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