Case Studies
Tetra Health & Safety Auditing Application
Business case
Tetra Consulting, a UK-based Health and Safety consultancy, was seeking a robust web-based enterprise application. The application was to be low-cost and quick-to-market.
Tetra needed an application that could quickly respond to new clients, as well as collaborate on as many as 60 concurrent active client projects. Because each client project is unique and requires ongoing 3-way communication, Tetra also needed the application to share assessment data and information among internal staff, consultants and clients.
After several failed attempts with other outsourcing companies, met with Running Code for what was initially a one-off project.
Solution
Running Code created a solution called “emapp”, a web-based system that is used by health and safety professionals, landlords and managing agents. Among the key features of emapp: • Hazard Management - recording and retrieval of comments and history. • Control, check and monitor compliance features.• Routine task management, planning and record keeping. • Monitor tasks across building managers, regions and landlords. • Provides reminders of outstanding tasks. • Document storage - Data, links and documents across buildings and staff. • Management reports - by portfolios, buildings, regions and country-wide. • Outstanding tasks, hazards, type of hazards, type of statutory compliances. • Incidents and accidents reporting
Client benefits
Emapp has increased the business focus through use of online communication. Reduced time and effort are needed to connect and communicate with colleagues, vendors and customers at the appropriate time and using the optimal communications method. The unified communication solution has also reduced the cost and need for separate communication tools.
The solution eliminated a burdening amount of paper work and automated the flow of existing manual processes. The system has been built with the capability to scale enough for future business.
By turning the control of its business process application over to Running Code, Tetra has significantly improved its efficiency and productivity.
Impressed with Running Code’s technical skill set and overall project management, Tetra decided to outsource its entire IT needs to Running Code.
Technologies
Java EE, EJB, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Struts, JSP, Servlet, JDBC, JNDI, JMX, RedHat Enterprise Linux, MySQL, Jasper Reports, OpenOffice.org
Team
System architect, project manager, three software developers, quality assurance engineer, graphic designer, user interface coder.
Figure 1. Building Manager: Weekly Task Manager
