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Multi-platform Stock Trading Company
The Client's Profile
Our client's development group was charged with the development, deployment, and
support of their multi-platform, high-performance stock trading application. Part of their
responsibility was to support a minimum of seven independent operating copies of the
application (including hardware and software) for three of their clients. Each of the
copies of the application needed to be configured with significant differences in size,
structure, and functionality.
The Client's Challenge
As part of remaining competitive and to meet their client's contracted requirements and
expectations, our client had to deliver new functions and defect corrections monthly. We
were engaged to improve their deployment process with the aim of reducing resource
requirements and the time to market.
Our Mandate
As part of achieving our client's objectives, we were given the mandate to move the
perception of the company, starting from within our client's development group, from being
viewed a custom development shop to a general software products company. To accomplish
this, we were charged with:
- Analyzing their current processes and procedures
- Identifying and documenting the major causes of deployment delays and errors
- Making recommendations on improvements to processes and procedures
- Identifying, defining, and documenting requirements to allow application deployment into
new and existing environment to be carried out rapidly, consistently, and correctly
- Integrating development tasks, library management policies and testing procedures into a
single, consistent set of cooperating procedures.
The Key Benefits Our Client Received
In order to help our customer, Nexbridge:
- Identified and remedied the root causes of delays and most common errors.
- Worked with our client to reduce the deployment time from the typical 2 to 3 weeks down
to an average of 1 day for the creating and deployment of new application environment.
After the client became proficient, through our training, mentoring and guidance, they
achieved a sustainable deployment time of one half day.
- Directed and were the primary participants in the redevelopment of infrastructure to
manage the configuration of our client's software product and hardware environments. This
redevelopment involved the creation of configuration architecture and documentation
procedures that position the company to more rapidly incorporate changes into any
environment. This also included a complete reorganization of the client's software code
library system.
- Built and deployed infrastructure to enable the automation of the creation of new
application environments.
Additional Benefits
In addition to the key benefits:
- Training material was developed and training delivered to all areas within the
development group
- Training was also delivered to our client's operations and operation support groups as
well as their customers' operations support groups.
- Documentation for support of infrastructure elements was created and delivered. Part of
the reduction of the time to market involved our creation of automated documentation
technology to reduce resource requirements.
End Conditions
Once our services were completed, the client was entirely self-sufficient in being able
to maintain and sustain the improved productivity and reduced time to market.
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