Success Stories

Fortune 500 Insurance Company

Client	Fortune 500 - Large Insurance Company
Vertical	Insurance
Technologies	ASP.Net, SQL Server, Propriety Rapid Application Development Tool, Microsoft IIS & SQL Server Clustering
Solution	ASP.Net Migration, EMVIA Solutions for Microsoft ISV

Business Scenario

An Insurance ISV, specialist in compensation planning for large financial companies has a client server Visual Basic and SQL Server based solution. The product is a 10 year old matured product with over 1 million lines of source code. However, the client server solution was unacceptable to the Insurance company. The insurance company IT strategy was to only deploy enterprise applications which adhered to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

The following were the challenges faced:

Needed to migrate the application in record time to meet stringent customer deadlines
Had a fixed budget for its software development
Post development needed to support a fortune 500 insurance customer
Must have the ability to ramp up/ramp down technical resources based on business needs
Stringent application uptime requirements

EMVIA Solution

ISV chose EMVIA as its co-sourcing partner to meet with the challenges it faces. EMVIA's comprehensive set of services for ISVs helped cut its lower software development costs, increase engineering resources and thereby improve customer satisfaction levels. Using a strategically innovative mix of offshore and onshore resources, ISV was able to support a $10B plus Insurance Company's IT application need.

The ISV in conjunction with the end customer provided EMVIA with the following information:

Screen Mockups
Functional Specification
Database Schema

EMVIA primarily performed a legacy migration from the archetypal client server architecture to a modern, service oriented architecture. EMVIA also provided technical support and implementation services.

Here are some of the key highlights:

Deployed 15 Offshore Resources
Used Customers Rapid Application Development Tool
Developed Web Services to adhere to end customer's requirements for Single Sign On & Integration
Follow The Sun Development: Interfaced With Three Teams Globally
Project Delivered Under Budget and On Schedule
Today the application is live running a clustered IIS & SQL Server environment!!

Business Benefits

EMVIA .Net Solution has helped ISVs complete the migration of software application within record time and within budget. Also using EMVIA's on-demand software services, the ISV has been able to support its customers more effectively and with lowered costs. EMVIA team also assists the customer in various pre-sales activities such as proof of concept and EMVIA maintains a pool of resources within the organization who are trained and familiar with entire application and technology stack of the insurance application.

After an internal case study of the ISV, EMVIA feels the customer experienced the following benefits:

Flexible delivery modelss
Collaborative product development methodologies
Superior engineering skills
Product knowledge retention.
Robust quality frameworks
Cost-effective offshore development & support
Intellectual Property protection standards

EMVIA Engagement Model

Microsoft Partner engaged in the following activities

Functional Specification
Onsite Planning
Product Architecture
Product Design
Project Management
Interfacing with end client

EMVIA was engaged in the following activities

Application Development
Application Migration
Customized Reporting
Build & QA Automation
Application Integration
Interfacing with the partner to meet client requirements

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