Evogenius Outsource Project

Evogenius Project Overview

Media audience measuring and statistics system. The cross-platform evaluation engine of this system provides functionality to process report jobs and returning of the multi-dimensional results for TV media research requests. Connectivity processing services of the reporting system, based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) using Web services, provides scalable solution for processing level of client-server system.

TV Media Evaluation Engine sub-project

Cross-platform evaluation engine provides functionality to process report jobs and returning of the multi-dimensional results for TV media research requests.
The application provides plug-in framework for processing different types of jobs.
The data access level has SQL like language to reading and filtering data.

Technical features:

Target server platform:	Windows XP\2003 Server, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4\5.
Input requests:	XML files.
Processing workflow:	processing based on generation XML work-flow for executor modules (cross-platform C++).
Data sources:	hierarchical custered binary data storage.
XML\ XSLT:	libXML package.
Archiving:	zlib package.
Communication with dispatcher:	TCP sockets.
Simultaneous jobs processing:	processing jobs in the new thread (multi-threading) or in the new processes.

Business-logic features:

Validation and analyzing input XML based reports.
Processing reports according to generated XML work-flow..
Reading and filtering data by SQL like language.
Hypercube engine to generate multi-dimensional result.
Generation information result files based on the XSLT transformation.

Managements and resources:

Time line: 2005 - 2008
Resources: 2 Manager, 10 Developers and 4 testers
Development methodology: adopted RUP

Reporting system Web Portal sub-project

Role-based multi-languages web application desired as portal framework for configuring, business-logic and monitoring of the Reporting System web and windows services.

Technical features:

Target server platform:	Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Server Cluster, IIS 6.0 and more.
Target client browsers:	IE 5.0 and more, FireFox 1.0 and more.
GUI Framework:	ASP.Net 2.0 (C#).
Data sources:	SQL server, XML files.
Data accesses:	ADO.Net, XML parsers.
Web services access:	SOAP web proxies.
Windows services access:	.Net Remoting.
GUI features:	DHTML, AJAX and CSS.
Localization resources:	resx files.

Business-logic features:

Client accounts management modules, including management system and custom client roles.
Configuration modules of the reporting web services and transfer and alert services
Monitoring modules of the reporting system web Jobs services for jobs monitoring, evaluation engines monitoring, databases sate monitoring.
Client GUI for the Transfer Web services including uploading\downloading files, browsing GUI functionality.

Managements and resources:

Time line: 2004 - 2005
Resources: 1 Manager, 3 Developers and 1 tester
Development methodology: adopted RUP

Connectivity processing services (CPS) sub-project

Connectivity processing services of the reporting system, based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) using Web services, provides scalable solution for processing level of client-server system.
Desired as redistributed system provides jobs processing functionality, events and data updates redistributing system.
Internal windows services handle attached cross-platform evaluation engines.

Technical features:

Target server platform:	Windows 2003 Server (32, 64 bits), Windows 2003 Server Cluster(32, 64 bits), IIS 6.0 and more.
Client of the SOAP web services:	.Net Clients, Java Clients, Cross-platform clients.
Server Framework:	ASP.Net 2.0 (C#).
Data sources:	SQL server, XML files and binary files.
Data accesses:	ADO.Net, XML parsers.
Web services communication:	SOAP web proxies by http\https.
Windows services access:	.Net Remoting.
Cross-platform evaluation engine communication:	TCP sockets.

Business-logic features:

Authentication web service provides authentication functionality service users of the system and generates authentication tickets.
Jobs web service dispatch job request to the JobDispatcher windows service.
Transfer web service provides functionality for secure uploading\downloading files of the system.
Monitor web service provides monitoring functionality services and evaluation engines of the system: jobs, queues, evaluation engines, protocols.
WatchDog windows service provides plug-in system for controlling and alert functionality (inform by users of the system by emails).
Protocol windows service provides central logging functionality for the system.
JobDispatcher windows service provides queuing and dispatching jobs to evaluation engines, redistributing events and processing internal jobs.

Managements and resources:

Time line: 2005 - 2008
Resources: 1 Manager, 5 Developers and 2 testers
Development methodology: adopted RUP

Client Communication Proxies (CCP) sub-project

Client GUI application to work reporting web services.
Hosting and monitoring local TV media evaluation engine.

Technical features:

Target server platform:	Windows XP\2003 Server.
GUI:	Tray application, Windows Forms. (.Net, C#)
Communication with clients:	.Net Remoting.
Communication with servers:	SOAP web proxies by http\https.
Integration with cross-platform evaluation engine:	Managed C++.

Business-logic features:

Connection to reporting servers as web services and monitoring of them.
Dispatching and monitoring report request and result to web services.
Jobs-post processing functionality.
Handling and monitoring of the local reporting engine to process job request on the local machine.

Managements and resources:

Time line: 2007 - 2008
Resources: 1 Manager, 2 Developers and 1 testers
Development methodology: adopted RUP

Evogenius File System (EFS) sub-project

Virtual file system with special security and handling files meta-data.
Cross-platform core component.

Technical features:

Target platform:	Windows XP\2003 Server, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4\5.
File server platform:	Windows, Linux, Novell file server.
Framework:	cross-platform components (C++)
GUI:	Windows Forms (.Net, C#)
.Net wrapper	Managed C++.

Business-logic features:

.Net and cross-platform component to access to data storages
Client GUI Explorer to handle content of the EFS storages.

Managements and resources:

Time line: October 2005 - 2006
Resources: 1 Manager, 2 Developers and 1 tester
Development methodology: adopted RUP