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RippleImpact serves all types of Custom application development --from retail, investment and commercial banks to investment management firms.

Read some of our case studies:

Case Study 1:

Client:
The client is a start-up company manufacturing an internet appliance for home use. The company's existing architecture consisted of the actual appliance hardware and software, a web-based management and control front-end for the appliance and a back-end network filesystem maintaining all of the digital resources.
Challenge:
The client was looking to greatly expand distribution both in terms of number of users and the number of markets as an OEM implemented in several languages. The current web-based system was not scalable in either of these areas.
Solution:
We recommended a 3-tier approach to the management front-end for horizontal scalability and a better separation of business rules from user interface for language independence.
Benefits:

• With the use of an application server middle-tier the web-based facility was scaled to several low-priced servers and increased both the reliability of the system and the number of simultaneous users that could be served.
  
• With the use of Model-View-Controller design principles the interface was quickly and easily ported to other languages.
  
• The entire front-end was rebuilt without any significant changes to either the appliance or the back-end database and filesystem.
  

Case Study 2:

Client:
The client is a network solutions provider, specializing in Asian markets.
Challenge:
To create a web publishing application server that enabled rapid development and deployment of dynamic web sites in asian languages.
Solution:
We developed the application server using VisualWorks, a fully object-oriented system. VisualWorks had also specifically targeted support for East Asian Languages, as well as generic Unicode. An object layer was implemented above an internal relational database. We chose Scheme, an IEEE standard language as our applications extension language to allow rapid development of the web sites. We implemented Scheme with the necessary primitive to support web development, and augmented this with a suite of visual tools to maintain the database and web resources.
Results:
The resultant system was so easy to use, that experience developers could code fairly complex sites in a under a week. Beginners who spoke no English were able to pick up the system rapidly, and were impresed by the ability to be able to code in their native language.

Case Study 3:

Client:
The client is one of the top investment banks in the world
Challenge:
Different applications have different views of the bank's business, and these views are not all compatible. Multiple views of the business are required in order to make correct decisions. There are Chinese walls across the business, and people in different departments, though they make look at the same client, must see different information sets. It takes a long time to create applications.
Solution:
Developed a browsable object model that served as the enterprise application platform for the bank. The object model allowed business people to see all of the principle objects of interest in the bank's business, and drill down to see the individual customers interacting with those objects within the appropriate applications. Created a rules engine that allowed decisions to be made about an investment based on information garnered from many different applications, even where not all the information was visible to all users. The object model had security set up at an object level for users, so that users with different privileges could automatically see different views of the data in the same applications, without changing the applications.
Benefits:
The browsable object model let employees of the bank to get a better understanding of the bigger picture of the bank's business and make better investment decisions, improving the performance of the bank's investments, while maintaining security and non-disclosure of information across the Chinese walls.

Case Study 4:

Client:
The client is a large insurance company, a major reinsurer and provider of umbrella and additional riders.
Challenge:
Because insurance policies must conform to different rules and terms in every state and national jurisdiction where they are offered, creating the software to support even a single new policy was a very long and buggy task.
Solution:
Instead of checking the region on the fly as you edited the policy, made the region, and any other variable that could change the terms, creation variables that caused the policy to be created from the beginning knowing the terms associated with its region.
Benefits:
Took the process of creating a new policy from a 1 man year task to a 2 man month task, with the time to pass qa review going from 3 months to 1 month.

Client:
The clients are in the insurance sectors. Companies who deal with health and dental insurances, as well as brokers and individuals.
Challenge:
All operations like the communications between the brokers and the insurance agents and the clients involves a lot of paper works and a lot of communications and also the confusion in calculation of the rates depending on the geographical locations and other factors.
Solution:
The client is a leading provider of Internet based, business-to-business solutions that enable e-commerce in the approximately $2.8 trillion global insurance industry. The client's software applications and professional services offerings are designed to meet the evolving needs of carriers, distributors and buyers of insurance. It's technologies leverage the power of the Internet to streamline and automate the insurance distribution process to facilitate end-to-end transaction processing.
Benefits:

• Real-time Internet-based quotes and proposals
  
• Plan filtering and sorting capabilities
  
• Persistent, retrievable group quoting information
  
• Census import functionality
  
• Health Plan tools for real time access control and reporting
  
• Carrier resources including collaterals and forms
  
• Professional branded proposals, that can be personalized by the broker/agent and accessed in PDF or HTML formats

Case Study 6:

Client:
The client is a start-up company manufacturing an internet appliance for home use. The company's existing architecture consisted of the actual appliance hardware and software, a web-based management and control front-end for the appliance and a back-end network filesystem maintaining all of the digital resources.
Challenge:
The client was looking to greatly expand distribution both in terms of number of users and the number of markets as an OEM implemented in several languages. The current web-based system was not scalable in either of these areas.
Solution:
We recommended a 3-tier approach to the management front-end for horizontal scalability and a better separation of business rules from user interface for language independence.
Benefits:

• With the use of an application server middle-tier the web-based facility was scaled to several low-priced servers and increased both the reliability of the system and the number of simultaneous users that could be served.
  
• With the use of Model-View-Controller design principles the interface was quickly and easily ported to other languages.
  
• The entire front-end was rebuilt without any significant changes to either the appliance or the back-end database and filesystem.

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