Financial

Colorado’s Largest Workers Compensation Coverage Company

Technology Service: 2-Week FlexMonkey Quick Start Engagement

Gorilla Logic engaged with this peak performing Company in Workers Compensation plans to assist their development and quality assurance teams in gaining knowledge and full productivity with FlexMonkey. By providing 10 on-site days of implementation services, Gorilla Logic implemented customizations, established a continuous integration environment, and provided software consulting. Gorilla Logic was able to ensure that FlexMonkey worked seamlessly with the customer’s unique Flex application. A dedicated FlexMonkey expert trained and supported this growing company, allowing them to address all of their testing concerns and issues. This 2-week engagement reduced time, cost of resources, and improved the quality of code for a significant ROI.

International Financial Authority: On-line News Site

Technology Service: Architectural Assessment, Performance Engineering and Code/System Modernization to Achieve Unprecedented Scale.

Gorilla Logic engaged with this client for 2 years beginning in 2007. The summer of 2007, during one of the largest financial crashes in United States history, this client, that provides real-time financial information, had their website traffic increase by a factor of 4. The client’s website had an average of 5-million hits a day. However, when the stock market had one of its worst reportings on a Friday at close of business, investors became desperate for financial information as they contemplated what to do with their investments. Traffic jumped to 20-million that following Monday.

Gorilla Logic was called in with urgency to revamp the website and backend systems to support this added demand for information. Gorilla Logic brought in an experienced team of lead architects to redesign and enhance the performance across the clients web distribution systems for their .com site. This client had numerous complex systems including a content side, publication side and content management system (CMS) side. The vast amount of content came from 3 sources: editorial content, market information such as quotes, and syndicated financial news such as stock picking. All of this content was delivered via end user applications with heavy Java backends.

In addition to the vast amount of numerical and text data, there was also a significant video component that needed to be created, cut, and syndicated to be delivered to the website along with meta data. A separate stream was used for this high volume video that was delivered and cached via Akami worldwide Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Gorilla Logic’s roll was to lead the strategy to improve delivery of all of this content through their .com website. This work included solving garbage collection in Java Virtual Machines (JVM) servers, caching, building new indexing capabilities, and fine-tuning databases for optimum performance. Gorilla Logic was responsible for the performance engineering from the quality of the lowest levels of code to the data infrastructure. This work had a specific focus on market and end user data including authentication and all things related to subscribers. The technologies included Java, J2EE, Drupal, and PHP. Client-side technologies included HTML5, Java Script, Flash, and JQuery. The CMS was Microsofts proprietary solution. Gorilla Logic was also in charge of the historical pricing databases. Initially, these systems only handled US quotes, but as part of this effort, they were expanded to handle the International quoting system as well.

The results were improved inbound and outbound syndication from 25-minute latency to 3 minutes from when a story was received, repackaged and sent out. In order to reach this performance, on-line news databases had to be rebuilt along with the finely tuned search engines. The meta-data taxotomy for categorizing was also enhanced. Video CMS and search capabilities expanded full-text searches of not only text tracks, but to video and audio transcription as well. Video syndication was improved through a modernized platform, and integration of CMS out to Akamai. Lastly, Gorilla Logic reviewed and made architectural recommendations on their video flash player to accommodate ad insertion.

Fortune 100 International Financial Services Group

Technology Service: Design, Integration and Modernization of Rich Internet Application using leading edge UI technology, JavaFX

Gorilla Logic engaged with this leading Global Financial Services Group in 2008 and continues to do work for them today. Gorilla Logic, with extensive experience in the financial space, was brought in to modernize a Financial Analysis Tool. The UI of the application would be given a face-lift, leaving legacy UI technology of Java Swing for the modern technology of JavaFX. In addition, Gorilla Logic was asked to design and build additional features to enhance the functionality of the tool. The application uses equity derivatives to quickly calculate financial data and allow traders and financial analysts to run numerous investment scenarios, create charts, and execute data reports. With this highly capable research tool, the traders can feel confident when making a decision to execute a critical real-time trade. This application was once an exclusive internal tool, but has been expanded to allow portions to be available for external clients via a web-enabled portal.

A World Leading Fixed Income Management and Investment Services Company

Technology Service: Security Clearance System, Flex and Java Development

Gorilla Logic initially engaged with this client in 2009, and continues to be an integral part of their development team today. With over 5 engineers working simultaneously on different key projects at this leading investment firm, Gorilla Logic is one of the company’s most trusted vendors. With a compelling Flex front end, and a robust Java back end, Gorilla Logic built the internal system for managing all securities and clearance information and the exchanging of this data between disparate systems. This data share function has become an integral part of the client’s business. Gorilla Logic understands the complexities of the financial industry having come from that space, and has the strong technical background to provide end-to-end financial solutions.