Financial Business Intelligence Platform
ArtiosDev helped a data services company with a complete revamp of their flagship product for financial performance analysis and benchmarking. Our Customer is a data services company providing business owners, research professionals and advisers with a robust web tool to analyze financial performance and benchmark it against the industry average.
The company’s flagship product started going out of date. Seeking to preserve its positions in the market, the company was aiming to replace their legacy platform with a significantly enhanced and improved solution for financial business intelligence while preserving all the current functionality. Drawing on the results of our previous collaboration, the Customer engaged ArtiosDev for the project delivery.
Ad-hoc percentile finding algorithm tailored specifically to the Customer’s application.
What we did
Design, Development, Android
Solution
ArtiosDev team made several improvements touching on every aspect of the system, from the user interface and data presentation to functional capabilities and system performance. As for its functional structure, the Customer’s solution consists of two major parts: a client-facing website and an administration panel for administrators to monitor user activity and configure system settings. This financial business intelligence platform is accessible on a subscription basis and offers a number of convenient tools to evaluate companies’ business performance, compare individual companies against industry benchmarks or the market average and generate personalized reports and practical recommendations.
Development Process
Since there was no clarity regarding project requirements at the initial stage of development, the Customer opted for the Time & Materials engagement model, thus reserving the right to change project specifications and add new items in the course of development without losing control of the project budget. Comprising three .NET developers, a layout designer and a project manager, ArtiosDev’s project team covered the full range of the project needs, from requirements analysis and clarification through development and integration to testing and maintenance/support. Our team introduced a number of improvements touching on every aspect of the financial business intelligence system, from the user interface and data presentation to functional capabilities and system performance.
Technologies
The solution was built on ASP.NET MVC 5 framework that implements a model-view-controller pattern, with a special focus on rich user interface and data visualization implementation. The application’s data resides on a database server MS SQL Server 2012 which formed the system’s persistence layer along with Entity Framework Code First Migrations.
Rich User Interface
- Custom client indicator based on Raphaël.js
- Integration with Highcharts API
- Knockout.js library for transferring a portion of data conversion processes to the client side
Business Logic Layer
- Inversion of Control design pattern to ensure the system is extendable and scalable
- Flexible application log management is via NLog open-source logging platform
- Integration with Authorize.Net payment gateway to enable payment transactions processing right on the website
Database Layer
The application’s data resides on a database server MS SQL Server 2012 which formed the system’s persistence layer along with Entity Framework Code First Migrations.