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Retail Major Transforms Enterprise Architecture to Enable Better IT Governance

Tesco, a UK-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain, transformed its Enterprise Architecture organization to enable better IT governance and create a shared vision of architecture...

Tesco's architecture group, though technically competent, was unable to articulate value to its stakeholders. The company also faced challenges such as lack of a shared vision of architecture, short-term architecture delivery at the cost of long-term planning, and lack of formal communication of standards.

Tesco partnered with Infosys to propose a new operating model for the Enterprise Architecture team. This resulted in a clear demonstration of the value of Enterprise Architecture and consistent and repeatable processes for defining solution architectures among other benefits.

Fleet Management Organization Defines an Architecture Roadmap for its IT Landscape

Using the Architecture Governance framework, Infosys defined an architecture blueprint to rationalize and re-architect the IT landscape of a leading European fleet management firm...

Death Care Services Firm Rationalizes Enterprise IT Expenditure

Infosys partnered with a global leader in death care services to assess its IT landscape, recommend strategies to rationalize expenditure, develop the associated business cases and implement a proof of concept (POC) to demonstrate...

Utilities Major Defines Enterprise Architecture for Web-Based Development

Infosys partnered with a US-based utilities major to establish best practices and enterprise-wide application architecture standards for web-based development. However, it faced the challenges of... Performance Engineering and Enhancement

LTCP Adopts Performance-Driven Development Approach to Facilitate Business Growth

Long Term Care Partners (LTCP) adopted Infosys' Performance-Driven Development approach to enable federal employees in the United States to register and enroll for insurance services efficiently. The methodology enhanced LTCP's capacity... to handle concurrent users by 1,900% and achieved a 40% reduction in the batch window. The re-architected application empowered LTCP to manage a higher volume of enrollments.

Adopting Performance-driven Development to build an eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) Platform

An Information Service firm partnered with Infosys to build an almost real-time market information storage and analytics platform to devise trading strategies. The platform had to support 4,000 concurrent users, five GB of input ...data, six million transactions per minute and an information retrieval latency of less than two seconds.

Infosys' performance-driven development approach, combined with robust grid technology, helped the client's platform exceed the stringent performance targets.

Securities Firm Engineers Superior Business Performance and Scalability using Grid Computing

A leading securities firm partnered with Infosys to address performance and scalability issues in its Interest Rate Risk Analysis application. Infosys migrated the existing application to a grid environment by applying high performance... computing solutions and using technologies such as C/C++, SUSE Linux and Infosys' Grid Application Migration Framework . Infosys' solution enhanced the application's performance by 150 times.

Axis Bank Improves Scalability of its Universal Banking Platform

Using Finacle, Infosys' banking solution, Axis Bank undertook a rigorous exercise to broaden its portfolio of services in India. With the increase in demand for the bank's services, transaction volumes and customer accounts, it needed a technology partnership that... would seamlessly scale up existing IT systems and help achieve business outcomes. Infosys partnered with Axis Bank to seamlessly scale up the core banking solution.

Insurance Organization Tunes the Performance of its Web-Based Application

A leading insurance organization used Infosys' QNM-based System Execution Model to overcome problems in its AQC application. Infosys' systematic approach provided several opportunities for optimization of the application. Service-Oriented Architecture

Charting a Roadmap for Enterprise SOA Adoption

Infosys partnered with a food services distribution firm to define the role that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can play in a business transformation initiative. Infosys assisted the client to chart an SOA adoption roadmap... driven by business needs and to create an SOA reference architecture, a reusable business domain map and a skill adoption plan for SOA.

Healthcare Major Accelerates Time-to-Market using Service-Oriented Architecture

The client, a leading healthcare major, engaged Infosys to implement an SOA framework for transforming its legacy systems. Faced with a portfolio of incompatible legacy systems that hindered its ability to compete, the client embarked on... a multi-year business transformation program to attain market leadership. Infosys partnered with the client to define and implement an SOA framework to accelerate legacy revitalization, leading to a nine-month reduction in time-to-market and savings of US$ 12 million in the first year.

Leveraging Service-Oriented Architecture for Competitive Advantage

QCSI, a leading provider of healthcare payor solutions, wanted to expand its technology leadership in the healthcare payor market by taking its core applications to the next-generation architecture. It required a product that was highly interoperable..., location-transparent and which could easily integrate with other applications. QCSI partnered with Infosys to migrate the existing application running on VB-based client server architecture to a service oriented architecture based on the Microsoft .NET framework. Infosys also contributed to the design of the new architecture to integrate it with leading healthcare applications.