Premium Insurance Comparision Tool for home, automobile etc. This Online insurance comparison application was built in dot net, WCF, and MSSQL for insurance tracking.

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Case Study
Online Insurance Tracking System

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This system provides an online web application allowing agencies, companies to browse wide range
of policies available to check their premiums (Premium Calculator), Divisions and Sub Divisions,
Employees, Billing and Reports to gather a consolidated and customized output in PDF and Excel
format.
Application has been designed in a very sophisticated and user-friendly manner for the companies
and the visitors throughout the web. It gives access to the companies that are willing to keep track
of their employments, resources, company’s claimant transactions and many more under one roof.
Application also contains a feature named “Adjustments”. Adjustment has been introduced due to
the employees and companies who have skipped their Premiums in a year due to a certain reason.
MA does follow Adjustment against that agent in order to avoid any discrepancies in the calculation
of every financial year annual report submissions.
Depending on the policies, agents are gaining benefits (based on Plan Calculations) and
simultaneously their interests vary depending on their selections. The application keeps track
records of Company’s Billing, their Divisions and Sub Divisions (if any), Lists of Employees and
Resources available in the company opting for any Policy etc.
However, it has its own Admin section which manages and monitors every transaction of the
business activities appearing on the website and depending on the needs website owner can do any
certain or relevant content changes on the website. As far as report is concerned depending on the
selective parameters customized reports can be generated and can be exported in PDF and Excel
spreadsheet format.
Client Requirement
Project Challenges
Team faced the following challenges:
• Integrating multiple databases with an application.
• Integrating Reporting Services with an application so that reports get displayed as per
the respective module.
• Allowing the site to handle millions of users at the same time without slowing down.
• Converting as well as providing layout from Windows access application to Web-based
application.
• Developing JSON, Ajax driven site with various features without compromising the
performance and execution level.
• Allowing Application or UI access as per currently logged-in user.
• Use of encryption and decryption for state management to secure data.
• Implementing WCF Services to communicate with an application.

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Technologies Used
Manpower
Project Leader 1
Developers 4
Designers 1
DBA 1
Quality Assurance Testers 2
Planning
The following N-tier development approach was adopted to equip the site with
numerous features and functionality mentioned below:
• The Database layer containing SQL Server Database, Tables, Triggers and so on.
• The Data Access layer containing the Data Access DLL responsible for accessing the data
from database.
• The Business layer DLL consisting of all the business logic procedures for modules like
Premium Calculation, Policy, Division, Reporting etc.
• Reporting server for keeping the report (rdl) and to show the report on UI layer.
• The User Interface layer which forms the Graphical User Interface of the application.
Operating System &
Server Management
Windows OS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production
Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server
Optimization, Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups,
Alert Monitoring System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at
regular intervals, Software Firewall Configuration & Maintenance
Development Tools &
Environments
MS Visual Studio, C#, .Net, Microsoft Visio, Java Script, AJAX, CSS,
HTML, JQuery, JSON, SVN, SQL Server Reporting Services etc.
Database SQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master Slave
Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups

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Architecture
Development Highlights
The design approach was built around Visual Studio .Net Framework (3.5) and SQL SERVER 2008
due to the insurance domain nature of the application. Modules like Division, Policy, Premium
Calculation and Reporting were developed in C#.Net such that they can be executed directly from
the UI layer. In order to most effectively access the database in an object-oriented context an
interface translating the object logic to the relational logic was used to communicate with the
relational databases in an object-oriented manner.
An intermediary abstraction layer was created for accessing data from the database. Triggers
were used only for complex updation and deletion of data from multiple tables and were entirely
avoided with conditional syntax to ensure smooth performance of the application. The UI layer
was kept free of any business logic with images, applications and data being called from their
respective servers. Web usability guidelines were strictly followed during development and the
interface was made easily navigable through judicious use of JSON, AJAX, CSS, HTML and Web
Server Controls. The site was developed and fully functional within a span of 12 months.