Client Background
- EDB Financial Services unit as customer
- iHub solution covers the complete master data management area for financial service providers - including data on customers, roles, segments, organizations, products, pricing and agreements.
- Onshore team of 15 people
Business Challenge
- Resources with mainframe / Cobol knowledge are scarce at customer site
- The team had to increase its delivery capacity
Solution
- Built the team of 8 developers and 3 testers
- Assembled trainee group, conducted a series of training sessions on databases and mainframe technologies
Results
Key achievements:
- 2 years of successful deliveries
- Trainee group turned into fully functional Cobol developers in 6 months
- Participation in product maintenance
- 80% of the development done by Infopulse
- Very low defect rate, performance as expected
Business value:
- Reduction of risks related to resource unavailability
- New opportunities via young promising resources
Project Facts
Technologies:
- Mainframe Express
- DB2
- MKS
- Integrity Client
- z/OS
- COBOL
- СICS
Team Size:
Duration:
Customer’s feedback
“This weekend the iHUB Product application together with the remaining parts of the iHUB Organization have been set into production.
I would like to summarize the status at this moment for production setting of iHUB Product and Organization with these words: So far, SO GOOD! You have done a GREAT JOB,” — says Roar Eriksen, EDB ErgoGroup Project Manager.