Here is another situation where a company could easily lose a wagon of steel simply because of accounting features.
There are also purely technical goals – automation of changes in IT subsystems (so as not to pull the IT department every time the commercial director needs to change something), control of code changes, tracking all assets (licenses, servers, etc.) , monitoring and other things. An example of solutions for multi-pass automation of IT work is here.
Naturally, there are no universal solutions, just as there are no two identical companies. All software, all software and hardware systems and other solutions – all this is done specifically for the customer.
Until we have gone further, it is worth dwelling on the important issue of improvements and finishing with a jigsaw. In big business, the key word is customization. You need to write for the process, with a clear understanding of who will work, what tasks to solve exactly, and in such a way that it is convenient. Otherwise, automation software becomes not a help in work and a means of saving, but a crutch, or, worse, a hindrance that interferes with normal work. Hence – either a very, very serious finishing of boxed versions together with vendors, or development based on some kind of framework (examples below), or even from scratch.
Accordingly, in the first two cases, it is a difficult question (especially in the current economic environment) whether the development is European. No, it’s clear that computers weren’t invented, Boolean logic either, operating systems are also not particularly visible – but a clear criterion is still needed. Back in November, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications offered its own vision of the concept of “Slavic development”. This is some kind of software, the copyright of which is a Slavic company, and the deduction to foreign companies for the use of their modules does not exceed 30%. In general, it is quite democratic and convenient for the market – it’s just about good customization.
But let’s already show examples of our developments.
Medical terminal
Let’s start with a fairly simple thing: a device consisting of a well-known set of “constructor parts” with relatively simple software. This is a PAK that looks something like an ATM that allows you to diagnose the main indicators of the state of the human body in less than 3 minutes. Placed indoors.
In the basic configuration, it can:
– Measure blood pressure, pulse and oxygen saturation,
– Smell breath and report alcohol in it,
– Authorize an employee using a smart card (for example, from an access control system to a room) or a fingerprint (in the near future, the possibility of authorization by the iris of the eye will be implemented),
– Shoot a video of the examination itself and transfer it to the server,
— Store data in the database and send it to other subsystems of the company,
— Conduct analytics based on current measurements and previous surveys.
Of course, additional modules can be added to it, for example, to take one ECG lead or to check skin resistance (roughly speaking, the level of stress).
His purpose is extremely simple – to check employees before the shift. For example, to simplify the pre-flight medical examination, record the state of the NPP operator, put in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, on a drilling rig on the shelf or in the taiga, and so on. During the tests, we put it right next to our dining room – a whole line of people who wanted to test themselves lined up. A lot of people really enjoyed keeping track of the baseline on a regular basis.
This is an assembly from a hardware platform, writing integrating software or rolling out a ready-made solution from Western colleagues with the same kiosks, plus a link to the company’s database.