Exterion Media
Company description
Exterion Media is Europe’s largest privately held out-of-home advertising business, serving advertisers in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and China.
Project summary
Exterion Media's core business is engaging and delivering valuable audiences for advertisers through a variety of formats and environments including transport, billboards, street furniture and retail. They are also one of the leaders in digital out-of-home advertising. Exterion Media is owned by the radio group, Global. This Microsoft Dynamics AX project involved the development of a complete management media module, including development of a pack builder, availability engine and simulation, artwork scheduling and pricing and 3 integrations, to SalesForce, BroadSign and Interserve. The module worked seamlessly with the remaining Dynamics AX functionality.
Project tasks undertaken
- Functional requirements gathering
- Gap analysis
- Software specification documentation
- Software development
- Work package unit and system testing
- IT user training and documentation
Other project features
- Built a new media management module
- Developed an inventory pack builder, which could utilise a range of attributes
- Built a simulation tool to show the availability of inventory for booking
- Modified the pricing module which tied in seamlessly to ordering
- Developed a comprehensive media scheduling tool
- Built interface to Broadsign, to allow automated upload of video content
- Built interface to Salesforce so that orders could be controlled from there
- Utilised TFS to control work package development and track issues
- Developed automated build and test scripts to help control code quality
