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Retail Major Transforms Enterprise Architecture to Enable Better IT Governance

Tesco, a UK-based international grocery and general merchandizing retail chain, transformed its Enterprise Architecture organization to enable better IT governance and create a shared vision of... architecture.

Tesco's architecture group, though technically competent, was unable to articulate value to its stakeholders. The company also faced challenges such as lack of a shared vision of architecture, short-term architecture delivery at the cost of long-term planning, and lack of formal communication of standards.

Tesco partnered with Infosys to propose a new operating model for the Enterprise Architecture team. This resulted in a clear demonstration of the value of Enterprise Architecture and consistent and repeatable processes for defining solution architecturesamong other benefits.

Fleet Management Organization Defines an Architecture Roadmap for its IT Landscape

Using the Architecture Governance framework, Infosys defined an architecture blueprint to rationalize and re-architect the IT landscape of a leading European fleet management firm...

Death Care Services Firm Rationalizes Enterprise IT Expenditure

Infosys partnered with a global leader in death care services to assess its IT landscape, recommend strategies to rationalize expenditure, develop the associated business cases and implement a proof of concept (POC) to demonstrate...

Utilities Major Defines Enterprise Architecture for Web-Based Development

Infosys partnered with a US-based utilities major to establish best practices and enterprise-wide application architecture standards for web-based development. However, it faced the challenges of...

Performance Engineering and Enhancement

Aetna Optimizes Performance and Scalability of its Web Application

Aetna, a leading healthcare benefits provider, sought to optimize performance and address scalability issues of its WorkAbility® application. The company partnered with Infosys to discover performance bottlenecks with... an aim to optimize response time and reduce infrastructure costs. By adopting Infosys' DdIR (Discover, define, Isolate & Resolve) framework for post-production performance engineering, Aetna was able to improve the response time on an average by 21% while improving scalability to accommodate immediate growth in business.

Nomura Securities Uses Grid Computing to Engineer Superior Business Performance and Scalability

Nomura Securities partnered with Infosys to address performance and scalability issues in its Interest Rate Risk Analysis application. Infosys migrated the existing application to a grid environment by applying high-performance... computing solutions and using technologies such as C/C++, SUSE Linux and Infosys' Grid Application Migration Framework. Infosys' solution enhanced the application's performance by 150 times.

LTCP Adopts Performance-Driven Development Approach to Facilitate Business Growth

Long Term Care Partners (LTCP) adopted Infosys' Performance-Driven Development approach to enable federal employees in the United States to register and enroll for insurance services efficiently. The methodology enhanced LTCP's capacity... to handle concurrent users by 1,900% and achieved a 40% reduction in the batch window. The re-architected application empowered LTCP to manage a higher volume of enrollments.

Adopting Performance-driven Development to build an eXtreme Transaction Processing (XTP) Platform

An Information Service firm partnered with Infosys to build an almost real-time market information storage and analytics platform to devise trading strategies. The platform had to support 4,000 concurrent users, five GB of input... data, six million transactions per minute and an information retrieval latency of less than two seconds.

Our performance-driven development approach, combined with robust grid technology, helped the client's platform exceed the stringent performance targets.

Axis Bank Improves Scalability of its Universal Banking Platform

Using Finacle, the banking solution from Infosys, Axis Bank undertook a rigorous exercise to broaden its portfolio of services in India. With the increase in demand for the bank's services, transaction volumes and customer accounts, it needed a technology partnership that... would seamlessly scale up existing IT systems and help achieve business outcomes. Infosys partnered with Axis Bank to seamlessly scale up the core banking solution.

Insurance Organization Tunes the Performance of its Web-Based Application

A leading insurance organization used Infosys' QNM-based System Execution Model to overcome problems in its AQC application. Infosys' systematic approach provided several opportunities for optimization of the application.