Foster Townsend Experience
FINANCIAL SERVICES - Emerging and Strategic Consulting
Challenge
A full-service regional brokerage and investment banking firm is experiencing tremendous growth and needed a custom application development solution which integrated the functionality within two disparate sales systems. The client, based in St. Louis, Missouri provides securities brokerage, investment banking, trading, investment advisory, and related financial services.
Solution
Foster Townsend worked with project stakeholders to define the skill matrix needed on this time sensitive project. Once the team roles were identified Foster Townsend pulled together the resources to start the project. The project need called for a combination of .NET architecture and design work, SQL Server design and performance tuning, and Rapid Application Development methods to quickly capture, develop, test and repeat this process to insure the successful delivery of the application.
Results
In the process of a competitor acquisition, our client utilized this application to integrate system functionality into one easy to use and reliable application. The delivery of this application was time sensitive and there was no room for vague requirements or missed deliver dates. The new application eases software maintenance and serves as a platform for ongoing enhancements and derivative applications.