The Customer
A leading Housing finance company. Who is in the business of providing long term housing finance to Client for the purpose of enabling borrower to construct / purchase house for residential purpose. The eligibility of loan is on such terms and condition, as the company may deem fit. For the same objective the company had developed In-house Housing System for multi user environment on Clipper & Novell Platform to accomplish high data volume and generate MIS, Statutory Reports for FAS & NHB Reports as per management requirements in 1997.
The Solution
The Clipper based Housing Loan system was not working satisfactorily and it had its own limitations so Gateway suggested that the system it to be migrated to visual basic as a front-end tool and Oracle 7.3 as backend on Unix Platform for Corporate office and for Branch offices, Microsoft Access 2000 has to be used as the backend. This would fulfill the objective of on-line information, customer care and back office data processing like forecast cash flows, Recovery, Asset management and Bank Transactions & Reconciliation which were limitations in the earlier clipper based system.
Methodology:
The first phase-included identification of the different modules, the corresponding applications-database build, business requirement document, software requirement specification and release notes documents. Once the setup was completed, an analyst was assigned to each application to identify the differences in the applications running at different locations in order to create a gap analysis document. This would also help in deciding on the functionalities that would be necessary for building a centralized application.
The migration process followed the below listed phases:
Phase I - Assessment |
