CIMS (CONSTITUENCY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)
CIMS or the Constituency Information Management System is first of its Kind, unique, highly capable, unheard of software product in our product line-up that provides an end to end activity cum information management solution to public representatives like MLA, MP, Ministers.
It makes the complex job of managing the constituency easy and straight forward by putting unmanaged and haphazard activities into a process based software suite thus giving your office a highly professional corporate look. CIMS is rich in features tool that has a lot to offer to make your life absolutely pain-free ,following are some highlights of rich feature set that this tool offers.
Application tracking system – This module solves the main pain point of application tracking specially when made by constituency dwellers as currently there is no tool in place that does the effective job of application tracking with an associated SLA ,most of the time either application finds its way into the dustbin or some in-active file that will never be reviewed. People connect manager –The second most painful point that public representative suffer from is managing people connect that this tool would solve with ease by employing several data analytics and business intelligence feature and by enforcing set rules that gets evolved out of experience & Knowledge.
Programme Management – This tool is capable of assisting staff / public representative in doing programme management, say a public gathering where you want to communicate some message to a set of volunteers and the other message like venue and other details to people belonging to a particular community, caste or area. This module also adds the capability of adding and tracking minute details to an event thus making an event more doable and manageable in time boxed manner.
Work Planner – A very powerful feature of this tool is work planner that leads to effective planning of public representative’s work by giving the flexibility of entering decided set of task in advance with defined workflow, SLA and if there is any tracking required. This module also provides the feature of reporting based on different criteria like time, place, people etc.
Schedule Planner – This module gives the capability of planning public representative’s visit in advance for n days and provides a facility of generating reports of places visited and work mentioned / promised so as to make things more transparent and answerable.
Election Campaign Manager –The most attractive and unique feature the tool is election campaign manager that gives this tool a great value add.
The Challenge
The first and the foremost challenge in building this product is to convince stakeholders as it a unique and unheard of concept that not present in the market till now and hence there lot of apprehensions about product at all being successful but once every got to know the concept in detail everyone started believing in it . Since then the development has been moving forward at lightning speed to accomplish development goals and soon we would first release of fully built product that would become industry trend setter.
The other and so important challenge is to collect massive data that requires a massive exercise but once done this tool can connect voters with its public representative like brick and cement with seamless full-duplex data flowing to and fro.
Technology Solutions
CIMS is made on latest & highly efficient web based Microsoft .Net Technology platform with MVC 4.0 at the front that leverages the power of razor view engine and at the same time complies to SOA designs for scalable & seamless integration with other platforms like IOS and Android mobile devices. And the backend has been designed using SQL server DB. This product has been designed keeping in mind multilingual approach so that it can be implemented anywhere in world with minimum effort required for setup.
This product is offered in two different flavours a cloud based offering and in-house instance depending upon the client need.
Tools and Technology
- Nunit framework for unit testing.
- Nant as build tool to build multiple solutions at once.
- SVN as a version control tool.
- Cruze control for Continuous integration / Build.
- Jira as an Issue tracking system.