Making logistics simple

Key Challenges

Our client with depth knowledge and rich expertise in the logistics market wanted to bring user-friendly fine arts management software to the market, standing out from existing offerings with ease of use.

Key Details

Leader logistics software provider

Our client is a leading logistics software provider in the UK. With over 3 decades of experience in the industry, they continuously look to innovate with technology. Their range of software products includes a warehouse management system and removal management software. They aim to remove the complexity of software and bring user-friendly, easy-to-use software to the market.

Filling a gap in the market with a focus on ease of use

Our client found that although there were many software solutions on the market for fine art management and logistic, however, had complicated UI and were complex to use. They wanted to make the storage and movement management of fine art easy with user-friendly, web-based and easy-to-use software. As the company is a long-term client and Ardent has successfully delivered many software solutions they came to us to bring their vision to life.

What is fine art storage?

Fine art can be incredibly valuable whether that is in the historical significance or its price, therefore ensuring the art is preserved and stored effectively is key to avoiding causing damage. Art can be vulnerable to many factors from temperature to exposure to particular lighting, it needs to be handled carefully. Manually keeping track of art packaging, storage and location can be a time-consuming process as well as creating room for costly errors if they result in damage to the art. Therefore, fine art collectors, galleries and alike with ensure that the fine art is handled appropriately with software.

Fine art storage and preservation software solution

Our solution was a web-based, mobile responsive software solution built on leading technologies including Angular 14, Kendo UI Controls, JavaScript, HTML and CSS for the front end, NET.API for back-end and SQL Server as the database technology.

The software is built with ease in mind and there are many features which drive that ease of use:

Drag and drop – Users can easily map the fine art with the right type of packaging in a visual way by being able to see the various types of packaging required for each piece of art. For example, a piece of art may need to be soft wrapped and within a wooden box. This can be easily visualised to ensure that every protection and packaging type is applied to preserve the art.

Fully customisable – Users can fully customise container types, storage facilities, packaging and protection type, location type and much more.

QR code generator – With the built-in QR code generator, a QR based on a piece of art can be generated. Once scanned, all relevant details of the fine art can be viewed.

High performance – With drag and drop and ease of use, high performance is key. Therefore, we customised the code instead of using third-party controls which optimised the performance of the system.

Easy mapping – Users can easily map the artwork to various categories including storage, protection, location and more.

Mobile responsive – The web-based software is responsive and can be used across multiple devices including mobile and tablet, adding to ease and convenience.

Making logistics easy

Our clients were once again able to make logistics easy with this software offering, this time for the fine arts sector. They can bring a winning software product to the market that will stand out from the crowd with its simplicity of use and useful features.

Ardent software development services

Our leading software engineers have helped a wide variety of clients bring their vision to life with leading technologies to build software that is easy to use, secure and scalable. If you have an idea and need a team of well-experienced software engineers proficient in a wide variety of technologies, then we can help. Get in touch to find out more, to set up a quick discovery call to get started.

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