Iris Software will participate in the exclusive, attendance-capped, annual Leadership Summit hosted by the NC Tech Association, along with its board of directors and advisors, on August 7 & 8, 2024. Our representative, Senior Client Partner, Michel Abranches, will be among the executives gathering for the Summit, at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, NC, to network and discuss a variety of topics relevant to tech leaders and the projects and associates they manage.
The theme of this year’s summit is Adaptive Leadership. The event includes keynote addresses, executive workshops, and two panel discussions on ‘Why digital transformation is more about people than technology’ and ‘Building resilient tech teams: the power of emotional intelligence.’
As a technology provider to Fortune 500 and other leading global enterprises for more than 30 years, Iris is a trusted choice for leaders who want to realize the full potential of digital transformation. We deliver complex, mission-critical software engineering, application development, and advanced tech solutions that enhance business competitiveness and achieve key outcomes. Our agile, collaborative, right-sized teams and high-trust, high-performance, award-winning culture ensure clients enjoy top value and experience.
Contact Michel Abranches, based in our Charlotte, NC office, or visit www.irissoftware.com for details and success stories about our innovative approach and how we are leveraging the latest in AI / Gen AI / ML, Automation, Cloud, DevOps, Data Science, Enterprise Analytics, Integrations, and Quality Engineering.
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Get in touchCloud-native app opens new markets
Client
The world’s leading provider of trading services for fixed income products
Goal
Create an IT architecture to support growth across markets and products
Tools and technologies
AWS Cloud, Java, Springboot, React JS, React, Redis, Kafka, C#, Ranorex and Test Rails
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
The client, a market leader in bonds trading, was expanding to new markets, acquiring new businesses, introducing new products and adding features to existing offerings. To support its growth plans, it needed an agile, modern, cloud-based platform.
Some of the business needs the client wanted to address with the new solution were:
- How do we achieve scale with minimal latency in operations and service?
- How do we integrate new businesses seamlessly and without disruption?
- How do we roll out new features faster to improve customer experience and get a competitive edge?
- How can we use data to help customers make better trading decisions?
- How can we monetize the data?
As a solution partner, we had to not only create a new IT architecture for the client’s trading platform but also constantly re-engineer and improve the architecture to quickly meet emerging business needs.
SOLUTION
We deployed a scalable, highly available auctions solution on the AWS cloud using Java, Springboot, React JS, React, Redis, and Kafka.
Optimized algorithms now achieve best matching with minimal latency while offering full price transparency. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) provide greater insight and real-time price discovery for specific asset classes.The new cloud-based architecture enabled the client to create products and monetize market data. Those products helped customers get accurate data in real-time to take better and faster trading decisions.
Test automation across the trade lifecycle using a combination of C#, Ranorex, Test Rails helped the client update user interfaces (UI) without reducing performance. It also eased integration linkages between the acquired solution’s frontend and the client’s existing backend.
OUTCOMES
The introduction of Agile methodology and the cloud-native application has helped the client significantly speed up time-to-market for new releases – it is now able to make releases several times a year.
The new IT architecture now allows the client to offer trading in Muni bonds (an acquired product) and U.S. treasuries (a new service). The solution also enables the client to support Chinese markets.
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Get in touchStriking the right balance of care
Client
A leading provider of work-life services to caregivers.
Goal
Enable caregivers to easily set up and manage care schedules.
Tools and technologies
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, JQuery, Atlassian User Interface (AUI), AngularJS and Liferay DXP7.2
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Many young and middle-aged workers combine both work and caregiving responsibilities that cover not only children but extend to parents and pets. Research shows that employees who achieve greater work-family balance are more satisfied in their jobs and happier with their families.
For our client, a leading provider of work-life services, the key to enabling that balance is the setting up of care schedules for dependent or vulnerable family members. The client’s existing solution for managing such schedules, however, was not user-friendly, flexible, or mobile-responsive.
The client's websites offered no provision to schedule premium services for care.
The websites were served by a Liferay V6.2 content management system (CMS) as the common backend for which support ended in December 2020.
SOLUTION
We designed and developed a web platform for scheduling care for family members including parents, children, self and pets, with e-mail notifications and quick access to customer care. We migrated the websites to Liferay DXP7.2 CMS backend.
To improve the performance of the web application, we developed website forms as AngularJS-based single-page applications. We developed a responsive website that worked flawlessly across different-sized screens on desktops, tablets and mobile phones.
We used Agile methodologies right from the requirements-gathering phase until the final deployment of the web platform to shorten development time.
To save cost and time, we used an almost identical codebase for both iOS and Android platforms (except for a few configuration settings and device specific features).
Furthermore, our team performed continuous integration using automated build tools, and script and code repositories, to save time during the development, testing and deployment phases.
We ensured that the sites we built followed the WCAG 2.0 and OWASP accessibility and security standards.
OUTCOMES
- The web platform we developed ensured the client’s care scheduling interface was user-friendly, flexible and mobile-responsive.
- Customers could easily create, change and cancel schedules. They also had easy access to records and historical data.
- The common codebase across iOS and Android ensured significant cost savings in the development and maintenance of the application.
- Agile methodologies and a high degree of automation reduced costs and shortened the development time.
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