Cases
Made in Houston
People at Houston have decades of experience in supplying IT projects- including a large number of projects for ICT organizations in the finance and insurance sectors. Our main service has been to offer our experts as architects, projects managers and executors to boost the client’s own development organization. Here are a few examples of our doings:
Application- and decision processing system (2005-)
Houston has been carrying out a sales renewal project for a remarkable company in the field of finance. In the project, processes are developed to allow sales of security-free loans and for secure loans ranging from the smallest personal loans to housing loans. Houston participates by leading, defining, executing and monitoring results. The project is carried out in phases. The first phase is in production and the second phase is being implemented with an applied method of agile application development. The upcoming phases are still on the design table. Each phase of the application is a multichannel J2EE design that works inside and outside an office’s network and as a telephone service.
Finance and Private Banking System (2004-2005)
This finance and private banking system - made for a large consolidated company in the field of finance but adaptable for other companies - was actualized by J2EE technology. Houston’s main responsibility was to implement the project and then carry it out. The buying and selling system for the customer’s stock funds and the browsing system for financial products were implemented in the project.
Internet-based web invoice system for private customers (2005)
We participated in executing an Internet-based web invoice system with J2EE techniques for a large functionary in the field of finance. The system makes it possible to receive, watch and pay web invoices of Finvoice format in www-browser environment. Professionals of Houston were strongly involved in technical planning and implementation.
Definition of support process of application development (2005-06)
This project focused on creating symmetry in the application and support processes of java development for a Finnish bank’s ICT organization. The version management, configuration management, transfer procedures of environments and packaging were gathered, analyzed and clarified. The project produced a comprehensive guideline for the support and usage of equipment involving application development and for the support of conducting the application development process itself. Houston led the project and supplied several experts who filled key roles.
Integration project of insurance companies’ information systems (2005-06)
In one of Finland’s biggest ever ICT projects the information systems of two large life insurance companies were combined together. Houston supplied an expert to do a SWOT analysis on different package solutions. Analysis started with determining the functionality of the previous insurance system that had also been developed by Houston.