The challenge.
The client’s organization was spread across three sites, with each site having a concentrated function within the investment banking domain – Hartford (third-party money management and equity trading), New York (alternate assets) and Atlanta (general account assets and fixed
income trading).

The project required development of applications used by portfolio managers and traders to provide interface with legacy systems. The engagement was concentrated around re-writing the applications originally written using Power builder/Oracle 8.0. For the rewriting, we used Microsoft .NET platform/SQL Server 2000. Most of these applications are very data intensive and have a complex back-end for data analysis, predictions and reporting. The applications front-end have a set of very simple screens to invoke these functions and reports. The engagement also expected certain ad-hoc changes to these applications based on the feedback from portfolio managers and traders (the eventual end users of these programs).

Our solution.
We set up an onsite presence at all three sites and our onsite coordinators engaged in requirement gathering and design validations with the client’s team. The remaining lifecycle activities are carried out offshore with acceptance testing happening onsite with the help of coordinator.

Our team also uploads all the domain/technical documents in our client knowledge portal – an in-house knowledge management tool.

The results.

• The client leverage our knowledge-portal developed in-house by working with some of the leaders in their respective industry.
• Our domain knowledge and technical competence ensured
  minimal effort from the client to scale up and broaden the scope
  of the project.