Client name: Winter Partners

Problem/Project: Winter Partners (a Software House in Switzerland), have a Latin multilingual application called RIBS in its version 5.0 covering the following Business Domains:

- Multi-currency Accounting System - Banks Specific
-Securities
-Foreign Exchange / Money Market
-Order Input
-Comprehensive Portfolio Management Reporting (MIMS)

RIBS has been developed using Technologies from Digital, running on VMS based systems and has a character mode User interface.

Winter Partner, wanted to technically re-engineer the RIBS Package, while keeping all of the Business functionality as is (i.e. Technical re-engineering, Business Migration)

Solution/benefits received by the client: NileSoft proposed a new architecture, an Implementation of the J2EE-Multi tier Standard Architecture defined by Sun. the proposed architecture based on Multi-channel concept, which enables different types of clients to connect to the application concurrently.

The project started with a prototype at 1999 after the approval of the prototype, Full migration is ongoing during year 2000 from the old technology to a multi-tier architecture.

Technically, this project is built on the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) Architecture. The tools set used in the project are:

- RDBMS: Oracle 8i.
-Application Server: BEA-WebLogic Server 5.0.
-Java Technologies: Applet/Servelt/EJB/JSP.

This project is currently in its first phase, the estimated working effort for completion is 22 man years, after the completion of the project Winter Partners will have a fully web enabled version of the RIBSX.