Cabsto is a french middle sized company selling stuff about the world of the see. When I did my intership, they had 2 stores, one at Ollioules and the other at Cannes and employed about 50 people.
This 3 month intership was really intersiting because it tooks place in a different company than computer science so I learn other things than if else for end ! About project management, selling and business methods…
So, I took place in the “software department”, to do a Enterprise Relationship Management system and add a CMS. The project started totaly from scratch, and was done using the amazing Asp.Net language and the simple mySQL database. I worked close to the marketing teams to collect their needs and to apply them as much as possible.
It was hard because it was my first intership and I was not really experienced in project development so I missed a lot of important steps BUT at the end, there is a good and stable product, installed in a locally server available by a VPN for the other stores and using by everyone, the marketing team, the seller team …
Now with the benefit of hindsight, I should never start a such project from scratch, even if I need to say no to some needs, it was a big waste of time and resources whereas it exists a lot of free and open-source CMS plateforme writing in different language.
On more thing is that this project was writing totally in Asp.Net, I should have considered RIA technologies especially for the dashboard and for the timetable.
To sum up, my first most important profressional experience was a success, I created something use by people and have a good feedback.
