Welcome to Cygnet Infotech

Highlights

The client, an event management company, wanted to develop a multi-lingual search engine that searches and lists categorized events, advertisements and coupons around the users' location within 2 sec. The search engine should be scalable to accommodate ever increasing database of events, locations & advertisers and should return the results based on the visitor IP address. Using Windows Azure platform, Cygnet developed a scalable system that provided ad management, event updating utility, the search engine facility complete with workflow implementation. A Web-based application with complex algorithms was developed to return search results within 2 seconds irrespective of the database size.

Technology : Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Framework 3.5 (Language C#), Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Azure Services 1.0.0.0, Development Fabric 1.1.0.0, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Queue, Azure Table, Cloudberry Explorer, Windows Azure Management, ORM : SubSonic 2.0.3, Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1.0.0, Facebook Social Network Plug-in, Google Map, Google Analytics, SQL Azure

Project Duration : 2 Years

Industry : Event Management

Country : Italy

Testimonial: "Team cygnet has been exceptional in terms of handling high complexity projects, especially in our requirements which we believe is tough ' innovative both in terms of technology and marketing part, which has helped us bring our presence in Cloud'; their engineers have been exceptionally committed to resolve problems where different types of users are involved in various geographies, they are technically skilled which has helped us scale up the project to the next level." - Alberto,CEO- Lulu events.

Background

The client wanted to set up a secure localized event database that could deliver search results less than 2 seconds irrespective of the size of the database. This multilingual system was required to be dynamic so that based on the load the system could automatically scale up / scale down.

The requirements brief comprised of:

Search engine that had simple design and fast retrieval rate( as low as 2 seconds even with High volume of user request for search events and High Volume of Event in the system around 1 Billion every year)

Spatial search and IP address based search

Simplified view/features for the end users.

Management of Complete Organization Engagement workflow

Facility for staff to suggest the organization

Easy organization and event registration

Exhaustive reporting module for the site manager

Solution

To match the specifications provided by the client we selected Windows Azure platform (for its auto scalability feature) to design this scalable events based search engine.

The search engine comprised to following major modules:

The Intuitive Backend for easy organization and event registrations

Event managers dashboard

The simple and fast search engine

The system has been designed with a revenue model based on advertising and marketing campaigns this search engine provides a platform for the event promoters and marketing manager to list and manage their own events.

Our designers created complex search algorithms that could deliver search results within 2 seconds irrespective of the database size. The search engines used spatial search and IP address based search that could filter and automatically return relevant search results based on the visitor location.

This multilingual events guide provided wizard driven screens to register organizations and their events. Additionally the screen offered suggestive comments ensuring that the organizations could reuse earlier event registration details to register their events faster. Besides self registration facility the system allowed the event managers that facility to hire their party to populate the search engines.

Workflow based registration process ensured that the registrations underwent thorough check and confirmation before final publishing.

Developers at Cygnet designed utilities such as PDF to Image convertor allowing the event managers to just upload event information as PDF's and the system automatically converts them to images making the system extremely user friendly.

Additionally schedulers and batch processes were designed to ensure that backend static processes were completed with least manual intervention reducing the resource utilization. The system constantly ensured that only active (present and future) events were listed in the search results and database was constantly updated.

Client Benefits

Updated event database leads to faster and relevant  search results

Spatial search, IP address based search ensures users can easily locate events near their locations.

Organizations can use third party services to create and manage their events.