Company Profile
Hanu Software Solutions Inc. (HSS) is a global IT consulting and services company that provides end-to-end software solutions for various industries, including publishing, finance, insurance, and retail. Headquartered in Monmouth Junction, NJ, and with an offshore development center in Gurgaon, New Delhi, India, HSS offers a unique value proposition to our clients. The company believes in providing the highest quality software solutions at a very cost effective price.
HSS offers a wide range of services including business process outsourcing, on-site technical consulting, offshore software development, and product lifecycle management. By combining domain expertise with low-cost offshore development, HSS’s offshore delivery model offers solutions to clients at cost savings of up to 45%, with improved productivity and uptime. faster to market.
Background
HSS’s technology-focused solution center delivers exceptional customer value through the use of innovative and specialized tools and processes that are unique in nature. This white paper illustrates how Faster.NET, a development framework developed by the HSS .NET Center of Excellence (COE), enables the enterprise’s technology-aligned services organization to deliver exceptional value to its technology and business customers, strengthening your competitive advantage.
The .NET COE: Delivering Agile Solutions on a Microsoft Platform
The HSS COE for .NET aligns with the Microsoft platform and toolsets and provides business-critical solutions to a variety of business and technology domains. This COE has a collective IT experience of 200 person-years and .NET experience of more than 75 person-years. Other key data are:
Staff 45
started 2002
Number of projects executed 30
Rental Gurgaon, India
Faster.NET: The HSS Development Framework for .NET Solutions
The continuous improvement work that HSS has done with the .NET COE has led the company to create a framework for delivering scalable, on-demand .NET solutions to customers in a variety of industries. HSS calls this Faster.NET. Its key elements are:
Pre-assembled and reusable software components
HSS has developed a library of more than 100 software components that are commonly used in .NET applications. These components are tried and tested with proven designs and free of critical bugs. Components can be reused as is or with modifications. Reusable components include data layers written in all .NET-based languages, a variety of GUI controls, and security model objects.
In the design phase of a new project, HSS engineers determine which components are suitable for the project. Only the application’s unique code is designed and written from scratch. Building high-quality existing software in this way into a new application saves the customer time and money, and helps ensure quality in the deployed application. HSS does not believe in developing a new solution from scratch for every new project.
A set of reusable engineering tools for greater speed
The HSS development toolset is an important element of the company’s ability to deliver solutions for many different lifecycles, budgets, and timelines. HSS Tool Set Includes:
· Migration tools like VB to VB.NET, C# to VB.NET, PHP to C#. NET, SQL to Oracle tools and others.
Database tools like SQL compare and data scriptors.
Design tools, reverse engineering tools, data migration tools, and many others.
The unique set of reusable tools allows HSS engineers to complete projects quickly and with good quality.
Solution Blue Prints (SBP): A reusable set of architectures
HSS has a reusable set of architectures called Solution Blue Prints (SBPs), ready for common business domain, technology domain, and service domain problems. Like the HSS software components, these architectures have been tried and tested in the company’s projects. The architectures include associated prototypes. Using SBP saves considerable effort in developing, prototyping, and testing software solutions. For example, an SBP was used to design a property management system that the client has been using successfully for over a year.
Qualified and certified engineers
Approximately 60% of HSS programmers have earned internationally recognized certifications, including MCP, MCSD, and JSCP. This percentage is continually growing, a direct reflection of the company’s commitment to employing the most highly trained, qualified and certified engineers. What this means for the customer is superior quality, scalable solutions, delivered quickly.
HSS recruits top engineering talent from top universities and puts them through six weeks of rigorous classroom and on-the-job training. HSS also provides ongoing advanced programmer training for all staff.
With these elements, the Faster.NET HSS framework reduces typical application development time by approximately 20-40%. The time saved depends on the project, where it is in its life cycle, and how much the client wants us to apply the Faster.NET development methodology.
Faster.NET Framework in Action: A Case Study
For a project for which time to market is a critical customer objective, HSS evaluates the project against its Faster.NET toolset to determine which tools will be most effective. HSS has measures for the effectiveness and impact of the tools. These measurements allow HSS engineers to determine the most effective tools to use on a given project.
