Case study - Application Re architecture (ODC)

©2014 Faichi Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Offshore Development Center (ODC)
setup up by Faichi Solutions
Project Type: Product Development &
Maintenance

©2014 Faichi Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 2
About Client’s Product
Domain: PLM, Client Location: California, USA
• Provides the solutions that enable you to collect, organize, and
manage product requirements, ideas, product strategies and
portfolios, and agile project execution information all in one place.
• Base requirements on quantifiable market data with full context as
to their rationale, tradeoffs, and strategic priority.
• Get products out faster by seamlessly connecting requirements
with all product planning and development activities.

Challenges with old System
• Old technology used in the existing product (XUL) was not supported by many
latest browsers and hence needed to be replaced.
• Old system had lot of performance issues. It was not multi-tenant.
• The architecture had became very complex and was hard to maintain.
• Support for concurrent users was very limited. Scalability was a major issue.
• Sync between Ideas product and Requirements Management product was a
nightmare with the old architecture.
• Migration on new infrastructure was difficult due to old technology stack.

Faichi’s Proposal
NewSolution
Re-architecture of the application based on:
- Latest version of Tomcat & Java JDK
- Spring MVC framework
- Auto-deployment using UrbanDeploy
Multi-tenant architecture – Multiple application
instances are supported by the same web server
and Database.
New Front Technologies
Created ExtJS framework to have reliable UI support
all kind of browsers.
Cross Platform Implementation
Created a Platform where 2 different systems with 2
different technologies can interact with each other .

Database
MemCache 1 MemCache 2
Tomcat Instance 1 Tomcat Instance 2 Tomcat Instance 4
Apache Apache Apache
Hardware Load Balancer
Tomcat Instance 3
Apache
Technology Flow
User User User

Technology Stack
Client’s
Product
Spring MVC
API
Integration
Java (Core
Java, JMS,
JDBC, JNDI)
Apache
Tomcat,
EXT JS,
XUL
White
Security
Testing
Eclipse,
Maven
Oracle DB,
My SQL,
Ruby on Rails
Logi
Reporting
engine
Team City for
Continuous
Integration
Selenium /
Soasta
/Jmeter/Test
complete

Ideas approved
Web Server
(Apache/Tomcat)
Ideas
DB
(My SQL)
DB
(My SQL)Reporting
Web Server
(Apache/Tomcat)
Web Services
Logi Reporting
Server
ETL (Extract, Transform & Load)
Requirements Management
DB
(Oracle)Transactions
Schema 1
For Client 1
Schema 2
For Client 2
Ideas ManagementPost Requirements
Check Requirements
Database Management

Oracle functionalities
Client’s
Product
Indexes
Views
ETL (Extract,
Transform,
and Load)
Import / Export
Multi-tenant
database
design
Data
migration
Upgrade to
Oracle 10gR2
Third party
integration
Functions /
Stored
Procedures

ODC Model – Cost Plus
Java Development
Enabling Success
Engagement Overview
Setup India development center with highly skilled resources to provide high quality, low risk
and high impact outsourced technical development
Quality Assurance Automation UI (JavaScript)
Database Engineering
and Management
Web Server Support
Development Engagement Portfolio
System Support Engagements
Application Server
Support
Linux Administrator
Support
Key Successes
• Assigned dedicated Product Owners for Agile / Scrum development. Leveraged best practices for rapid development and high
quality delivery. Average work experience of team was 10+ years, with flexibility for client to choose resources
• Reduced attrition and well defined career paths for all team members along with cost and skill transparency for client
• Mastered Agile and Scrum processes. Faichi team customized processes and systems to best suit client environment and
development needs, while maintain development budget constraints
• Delivered 60% improvement in time-to-value that enabled the client to deliver market defining product innovation solutions

Engagement overview
Database Support
• Ongoing maintenance (installation, backup, DBA, DBE activities) for multiple product lines.
• Dedicated team of Database Engineers and DBAs in India to handle development and
production support.
• Team used tools effectively to manage remote Databases.
• DBAs handled DB installation, configuration, performance tuning, backup/restoration.
Outcome
• Major Performance Improvement.
• Horizontal Scaling capabilities enhanced.
• Increased capabilities of integrating Ideas with Requirements Management.
• Ease of maintenance (Technical debugging / troubleshooting).

Faichi Difference
• Successful remote team coordination:
– Entire Architect, Dev & QA team in India
– Product Owner in US & India
– Weekly standup, sprint demo/planning calls.
• End-to-end ownership
– Team handled entire Architecture/Design, R&D, Implementation,
Production Rollout, Project Management.
• Agile Project Management
– Used Asana for managing Scrum effectively.

About Faichi Solutions
 We are a technology company in Pune, India specializing in outsourced
product engineering & setting up offshore development centers
 We hold expertise in technologies such as Drupal, Java, Mobile and UI/UX
development
 Established in 2009, with a vision to transform the outsourced product
engineering landscape through technical excellence and delivery model
innovation
 Faichi Solutions has successfully delivered some of the most complex
technology projects through partner collaboration & agile processes

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