global travelling overview

Global Travellingan internal trip management system

project overview by Dmitry Rodionov

Business problem

No centralized business trips tracking across company

Business problem

Long approve time for business trips. By the time the decision is made the ticket prices might be higher than anticipated.

Business problem

No way to analyze travel spendings in detail

Business problem

Manual tracking of all approvals and travel costs via Excel and Outlook

Solution - Global Travelling

A single system tracks all business trips

Trip details

Complex itinerary support

Trip approval sequence can be customized

Email support

Supervisors automatically notified about trips planned by their subordinates via email. Reduction in average trip approval time from 8 to 1,5 working days

Cost controlTravel department keeps track of all travel expenses plan and fact. Detailed data is available for financial department and other stakeholders

Integration

The system is integrated into the company's IT-infrastructure. It exchanges data with the company's budgeting, payment and financial system

Global Travelling - Summary

Reduced approval time saves nearly 50% of tickets costs due to early booking Instant email notifications speeds up decision making processExpenses control allows better budget forecasting 170 users tracks 2500 trips per year100+ notification emails sent every day

My Involvement

Full SDLC - requirements gathering, design, coding (>70% of all code), deployment, maintenance (including database performance tuning).

40000+ LOC70+ Forms and UserControls60+ Tables in database

Global Travelling - Technologies

● C# .NET 3.5 - 4.0● Windows Forms (DevExpress) with

ClickOnce deployment● MS SQL Server 2008● Entity Framework 3.5● WCF● MVP pattern with Unit-tests