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Profile
Client is one of the world's largest energy & utility companies with a group turnover of £ 13.4 billion. It serves to more than 20 million customers in North America, UK and continental Europe and owns nine highly successful consumer brands spread across its five LOB’s.
It is present across the value chain: energy (gas and electricity) generation, gas and electricity supply (both residential and commercial), home services (gas appliance installation and maintenance) and energy storage
It is largest domestic central heating and gas appliance installation company in the UK today.
 
Situation
  • Client had 2300 small and large applications built on disparate platforms ( MS Access97/Lotus Domino/Client Server) which needed to be migrated to Windows XP platform
  • The existing database could not meet the rapidly growing demands of storage, added security, and enhanced performance

The Key Drivers
  • Paradigm shift from product centric view to a customer centric view
  • Emphasis on standardizations to meet the rapid growth in businesses across LOB’s
  • Scalability from the perspective of expansion and M&A
 
Cognizant’s Solution
  • Created a comprehensive solution blueprint in line with client’s process model
  • Cognizant proposed to execute the migration of the 1800 MS Access applications with specifically defined activities and deliverables
  • Cognizant proposes a tool based solution on .NET platform to port the existing front end of MS Access 97.This porting is being executed in steps to mitigate the risks.
 
Benefits
  • Effective testing of applications by business users facilitated by the phased delivery approach
  • Prioritization of applications to avail the high priority applications earlier than the low priority applications.
  • Cross training of client’s team, to develop subject matter experts and to reduce dependency
  • Reduced risks due to early risk identification in the initial phases and robust project planning to mitigate them.
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"We continue to deepen our relationship with Cognizant because they are team-oriented, highly responsive, provide flexibility and scalability to quickly ramp up large project teams, and have multiple competencies."
Tim Brennan,
IT Director, US Cold Storage
 


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