Strategic Technology Partnership with Real Estate Information Services Provider
Challenge:
RedVision is an independent provider of innovative Real Property Research solutions. The RedVision platform serves users of title evidence looking for relevant and accurate information solutions. RedVision uses their integrated workflow platform, a vast title plant database and well-trained service experts to provide consistent, cost effective information solutions used to make expedient business decisions. Key issues that RedVision is facing are:
- Consolidation of various products and technology upgrade for the consolidated solution to support rapid growth of the company
- Unification of disparate systems accumulated through acquisitions
- Retirement of acquired product and migration of customers and internal users onto integrated platform
- Limited development capacity to meet backlog and functional enhancements required
- Need of a strategic technology partner to provide development capacity for backlog, current and future demands and to increase throughput of internal development team in a cost effective way
Solution:
- Strategic outsourcing partnership started with two work streams
- Development team extension for TitleVision product
- Team extension for County Data team
- Alliance followed a 3-phased approach – Initiation, Optimization and Steady State to deliver the two work streams
- Deployed an onsite project manager for smooth knowledge transfer and an offshore team as an extension of the in-house development team
- Followed a distributed Agile Scrum Framework
- Created web-based tools that work on plant data to efficiently process and enrich the aggregated information from various sources and store it for distribution through TitleVision product
Impact:
- Improved time to market and successfully addressed backlog and ongoing requirements
- Established a framework to fine tune resource levels and minimize costs on a month-to-month basis in a no-hassle fashion
- Integration of Alliance’s global delivery best practices with RedVision’s development methodology for efficient execution of production releases
- Thought leadership in architecture and in providing small and simple user-friendly features
- Quick ramp up and seamless extension to the right sized in-house engineering teams
- Economic advantage leveraging offshore engineering capacity
- Timely release of all the features committed in a sprint
Technologies:
- ASP.NET MVC , C# and Entity Framework
- JQuery andTelerik controls
- Linq and SQL Server 2008