An ODC to Build Portfolio Management System

Client overview
Founded in 1983, our client has been providing reliable, trusted solutions and investment strategies for investment management organizations in all sizes. To continue to be the leading provider of financial services software, our client looked forward to expanding her engineering capabilities while maintaining a relatively fixed cost basis by outsourcing various applications development to Beijing RayooTech Co., Ltd. (RayooTech). Therefore, the client established a dedicated development team with RayooTech in Beijing in year 2005.

Project Overview
The client is in the process of developing a new smart client application for the Geneva series of products that employs Microsoft's .NET 2.0 framework and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (MSRS). This smart client application will serve as the new user interface for the Geneva application, a real-time portfolio accounting system for global asset managers, complex hedge funds, fund administrators and prime brokers. One of the main projects of our client Geneva is a Unix based system utilizing an object oriented main memory resident database. There are approximately 200 reports that are shipped with the Geneva product today. These reports are written in Geneva's proprietary report language known as RSL. These reports will continue to be part of the product, at the same time, we will expand the existing reports set with the addition of MSRS reports.

RayooTech employees participate in the whole testing process, from test planning, test cases designing and test automation implementation to test execution. For test automation, we carry out an entire test framework for test case reuse, which follows Object Oriented methodology and is easy to maintain. Based on the test framework, about 70% of test cases have been automated, which largely reduces manual testing efforts.

Project Team
Concerning co-management, we have a department manager who is in charge of the project team in our company. Whilst on the client's side, there is a project manager, who is in charge of the whole project. This project consists of 6 teams for 3 different products. Each product has its own Development team and QA team.

Technologies
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