Case Study
Asset Management & Capital Markets
Charles River Application Support and Maintenance for an Investment Management Firm
Client Overview
The Client is an investment firm with global reach, providing investment products and services to individuals and institutions in more than 40 countries. The client manages more than US$ 200 billion in assets in more than 300 funds, allowing comprehensive and strategic diversification covering the range of asset classes
Business Need Difficulty in managing support and maintenance as these activities were carried out by multiple groups comprising of employees and contractors with resultant support and maintenance redundancy.
Reduce maintenance costs
Provide economical, flexible and effective resource pool to level staff based on project demands
Scope To stay ahead of the competition, the client had decided to partner with a leader in the IT Outsourcing space whom they could trust their mission critical systems. After a thorough due diligence they finally partnered with Hexaware. Hexaware decided to set up an offshore development center to maintain the complex applications and reduce maintenance costs. The overall scope of the engagement was as follows:
Providing 24 * 7 CRIMS applications support; covering all the modules (Manger Workbench, QOE, Compliance, Order Life Cycle, Reference Data, etc.) of CRIMS and the asset classes such as Equity, Fixed Income, Equity Futures and Options across all geographies.
Processing Day-end/begin jobs
Establishing and Monitoring FIX connectivity
Creation of new interfaces for intraday process
Incidence Reporting and Management
Hexaware Approach
Well defined process connecting all the phases
Test Planning / Preparation of Test Cases / Test Data
Functional Testing of Proprietary PMS and Charles River IMS.
Integration Testing (Data Validation) Proprietary PMS and Charles River IMS.
Defect Management
between
Hexaware provided a scalable organization structure aligned with the client's IT needs with multi-level communication for faster turnaround and issue resolution. It set up an offshore development center to maintain the complex applications and reduce maintenance costs.
The Challenges
Very high degree of complexity in the applications from a support perspective
Providing 24*7 Support across various client locations across the globe across different timezone
Business Benefits
Significant reduction in Total cost of ownership
Expanded global capability
Improved time to market
Hexaware worked in tandem with the client’s team and developed sophisticated project roadmap for application support and maintenance activities, which included:
Review of business requirements
Preparation of technical design document
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