Portal For Elderly People

Abstract: 

Our Bangalore, India based customer created a portal for elderly age people. Using portal anyone can buy a product, which is useful for aged people.like., Washing & Toileting, Cervical Pillow, Walking Stick, Exercise Ball, Cervical Collar, and much more! Portal has an option to get services from verifies doctors, also offer services for home modifications for senior citizens, classes, and activities for senior citizens, forums for question and answers on specified topics. The portal helps people to find best senior care services and products.

Client: 

Our client had the vision to provide services and products to keep all aging parents safe, secure, and comfortable by making home senior friendly. Initially, they started physical stores and make an alliance with doctors to help seniors. Afterwards, they planned to become online to help more people citywide.

Problem Statement: 

• Our customer decided to create a portal, but they did not have much exposure and also do not have experienced team on it. So, they want us to help them in initial product development phase(s) and solve following issues for them.

  • Product conceptualization and management

  • Define Scope for each phase

  • Choose best-suited tools and technologies for portal development

  • Define system architecture

  • E-commerce module development

  • SEO and analytical tools integration

  • Payment gateway integration (PayU Money for INR support)

  • Integration of logistic services (FedEx) for online shipment tracking

  • Product quality assurance by manual and automated testing

  • Define deployment process and strategies

  • Production environment setup

Challenges & Limitations:

• Broadleaf customization to create custom REST services to achieve customer’s specific requirements.

• Native mobile application support

Aspire’s Solution: 

• Discussed and defined product scope, with a list of each feature in details.

• Prepared a product execution plan for each release.

• Prepared testing plans with detailed test case documents.

• Defined system architecture and implemented same with best available tools and technologies.

• Choose broadleaf commerce platform for backend REST services for fast development.

  • Used angularJs and bootstrap for front-end development to support responsive UI. Also, it is very easy to convert same application code in Mobile cross-platform applications in future using Cordova.

• Followed continuous integration development practice for auto build, test, and deployment process.

Benefits Delivered:

• On-time almost bug-free portal delivered as promised in project execution plan.

• Expansion of their market.

• Business growth achieved up to 200%, in 2 quarters of launching portal.

• Improved customer relationships with Forums and online 24*7 support systems.

• Repeat customer rate increased up to 35%.

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Bower, Gulp, Node(npm), Yeoman,  RequireJS, UglifyJS, MinifyHtml, JSHint, Karma, GIT, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Solr, Broadleaf e-commerce platform(CE), JUnit, PayU Money, FedEx Logistic service, Prerender.io, Google Analytics, Google Pagespeed, Yahoo YSlow, Amazon AWS cloud, Jenkins.