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Case Studies
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Rapid Development of a Loyalty Management System A start-up ISV had a vision to develop a loyalty management platform for retailers in the US. Aspire engaged with the ISV from concept-to-market (through design, development, testing, deployment, roll-out and support phases) to develop an integrated hardware and software loyalty solution in just over 4 months. |
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Performance Tuning of a Healthcare Billing and Claims Management product Aspire performance-tuned a web-based, billing software for healthcare professionals, enabling a substantial increase in the number of concurrent users of the system and improving product performance. Aspire eventually became the billing software provider’s dedicated engineering partner and re-architected their entire product. |
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Automated Testing for Mainframe Integration products A world leader in mainframe integration software engaged Aspire’s product testing team to automate the testing of their product suite. Aspire developed automation scripts that were robust, configurable and reusable and which reduced the test cycle in some cases, from 3 weeks to 2 days. |
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Advancement of an On-Demand Procurement Automation Solution An e-procurement automation vendor needed to enhance their e-procurement solution with regular product releases and new feature additions. Aspire partnered with them to make their Java-based procurement automation solution more robust and powerful with an array of new features at shortly-spaced intervals. |
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Enterprise Product Integration using BizTalk server An e-distributor of chemical products and services wanted to integrate several of their enterprise products, used by different functional areas, into one unified system. Aspire helped them unify their various systems based on Microsoft technologies, adopting a plug-n-play and de-coupled approach towards the integration. |
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Product Internationalization of a Document Management System A Legal Document Management System provider needed their web-based system to support Hebrew and English at the GUI and content level. Aspire enabled them to do this by internationalizing their product, overcoming GUI design challenges for Hebrew in terms of content display and navigation. |
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Product support for a Media Advertising Infrastructure Solution provider Aspire provides product support services for an advertising infrastructure software provider’s radio broadcasting clients in the APAC region. Augmenting the customer’s product support team in the US, the support services include email and telephonic support to end-users in the APAC region to resolve product-related issues quickly. |
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Independent Verification and Validation of an After-Market Support product Aspire partnered with an after-market support product provider to do complete functional and regression testing of their product, which needed to be tested across multiple platforms, application servers and databases. Aspire acts as the customer’s extended QA team, validating their product builds across the various combinations. |
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On-demand Concierge-supported Loyalty System A concierge-supported loyalty solution provider wanted to optimize their product so that a single instance of it could provide all of their services to multiple clients. Aspire re-architected their product to enable SaaS characteristics and reduced the implementation timeframe for each client from 2 months to 1 week. |
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Product Development, Advancement and Sustenance - SCM solution using .NET Aspire associated strategically with an SCM provider in the organic foods market to develop a unique, scalable supply-chain platform using .NET technologies, which has more than 17 patents till date. The product was developed from scratch and continues to be enhanced and maintained through several new releases and feature additions. |
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Product Migration - PowerBuilder to web-based J2EE solution A client-server IP management software built using Powerbuilder, over a span of 10 years, needed to be migrated to a web-based J2EE product. Aspire’s migration approach led to a high level of modularization of the product, resulting in easy maintenance; and Aspire’s productivity was also 30% higher than the existing team. |
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e-Procurement Automation Product suite converted to an On-demand model Aspire helped architect a database-driven on-demand solution for an e-procurement automation vendor that included multi-tenancy, configurability, security, internationalization, integration with third party applications and custom workflows. |
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Ruby on Rails – Building dynamic web products faster A case-management software provider with a client base of over 40 US courts needed to migrate their client-server VC++ product to a web-based one in a short span of time. Leveraging RoR’s development framework, Aspire reduced the migration time by 40% and also the product’s maintenance bandwidth from a long-term perspective. |
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Product development and implementation – Fund management Framework for private investment firms As a strategic development partner for a provider of enterprise solutions that supports global investment firms, Aspire developed components, custom-solutions and a scalable product framework that encompasses the complete private investment management lifecycle. This allowed the customer to decrease time-to-market, enabled resource flexibility and focus on core business strengths. |
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MS Dynamics – Upgradation of GP from v8 to v10 Aspire assisted an e-distributor of chemical products to upgrade from MS Great Plains v8 to v10, including taking care of the migration from class-based to role-based security. Aspire was also involved in integrating the upgraded GP v10 with the e-distributor’s best-of-breed products like Onyx, Yantra, SSE, and Interworld. |
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Collaborative Software Development Management system using RoR Aspire developed a software development management system using Ruby on Rails for a provider of project management software. The system allows reusable components to be stored and distributed using SVN as the backend repository and enables collaborative tools like blogs, RSS feeds etc., to work with the repository. |
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Product Documentation for an E-distributor of specialty chemicals An e-commerce vendor in the specialty chemicals market used several best-of-breed products to cater to its various functional requirements. To get clear visibility on their multiple systems, the vendor used Aspire’s documentation services to capture the business workflow of the entire system as a whole. |
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Localization of a business process improvement solution A provider of business process improvement solutions wanted to re-engineer their product to include localization support for all their international clients. Aspire helped them localize their product for different languages, currencies, number and date formats. This in-turn reduced the customer’s professional services workload considerably. |
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Test Automation of a HR & Payroll software using Watir Aspire automated the testing requirements of a leading HR and Payroll provider, including smoke testing, monthly payroll regression testing and functional testing. Through automation, Aspire was able to reduce the testing cycle time by 50-60% compared to manual testing, ensuring faster and better quality product releases. |
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SharePoint Solution for Financial Fraud Detection Aspire partnered with a fraud detection and compliance management solution provider to build a collaborative case management system as an integrated part of their product using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007. The system developed included customizable workflows and enabled effective fraud investigations. |
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Extended Mobility Solutions for CRM Systems Aspire was engaged by a leading mobile messaging applications developer to develop mobile plug-ins for Sage and Microsoft CRM systems that added a host of mobile features to these CRM systems. The plug-ins empower users to send, receive and track messages through familiar CRM software. |
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Integrated Platform for managing enterprise content using SharePoint Using SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), Aspire designed an integrated web platform for an organization; thus simplifying content management, providing a better user experience, enterprise search and information flow between enterprise intranet and internet applications. By using out-of-the-box SP features, development time was kept minimal. |
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