DTC Sightholder Directory: Consultancy and Development
link: DTC Sightholder Directory
The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is the sales and marketing arm of the De Beers Group. It sells its diamonds in their rough form to an expert group of diamantaires, called Diamond Trading Company Sightholders.
The Brief
LShift and our design partners, Glass, were commissioned to separate the Sightholders' Directory website from their previous IT infrastructure, and to implement updates and improvements. The challenge: documentation for the existing solution was no longer maintained.
The Solution
LShift took the source code for the existing website and the administrative intranet-site and reworked it to get it to work independently of DTC's IT infrastructure. LShift and Glass then worked together to incorporate cosmetic updates and add new features.
LShift and Glass delivered the intranet administration site as an initial milestone which allowed the client to concurrently update the directory's content as LShift made changes to the external website which would be deployed at a later date.
On top of the cosmetic changes, the functional improvements included 'under-the-hood' changes which removed some longstanding problems in the codebase.
The Result
The project resulted in a revised DTC Sightholders' Directory site, with both internal and external improvements and simplified IT administration.
Technologies Used
.NET Enterprise Library, IIS 6.0, JavaScript, Microsoft ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, Windows 2003 Server