Long haul product development

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1 Long haul Long haul product development Xoriant helps one of the largest Enterprise Asset Management software companies consolidate offshore processes and rearchitects entire product suite Xoriant Corporation info@xoriant.com

2 The Client Our client is one of the world's largest providers of business software, with approximately $2.1 billion in revenue, and the 10th largest software company in the world. The client's Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) powers over 80% of the Fortune 500 enterprises. Client Product Details Our client's EAM product enables companies to proactively manage assets, asset information, and maintenance activities. It combines best-in-class asset management modules, unique features for improving operations and performance, and advanced modules to ensure the best possible fit for a customer's enterprise asset management needs. Our client s EAM product is the most widely deployed Web-architected enterprise asset management system in the world. This completely Web-architected application includes a simple browser interface that enables companies to share information and manage assets across the enterprise easily. The robust features meet the demanding requirements of customers from a wide variety of industries, and its zero-footprint architecture and HTML user-interface make this one of the most easily deployable solutions in the market. Product Architecture: The product architecture is made up of multiple tiers like: Database Tier Business Logic Tier Web Service Tier Presentation Tier Client Tier Xoriant Corporation info@xoriant.com

3 It is SOA oriented, scalable, extensible and reusable architecture. Datastream R Fully Web Architected Web Services Based Architecture Datastream 7i-ESRI Integration CLIENT PRESENTATION WEB SERVICE BUSINESS LOGIC DATABASE IE 6.0 JavaScript XHTML Datastream 7i CLIENT HTTP/SSL STATIC HTML HTTP SERVER FORMS ORACLE 9iAS OCI IE 6.0 Applet IMAGES REPORTS ORACLE RDBMS HTTP MS SQL TCP ETL DATABASE SERVER HTTP/XML (Java Connector) OC4J Servlet DAO JAVA BEANS JDBC ArcIMS Server JSP/SERVLET ENGINE Java Call ArcIMS EVENT MANAGER Analytics DW JSP TAGS SESSION BEANS RMI/IIOP LDAP XSLT ENGINE JNDI LDAP SERVER ENTITY BEANS EJB CONTAINER RMI/IIOP VB.Net APP Analytics/Mobile HTTP/SOAP HTTP/SERVER HTTP WSDL SOAP MANAGER WEB SERVICES ArcView ArcEditor ArcINFO carcgis Desktop SOAP IN/OUT QUEUES XML JDBC FLAT FILE DATABRIDGE ERP CRM HRIS Customer APP DATA MAPS C 2003 Datastream Systems. Inc. CONFIDENTIAL Challenges The EAM product had been developed using custom C++ and was built on an unscalable architecture. The client base had moved on to the latest cutting edge technologies like J2EE, SOA, AJAX, Struts, Oracle and SQL Server. Thus, the entire product had to be re-architected to be flexible, scalable and secure Xoriant Corporation info@xoriant.com

4 Web Server (Apache) TAGS XSL JSPs Struts Castor Business Delegate Servlet Engine COME Security Services Transa ction Service (Declar ative) Session Facade (Stateful Session Bean) Session Beans Castor Entity Beans Utility Services DB Pool DAO EJB Container Application Server On the operational side, our client has been using off-shore model for a decade and had developed very mature engineering practices. They have their own coding standards, code review checklists, test plans and development processes. From a multi-vendor environment, the client now consolidated the vendor base to a single company, based on past performance. Xoriant Contribution We quickly adapted to client's framework, product architecture and engineering practices. Using Webex sessions, we organized intense Computer-Based Training (CBT) to gain product and framework knowledge Xoriant Corporation info@xoriant.com

5 We successfully contributed in release of new Business edition targeted at Tier 3 / Tier 4 customers. We created and enhanced development guide to reduce product learning curve for future development. Our core team also developed a code generation (CG) utility that induced standardization and reduced development time. For better collaboration and retaining high team spirit, we started an onsite rotation policy wherein 2 team members work for 4 months onsite. Benefits We successfully contributed in 4 major releases The client shifted from Multi-vendor to Single-vendor (Xoriant) The new team member is productive in 4 weeks (Improved from 6 weeks) Productivity improved by 15% (use of Code generator utility) Our enhanced guide & CG Utility were recognized as best practices Our team contribution changed from Simple Use cases to Complex Use cases Xoriant Corporation info@xoriant.com