What else to add to asp.net Intranet Application

[Solarion]

I've been building an asp.net(vb.net) Intranet application at work for several months now and it's almost complete. It basically a reporting application. I've added a sweet little Ajax autocomplete on one of Financial Report search pages so when they type in a clients name it finds it. It has crystal reports and runs on Sql Server 2008 DB. It's mostly for our managers to view cargo manifests in and financial reports in crystal.

Ok I'm wanting to spruce it up a little, perhaps with more Ajax or WCF/WPF (Been doing some light reading so still nub on those). I don't know, just something cool like graphs or phone book or something.

It's my first full Intranet App I've ever built so still slightly nub. What do you guys have on yours? Any suggestions appreciate

 

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[Beachless]

I've been building an asp.net(vb.net) Intranet application at work for several months now and it's almost complete. It basically a reporting application. I've added a sweet little Ajax autocomplete on one of Financial Report search pages so when they type in a clients name it finds it. It has crystal reports and runs on Sql Server 2008 DB. It's mostly for our managers to view cargo manifests in and financial reports in crystal.

Ok I'm wanting to spruce it up a little, perhaps with more Ajax or WCF/WPF (Been doing some light reading so still nub on those). I don't know, just something cool like graphs or phone book or something.

It's my first full Intranet App I've ever built so still slightly nub. What do you guys have on yours? Any suggestions appreciate

Its hard to suggest things with what you have listed and not knowing the business but you can add entities(with the MS entity framework) and create WCF services to serve those to you front end.
Create mobile apps,workflow, push reports to the managers instead of them having to request them(for the daily,weekly etc)
Add Predictive analytics to predict risks based on past data.
Switch to c#

Its a pretty wide field and plenty to learn and play with there.

 

[Solarion]

Its hard to suggest things with what you have listed and not knowing the business but you can add entities(with the MS entity framework) and create WCF services to serve those to you front end.
Create mobile apps,workflow, push reports to the managers instead of them having to request them(for the daily,weekly etc)
Add Predictive analytics to predict risks based on past data.
Switch to c#

Its a pretty wide field and plenty to learn and play with there.

Thanks Beechless. I've only briefly touched on Entity Framework, will check it out. C# hehe yeah yeah it's inevitable I think, dabbling a little but nothing serious yet, got too much on the go atm.

 

[Beachless]

Thanks Beechless. I've only briefly touched on Entity Framework, will check it out. C# hehe yeah yeah it's inevitable I think, dabbling a little but nothing serious yet, got too much on the go atm.

You are likely to use both over time so dont stress too much I just push C# because I dont like VB but thats probably down to having to fix many vb6 and vb asp scripts that were a mess.
I find that people who do C based languages are more likely to follow OO than VB and it kills me when there is duplication of code all over the place and functions that are meters long.

But the Entity framework is good to learn as you will also have to learn LINQ, Lambda expressions etc. and will feature nicely on a CV.