Overview: Our Customer is
leading financial Technology company in India. Customer develops software
for
Wireless Internet Mobile Dealing Desk solution for
stock market.
Initially customer
offered software solution for Non –windows Mobile platform. But with
growing use of Microsoft
Mobile phone worldwide decided to make solution available for
Windows Mobile users. Customer had resource constraints for Windows Mobile
development. Because of NetConsulate deep expertise on Windows CE and
Windows Mobile technologies. Customer wanted to train their employees on
the required technologies and assistance for software development.
NetConsulate offered to train customer employees and put onsite resources
at customer office software development. NetConsulate designed custom
training program for Windows CE. Dot net compact framework and Windows
Mobile technologies. Customer
developers were given training at their premises by netconsulate. After training , NetConsulate
assisted customer developers for software development by putting technical
lead at customer office.
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Background: Customer is software
vendor whose product serves stock market Wireless Internet Mobile
Dealing on the move.It allows user to complete
dealing desk trading functionality on a mobile phone. This solution is the
next generation medium to trade facilitating the users to view their
positions and transactions through a fully secure channel from anywhere
and anytime.
With
this software user can
- Watch
online price movement of desired script on the mobile
- Watch
market rates and place instant orders
- Facility
to Place, Modify or Cancel orders
- Trade
confirmations in real-time
- Generation
of Order and Trade books
Challenge:
Resources to be
trained and supposed be work on the development project were new to the
windows Mobile and project timing. budget was very tight. So Custom
training curriculum was designed and team put extra hours so as to meeting
project deadlines.
Solution: Solution was
developed using c# and.net compact framework, SQL server and visual studio
2003/visual studio 2005 as development tool. Presentation layer for
application was developed using c#. Business layer developed was common
for both pocket PC and Smart phone. Connectivity to database server was
through GPRS connection.
Using visual studio and c#/.net compact framework to develop was
quick and use of emulators during
development saved cost of hardware. Microsoft technology was useful
as developers could reuse their desktop application skills for mobile
development after training.
Benefits: Microsoft Mobile phone is becoming popular among
the users in the shares trading market. Software developed extended companies market
segment to growing windows smart phone users. This solution
was demonstrated at Microsoft Mobile and Embedded Developer Conference (MEDC) 2006 at
Bangalore India.
Conclusion: Software
developed allowed Smartphone and pocket pc users to Continuous
access to the stock markets while on the move. By using NetConsulate's
services Customer benefited by extending it potential customer base to
growing users of windows smartphone and pocket PCs.