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