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Do you have complex legacy systems with extensive database components? Do you need to map out what you have in order to move forward efficiently?

This kind of analysis is time consuming and error prone if attempted manually. We have a fast and efficient automated solution that will save you time and money during this type of project.

Some of the issues your Business Analysis Team will face are:

• Legacy System with 000’s of Tables, Views, Stored Procedures and Functions
• Complex interdependencies between them
• No documentation and no original developers
• No-one knows what is being used and what isn’t
• Fragile environment as small changes in one place can have large impacts elsewhere

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Build Process

Coding standards are a very important aspect of software development. Coding standards is not just about naming standards, but also includes using a standard pre tested and robust set of common core libraries, where appropriate using simple tested and tried design patterns, and quality control, to ensure standards are enforced.

Some of the main benefits of using set of coding standards, is to improve the quality of software delivered and uniformity of code which assist with maintainability. It is often said that if you cannot tell who has written code in an applications code base then that is a good start. Defining standards early, appropriate to the specific project and software and tools used, is important to help reduce the amount of refactoring that will need to be done later in the project at a greater cost.

There are many pre-defined examples of coding standards, which can be used as a starting point for your own standards, applicable to your own specific project. Tools can assist in implementing standards, such as Resharper and to enforce these standards, such as FXCop.

Enterpise ETL

Buildmasters have been involved with moving data from A to B for a number of years and have seen all manner of ETL architectures and designs. One thing we have learnt is that no implementation is ever the same, however there are a series of common principles that should be applied in any ETL project in order to guarantee success and avoid delivering something into production that is a monster to support. Read more »

Eagle PACE

The Buildmasters development Team has two years of Eagle PACE development experience having built the Operational Data Store (ODS) components of a massive front and middle office change program at one of Autralia’s biggest funds management companies. We have applied our Continuous Integration and SCRUM development methodology to great effect, delivering an incredibly robust solution, which includes over 1000 unit tests and a build/deploy environment that compiles, tests and deploys our solution on average 10 times a day.

This implementation of Eagle PACE involved over 80 data interfaces between the ODS, the internal trading, performance and rec systems, external data providers (Charles River, Bloomberg, Factset, S&P) and our outsources back-office service providers (one in Sydney and one in Shanghai).

We have refined the development of Eagle PACE uploader and exporter components to reduce lines-of-code and provide a robust suite of unit tests to ensure effective QA. We have also built a comprehensive ETL framework, allowing us to build generic re-useable interfaces to Eagle PACE.

Though the project has been a considerable challenge due to complex requirements and dependencies, the resulting system is now running in production 24/7 processing market data, portfolio positions and transactions and security details for an increasing volume of investment portfolios.