As an example, a migration tool allows a company to migrate an existing VB/ASP application to .NET with a throughput of 900-1000 lines of code per developer per day. Using this measurement, HSS can estimate the time required to migrate the application.
Leveraging its toolsets enables HSS to achieve development savings at every phase and for every task of a project. The following case study illustrates this.
project needs
A company approached HSS because their web application, written in ASP, was not stable enough. The ASP code needed to be migrated to .NET, which required redesigning the application to .NET standards.
Using Faster.NET tools
The HSS development team increased the time to market for this project by applying Faster.NET tools as follows:
Step 1 – HSS engineers used the migration tool to migrate the software to .NET before changing the architecture. The estimators determined that the migration would take approximately 200 person-days, meaning that a four-person team could complete the migration in just two months, or, if necessary, an eight-person team could complete the effort in one month.
Step 2: To maximize the efficiency of the redesign phase of the project, HSS creates a related existing architecture from its Solution Blue Print (SBP) library. In this case, the target architecture was overlaid with support for a dual presentation layer (WAP and HTML). The lowest level of this architecture was the database interaction layer.
Because SBPs are already tried and tested, using this SBP instead of developing a new architecture from scratch saved time on prototyping and testing, reducing development time from the nearly 150 person-days it normally takes. an industry redesign effort.
Step 3 – HSS engineers then reviewed their library of pre-assembled components for suitable components to reuse in this application. They chose a data access layer written with VB.NET and C#.NET. This particular component handles transaction support, stored procedure execution, as well as embedded queries, data readers, and data adapter-based interactions. Also, it has robust exception handling. This component consists of approximately 5,000 lines of code.
Reusing it reduced development effort by 100 person days, assuming an average of 50 lines of code per person per day of typical coding productivity.
Step 4: Concurrent with the software development effort, HSS QA engineers determined that using the NAnt script-based auto-build configuration could save a considerable amount of build and compile trouble. Consequently, the Visual Studio build engineer created an automated build configuration using the scripts. Scheduled to run automatically, this automated process proactively provided information about bad registrations, build issues, and integration issues.
Step 5: The HSS development process includes thorough documentation of the LLD. HSS saves a considerable amount of time in your documentation efforts by using a documentation tool called Ndoc that automatically creates CHM or MSDN style code comments. This tool saved up to 50 person-days that would otherwise have been required to create a 200-300 page document.
Step 6 – The HSS QA group took the existing test scripts and modified them for the features and functionality of this application. The QA testing group also created an automated test suite using the Mercury and Nunit toolsets. HSS was able to run the test cases multiple times without significant additional person-days, ensuring the quality and reliability of the software when it was handed over from QA to the customer.
Completion: The end result was that HSS successfully migrated and redesigned the system with an effort of only 12 person-months. The company deployed the software at the customer site in 3 months.
Exceptional added value
Just as important as the development time savings described in the case study is the exceptional added value that HSS provided to this customer:
1. This client was facing enormous pressure from users to do something with the unstable application. The customer’s data center provider was also putting pressure on the company to upgrade the application to .NET. HSS immediately helped the customer to handle this situation and came up with a competitive product and services that met their customers’ requests.
2. The quality and stability of the improvements were tremendous, thanks to the greater inherent stability of .NET architectures, as well as the proven architecture and components that HSS used for this project.
3. During the course of this project, HSS was able to educate the client about the software development life cycle and development processes, an education that is an ongoing benefit to him.
4. The user interface (UI) developed by HSS was very popular with the customer’s end users and attracted many new customers.
5. HSS provided these services at a very cost-effective price. Its .NET COE operates from India and the engineering costs are quite cheap. Development cost savings were close to 70%. These savings were used to enhance the app with new features, giving the customer significant advantages over the competition.
conclusion
HSS is committed to designing, developing and implementing internal processes and systems that deliver exceptional customer value. The Faster.NET framework is an example of HSS’s ongoing journey in implementing this commitment. COEs aligned with the company’s technology, which use internationally recognized software development processes, are capable of providing significant competitive advantages.