Case Studies: Visual Basic .NET

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) contracted Saturn Systems to design and develop an enterprise suite of applications to track attendance and service usage at 49 Workforce Centers across the state. Saturn Systems worked closely with DEED stakeholders, carefully designing the Customer Registration System (CRS) to meet the needs of a diverse clientele - Workforce Center operators, DEED management, and agency sponsors. The resulting solution required a variety of technologies, including: desktop applications, web services, online administration, ID card printing, bar code scanning and complex reporting. The application is used on a daily basis on more than 500 workstations in WorkForce Centers around Minnesota.

Saturn Systems was contracted by a customer to upgrade the software control system for a high technology sewer inspection system. This suitcase based system is used by drain cleaning professionals and features a remotely operated video camera controlled by software that runs on a customized laptop. The application records video, operator audio, and distance travelled by the inspection camera. Saturn engineers added several new features, upgraded the system for Windows 7, and integrated several disparate third party video capture and production components into a single package, saving the client thousands of dollars in annual licensing fees.

Saturn Systems was part of a team that developed an end to end solution which converted and migrated over one million legacy time and attendance records into the SAP based Navy ERP System. Project requirements established zero tolerance for conversion errors, which necessitated the development of an elaborate array of reconciliation software and processes. This large scale conversion effort involved a core management team of four persons, and ten NAVSEA sites located throughout the continental United States. In addition to developing the core conversion software, Saturn engineers created sophisticated reporting mechanisms to ensure the conversions were 100% accurate. All code was fully unit tested and system tested through a series of mock conversions before the final conversion was performed. Through extreme attention to detail and a focus on continuous process improvement over a period of eight months, the final conversion effort of over 1 million records was executed with 100% accuracy.