Challenge
Our client, one of the leaders in transportation systems and software, had been facing several issues with its aging financial management solution. In order to stay ahead of the competition, the client wanted to create a next generation financial management solution for tolling back office operations which empowers customer service representatives (CSR) and customers to manage all critical information from one single platform. Some of the challenges with the existing platform were:
- The platform did not support responsive design and user interface layer was not light weight, which led to very high load time and slow performance.
- The existing system architecture contained tightly coupled objects fully dependent on server interaction to perform successfully, which limited its ability to quickly load historical reports.
- Lastly, the inability to change rules dynamically meant delays due to dependencies which were costly for the client’s operations.
Approach
The client approached iLink because of our prior success in delivering similar projects, technology expertise and understanding of the industry landscape. iLink’s experts interviewed key stakeholders from business and technology teams as well as the end users – the CSR team and its customers, to get a holistic understanding of the process and their pain points.
After extensive research and workshops, focusing on four key metrics – ease of use, response time, scalability and flexibility to end users, iLink proposed a Single Page Application (SPA) solution to meet their requirements by using improved and refactored version of their business logic. This solution was composed of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with SPA patter including HTML5 with angular material framework and kendo UI library for better user experience, windows workflow for dynamic rule engine. Loosely coupled components were developed and all the object-oriented principles were fully adhered while designing this architecture to support reusability, extendibility and scalability.
Solution
iLink created an enhanced, scalable, and dynamic portal with enriched UI and mobility support. The platform empowered the CSR team to manage all critical customer information and track inventory. Self-service capabilities enabled the team to change rules dynamically without relying on technology team for support and quickly generate reports, all in one place. The external site also allows customers to manage their own information including personal information, tags and billing.
Outcome
Increased productivity and additional revenue for the client.
Through this new platform the client was not only able to realize productivity gains, but also the enhanced capability and flexibility helped them acquire new customers resulting in revenues over $100 million.
This portal also provides efficient OCR and analysis tools. Other benefits include :
- Document management system with customizable workflow
- Dynamic engine to change rules on the fly
- Unique tools for tracking inventory
- Data warehouse reporting mechanism
