Case study

Corporate Overview

The company overview deck the site has offered as a download, on the page. It covers what Hire Programmers does, the platforms it works across, how engagements are structured, and two client case summaries.

Established
2007
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About us

  • Hire Programmers was established in 2007, to meet the need for high quality and cost-effective IT and analytical support services, for a comprehensive array of institutional and individual clients around the globe.
  • Our solution portfolio covers financial data consulting, business intelligence, data warehouse, visualization and analytics, applications development, maintenance and support, infrastructure management services, and QA and testing services.
  • These solutions have enabled our clients to dedicate their resources towards process automation and generating actionable business insights, while significantly reducing their operating costs.
  • Incubated by first generation IT professionals, we pride ourselves on having the brightest and most talented individuals with deep domain knowledge.

Our solutions

Our offering combines automation and analytics support designed to enable our clients to make confident business decisions, across five areas:

  • IT consulting β€” financial data consulting, business process management, dedicated client support teams, managed IT services, cloud strategy and design, performance tuning, and business continuity planning.
  • Data and analytics β€” big data, data mining, business intelligence, data visualization, database management and database optimization.
  • Application development β€” enterprise, web and mobile application development, legacy modernization, office automation, and application development and support.
  • Infrastructure management services.
  • Products β€” Financial Scanner, iAnalyst, Campsys and Medroid.

Key differentiators

The deck groups the reasons to work with Hire Programmers under comprehensive solutions, domain expertise, quality and speed, scalability, infrastructure and cost:

  • Competitive pricing and multiple engagement models.
  • Strict adherence to timelines.
  • High quality professionals with domain-specific knowledge, and periodic evaluation and training.
  • A broad array of functional capabilities and multiple platform experience.
  • Bench availability for sporadic needs.
  • A secure environment, detailed documentation of the project life cycle, multiple levels of quality testing, and a service level agreement.

Clients

Our domain expertise has helped many national and international clients across a wide range of industries in enabling process automation and data and infrastructure management. The deck describes them by sector rather than by name:

  • Financial services β€” a Fortune 1000 investment management fund, one of the world's respected equity research firms, and a leading wealth advisory firm.
  • IT analytics β€” one of the leading analytics firms in North America, and a German emerging firm specialising in online survey and analytic services.
  • Manufacturing β€” one of the respected manufacturing units in the US.
  • Biotechnology β€” a biotech startup focusing on niche product development.
  • E-commerce β€” an emerging online e-commerce platform provider, and an e-commerce analytics and market research company.
  • Education β€” a leading online education and training institute, and one of the top online learning and multimedia tools providers.

Engagement models

Engagements are structured to meet the distinct needs of a client's business requirements while gaining significant cost savings, under three models: fixed cost, dedicated team, and time and materials. A program manager sits across the client team and the delivery team, which is staffed with a project manager, technical lead, functional leads, subject matter experts and team members.

Case summary: infrastructure management service

The client is a preeminent supplier of a financial product which processes and benchmarks data for various financial partners, including CFOs, in primary and secondary markets worldwide.

Business need: the client wanted to take its proprietary financial product to market and was looking for a partner who could participate in the product, system and software development life cycle at a low cost, along with sustaining support on the existing product and platform.

  • Solution: deployed a team for requirements gathering and proposed an IS plan for ramping up infrastructure, along with the offshore development roadmap for the product.
  • Solution: created a lightweight graphical tool which provides faster on-screen rendering.
  • Solution: suggested an agile approach and created a self-managed team of business analysts, power developers and SQL administration to support the product.
  • Benefit: speedy and efficient product development and server management at the lowest possible costs.
  • Benefit: alignment of business decisions with IT developments.
  • Benefit: strategic focus on business development by offloading support services.

Case summary: application development for an equity research firm

The client is a large finance and equity research firm in the USA. The business needed online screening using a combination of more than 50 data filters, a multi-screen dashboard showing the trend of movement of several KPIs using interactive charts and tables, a highly interactive forecasting and valuation model, comparative analysis and KPI aggregates, and seamless integration with Microsoft Excel.

  • Solution: business intelligence and data warehouse implementation.
  • Solution: a lightweight graphical tool which provides faster on-screen rendering.
  • Solution: the flexibility to show, hide and zoom various series, giving users complete control over the data they visualize.
  • Solution: a simple JavaScript-based solution with the flexibility to extend beyond its standard features.

Technology

Microsoft

  • .NET 4.0, 3.5 and 3.0 (MVC, EF, LINQ, Silverlight, WPF, WCF, WF, AJAX, WIF)
  • ASP.NET 2.0, CSLA, PRISM
  • SharePoint Portal Server 2003/2007
  • Commerce Server 2007/2002, BizTalk Server 2006
  • SQL Server 2008/2005 with SSIS, SSRS, SSAS
  • Project Server 2003, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Tools for Office
  • C++ with MFC and ATL, Visual Basic, ASP
  • Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2

Java

  • J2EE (EJB 3.0, RMI, JMS, JTS, JTA), JDK 1.3 to 1.6
  • Web services, Apache Axis, JAX-WS 2.0, SOA
  • Oracle BPEL Manager, JBoss jBPM, WebLogic workflows, VisiBroker
  • WebLogic, Tomcat, Oracle App Server, WebSphere, JRun
  • Security services (JAAS, JSSE, Acegi)
  • Test tools (JUnit, JMeter, JMock, Cactus) and build tools (Ant, Maven)
  • MVC (Struts, Spring, Turbine) and persistence (Hibernate, TopLink, JDO, Persistence API)

LAMP

  • PHP 4.2 / 5.0 / GTK, Apache 1.3 / 2.0
  • MySQL 4.0 / 5.2, Postgres 8.0
  • CodeIgniter, Zend, CakePHP, Drupal, Joomla, Django
  • Perl 5.8.7, mod_perl 1.0 / 2.0, Python, Ruby

Unix

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Linux, AIX 5.2 and 5.3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris 9 and 10, FreeBSD, Debian, Mandrake
  • Databases (Postgres, Berkeley DB, DB2)
  • Frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Zope, Plone) and package management (RPM, DPKG)
  • Tools (KDevelop, CodeWarrior, Sun Workshop C++ compiler), Emacs, Rational Purify, Insure++, Electric Fence, make

Mobile

  • iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, iOS, Objective-C, Xcode
  • Android-based devices, Java, Eclipse
  • Windows Mobile, C, C++, Visual Studio 2010

Business benefits β€” equity research firm

  • Highly flexible and powerful screener.
  • Reduction in the load window by nearly 80%.
  • Improved decision making process by 77%.
  • Better ad-hoc data analysis by 43%.
  • Self-service capabilities to end users increased by 36%.
  • Shorter release cycles.

What clients said

“Hire Programmers has always performed beyond our expectations and kept the downtime to the lowest. The team has always been highly dependable.”

Director, Product Development of a major financial services company

“Hire Programmers' personnel are highly qualified. From executives to designer, each has been extremely helpful throughout the entire process.”

CTO of an investment management company

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