Sofrepost is a subsidiary of La Poste (the French mail). They develop and sell SPS,
a management system for post offices. Their clients are national postal systems from a dozen countries on several continents.
SPS is composed of 5 packaged applications, developed with PowerBuilder, representing around 150 Mb of code, 400 windows and 1200 DW.
The initial development of the application took place in 1996 and required approximately 10 man years. The application has
since been regularly modified to extend its functionalities.
More recently, the requests of their clients have led Sofreport to study solutions to modernize this system. Here's how they did it... |