EVRY: Information HUB

Client Background

EVRY is the largest IT company in Norway and the second largest IT services company in the Nordic region. With 10,000 employees, EVRY delivers daily IT services from 21 Norwegian and 50 Nordic towns and cities for more than 14,000 public and private sector customers. EVRY is the product of the largest-ever Nordic IT merger of EDB and ErgoGroup.

• EDB Financial Services unit as a customer (now EVRY Financial Services)
• The iHub solution covers the complete master data management area for financial service providers – including data about customers, roles, segments, organizations, products, pricing, and agreements.
• Onshore team of 15 people

Business Challenge

• Resources with mainframe / Cobol knowledge are scarce at the customer’s site
• The team had to increase its delivery capacity

Solution

Key steps taken by Infopulse:

• Built the team of 8 software developers and 3 QA engineers
• Assembled a trainee group and conducted a series of training sessions on databases and mainframe technologies

Results

Key achievements:

• 2 years of successful deliveries
• The trainee group turned into a fully-functional Cobol software development team in 6 months.
• Participation in the product maintenance
• 80% of the development done by Infopulse
• Very low defect rate, performance as expected

Business value:

• Reduction of risks related to resource unavailability
• New opportunities due to young promising resources

Project Facts

Technologies:

• Mainframe Express
• DB2
• MKS
• Integrity Client
• z/OS
• COBOL
• СICS

Customer Quote

This weekend the iHUB Product application together with the remaining parts of the iHUB Organization have been set into production. I would like to summarize the status at this moment for production setting of iHUB Product and Organization with these words: So far, SO GOOD! You have done a GREAT JOB. — Roar Eriksen, EDB ErgoGroup Project Manager.