The client is a new age software company that specializes in building time critical information delivery products and software applications. In order to expand their financial application and avoid some of the short comings of the present products, the client needed a partner who could develop and deliver a web based product which overcomes the short comings of the present product.

Dhruv was selected for its experience in cutting edge web technologies and good financial domain expertise. The contract included design and development of this new applications as well as writing interfaces to the existing feeders.

Challenges:

	Optimal usage of bandwidth
	Close to real time update of Market Data
	Development of competitive and user-friendly applications
	Implementation of complex business processes and scenarios in the shortest possible time
	Generate various types of Stock related charts for both intra and inter days.

Solution:

	A pure thin client web based stock monitoring application was designed
	AJAX technology was used so that the stock market data is updated within seconds directly from stock market application.
	XML with compression logic was used for communication between different layers to reduce band width
	Dynamic DHTML grids were put in with layer windows for easy user interactions.
	Options for the users to have different watch lists, maintain user portfolios
	Options to watch MBO, MBP, Time and Sales, Top Stocks and detailed Quote
	Users can view sector wise market summary
	Developed to support two different languages
	3rd party charting tool was integrated and options were provided for the users to view various types of charts

Technology:

	AJAX, Microsoft .Net platform with C#, ASPX
	Java script, XML
	IIS 5.0, IIS 6.0
	SQL Server 2000
	Dundas Charts.
	Load Runner

Benefits:

	Bandwidth usage was reduced by 50% which gave a huge cost advantage to the customer
	The application became anywhere anytime for the customer’s end users.
	The maintenance cost and user complaints are also got reduced.
	Customer was able to leverage the skills of Dhruv in further enhancements and new feature additions with less overhead.