Name of Project : ProjectsToday CD data browser and projectstoday.com
Client : Economic Research India Limited
Industry : Economic research
Functionality : This project has two parts: 1) Projectstoday.com website. 2) Projects Today data browser.

Projectstoday.com is a subscription-only site, constantly updating itself on the industrial projects investments in India. This portal maintains a database of over 6000 live and ongoing projects in India. Projects listed on this portal are government and private projects. The portal provides facilities to search project based on various search criteria like project size, location, implementation stage, industry etc. Apart from this, this portal also provides information about tenders and statistics.

Projectstoday CD Data Browser on the other hand, provides the same information as an installable application on CD. As the site is updated, the application updates itself by downloading data patches. Additionally, it also provides enhanced search features, document and report exporting options, dynamic data downloads from the web server. Back-end application to support data updates for this CD based application is a patch creator, which creates a data patch, downloadable by the application itself.

While those with internet connections prefer the Web version, the data browser is available for those who want faster querying and results, and require to use it only on one desktop machine. The ProjectsToday site/data browser is also available in an enterprise edition for use over an intranet.

As a tool for corporates and industrial houses in India to keep track of the investments in India, the The ProjectsToday site/data browser serves as a valuable tool.

The back-end for this portal were developed on VB 6.0 and SQL Server 7.0. The portal administration modules include database updation and maintenance modules, data validation modules. The other back-end module was the reporting system. This system included aggregate reports based on number of projects and cost. Cross Tabulation reporting module (this was implanted by me as an ActiveX DLL) and Quarterly Review reports were also developed.