Customer: IBM Corporation
(Fairfield Technologies, prime contractor)
Goal: Provide business and technical leadership, helping IBM design and develop global Financial Services products to serve their customers in the world’s largest banks and financial institutions
Application:
Develop a data management platform integrating all business applications required to support a Top 50 global financial institution, including:
- Retail, Wholesale, and Securities Banking lines of business
- Multi-national currency, language, and business rule support
- Financial product design, management and marketing
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Data warehousing
- Decision Support Systems (DSS)
Challenges: Requirements fragmented by technology, language, currency, multinational legal and business rule differences
FTI’s Approach:
- Developed a customized analysis and design methodology and standards for the project, based on principles of Object-Oriented Analysis and relational database design. Developed set of re-usable objects for implementing this methodology.
- Provided finance industry expertise to help define or clarify financial information requirements.
- Designed the overall information architecture, including detailed business, logical, and physical data models.
- Performed quality assurance reviews of data model structure and content, and made specific recommendations to improve model quality, business content, and compliance with documented standards.
- Developed technical strategies for data model customization, implementation, migration, and usability.
- Authored internal technical papers in areas such as data administration, entity/attribute naming standards, and state-transition analysis in relational data models.
- Developed and presented both technical and non-technical briefings to IBM management.
Products Used: IBM DB2, VM/CMS, Repository Manager, n-tiered architecture, Bachman and Knowledgeware CASE tools
Benefits: Ability to provide accurate, complete, timely consolidated financial picture, across organizations, national boundaries and various banking lines of business
Delivery:
On time, within budget. CMMI Level 3 project.