In 2014 RussianNY portal was sold to another company together with RussianNY Engine. The original solution is available by request only.

Offshore software development success story: RussianNY is transformed into the leading ethnic web portal in the U.S. after a partnership with SoftElegance.

Solution: Outsource a Team of Experts

Many manufacturing companies use manual processes to track inventory and provide project status updates. Over the years, these traditional methods have proven to be inefficient, costly, and time consuming for yard and shop employees, In the yard, lost inventory and products that can’t be located can negatively impact profitability. And, without a reliable way to track how many moves are made around the yard in a given day, many organizations lose money because they cannot determine the optimal number of employees and forklifts required for route optimization.

“SoftElegance was brought to the project when it was about to fail,” said Mikhail Dudalenko, VP of RussianNY, “We were inspired by their efficient, professional manner. By partnering with SoftElegance we were able to stay on time and on budget”.

Despite the quick turnaround, the project wasn’t an easy task: .NET 1.0 didn’t even exist when the first version of RussianNY was built, but SoftElegance managed to take the original source code and develop the new RussianNY using .NET Framework – a decision that ultimately led to faster development and greater savings. “Working with old code can be tedious,” said SoftElegance programmer, Boris Podporinov, “but using .NET allows us to create fast, scalable, and secure applications with a wide range of features in a short period of time.”

Technologies

In addition to developing with .NET, SoftElegance used Windows Server, MS SQL Server, and IIS.

After updating RussianNY’s code, the social media web portal went from being slow and glitchy to becoming a technology leader amongst ethnic social portals in the U.S. The current software version uses development, staging, and production servers. The production server runs on cluster with 2 Windows 2008 R2 Server, and the SQL Server 2008 R2 runs on a separate server with RAID and daily backups. In addition, the .NET Framework 4.0 and IIS 7.5 make RussianNY a fast, scalable, and easy to maintain web project.

After one year of software development partnership with SoftElegance, RussianNY successfully runs in production, with modern social media features and a complex server infrastructure. The SoftElegance developers transferred all legacy source code and BDs infrastructure to the latest MS’s, .NET Frameworks, and other related technologies like SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008, and IIS. The portal now maintains millions of records in its database and handles thousands of daily users.

Features of the New RussianNY engine

The overhauled RussianNY web portal features the following: For social media: RussianNY contains features similar to those of Facebook, such as contacts, user profiles, messaging capabilities, comments, photo galleries, chat, and events, plus blogging tools and more; For e-commerce: RussianNY is the leading web portal for distributing show and event tickets in the New York area; For advertising management: RussianNY’s advertising management system includes user driven banner campaigns and the ability to target promotions to a specific audience and geo-location; For admins and editors The web portal contains a wide range of admin features for editors and site admins, such as multiple CRUD (create, read, update, delete) features, separate tagging, UI with wide search, and filters across the whole database.