Refactoring Mission-Critical Applications
A Complete Overhaul of DLM's Most Critical Business Application
Application Development
Microsoft Windows
Overview
Dorris Lumber & Moulding Co. (DLM), the largest producer of solid lineal moldings in California, embarked on a pivotal IT project to enhance its operational efficiency and ensure sustainability in the digital era. The focus was on the DLMSYS, an in-house developed application critical to the company's inventory, invoicing, sales, and overall business management.
The Challenge
From the outset, time was limited as the application’s key developer was set to soon retire. The application needed to be decompiled, fully understood, rebuilt, and migrated to supportable, redundant infrastructure that would facilitate regular patching, security updates, and feature enhancements, and a post-engagement support model that would not leave DLM without someone to contact if issues arose.
Our Strategy
To address these challenges, DLM chose to partner with NvisionKC to provide a complete overhaul of its most important internal business processes. This collaboration aimed to transition responsibilities smoothly and maintain the system's functionality and operation during initial knowledge transfer, review of source code and program functions, in-line application patching and upgrades, user training and migration to the new platform, and system backups and recovery.
Impact
Over the course of this project, NvisionKC assumed control of the production system in its current state and worked with the retiring employee to perform knowledge transfer and a comprehensive review of 35K lines of code. As the project progressed, NvisionKC built alpha, beta, and production versions of the application which supported nine critical functions within manufacturing and business operations. After completing testing, the migration to the production application went without a hitch. DLM’s refactored application is current, supportable, with digitally signed code and the capability to check for software updates at launch.
Conclusion
The partnership between DLM and NvisionKC resulted in seamless support for the DLMSYS, ensuring business continuity and operational efficiency. The project exemplifies how specific domain knowledge and the right skillset can significantly improve a company's technology position while continuing to move them forward.
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A highly skilled team who excel at delivering results
It was a pleasure working with the NvisionKC team for the second time. They are a highly skilled team who excel at delivering results. Their responsiveness to our customization needs, pivoting to meet changes with the project and their pleasant approach throughout the process has been invaluable. We will most definitely collaborate with them again!
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Truly exceeded our expectations
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Outstanding transition and collaboration
Facing the retirement of our senior in-house developer, the critical task of choosing a top-tier partner for our mission-critical system maintenance was at hand. We required an efficient, dependable organization capable of consistently supporting our internal production code. My initial meetings with Grace Ahn and her team left a lasting impression. In under nine months, they seamlessly assumed control of our production system, demonstrating exceptional leadership and expertise. I'm fully confident they will maintain their commitment to excellence, delivering exceptional results for years to come.
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The key to the success was NvisionKC's ability to identify and communicate all objectives and project deliverables. NvisionKC was extremely knowledgeable about the containerization software process. More than that, they clearly comprehended how it would add significant value while also improving our security posture within our environment. The NvisionKC ' strengths of mutual respect, open communication, and commitment contributed to successfully achieving all project goals for our team. We highly recommend working with NvisionKC.
Exceeded our expectations
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Very knowledgeable... and did a great job
Not only did NvisionKC tell us what we should know about our intranet design, but we also learned many things that we did not know. Grace and her team were very knowledgeable and always guided us with the proper advice at crucial stages of the project. They are easy to work with and did a great job integrating with our staff to understand our business needs.
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NvisionKC has been a tremendous help in developing the tools we need to reach our vision. They have been very responsive to the needs of our customers and personable throughout our whole development process. They go above and beyond to ensure they understand our needs and that the tools they have developed make sense for our applications. I highly recommend them and we plan on using them again in the future.
Dedicated to our ultimate success
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Huge things are in store for NvisionKC
Grace and I first met at HCONN, Grace quickly became my right-hand person and was involved in every aspect of the business. She developed out our project management plans, our training plans, helped develop our approach of a changing SharePoint architecture, and anything else I needed. Although I was awarded Microsoft VP of the quarter after growing our business from 0 to over $3 Million in revenue in the first two years the award really should have been hers.
Look forward to working with NvisionKC again!
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The most talented architect
My experience with Jason was phenomenal. He completed his project on time. His coding was the cleanest. Most importantly for me, his clients loved him! Jason took it upon himself to rework our workflows, software, and processes and then gain the team's commitment to these process improvement areas.
True experts in automation
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