ICT portal - Incotech

Action
A government product must adhere to the highest standards of security, accessibility, maintainability and reliability. To meet and exceed these standards, SSD enlisted the services of highly-professional specialists in the field of internet security, project management, web development, computer cluster management, quality assurance, and stress testing.

• Assigned an experienced project manager to coordinate the full product development lifecycle including gathering the requirements, designing the system architecture, obtaining the necessary approvals, building the product, performing multi-level Quality Assurance tests, deploying and maintaining the system.
• Involved a professional business analyst who assisted Incotech in clarifying the requirements gathered from diverse government and commercial stakeholders, and prepared a detailed product specification for their approval.
• Created a clear project roadmap and deployed an automated project management system to allow both SSD team and external stakeholders to access up-to-date status information, and to continuously monitor progress, obstacles, dependencies, and risks at all stages of the development process.
• Assigned an engineering team with the right skill-set from its existing pool of IT professionals with 5-10 years of experience in scalable database design, internet security, and web development.
• Developed elaborate test plans and automated scripts for multi-level Quality Assurance that included:
  • "White box" code-driven unit testing performed by SSD web development team
  • "Black box" requirement-driven unit testing performed by SSD Quality Assurance team
  • Integration testing
  • Performance testing
  • Stress testing
  • System testing
• Established a centralized repository for change request management to make sure that every client request and every bug found were properly logged and fixed by the final deadline.

Product Highlights
ICT portal is a comprehensive Content Management System (CMS) that allows for automated import, update, storage, analysis, and secure role-based access of State Registry and legal information about the ownership structure, involved parties, dependencies, and status of all government and commercial real-estate development projects in the Republic of Belarus. The product features:

• Structured repository of real estate development projects and relevant licensed parties such as architects, suppliers, engineers, builders, surveyors, and inspectors, categorized according to a number of government-specified classifiers.
• Document Management System for storage and automated access of legal documents, including several types of State Registry documents, contracts, and status reports.
• Analytical engine for generation of a variety of reports, diagrams and map charts showing official statistics, set goals, and completion status of both government-sponsored and commercial real-estate projects for each region.
• Easy-to-use search and navigation system that includes:
  • Hierarchical tree-style navigation
  • Online wizards
  • Dynamic multi-stage selection criteria specification
  • Asynchronous loading of large amounts of data
• Centrally-administered role-based Access Control System that ensures that data import, update, and management can be performed only by the properly authorized officers of the Ministry of Construction & Architecture, whereas statistical, analytical, legal, and status information can be viewed by a broader range of government agencies and authorized third parties.
• Automatic monitoring and logging of system access and user activities.
• Automatic data import and export from/to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access formats.
• Data access engine optimized for processing of large volumes of data at peak hours.
• Dual architecture that involves a separate copy of the system for data import, management and administration at the Ministry's site, synchronized with an externally-hosted failure-proof cluster-based replica for external access to statistical, analytical, and legal data.
• Preconfigured tools allowing for easy system backup and automated restore in case of any kind of failure.