ZSL Migrates Delphi2007 based insurance application to .NET Environment


Delphi Application Migration to .NET Environment

The Customer

A leading UK based ISV which provides tailored and scalable Insurance Software, was looking to migrate one of their core selling product written in Delphi 2007 to a scalable Microsoft .Net Platform. The legacy product is widely used by Agents, Brokers, Underwriters and Insurance Companies within the UK and European Insurance industry.

The current Client -Server application required heavy workstation investment for users to access the application placed centrally. This would ease out software maintenance but at the cost of hardware.
               
Inability to support multi databases restricted selling the software to customer specific database requirements.

Customers demand on latest technology and usability narrowed their sales target and had direct impact on their revenues.

Product integration and deployment costs were significantly high as compared to their competitors. Improved system performance and scalability were two vital project requirements communicated by the customer.

The Challenge

Upon being selected to migrate the ISV’s legacy Delphi application, ZSL took stock of a number of immediate project challenges and deliverables including:

The application - 301601 lines of functional code written in Delphi.

Understanding all features and functionality of the legacy Delphi application.

Understanding the purpose of the third party components used in the application.

Mapping the third party components from Delphi with the components available in Microsoft
development platform.

Converting non-GUI product based components into Dll’s to be used in the new application
development.

Identifying the system interface requirements with third party software and tools.


Enterprise Mobile Device Management Solution

The advent of mobile device usage in businesses has practically expanded the work place boundaries much to the gain of both enterprises and employees. Business mobile applications have gained more limelight and greater adoption among enterprises and its employees. Say it anytime access to data or technological sophistication, employees today, prefer to import work activities into their smart phones and tablets. This is looming to become a bigger challenge for enterprises to manage their business mobile apps and mobile users from the aspects of security, compliance, administration, upgrades, support and maintenance.

Every enterprise is bound to follow specific compliance strategies and policies. In the current trend of “Mobility in Business” and “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)”, it is quintessential to provide and manage remote data access and secure privacy for both organization data and users, which is quite complex. And even more challenging is to reduce their mobile device and user management costs.

For More Info Visit: http://mobilepowercenter.zsl.com/PDF/Mobile-Device-Management-Solution.pdf


Top 5 Myths About Mobile BI that Enterprises Need to Watch



In the last post we were discussing about Business Intelligence of leading-edge organizations goes mobile and how mobile BI helps the businesses and today we will discuss about “Mobile BI Myths” in this article.
Mobile dashboards and BI are among the hottest topics in the industry and justifiably so: mobile access to data is a critical tool for decision making.
Today we will examine the five common myths associated with mobile business intelligence and uncover the facts about cost, implementation, and capabilities. We will also explain why companies should move forward with their mobile business intelligence projects.
#1 Same Mobile BI to All Users
Mid-sized and larger companies would find themselves hard pressed to move their entire mobile workforce onto the same device – making the successful widespread use of mobile BI nearly impossible.
In the past, most of the companies originally deployed their BI applications on Blackberry devices because they were it was most popular among business users and provided the easiest way of accessing corporate information. That has changed with the introduction of the iPhone, Android-based devices and the iPad, mobile users expressed a preference for iPhones and Android-based phones. In addition, web browsers have become device-independent, allowing them to deliver BI content to almost any device.
#2 Each Mobile Device required a Native Application
Most business intelligence tools on the market these days lack the ability to exploit each device’s native capabilities, therefore require companies to build custom reporting and analysis applications for each type of device in use.
With thousands on mobile users of different versions of difference mobile devices will be using mobile BI in an enterprise. With the wrong mobile BI platform in place could be an obstacle that IT simply cannot overcome.
There are a few rare, advanced solutions designed to eliminate the time and effort associated with creating and maintaining multiple versions of various BI assets for each mobile platform.
#3 Mobile BI is only consumed on mobile phones and smartphones.
Few years ago when the majority of mobile BI consumers used BlackBerry and Palm devices, then came iPhone, Android based phones. Devices such as the iPad eliminate the shortcomings of iPhones (mostly related to small screen size) and are actually driving the trend toward large-scale BI adoption for obtaining a high-level view of business operations.
#4 Mobile Users Are Always Connected
Many mobile BI solution vendors aren’t including features that allow users to perform reporting and analysis when disconnected. There are times when Internet connections – particularly Wi-Fi – may be rather slow. This can frustrate users, forcing them to disconnect from the web, but they may still need to gather important intelligence on their way to a meeting or a customer visit.
It’s important to make sure that capability is included in a mobile BI platform and empowering them to work in disconnected mode.
#5 Mobile BI users can’t perform ad hoc or deep analysis.
Many companies shy away from mobile business intelligence because their users need the ability to interact extensively with data from their smartphones and tablets. Some of the more advanced platforms can deliver advanced reporting and analysis tools without the need for specialized software by leveraging the native capabilities of any mobile browser “to empower mobile workers with analytic functionality that can be applied to virtually any data from any enterprise source.”
In spite of the abounding myths, mobile business intelligence doesn’t have to be expensive, hard to implement, or difficult to use. In fact, companies that chooses the right solution, with the right capabilities, will realize low TCO and rapid ROI, while empowering their mobile users with the ability to access and interact with timely, complete corporate information from any smartphone or tablet.


 
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