Case Study  – Carsa - Red Megatone       

Carsa, from MEGATONE Group, updates its Point of Sale Application with Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. The home furnishing network incorporates Adobe technology for its business development.

Challenges
  Improve the user interface of the point of sale application
  Criticality and high availability
  Back end integration with SAP online
  High Performance

Solutions
  Improve the user experience with applications that are more appropriate for the business processes
  Use a new development platform, evolving into a model of multi-layered cross-platform technologies
  Apply methodologies and configuration control processes in the development process
  Evolve towards a service model, with an integration hub that allows for the interconnection of different processes in a specific technological architecture

Results
  Modernization of the technology platform
  Reduced maintenance costs
  Improved customer service

The Process
Company challenges At a time where updated technology is the differential that any company can offer, Diego Gómez, head of the sector development of Carsa Area Systems (Megatone), needed to solve five major problems that the previous solution caused: technology upgrading, integration, licensing, dependancy on the database and usability.

Ready to face the challenge, the goals to be achieved were to improve the user experience with the use of systems, to use a new platform of development with multi-platform technologies, and to apply methodologies and configuration control processes in the development.

When it was time to put into practice the stated objectives, the team responsible for the project , together with Cubika, evaluated the Adobe Flex and Air solution as a possibility. By choosing Adobe, three major issues were solved:
  To improve the application interface
  To achieve an architecture with a breakthrough in remote solutions with high quality graphics
  To enable an integration with a service model.

However, it was impossible to carry out the implementation in the expected time, considering the complexity of the technology. The help provided by Cubika was essential for achieving the implementation of the solution. “We had to merge into one single team: Carsa and Cubika, so as to be able to undertake the development. The contribution of the consultants' knowledge regarding the architecture definition and the technology integration with the chosen tools made it possible to achieve the desired objective,” he stated.