The document discusses a web application developed for a US-based startup that wanted to provide document sharing and management capabilities across different storage platforms for professional organizations and their members. The application allows members to store, share, edit and track documents from multiple platforms like Dropbox, Google Drive and Box.com in one place. It also provides analytics on document usage. The web application was developed using RubyOnRails, integrates with third party storage APIs and platforms like Discourse for discussions. It brings order to documents stored across different locations and enables easier collaboration.

1.  US based startup envisioning a web based offering for document sharing and syndication for
professional institutes and members
 Client saw an opportunity due to silo nature of popular document storages lacking document
management and group sharing analytics
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 Members have documents stored at different popular web storages such as Box.com, Dropbox,
Google Drive. It is difficult to share, download, edit documents at different locations with others.
 Cumbersome to manage across multiple storages having different login credentials and processes
 Inability of document centric minimum collaboration
 Lack of traceability and sharing analyses
Web Application
Situation
Challenges
 As per client’s startup vision, we developed a web portal providing member registration, document
storage, document life cycle management, syndication across preferred third party storages and
rich analytics
 Keeping in mind the demographic choices, made provision for login using Google, Facebook,
Twitter or LinkedIn credential to ease access
 In addition to own storage using Amazon cloud, developed interfaces with Dropbox, Box.com and
Google Drive using web services with scope for future expansion with more third party storage
providers
 Integrated with open source platform ‘Discourse’ for collaborative discussion threads using robust
framework of ember.js
 Incorporated document management features including view, download, edit, annotate, rename,
copy and share (individual or group). Implemented unique feature of annotations to a Word or PDF
file or webpage using HTML5.
 Offered cool social analytics through viral indicators e.g. number of share, number of download,
views, edits, tracking date-wise and geographical area-wise
 Matching the startup culture of the client, worked in experienced yet lean manner. Evaluated
multiple approaches assuring dependable and cost effective offshore development services.
Shouldered tasks of design, coding, testing and deployment on Amazon cloud.
 Continuing value delivery, developing new features like task management and community
broadcast
An Apex Web Portal for syndication of document
storages and more
Harbinger Solution
Cont…
Bringing order from chaos of multiple storage sites enabling collaboration
within affinity groups

2. Tools & Technologies
 Platform: RubyOnRails 4, JQuery, HTML5,
MySQL, Amazon S3 cloud
 Special components: Highchart, PDF.js, 3D.js
 Third party integration: Discourse (Ember.js,
PostgreSQL), Google Drive, Dropbox, Box.com
Benefits
Bringing order from chaos of multiple storage sites enabling collaboration
within affinity groups
An Apex Web Portal for syndication of document
storages and more
Web Application
 Client enjoyed the speed and flexibility in realizing their startup vision with Harbinger’s hologram
startup service offerings
 Client could achieve agility and cost effectiveness with Amazon S3 cloud hosting completely
managed by Harbinger
 User community is delighted with ease of working on scattered documents along with social
analytics of viral indicators
 Professional institutes get efficiency and cost saving in their operations and information
dissemination
Fig: Document Management Web Portal Workflow
 Libraries (Gems): Devise. OmniAuth;
combine_pdf; paperclip; AWS-SDK ; Dropbox
SDK; Ruby Box; unoconv; pundit; symmetric-
encryption; pdfkit; mandrill mailer