Rates Financial Network
Rates Financial Network (Rates) needed to create a suite of web applications for the mortgage industry to service their business. The key items they where looking to achieve were:
- a business portal for an unlimited number of mortgage brokers to facilitate business-to-business transactions
- a dynamic web site generation tool with the capability to support an unlimited number of web sites with key industry functions, such as rate sheets, rate lock, mortgage rate calculators, the ability to apply for a mortgage loan, online loan status
- build into template site information architectures…
Technologies Employed
- Windows NT 4.0 Servers
- Visual Basic 6.0 (COM and Standalone applications)
- Microsoft Visual C++ (ATL)
- Microsoft Active Server Pages
- Java Script
- Microsoft IIS 4
- SQL Server 7
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| Inefficient ASP website development model and rigid architecture |
ASP website model with a flexible architecture |
- Cut “n” paste approach to delivering each new customer website
- Manual editing of HTML pages to update content
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- Online website build tools based on reusable modules
- Dynamic website content management and delivery
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| Significant scalability challenges |
Extremely scalable ASP model |
- 3+ week development / implementation cycle for each new customer website
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- Sub-week website development / implementation cycle
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| Linear maintenance model |
Cost and time effective maintenance model |
- 1 hour of required maintenance = 1 hour for each individual customer website; 20 websites = 20 hours
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- Leveraging a single code base, 1 hour of required maintenance = 1 hour regardless of the number of web sites
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