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Presenting equity research and industry analysis faster, at lower cost |
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| The Client |
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Leading India based global credit rating agency, financial research and advisory company with operations in India, US, UK and the Caribbean. |
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| The Problem |
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| Client wanted to replace their existing front end client-server presentation system for equity research products, with a web based, freely distributable and secured system with capability to automatically update itself with latest research reports, on daily basis for achieving better responsiveness to customers’ information requirements. |
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| The Solution
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| Harrier helped develop a Web-based solution with encrypted data; open source, freely distributable components and secured, over-the-Web automatic update capability that enabled the client achieve better customer satisfaction by providing analysis of market and industry events in a more presentable manner, faster and at lower cost. |
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Solution Architecture: |
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| Challenges & Solutions |
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Local installation at the client location
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The whole site is distribute to each client with data and content specific to the services subscribed by the client
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Online updates
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The front end system at client end automatically updates itself with the latest released content for the services subscribed by the client by opening a connection to the server running at Crisil, download the content using HTTP protocol to avoid firewall issues.
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Full text search
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Used readymade, open source component called Lucene for implementing full text search in the system
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Encryption of content and data
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Encrypted the content using classes from Java Crypto package
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Freely distributable database management system in order to save licensing cost per client
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Used free and open source PostgreSQL as RDBMS, that follows BSD license
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| Technology Environment |
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| PostgreSQL, Java 1.4.2, Jakarta Tomcat 5.0, JSP, Servlet |
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| Team Size : 4 |
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| Duration : 6 months |
