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Integration of a trading application with Abacus accounting system

A smart outcome customer in the natural-resource trading-industry wanted to automate the data exchange between multiple software applications and their Abacus ERP.

smart outcome's contribution

In collaboration with the business specialists we managed the project, conducted business analysis and developed the resulting software.

We documented the existing manual processes and subsequently redesigned them in regard to a future automation. After customer sign off on the new processes, smart outcome implemented automatic interfaces for customer, accounts receivables, and accounts payables data.

Result

  • The developed integration application allows the involved specialists to cross check the data before importing them into their system
  • Daily time savings after elimination of manual bookings
  • Improved data quality through elimination of manual datat entry
  • Simple and central managment of customer data in a single system

Employed technologies

  • C#, WPF
  • Entity Framework
  • DevExpress WPF components
  • xUnit Unit Testing
  • SQL Server
  • Abacus Webservices
  • CruiseControl.NET Build Server
  • Mercurial Source Code Management

Industry

 Natural resource trading