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Application Development Case Study
The challenge
A multi-national company wants to automate its logistics operations. Existing products cost a lot and on top very high
customization and implementation costs. Due to the market conditions, the customer would like to keep the costs low
by not compromising the quality and time. From an Information System perspective, this meant a drastic reduction in
the overall cost of application development.
The solution
Gradient brought Logistics domain knowledge to the customer and worked with the customer in developing the
product. The solution also enabled complex routing to take place through the system leading to reduced delivery time
and increase the efficiencies.
The benefits
• The solution helped the customer meet their automation goals and eliminate the manual process achieving
significant improvement in routing efficiencies
• Customer achieved 40% cost savings and was able to deploy the project 2-months ahead (compared to another
vendor proposal of similar quality)
• An onsite/offshore ratio of 20:80 in the development brought down overall cost of Application development
Technologies
• Java / J2EE
• Tomcat
• Oracle
• Linux
