How Software Mind reduces costs & expands CoreLogic capabilities
1. Software Mind
reduces costs & expands
CoreLogic capabilities
Software Mind executes flawlessly a major and complex technological
transormation of CoreLogic IT systems from an old, Cobol-based mainframe
system to a new, powerful Java-based hybrid-cloud system with SaaS
applications running on a new Web-based Services Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Software Mind deployed Expertise: CoreLogic is the largest data-warhous- tion to US banks, brokarage houses and
RedHat JBoss jBPM ing company in the US with over 140 insurance companies, as well as offer-
RedHat JBoss Hibernate million records. The company combines ing expert analysis, innovative services
Sun Java 6.0 the leading providers of financial, pro- and col- laborative consulting.
Sun JPA 2.0 perty and consumer information, ana- CoreLogic employs more than 10 000
Sun JavaServer JSF 2 lytics and business intelligence into one employees worlwide and generates $2
Sun Java Spring 3 dynamic database. The company is in billion of revenue annually.
Apache Tomcat 6 business of then selling that informa-
IBM base DB2
CoreLogic Challenges
CoreLogic obol-based system was built CoreLogic has decided to build a was to reduce IT maintenance costs,
20 years ago and had become very modern solution offering with a com- increase variety of IT service offerings,
expensive, complex and inflexible du- plete new set of Java-based funciona- deploy new services faster, and offer
ring times of new service deployment lity with a Saas deployment model in a more compelling SLAs.
or pure system maintenance. hybrid-cloud setting. Their main goal
CoreLogic major challenges:
Cost / performance Constant extensions of priviously set timelines and serious cost overruns
Quality Sub-standard quality of the final product, insufficient productivity result and serious
slips of new services’ final release dates
Expertise Lack of knowledge, expertise and experience in designing and implementing
web/java-based Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), advanced software develop-
ment and cloud-powered & SaaS-based service deployments
Flexibility Lack of responsably-priced experts available to performed task at hand
Time / money Limited budget and time for the transormation
2. Software Mind Solution
Project Management solutions:
Cost / performance Close supervision of Software Mind resources and frequent reconcilliation of project
objectives with major milestones
Established financial incentives and guarantees for various levels of achieved perfor-
mance with respect to hitting deadlines and coming under budget (i.e. staff’s salary
was dependent on results and satisfaction of CoreLogic)
Quality Management and technical supervision of project seams of concurrent projects
carried out by other external teams
Expertise Continuous training and facilitation of the open communication with CoreLogic
management and other internal resources
Technical solutions:
Expertise Flawless transformation of CoreLogic IT systems from an old, Cobol-based
mainframe system to a new powerful Java-based hybrid-cloud system with SaaS
applications running on a new Web-based Services Oriented Architecture (SOAs)
Development of SOA for system integration and all data flows
Management and technical supervision over the production of individual systems
components carried out by all external teams
Total System Integration, Testing and Deployment
Cost / performance Deployment of unique in the marketplace Software Mind Hybrid Development
Model (HDM), where Software Mind deploys 20% of its employees on-site thus
ensuring close collaboration between team members and giving a guarantee of full
understanding of the tasks performed, while 80% employees work off-site where
significant project savings are achieved
Software Mind Results
Cost Significantly lowered project costs versus projections (by 36%)
Quality Significantly improved customer satisfaction from delivered services and lowered
incidents of Service Outage
Performance Significantly improved Time to New Service Deployment (from weeks to hours)
Software Mind SA is a software house The company’s motto is Focused on ration, GTECH Corporation, Mach, BNP
company which operates on the global Results – each project is designed with Paribas Bank, Grupa Raiffeisen, Deutsche
market. Software Mind provides inno- specific business purposes and inten- Bank PBC, KredytBank (KBC Group),
vative IT solutions and services to clients ded results in mind. The key clients of Bank Pocztowy, Aviva, BZ WBK (Banco
in industries such as telecommunica- Software Mind SA include: T-Mobile, Santander), Bank DnB NORD, BillBird,
tions, media and finances/banking. We Orange (France Télécom Group), Pol- WARTA Insurance and Reinsurance
also offer IPTV and Social CRM solu- komtel (PLUS GSM), P4 (Play GSM), Company. The company collaborates
tions. DIALOG Telekom, NETIA, UPC (Liberty with international partners such as:
Global Group), Sferia, CoreLogic Corpo- Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, TIBCO, Ultimus,
Adobe.
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