Success Stories
- Architecture Design Core Banking solution for Asia’s largest Cooperative Bank
Scalable and secure, to cater to the growing customer base.
Designed using open source technologies, independent of underlying OS and database
Managed development to solution delivery
- Transition AMS from multiple sites to Shared Services/Vendors for a Global Bank
Business case parameters, cost estimation, outsourcing mix and suitability
Consolidate and insource processes, recommending processes best insourced
Identified processes best outsourced, including vendor identification and selection
Planned and managed transition of processes, with minimal impact to business
Continuous management of vendors based on defined KPIs
- Architecture Modernization of Trade Finance system for a Global Investment Bank
Application scalability and document management management efficiency challenge
Workshops with IT operations staff, IT teams, BAs and IT offshore vendors
Recommended new design, which was developed jointly by internal IT team and vendors
- Agile Process Institutionalization & ROI Measurement
Implementing Agile methodology across development teams based in the US and India
Routine monitoring, artefact updates, interfacing, measurement of ROI of a lean process.
Implemented over 2 months, produced 4% improvement
- “Virtual” Quality Function for US Consulting Organization
Road-map defined and tracked to achieve CMM for Services L3
Based on Agile methodology, Auditing project teams, Managing Knowledge Repository
- Application Architecture & Design for Gaming Portal in the UK
Challenge to architect IT Infrastructure to be available 24/7, supporting multiple devices and sites
Recommended Architecture de-risked central system, with suitable design and technology
Collaboration on security and customer experience needs, ensuring vendor agnostic implementation
- Application Portfolio Rationalization for a Healthcare Provider
Starting portfolio of 182 applications, challanges of skills and running costs
Heterogeneous technologies, from Cobol to Java, from IBM mainframes to the Wintel platforms
Final recommendations rationalised portfolio to 38 applications over three years
- Enterprise Architecture for Large International Humanitarian organization
Business Technology Drivers workshops
Interactions with Directors and business heads, in addition to IT teams
Delivered Architecture Vision, Enterprise Architecture Roadmap and Guidelines
- Onsite-Offshore Process for Health Care System for an European entity
Improved onsite-offshore process for entire cycle, from requirements to acceptance
Starting with trapping requirements, working with SMEs, other SIs and Users
Designed Governance Framework, PMO and Metrics for improved performance
Initiative drove down programme calendar time to less than half
- Transition of Agile Scrums to Vendor from Internal Teams for UK Insurance Provider
Suitability analysis, articulation of work processes and development of roadmap
Planning and management of the transition with minimal risk and disruption
- Transition of Testing services from Internal to Offshore Vendor for a Large UK business
Suitability, capacity and capability analysis
Planning and managing the transition
- Improved ROI on Quality Initiative for a Global Bank technology operations
Quality Management Framework reworked to ensure optimization of SDLC’s
Reduced costs by 10% of running IT projects & applications
