Customer Case Study
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GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD (GCC)
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION CO.LTD
MAURITIUS
“From months of frustration due to
lack of visibility and to efforts required
to climb the learning curve of new
complex web based technologies to
the discovery of a strong, productive
and extremely rich framework backed
up by Oracle’s own strategy for very
large scale ERP development, the
GCC development roadmap became
much clearer and the future is now
looking more and more exciting as we
are slowly but surely growing with
Oracle ADF and other Fusion
Middleware Technologies.” Jean-Marc
Desvaux, Head of IS – General
Construction Co. Ltd
Industry: Building & Civil
Engineering Contracting
Oracle Products & Services:
Oracle JDeveloper/Oracle ADF
11g
ADF Faces Rich Client
ADF Task Flows
ADF Business Components
Oracle WebLogic 11g
Oracle Database EE
Oracle iAS EE
O Internet Directory
O Single Sign-On
“For the traditional forms developers, having to learn Java is synonymous with moving
backwards from a 4GL to a 3GL tool. With Oracle’s ADF, the Java learning curve is
reduced as you work with an intelligent java based framework. As your ADF knowledge
rapidly increases, so does your understanding of the Java language.” Jean-Marc
Desvaux. Head of IS – General Construction Co. Ltd
Executive Summary
GCC has been able to rely on Oracle Database & Development tools including
Forms/Reports during the last 20 years to build and maintain applications covering
most of the enterprise central services which are backing up construction site
operations, Logistics, Professional Support & Corporate Service levels. GCC IS
chose Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework) as the framework to enable
them to leverage new technologies in their ongoing development efforts. Their new
ADF application integrates with existing Oracle Forms applications and GCC is able
to utilize existing development resources. The move to ADF has allowed GCC IS to
rapidly extend their existing applications to construction sites whatever their
respective size and location and thus bringing a standard and structured way for sites
to deal with the central services with the ultimate objective of improving the overall
information ecosystem.
Organization
General Construction Co. Ltd. (GCC) is one of the leading building and civil
engineering companies in Mauritius. Founded in 1958, the company is involved in a
range of activities from the design and construction of office and hotel complexes and
harbor and airport development facilities to the development of roads, bridges, dry
docks, pipelines and reservoirs. General Construction is privately owned by Mauritian
shareholders who are dedicated to hiring local laborers and further developing the
island.
The Business Issue
From a 20 years background of continuous development with Oracle Forms, Reports
& Database, GCC’s IS Departments major challenge was to make the switch to
Enterprise Web applications development in order to reach all construction sites and
to turn them into active players in their Information System and progressively apply
the same new technologies to Core systems.
The main objectives were to protect, integrate and slowly transition the existing
environment and choose a development framework on which to build application
development foundations for the future.
Key Challenges
Choose the right toolkit and infrastructure to build the future on.
Upgrade the Forms/Reports Developers skills to newer industry standard
technologies.
Build a unified Security model to manage authentication and authorization for
both Core applications users and Project-centric applications users.
Integrate existing Oracle Forms, Reports and new ADF applications.
Integrate Security with HR data.
Delegate security of some application modules to line of service managers.
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