Supersonic Services’ business required their staff to constantly monitor the internet for potential government offered job opportunities. This required a lot of manpower and was an overall inefficient process. They came to MVI and asked them if there was anything that could be done to somehow automate this process. MVI consulted with them over several weeks to learn their business and devise a plan on how to accomplish their goals.

Once a plan was created, MVI spent months developing a suite of scripts and applications that all worked together as one to automatically produce the same results which before had to be done by a person physically browsing the internet. These tools were written mainly in VB6 and used an MS-SQL back end to house retrieved information. They were written in a way that allowed Supersonic Services to constantly adjust and modify their parameters to adapt to changes on the government websites and/or changes to their business.

The applications themselves would crawl the internet using what’s called a web-browser control in combination with “sendkey” events. This practically simulated a person using the internet. Once all of the appropriate keystrokes were programmed, the application acted the same way that a person would and would navigate the government websites and retrieve and save information.

The main advantage of this is that it could be programmed to look for specific types of jobs using keyword and location matches and could also automatically make bids on the jobs for them. This system allowed Supersonic Services to accomplish their goal of saving time, manpower and ultimately money to make them a more efficient and more profitable entity.