
10-Year Evolution of Life Sciences Software Products Used by GSK and AstraZeneca
Industry
Healthcare, Software products
Technologies
.NET, C/C++, Oracle
About
The Client is a world-famous provider of laboratory and analytical equipment and instruments used in medicine and other spheres where precision is of a great value.
Challenge
As a leading provider of enterprise solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries, the Client needed an outsourced development and permanent support team with chemistry and biochemistry degree.
Solution
VolgoTechnologies team successfully released numerous important customized versions of one of the Client product for large pharmaceutical companies, such as GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) and AstraZeneca.
For another Client product, VolgoTechnologies team significantly improved the application functionality by introducing a new component that transforms visualized chemistry elements into text names of chemistry components.
Staging
Datawarehouse
Dataware House
Desktop Application

Results
VolgoTechnologies team has been scaling throughout the cooperation and now constitutes 8 specialists working on the applications development, testing, and support.
Technologies and Tools
E-Notebook application: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.NET, .NET Framework 1.1/2.0, ADO and ADO.NET, Oracle 9/10, MSSQL, Microsoft Office 2002/2003/2007 object libraries; Adobe Acrobat 6.0/7.0 object library. ChemOffice application: Microsoft C++ 6.0/unmanaged C++.NET