Case Studies
Case Study 
Flash Desktop Application
Q3 develops a Flash Application that provides the users of the traveling company with latest information about tours and prices.
Q3's global sourcing model gives the maximum benefit to customers in terms of cost savings, improved quality, access to highly talented professionals, flexibility of operations and reduced time to market.
Company Profile
The Client is a USA based traveling company that deals in tours and travels.
Business Situation
It was a tedious task for the company to manage all its working manually. To overcome this, the Client decided to automate its process and aimed at creating a standalone application to provide its clients with the information about tours and prices available. This new demand of the Client was accompanied with greater expectation from the participants; becoming difficult for the Client to cater to all. At this time, the Client showed faith in Q3 and decided to hire its services.
Challenges
The challenges were to:
- Study the specifications given by the Client.
- Gather detailed knowledge about the work flow of the company.
- Create Flash application using ASP.NET as back end.
Technical Solution
Q3 came up with a dedicated team of developers and QA experts to bring up a technical solution for Client's requirements. The team of developers analyzed the requirements closely and came up with a solution that ensured all needs and objectives of the Client are covered. The team of developers at Q3 developed an easy-to use desktop Flash application that offered all the features as desired by the Client. Some of the features that were incorporated in the application were-
- Single sign-in between standalone application and the main customer's website.
- Documents download capability.
- Weather widget incorporated in the website, which shows current weather to the user.
- View for complete information about tours, events, news and prices on the website.
The QA team got involved from the very beginning to ensure desired quality and bug free software is provided timely including all the objectives laid by the Client.
Technologies
- .NET
- Adobe Flash CS4
- Adobe Air 1.5 – Runtime for creating web based desktop application
- XML
- WebServices
- ActionScript 3.0
Benefits
- The Client gained more popularity and trust of its customers.
- Interactive desktop application.
- The new and user-friendly desktop application improved the number of visitors to the Client’s web site and raised the number of tours sold.
- The profit ratio increased tremendously.
Customer Speaks
We've launched a new service for providing helpful resources to our customers. These new resources are in the form of online documentation of components. The two completed components currently are Member and User while Inbox is in progress. Then there are plans for PeopleTouch, Resources and Commerce - in the order that we plan to develop them. We have partnered with Q3 Technologies to do all of our product documentation and I must say that they have done a great job. Thank you Q3 Tech for a job well done!.
Founder, JoomSuite