Here are some sample case studies of our work.:
White Paper for IBM
TCO Calculator for RedHat
Insurance - Business Analysis and Architecture
Publishing - Architecture and Advisory Services
Healthcare - Strategy and Planning
Construction and Manufacturing - Application Development
White Paper for IBM
CIO whitepaper for IBM on Project Liberate: cost reduction strategy using alternate software license procurement.
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TCO Calculator for Redhat
TCO calculator for RedHat that provides a comprehensive view of cost savings on the desktop and servers by
moving to Linux and other alternatives.
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Insurance - Business Analysis and Architecture
A large insurance company based in California, and operating in 41
states across the country has multiple business lines - offer different types of life insurance
products, provide property & casualty insurance, act as attorneys-in-fact for reciprocals or
inter-insurance exchanges.
The insurance company was using a 3rd party product to manage their touch-points with various law firms,
clients, and branch legal offices (BLOs). As their needs began to evolve and as they discovered
opportunities for new business models it was clear that a custom platform will give them the best leverage.
A research and discovery process led to a new platform for Claim Litigation Management that improves
operational efficiencies for all the participants in the litigation business process. The efficiencies
are realized in the form of improved payment times and compliance to inter-party contracts. The new platform
is also operated as an ASP service. It is a content/document management system with business process
integration and rule-driven decision-making.
Ecognize provided the following services:
- Definition Product/Service Strategy
- Collect and analyze Business Requirements from several departments
- Establish Product roadmap based on features and delivery schedule
- Project Management activities including developing schedules, effort estimates,
and team management
- Knowledge transfer and advisory services to a dedicated offshore development team to deliver
the final solution
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Publishing - Architecture and Advisory Services
A large publishing company with presence in education, business information, and
consumer publishing needed to optimize their content and digital asset management
capabilities. The company has offices in over 60 countries and content is
required to be pervasive and seamlessly accessible across the various office
locations.
The company wanted to reassess their portfolio of content and digital asset management
(DAM) systems to ensure reuse and integration. Ecognize took responsibility for defining
the technology strategy and architecture for a new integrated DAM platform. Ecognize's
Lead Architect managed a team of 5 junior architects to define a high-performance
distributed architecture that is reliable, scalable, and flexible. Ecognize's
responsibilities included technology research, consensus building on ideas, project
planning, budgeting, project management, task allocation, and cost management.
The architecture provided a savings of $5 Million over 2 years. Key aspects of the
system included process-driven and cross-enterprise integration using Web
Services. The team continued to provide advisory services and oversight for the project
implementation.
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Healthcare - Strategy and Planning
The customer’s flagship product for Human Resources is currently offered as an ASP model with
different sourcing strategies in different markets. The current solution was based on legacy
technology (IBM mainframe, ISAM, millions of LOC in Cobol and Assembly language) that posed
major roadblocks for the customer in terms of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), long maintenance
cycle, lack of web presence, rapid response to customer needs, customer retention, and market
growth. However it caters to several hundreds of existing customers and processes six million
checks and close to 20 million invoices a year.
Ecognize teamed with an off-shore consulting partner to provide technology strategy.
An analysis of the current state, pain points, lost opportunities, and new business
objectives was performed. Ecognize's collateral that comprises of knowledge of the technology
marketplace, best practices, and in-depth technical frameworks were leveraged to
define a target state. Using proven maturity models a strategic roadmap was developed
to include phased execution approach, detailed project plans, cost estimates, risk management models,
and ongoing governance framework.
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Construction and Manufacturing - Application Development
eBricks Inc.: eBricks is an award-winning provider of web-based collaboration, project management,
document management, and business process management solutions for distributed and project-oriented
organizations. eBricks automates and streamlines business processes and communications within and
across enterprises, resulting in faster turnaround, increased accountability, reduced risk, and
cost savings. Founded in 1996, eBricks has been used successfully by hundreds of companies on
thousands of projects in more than 60 countries.
eBricks needed a solution that integrates their on-line bidding services and bill-of-materials
application with a product catalog system. We teamed up with the customer’s business and technology
team members to come up with a turnkey solution that integrates technologically disparate systems
running on Windows COM/ASP environment and Solaris J2EE/Java based environment. The solution was
delivered on time and within budget and exceeded the client’s expectations in terms of the
comprehensiveness of the knowledge transfer process to their team.
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