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| TECHnologies & Solutions has developed with GeneXus a system for the management and control of a Chilean government school meals plan and it has been able to revert "technological obsolescence at lower costs and with much shorter development times". |
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The Junta Nacional de Auxilio Escolar y Becas (JUNAEB)
(National Agency for School Assistance and Scholarships) is an organization of
the Chilean Government Administration. It is responsible for managing government
resources devoted to the care of Chilean children and teenagers who are in a
situation of bio-psycho-social vulnerability so that they enter, stay and are
successful in the Educational System.
After over 40 years managing meal,
health and scholarship programs of the various educational levels, the JUNAEB
seeks to lower school drop out rates and build a Chile that can guarantee at
least 12 years of schooling to all the children and teenagers.
These
programs include the School Meal Program which aims at delivering meals to the
students of the different schools in the whole country. This public program
involves managing an annual budget of U$S 2,000,000 translated into 1,600,000
daily meals at 8,500 schools by means of 32 private concessionaires that provide
these services.
In order to manage and control the resources devoted
to the delivery of the meals it was necessary to replace the existing
application hardware and software whose maintenance and development costs were
unnecessarily high when compared with new technology, explained Cristián Rodríguez, JUNAEB IT
Manager.
An application was needed that included the management of: Bids,
Quotations, Awards, Advance Payments, Adjustments, Payments and Variable Fines,
and with this objective TECHnologies & Solutions Ltda. was asked to develop
this application in six months, using the JUNAEB's previous experience in this
area as a basis.
The main reasons for choosing this solution were "the
development of a Project with cutting edge technology that integrates
connectivity with the regions and concessionaires, Web applications and Query
tools while facilitating the distribution of applications in an open source
environment, in three tiers, using code generation tools", pointed JUNAEB's IT
manager.
"TECHnologies, expert in GeneXus development, showed us the
capacities of GeneXus and we saw that it was what we needed to solve the
problem. There were no limits and our needs could be solved with this solution,"
he explained. "The most important thing is that we reversed technological
obsolescence with comparatively lower costs and much shorter development times,"
highlighted Rodríguez.
The solution has a Web component that offers the
features for the relation with the concessionaires who have online access to all
their information via Internet. In addition, through JUNAEB's Internet network,
the Win component of the solution, there is access to all the features included
in the modules mentioned before.
It was developed with GeneXus for Linux
platform, it uses PostgreSQL as a database and it includes GXquery. The
application developed by TECHnologies & Solutions Ltda offers greater
data integrity through a friendly system, with an optimum normalized database
and with much shorter processing times: "a process that used to take eight
hours, now takes 30 minutes," pointed JUNAEB's IT
manager.
JUNAEB
http://www.junaeb.cl
TECHnologies & Solutions Ltda
http://www.technologies.cl/
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