Reengineering the Financial and Customer Order Module to N-Tier, GUI Architecture

Customer
A global software company with a suite of products catering to Discreet Manufacturing industries.

The Challenge

• As part of the Product Lifecycle management, the customer is in the process of converting its existing iSeries suite of applications from Cool:2E/RPGLE environment to a proprietary client- server architecture on the lines of the J2EE recommendations.
• Reengineering the existing Financial Module and Customer Order Module (Monolithic code) in to N-Tier architecture.
• Understand the customer’s Proprietary Architecture.
• Extract the Business Rules from the existing Cool:2e based application and develop the Business Layer in RPGLE in Proprietary J2EE Architecture.

HCL’s Solution

• Study the Source Application for Reengineering and understand Proprietary Architecture for Reengineering.
• Studied the Existing Customer Order Application developed on business layer using Proprietary Architecture.
• Successfully developed and tested and rolled out client-server based CSM 7.3 containing business functions like Customer Quote Order maintenance, Line Item maintenance, Ship To and Sold To modules.
• Successfully developed and tested and rolled out client-server based CSM 7.6 and CSM 7.7 containing business functions like Price Book maintenance, UOM maintenance, Sale Rep. Maintenance.
• Successfully developed and tested client-server based EFIN module containing business functions like Account Payable, Account Receivable, General Ledger, and Tax Module.

Value Delivered

• Reengineered the monolithic COM and CSM application to Ntier architecture and reduced time-to-market pressure for Mapics.
• Reduced time and delivery cost through offshore leverage.
• Reduced rework/waste through robust and tested delivery processes.