CASE STUDY

About the customer

The customer is a NASDAQ listed company that helps end-customers drive profits, accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad suite of enterprise-class Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, time-to-value focused implementations, and a unique guaranteed business results program, customer helps companies get the most from their products.

Background

Customer’s PLM software is global software which is used to connect employees, departments, and partners to facilitate collaboration on product design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution. Data from customer relationship management (CRM), design, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can be integrated into the tools.

The customer had set up dedicated labs for handling end-customer specific customization and to incorporate cutting edge technologies into their core products. The PLM major was looking out for an engineering partner to assist in several such projects. With its well defined processes, technical expertise with emphasis on quality, Aztecsoft proved to be the ideal fit.

Aztecsoft Contribution

Aztecsoft initiated this project through a due-diligence phase which helped both companies to set the baseline understanding of the requirements. Aztecsoft followed a partnership approach in defining the integrated team structure and contractual models appropriate for customer.

Following are various projects that Aztecsoft had executed as a PS partner for this PLM provider:

End-customer - 1
Aztecsoft team undertook the following activities:

• Developed and customized portlets using WebSphere Portal Server
• Tested the portal application
• Provided production-support during the warrantee period

Apart from these, Aztecsoft team directly communicated with the customer to draw out requirements and replicate bugs found on the PMI environment. The business functionality was encapsulated behind customer SDK APIs. Many of these new functionalities have now been merged into the core-product.

End-customer - 2
Aztecsoft team undertook the following activities:

• Developed and tested the integration of Microsoft Project 2002/2003 with existing PLM product
• Provided a portal interface to launch/edit the current project in MS-Project
  and to publish the modified MS-Project to client’s PLM
• Developed a self-installing VB.Net plug-in to publish data from MS-Project to client’s PLM

End-customer - 3
Aztecsoft team undertook the following activities:

• Developed Reports and ETL tasks using Cognos ReportNet and DT Studio
• Tested the reports and running tasks in different environments
  like Dev, QA and then moved packages to Production