Durban, South Africa - March, 22 March 2006 - Durban based software development company, Jigsaw Interactive/Software, have won a prestigious award at EclipseCon.
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Community Awards are to recognize and thank the individuals and technologies that make Eclipse such a vibrant and robust software community.
The awards were presented at EclipseCon (
www.eclipsecon.org) March 20-23 2006 in Santa Clara, USA, the premier event for the open source and Java based Eclipse software. The award was won in the category "Best deployment of Eclipse technology in an enterprise".
Jigsaw deployed an Eclipse based solution after Compass Group Southern Africa (
www.compass-group.co.za) approached Jigsaw (
www.ji.co.za), for a business management and budgeting solution that would help them manage operations in over 700 sites, employing over 7000 people. Managers in remote locations had to be able to use the Eclipse based application, dubbed SmartBase, offline, and then dial in to update the company’s central accounting system.
Jigsaw was tasked to develop the solution and to create the first application for the platform - the Integrated Results System (IRS) - a tailor-made yet cost-effective budgeting and forecasting application that had to be up and running in three months. With these tasks in hand, Jigsaw explored the options available. Eclipse had all the attributes needed to support Compass Group, including cross-platform support, a RAD environment, a robust update mechanism, and support for offline operation.
The deployment of the solution has been a great success to date, empowering and making managers responsible for their business units. Alan Banister, Group Information Director at Compass, is so impressed that he plans to incorporate all of Compass’s front-end business applications on the platform.
Jigsaw provides customised application development and enterprise-class reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining and workflow capabilities that help organizations operate more efficiently and effectively.
