Case Studies: MVC

A nationwide printer of newspapers, inserts and catalogs contacted Saturn Systems to replace an online portal used by chain retail advertising customers to design and customize weekly inserts. The system to be replaced was a heavyweight Java application with client PC and bandwidth requirements that frequently exceeded those of their customer base. Saturn Systems designed a new lightweight, purely web-based solution that supported online markup and annotation, page additions using approved templates and prototype generation. Significant back-end enhancements were made, adding workflow to ensure advertiser edits were routed, approved and processed. The resulting system has significantly simplified the weekly process of design, approval and publishing advertising circulars for Saturn’s customer and their advertising customers.

Saturn Systems took over support and enhancement of a vendor management portal used by the financial industry when the customer’s previous vendor decided to end support for the package. The original designer of the solution had used Microsoft’s MVC along with a considerable palette of open source utilities and packages. Transition of the complex package occurred with little support from the previous vendor, requiring Saturn staff to quickly gain an understanding of the system architecture and an intricate deployment process. Saturn Systems continues to support and enhance the site.