IMPACT Anywhere – Web-Based Risk Management Solution

Volia Software addressed Softengi with a request to perform work for one of its customers, providing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) solutions to internationally reputed companies. This company had a web-based risk management solution that allowed its customers to protect worker health and safety, avoid devastating accidents, improve worker productivity and product quality, protect the environment, and cut costs.

Challenges of the Risk Management Solution

Softengi’s primary task was to develop a lightweight application as a web interface instead of the legacy enterprise application and, at the same time, preserve its compatibility and interoperability on the data level. The Softengi team was requested to develop the new architecture from scratch. The customer also needed a special framework to organize communication between the customer’s artifacts (emails, audited objects, etc.) It was also necessary to provide for the opportunities for future modernization and enhancements of the application.

Softengi Team Tech Contribution

Originally, it was a project-based cooperation. In the course of 3 years, we have implemented about 1.5 dozen projects. During each of them, the Softengi team delivered a certain functionality for the next release. During application development, the Softengi team maintained close contact with the customer’s team.

The new architecture was developed from scratch. The framework was developed with .NET instead of the previously used Visual Basic (VB). It covered such common tasks as authentication and permissions checks, auditing, e‐mail notification, common user interface components, etc.

Multiple database support (Oracle and MS SQL Server 2000) was ensured. The application was successfully integrated with the existing systems. Gradually, the application received new functionality and enhancements.

As a result, IMPACT Anywhere^TM is an application that allows to identify, capture, and manage Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) information and access various management systems from virtually anywhere via secure Internet access giving the organization using it control over both reactive and proactive risk-related processes across the extended enterprise.