Integration of Accounting & Operations Contracts and Projects

Overview

Different company departments of our client used many different applications to solve similar problems. The customer, a global IT provider, required a solution that could serve the needs of the entire enterprise.

Challenge / Task

Develop a scalable solution that unifies different corporate systems and collects data from 30 different data sources.

Project Tasks

• Migration of legacy systems to a modern platform
• Development of a unified solution

Solution

In cooperation with the customer, IBA Group developed a web-based information system that collects data about contracts and projects from various enterprise sources. IBA Group consolidated data, workflows, and reports in a single application. As a result, it became possible to integrate contract and account management into a Customer Management Application.

The solution provides customer’s project managers and partners with a key entry point to manage and control project information as regards financial data (planning, reconciliation, and forecasting), non-financial project evaluations, and integration with backend systems.

Technically, the integrated solution runs on a cluster of three web servers connected to three DB2 servers.

Disaster recovery:

In the event of failure, the application can switch operation to another application deployed in a different cloud region.

Project Results

The newly developed solution is a modern and scalable JEE application that interacts with 30 different data sources. To date, the solution serves more than 30,000 users worldwide.

The client achieved a many-fold cost reduction in maintenance costs because multiple applications were replaced with one solution that functions across all divisions and branches of our customer.