Case Studies

Q3 helped Investment Banker achieve Performance and Uptime, retain clients and grow

• The investment banking division provides a range of investment bank products and services to European and international clients including corporations, institutions, and governments. It provides a full array of advisory and capital market products including merger-and-acquisition and advisory services, equity and debt underwriting, sales and trading, derivatives, and research. The organization’s market presence is strong in key global sectors such as financial institutions; telecommunications, media, and technology; and energy and power.
• Client adds value by combining the global resources of one of Germany's largest banks with market-leading international expertise. Rapidly changing markets demand complex financial solutions with the global capability to deliver them speedily and safely. Around the world, across different currencies and different products, Client delivers an integrated service focused on excellence because it knows that the quality of its performance is what retains clients. To that end, client wanted to allow companies for whom it acts as brokers to easily and immediately see their share registry information, news, research, and comparisons with peers and market indices.

Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, we built and deployed the application. It allows clients to view their share registry information, read relevant news, perform research, and do comparisons with peers and market indices. The application allows corporate clients to see their share movements, registration and price information, and road-show event calendar (when client actively promotes the client to analysts and other investors). It also allows clients to compare themselves with their peers in the same market sector, such as telecommunications or energy.

With nothing more than a Web browser, clients can connect securely to site and have access to valuable information specific to their organization. Providing clients with this kind of service is important to client, as the bank looks to set itself apart from its competition.

• Shorter time to market for the client products by exploiting the benefits of a fully functional Offshore Development Center (ODC) in India, particularly the development process being continuous due to different time zones.
• Extension of client’s development teams globally by taking advantage of Q3’s highly flexible Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodology.
• Highly enhanced user friendliness through structured search results with links to only relevant databases, saving valuable effort and time.
• Business model and culture at Q3 entails ownership of the product development process. It is not only the team members who are dedicated to a client; it is the whole company management which works in complete tandem and efficiency to ensure that the relationship is seamless and successful.
• Migration to newer technology was achieved in a very cost effective solution on account of being able to cut down resource costs from average $90,000 to approximately $30,000 per resource.