Case Study: A leading lender/servicer company's enterprise systems reengineering
Objective: Replatforming enterprise Logistics / ERP / Sales / Accounting System to .NET – End-to-End
Existing Application
- VB 5 Desktop Application
- Oracle 8i
- Citrix
The Challenges
- UI elements were being directly referred in the Business Layer resulting in difficulty in conversion to .NET as certain controls in the UI are not easy to convert.
- The objects generated as result of Existing Data Access Layer were not thread safe.
- The business logic was not very well consolidated.
- Existing architecture lacked support for SOA, flexibility and extensibility
- Typical Challenges of Desktop Application (Navigation, Dedicated DB Connections, Application Distribution)
- Licensing issues due to Citrix.
- Deployment issues to multiple client installation.
Re-Platform Key Objectives
- N-tier web based application using .NET technology
- WEB farm using IIS6.0
- SOA based architecture.
- Web Services for integration with external systems
- Framework based on MVC Architecture
- Dynamic Page generation capability
- Dynamic invocation of business layer. (Developer would just Code the business layer and configure the hooking through XML).
- Making Maximum use of Existing Code.
- Add functionality without Framework Recompile!
- A Flexible Validation framework
- Flexibility to Add Smart Clients.
- Scalable.
- Separation of Database Specific API from the .NET Code
- Reusable Component Based Architecture
Business Benefits
- World-class N-tier Web Based business applications Application using .NET Technology
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Based Architecture
- Reduce overall business costs
- Separation of Database Specific API from the .NET Code
- Reusable Component Based Architecture
Impacted Business Lines
Number of Users
3000 users
Number of Concurrent Users
1500
Project Duration
24 Months (in progress)
Project Effort
120,000 Hours
Existing Application Line of Code
2 MLOC