HR Management Interface
Problem: Toro's HR management web interface was cumbersome and difficult for the casual user.
Solution: The end-users were comfortable with a Microsoft Access front-end that was previously developed for the old HR application. Twin Cities Solutions took that Access application and completely rebuilt it to work with the Masterpiece database. It gave the users a familiar user interface which eased the transition and gave them the power to create their own reports using standard Access reports. It also included various levels of security which restricted access to confidential information such as salary and payroll history.

Single Sign-On
Problem: Toro provides many secured web sites to their distributors, dealers, and partners. Unfortunately each web site has its own security system which requires users to remember several user I.D.s and passwords.
Solution: Twin Cities Solutions worked with Toro to implement Sun Java System Access Manager which provides single sign-on for Toro's distributors, dealers, and other partners. The project has included: design of the LDAP schema, configuration of the web servers, migrating all of the extranet user accounts from MySQL to an LDAP-based authentication system, creation of web sites to administer the user accounts, and migrating affected web applications to use LDAP for user information instead of the old legacy MySQL database.