Project · Brand management SaaS

Design2Launch: a competency center for Kodak’s Brand Manager

Brand Manager is a web-based, workflow-driven platform for managing brand assets and content creation, used by many Fortune 500 companies. We became the competency center behind it: development, QA, support and operations.

Client
Eastman Kodak Design2Launch → BLUE Software
Product
Brand Manager
Model
Competency center
Services
Development · QA · Autotests · Support · DBA

Design2Launch

Kodak brand manager 2 — Design2Launch

Project

Eastman Kodak is our special customer, a matter of pride for us and this is where we invest the most in people and technology. DESIGN2LAUNCH is a Kodak's subdivision that produces centralized, web–based solution for managing brand assets and content creation called Brand Manager. It is highly customizable workflow–based application that can be configured to oversee any business process of any complexity, from basic review and approval to comprehensive product development–promoting timely task execution, efficient teamwork, visibility and accountability. Brand Manager is a popular solution among large enterprises including many of Fortune 500 companies. Brand Manager allows them to effectively maintain complex business processes in distributed multi–national environments.

Competency Center

We became Kodak’s competency center; in other words, we acted both as repositories of knowledge and resource pools for Kodak. Our people provide a complete SDLC including analysis, programming, QA, maintenance, client and technical support. We are responsible for further Brand Manager development, improvements and its maintenance, taking responsibility for all aspects of day–to–day Brand Manager–related activities. Having all those people working together in a single office gives us an exceptional opportunity to minimize time and effort to do our everyday tasks.

Services We Provide

Full Java/.NET stack programming.

QA/manual testing

Autotests

Client support

Technical support

Database administration

Reporting

Benefits for customer

Moving the supporting processes to a competency center gives the organization more time to strengthen their core business process. Here we had a few weeks to join, needed no time to learn even though Brand Manager is a technically very complex application. It is easy to use — from user point of view — but highly complicated from point of view of a programmer, QA and support. One of the most crucial factors determining the outcome of a campaign is risk–analysis. Outsourcing certain components of your business process helps the organization to shift responsibilities to the vendor. Since the vendor is a specialist, we plan your risk–mitigating factors better. Another consideration is reduced operational and recruitment costs. Outsourcing removes the need to hire individuals in–house; hence recruitment and operational costs can be minimized to a great extent.

What we are proud of

During our years with Kodak we completed multiple big projects. Here we want to highlight some of them.

Autotest suite

Testing such enormous application will never be easy, but there is an obvious way to reduce time and cost of testing: implement autotests. We have spent quite a lot of time working on the autotests and now we see how much this helps in everyday operations in virtually every aspect, from development to techops and client support. Load testing is another use of autotests; you will never implement realistic load testing using unit–tests or gathering profiler's data. As part of our continuous integration process, autotests became essential for the platform’s move to Rackspace Kodak d2l rackspace2 — Design2Launch
Kodak d2l autotests — Design2Launch

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