Client: One of America’s biggest buyers of home mortgages who works extensively with mortgage lenders in support of homeownership and rental housing nationwide.

Business Challenge:

• Inconsistent quality and difficulty in rapidly on-boarding consulting resources
• Lost productivity and cost increases due to poor quality consultants
• Expansion of diversity supplier participation

DISYS’ Solution:

• Established dedicated teams to oversee large volume contingent workforce
• Gathered extensive knowledge of client’s technical environment and culture
• Quickly established rapport with hiring managers and analyzed hundreds of consulting positions
• Delivered repeatable solution for locating, qualifying, and deploying highly specialized resources
• Presented strategy to decrease costs

Results:

• Deployed more than 200+ consultants within aggressive timelines
• Tangible cost savings of $774,950.00

Client: A large global oil and gas corporation.

Business Challenge:

• Lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) for large SAP projects from current model using large consultancies
• Implementation of SAP module requires hard-to-find skill set
• Global scope results in complex resource issues

DISYS’ Solution:

• Proposed new staffing methodology, lowering TCO without increasing project risk
• Located key SAP project leads in extremely competitive resource market
• Operated in a truly global environment

Results:

• Provided overall cost savings of approximately 28% over a 5-year period (project value over $800 million)

Client: A nationwide transportation corporation.

Business Challenge:

• Implementation of several major projects (as part of the eTicketing program) required a dedicated Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing team to lead the QA/Testing function
• Lack of QA/Testing processes and templates slowed internal testing for several systems and projects including Arrow Reservation Systems, Business System, Revenue Transaction Datastore System, Revenue and Ridership System, PAS/ALMS System, and other distribution and ticketing-related distribution channels.

DISYS’ Solution:

• Provided the team lead and team currently performing QA and testing for the entire eTicketing program
• Presented eTicketing Testing Approach to our client’s Sr. Directors
• Developed eTicketing Program Test Plan, Test Schedule, and Test Summary Report templates
• Implemented a Test Case Review process using a new Test Case Review Approval Form
• Instituted a new Test Execution Readiness process and checklist
• Implemented a standard process communication channel via a “Daily Status Email”
• Implemented a new Defect Management process using Quality Center’s Defect Management module
• Mentored and coached our client’s internal test team to enhance and improve testing process, communications, and deliverables

Results:

• DISYS’ recommended Testing Approach was unanimously adopted by our client’s stakeholders to apply consistent standards, terms, and methodologies across the eTicketing program, where rampant inconsistency existed previously

Client: The worldwide provider of news and information for U.S. military forces.

Business Challenge:

• Lockheed Martin Information Technology (LMIT) required support to assist the our client in operation and maintenance of their office networks, including IT infrastructure and development
• Our client—a Department of Defense field activity under the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (OASD-PA)—needed to achieve its mission to conduct a joint service internal information communications program on behalf of the Secretary of Defense

DISYS’ Solution:

• Provided technical expertise, specifically in the areas of helpdesk and systems administration, Java development, systems analysis, and network security
• Provided consultants with Department of Defense Secret-level clearances and the skill set necessary for LMIT to successfully support the our client
• Responded to LMIT needs faster than any other firm based on proposing consultants that already had the needed security clearances and skill sets

Results:

• Reduced time-to-hire by reallocating existing DISYS resources with cleared credentials to this contract
• Achieved mission effectiveness as DISYS consultants ensure that our client can conduct business with no lag time or interruptions

Client: A provider of electricity and energy services to more than 1.5 million retail customers – including homes, small and large businesses, manufacturing facilities, government entities and institutions across Texas.

Business Challenge:

• Automating the manual process used to structure and price complex energy/electricity deals for the Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Retail business unit
• Streamlining the structuring and pricing system by providing full web-based access to both complete deals and minimize the risk inherent in Commercial Retail business

DISYS’ Solution:

• Provided consultants with specialized skills and expertise in the Energy and similar industries
• Oversaw requirements gathering, design, architecture, and development of the new system
• Developed the Structuring Valuation Tool (SVT) to integrate with existing systems
• Designed the GUI and logic and developed screen designs with the C&I Marketers with supporting Use Cases
• Designed and developed prototypes and functional components for Analytics.
• Provided Java-based application development support for complex energy deal structuring, pricing, quotation calculation, valuation of post deal components, forward curve calculations, and integration with energy supply hedging, billing, and accounting
• Designed and developed the rules-based Pricing Engine and an extensible domain model to model complex energy deals

Results:

• DISYS’ development services replaced ad-hoc, customized, organically created applications
• Via Web Services and database integration, DISYS integrated the automated system with upstream and downstream systems, including CRM (Siebel), Load & Cost of Goods Sold (Loadstar/FRMS), Forward Price Curves (Sungard Epsilon), and Valuation and Hedging

Client: The world’s premier consumer products company focused on convenient foods and beverages.

Business Challenge:

• Our client required testing services for their SAP implementation in support of their QuakerFoods business unit
• The SAP modules involved included FICO, MM, SRM, CRM, SD, and PP, as well as several other internal processes

DISYS’ Solution:

• Provided system performance and regression/automation testing for mission-critical, tier-one business applications, including SAP releases of our client’s global integration project
• Managed our client’s Performance and Automation Team’s daily delivery activities, determined the optimal use of the Accord Tool and managed the Accord project delivery, and developed the Automation and Performance Test Frameworks for our client for all application projects
• Provided technical expertise with Mercury Quality Center 9.2. and Mercury LoadRunner
• Worked with the business to prioritize and rank defect severity
• Utilized Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile methodologies, and applied CMMi Level 3 best practices for verification and validation
• Performed SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) compliance testing for financial applications

Results:

• Based on successful performance, DISYS’ role on the project expanded to include leading regression testing on major SAP releases, and testing some of our client’s core legacy applications and infrastructure
• Developed and built the new Automation Test Framework and Performance Test Framework adopted by our client’s Enterprise Test Center
• On-time and on-budget project completion with higher levels of efficiency and greater capabilities for the Enterprise Test Center

Client: A national financial institution serving consumers, small businesses, and corporations and institutions.

• Our background of staffing financial companies, combined with our MBE certification, made DISYS a win-win for our client in the financial industry
• We have been a top tier vendor, placing over 4,600 F&A contractors since 2009, including:
  • Loan Purchasers/Processors/Specialists/Closers
  • Customer Service Representatives
  • Suspense Coordinators
  • Collateral Analysts
  • Underwriters
  • Mortgage Service Specialists
  • Operations Specialists
  • Home Service Specialists
  • Insurance Professionals