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Case Studies | Reviews

Find out how businesses use WebSmart to solve real world problems by reading the case studies below.

WebSmart Case Studies

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DCS Law Enforcement and Technology

Read IBM's own Case Study: With the help of WebSmart, DCS has implemented processes for rapid, in-car display of mug shots for officers in the field, live tracking of police vehicles and a way for citizens to file reports directly via the Web.
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MCCI Police Reporting System

Read IBM's own Case Study: MCCI is a Web-application warrior, modernizing custom RPG code with WebSmart. BCD tool helps this consulting firm energize clients that love the simplicity and reliability of the System i platform.
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Hickory Farms

Read IBM System i Magazine's Case Study: Resourceful Retail. Hickory Farms improves productivity by building a Web-based application and datastore using BCD's WebSmart.
Challenge: Improving coordination of business requirements between field representatives and corporate headquarters.
Solution: Using WebSmart to build an application that allows all users to have access to a centralized repository of information.
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Draper Tools

The Right Tool for UK Tool brand -- Draper Tools is WebSmart. WebSmart makes easy work of Web-based program development and maintenance throughout program lifecycle.
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Steelnet Solutions

Consultant selects BCD for Pharmaceutical ERP Project, wins high praise. Steve McEneany is a consultant with a reputation for wholly accepting responsibility for a task and seeing it though to a positive outcome, even if it means going to extremes.
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VR Election Services

21st-century voting leaps forward using VR Election Services, the iSeries, and WebSmart. Web based applications; PCs, interactive voice response equipment, PDAs, Kiosks and various wireless devices bring the voting booth to the voter.
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JJ Able & Company

JJ Able & Company - Two-Man Development Team Writes Major Web-based Billing Package with WebSmart. JJubillee generates bills for over 35,000 customers with IBM eServer iSeries hardware and software developed with tools from BCD.
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Kwik Trip

350+ Fast and Friendly Convenience Stores Leverage BCD's WebSmart for Even Faster Service; WebSmart makes it easy for Kwik Trip RPG developers to extend iSeries apps to the web.
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Bay County School District

New iSeries Web based Student Information Portal Becomes Teacher's Favorite Tool WebSmart developed Dash-Board web based system earns Bay County School District's IT department top grade.
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Web Based Police Reporting

Long Arm of the Law Extends Reach with New High Tech iSeries Web Police Management System. The MCCI Police Reporting System is a multifaceted incident reporting system with a database and executables that reside on an IBM iSeries box.
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Lamps Plus

Has Lamps Plus’ effort been a success? The answer is Yes. Today consumers can walk into any Lamps Plus store, place an order based on thousands of product illustrations and descriptions, and receive their order in days.
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City of Murray

"With BCD's help, in three weeks we were able to create, test, and implement a new solution that actually functions better than the old application did. Additionally, in the process we learned the tools and technical know-how to modify WebSmart's source as our future needs might require."
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Formica

BCD’s WebSmart Gives Formica Corporation a Competitive Counter Punch. An improved distribution channel communications and WebSmart enhanced order entry processes help Formica maintain its leadership role in the building materials industry. “Everything that customer service came up with, we were able to make work using WebSmart.”
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Formica (one year later)

Formica Corporation Adds to Cache of Web-Based Customer Service Tools. In one month the inventory inquiry system served 14,000 inquiries and the order inquiry system was accessed 5,000 times. Also, 490 orders were placed through the extranet order entry system. "We don’t see any load from this on our system. It’s so invisible it’s ridiculous."
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EGS Electrical Group

WebSmart Replaces Domino Order Tracking, Saves Money. A turnkey web-based customer order tracking system built for less than $30,000 with WebSmart replaced a Domino-based system that would have cost over $100,000 just to migrate to a new iSeries machine from an AS/400.
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Vacansoleil

Vacansoleil books a brighter future with IBM. Vacansoleil sees its new booking service not just as a way to keep costs low, but also as an extra service to its customers. The company anticipates that the new channel to market will help it to expand more rapidly in new territories. Read case study

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Peg-Pérego

Peg-Perego Pilots Web-Based Customer Service Site. Increased sales, a direct result of AS/400-based eCommerce and B2B site.
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Custom Systems Corporation

WebSmart Ports MAPICS ERP Functions to Web for Custom Systems Corporation Clients. Using WebSmart CSC developed ERP related, plug-in web based solutions that were straight forward, easy to implement and easy to use. Their EAX (Enterprise Access for iSeries/400)system meets their clients wish list of a detailed solution allows customers and sales people to look at inventory, order status, pricing, and open accounts receivable via the web rather than calling customer service or procurement.
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Weigh-tronix

At Weigh-Tronix, the heavy weight of full-cycle customer service has been lessened through the implementation of a web-based order entry/order tracking system created with WebSmart. Newville says, “With the reasonable acquisition cost of WebSmart it was easily cost justified. Our customers love it and we are very pleased with the end result. It has allowed us to do things that we didn’t think we could afford to do.”
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PurvisGray Technology Group

Browser-Based Apps Give New Life to AS/400. “We could have done this (streamlining Customer Service) with WebSphere but from a development standpoint, it would have taken longer and would have been far more expensive. The ILE/RPG and CGI programs generated by WebSmart run much faster than the programs WebSphere would have produced.”
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Airways Freight

Freight Forwarder Improves Customer Service and Efficiency with BCD's WebSmart Developed Track and Trace System. "It took only four days from not having ever seen the software" states Gillow, "to a complete production application that was ready to be used by agents and customers."
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"As an RPG programmer that is transfering my skills to web application processing, WebSmart is the way to go."
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