Globenet Technologies Profile:
Globenet Technologies is a leading software vendor providing robust compensation management and Enterprise Incentive Management Systems (EIM). Globenet was founded in 1993 and over the years has serviced customers in the Direct Selling Industry and its software has been used to run the compensation for hundreds of thousands to millions of representatives. Over the years the product has evolved to meet the needs of enterprises in the financial and insurance verticals. Their prestigious client base includes the likes of State Farm, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company
Country/Region:
United States of America
Industries:
IT Professional Services
Business Challenges:
Globenet had been awarded a multi-million dollar contract which involved the porting of its entire client server application built on VB and ASP to the .NET framework. The legacy application had over a million lines of code.
In addition to creating a baseline version of the application a customized version which incorporated the various business and processing rules for the new client had to be built. The timing of the delivery was critical as the application would be used to run the compensation of the entire agency as a result there were significant penalty clauses for delays.
- Globenet had resources distributed in various locations ‘ California, Detroit, Phoenix and Mexico City.
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Globenet had to increase its technical and support resource pool in a short duration of time and more importantly for a short duration of time.
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Deal with the shortage of development talent who was well versed on both the newer and older technologies
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It had to mature and improve its Software Development Processes to be able to deal with the magnitude of the project and multiple versions of the code base