eNeg

Description

eNeg is a system that has two main targets:

• Collect as much information as possible from different users‘ communication channels via Add-ons and store it centralized in one place.
• Use this collected information as input for data analysis through Apps and allow these Apps to provide valuable support information to users.

The FrameWork contains different sub-systems to achieve these targets:

• Desktop Add-on that can collect information.
• Web Platform that shows all collected information centralized at one place.
• Apps that analyse the collected information in terms of preferences, strategy, cultural aspects and more.

eNeg is a silverlight web based platform with desktop add-on extension, MVVM framework applied with n-tier layers.

• RIA Services
• Entity Framework
• Logging
• Excption Handling
• MEF

For more details please find the Software Requirements Specification, the Technical Design Specification, the Architecture and some videos explaining the uses cases of eNeg in eNeg Documentation.

Features

• Allow users to track and collect information messages from different communication channels
• Create a unlimited number of online negotiations.
• Multi communication channel support
• Negotiate with different counterparts via different channels managed at one place
• Track the whole history of a negotiation
• View and manage negotiations (ongoing, past)
• See all details of a negotiation event
• Addionally 7 different apps for negotiation support integrated: PrefApp, Issue App, CultureApp, StrategyApp, MessageApp, eSourceApp, OfferApp

Setting Development Environment

• A .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio or the free Visual Web Developer Express
• Install Microsoft Silverlight runtime for windows. (This is the runtime that’s required for Silverlight applications).
• Install Silverlight Toolkit
• Install Silverlight SDK
• Install Silverlight Tools for VS 2010 (Optional)
• Install Expression Blend. This is a design tool that allows users to interact with Silverlight.

References

Following open-source projects were used:

• Clog Client Logging under LGPL
• MVVM Light Toolkit under MIT License
• iTextSharp under AGPL
• Rhino Mocks under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
• silverPDF under MIT License

Also used were proprietary control from

• Telerik (not included in sources !)