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Make Excel based application available via internet

$750-1500 USD

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Posted over 9 years ago

$750-1500 USD

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I have an Excel based application that I license to about 20 companies. My bigger clients have had success putting the application in a terminal server environment. I would like to offer a similar option to some of my smaller clients. Ideally I would like the client to access a log-on screen via a single click which would take them to the application to after successful log-on. Excel 2010 is my preferred version. My clients are hotel management companies and individual hotels. The application is read only. The application generates data and parameter files that are specific to each hotel and management company. The application, data and parameter files will be stored on the server. Access to these data and parameter files needs to be controlled via the log-on. I for example would need access to all files. Most users would need access to one or more hotels within their hotel management company. Some users would need access to all hotels within their management company. I would probably start with around 10 users. Over the next year or two the number of users could grow to around 250. Terminal Server is my first thought, but am open to other options. I want users to be able to access the application from the internet and I want to control the application environment. I am looking for someone to help me identify a company to host the application, set it up and remain on retainer for maintenance and updates.
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Have taken many legacy Windows applications into Cloud Remote Desktop environments implementing multi-level security in the application, operating system and network. All of this running as a managed service where all infrastructure and licensing costs are charged in the same model as the cloud, pay per user, pay only for what you use. With this experience and that of many other successfully delivered infrastructure projects I can add value to your infrastructure installation project using best practice, bench marking of similar installations/configurations, and full documentation of architecture, installation and operating procedures. I have over 17 years of experience working as an Infrastructure, Database and Applications Administrator with strong technical, analytic and organizational skills and the ability to work independently on deliverable driven projects. Throughout my career I have been in charge of designing, implementing, migrating, upgrading and supporting Information Management Systems that deliver optimal performance, optimal licensing, high availability and disaster recovery. This holistic approach has resulted in successful projects that for example have reduced by 40% the infrastructure and ongoing technical support costs of an application system. Please feel free to contact me for further discussion of experience and/or references. Kind regards Ignacio Gomez
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Hi, I read through the job details and would like to have more detail understanding on your existing Excel based application to understand challenges if any (once the application goes to internet). It would help if we can chat on the same. Let me introduce myself as an expert in Excel programming and VBA. I have used VBA extensively for Excel, MS Word etc.. I have more than 10 years of experience to my credit. I would be happy to answer any queries that you may have. Looking forward to working with you. Thanks & Regards FineCoder
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So it would seem the best and fastest way to do this if you are internal is to make a terminal server with Citrix available to the internet in which you can host the excel application and easily control the flow/policies/environment of the server. You will be able to expand the scope by simply adding another server to the farm. In my scenario you will need a server/citrix and excel. Let me know I can get most of that up in a day but the security hardening will take another day at least. We can then focus on client needs for the remainder of the days.
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We would like to To Suggest Better ways & would like to discuss More Hi we are a software development company from india in past 8 years me & my Team developed approx 950 projects for global market , we try to satisfy clients needs . we developed lots of projects for several industries & providing 18 hours services each day .. we provide services too after completing the project .. we have lots of global clients from manufacturing , retail stores , wholesale business, schools , hospitals ,where we had completed all the modules according to customer requirements we did lots of similar kind applications """I think The Excel Could not be the good Option as per description you had given Regarding project ...... it have lots of limitations , we can share & discuss More things if you will give us the chance """ we would like to discuss more about project ...so that we can know more about requirements Thanks
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There are a large number of ways to go about doing this, so some additional details would be required. But for the easy part -- hosting could be done in either RackSpace or Azure. It sounds like you basically have a full blown application running in excel. Is the excel sheet itself read for the information, or is it in the data files that are generated? The simplest way to get users to the information would be to implement a web interface (with an authorization front-end). If you want proper security, you'll need to register an SSL certificate so you can make the login and page an https site, but I can help with that process. Now the 250 user possibility. If you plan on having 250 ~concurrent~ users, you may start running into issues with access to said files. I understand you want to use the excel program, but it would be more scalable to at least take the output of said excel program and load it into a database or cache server in order to rapidly send the information to the user. But I'd have to see the file and setup before I could make a specific recommendation. Doing it in this way would allow any client with any OS to access the information with 0 setup on their end. To get a full idea, we'd need to get in a chat window and go over things end to end to make sure we're on the same page. If I do win the bid, I'll need a point of contact to ensure the project stays on track. Thanks and good luck! Tim
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my name is patrick nateng i am very good when come to this type of jobs and i have been doing the same job for some few years now, i hope am the right person for this job
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