| Client |
A leading prescription drug provider. |
| Challenge |
A leading prescription drug provider was experiencing escalated
expenditure on Customer Service Representatives caused by
a very slow application. The company had approximately 5000
customer service representative around the USA who used a
dynamically updating navigation bar in their Electronic Service
Delivery (ESD) system as an integrated part of their workflow.
This provided intelligent navigation where the display would
automatically update depending on where a service representative
was in the process. The response time of the application was
as much as 30 seconds, significantly slowing down customer
response times. The client was trying to cope with this situation
by continually adding CSR's to handle increasing demand.
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| Approach |
The client asked GalaxE.Solutions to apply
its Independent Validation & Verification (IV&V) process to
identify the problem and propose solutions, including a cost
/ benefit analysis of the various solutions. |
| Solution |
GalaxE.Solutions' structured IV&V identified the source of
the problem to be a specific integrated code base within the
application. The code had been purchased from another vendor
without a due diligence review process. After reviewing multiple
alternative solutions, GalaxE.Solutions proposed the rewrite
of core libraries. The resultant solutions reduced the lines
of code from 1100 to 100 and the screen response time from
30 seconds to approximately 100 milliseconds.
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| Benefits |
The reduced response time allowed the client
to save over $100,000 / week in customer service representative
labor costs. In addition to quick response times, customer satisfaction
level improved significantly. Overall application navigation
and workflow efficiency increased. An additional, unanticipated
benefit to the client was the ability to reuse portions of the
code due to abstracted design principles. |
| Technology |
Broadvision, C++, Unix, Windows |