Case Study: IBM
Summary
FTI team members provided three years of 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.
Applications
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)
Architectures:
- N-tier, layered architecture
- Distributed and client/server architecture
Tasks:
- 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.
Methodologies and Techniques:
- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
- Joint Application Development (JAD)
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