Financial Supplies Manufacturer

The Client

A Fortune 1000 financial supplies manufacturer serving thousands of financial institutions and millions of consumers by providing a full range of supplies, including checks, forms, business cards, stationery, shipping/packaging supplies, promotional and merchandising materials, checks and other related business services.

The Engagement

Working with an IBM services team, Encode was asked to assist in automating a portion of a manual Customer Order Entry process.

Critical Services Delivered

Encoded conducted business needs analysis and assisted with the application architecture design.

Encode also conducted an analysis of the client's current software development methodologies and aligned them with industry "Best Practices", which included instituting the active use of repositories and source code control tools.

Introduction of these "Best Practices" increased the development team's productivity by a factor of six (6).

Technology Used

The company chose the IBM WebSphere middleware product suite to create a two-phase implementation of an online ordering system for its customers: "The IBM Software Development Platform Middleware is IBM software. The IBM Software Development Platform can help your business develop systems and applications with real business advantages. Proven, open, and modular, it's a comprehensive set of tools and best practices designed to automate the entire development process. So you can integrate, modernize, extend, build and deploy software." (IBM*)

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