Case Study: CIMCO Designs a flexible CMMS and puts it on the web

The following case study was formed from CIMCO's need to migrate its existing CIMCO-CMMS Windows Forms product to the web so it can be run in a browser.
It was extremely important to alleviate the need to install any software on the client and to create the software according to the market's preferences which require a modern looking UI which is still easy to use.

Moreover, the system needed to be able to provide fast access to an MS SQL database and to present responsive interface that includes instant changes of languages view for screens and reports.

The development team initially started the project with Asp.net, but since most of the team was composed of VB programmers it was a very difficult to get the expected results because of the complexity in developing rich internet applications with Asp.net. It was decided to evaluate other web based solutions and the WinForms-like web development of Visual WebGui was chosen as it allowed CIMCO programmers who were experienced in VB to get started on the application much faster than any of the other solutions evaluated.

The team switched to Visual WebGui and started to get the results it was originally seeking in a very short time and with very little adoption required from its team members. "Since we started we have seen some fantastic changes in the product with good support from the Gizmox staff, from the Chief Architect down."

By using Visual WebGui CIMCO-CMMS takes advantage of the latest .Net and Ajax technologies for Web applications, allowing users to access their data from anywhere. Basing on Visual WebGui the application provides great flexibility and extensibility and CIMCO plans to add PDA and Dashboard module with the next release.

"Our programmers were experienced in VB with little web experience. By selecting VWG we got the latest .Net technology for Web applications, allowing fast, modern looking software to be designed very rapidly." Said Victor Batchelor, Managing Director.

In addition, CIMCO says that next version will be a Silverlight version which is possible due to the Visual WebGui capability to create different presentation layers from the same source code.

read the full case study and view screen shots on VisualWebgui.com