Dealership Enrollment, Management, and Administration Application
The Problem
RouteOne® was in the process of launching the first release of their Credit Aggregation System (CAS) to a Pilot group of dealers. The goal was to distribute the dealership boarding / enrollment / management processes so that dealers could self-register their dealership and financial sources. A standardized multi-user workflow process was established in order to configure, approve and activate the dealer in the system.
The Jonah Group was asked to deliver our full suite of software development services to bring the new functionality to fruition in a short period of time. The application was also to act as a proving ground for a number of experimental technologies with which RouteOne was not yet familiar, but wanted to pursue in their overall architecture. The Jonah Group was entrusted with investigating and implementing these technologies, deploying them into an enterprise-level production environment.
Our Responsibilities
- Project planning and timeline estimation
- Management of a team of 10 technical developers
- Participation in UI design discussions, creation of mockups
- Technical Architecture / Design for all features and functions
- n-tier enterprise software development using leading-edge technologies
- Quality Assurance
- Ongoing Communication with RouteOne® CTO, Lead Architect, Lead DBA, Project Manager, and developers.
The Solution
Jonah provided a project manager, architect, UI designer, software developers and a QA specialist to deliver a complete solution with the following features, components, and technologies:
Features
- Distributed Dealership Enrollment
- Enrollment Finalization Workflow
- Manage Dealership Activation
- Dealer/User Association
- Administrative / Finance Source Management Workqueues
- Distributed Dealership Administration
- Dealer / Finance Source / User Management
- XML-based Batch Program to support a subset of the above functions in batch mode
Components
- Web-based Interface using Struts/Tiles
- J2EE Server, Model II Servlet Architecture
- POJO object model based on Hibernate
- Integration with core RouteOne® technologies
Technologies
- HTML, Javascript
- XML / XML Schema
- Struts, Servlets, JSP
- Session Beans
- Hibernate Persistence
- Oracle 9i
- Websphere Application Server
- SunOne Identity Server
- Sun LDAP Server
Unique Challenges, Solved.
- Standards-based, open-source technologies and design patterns were chosen to fit with the company's existing software development style. This increased the speed of development substantially.
- Jonah's implementation of the new J2EE microarchitecture caused the lead architect at RouteOne to solicit impressions / best practices from The Jonah Group, in an effort to deploy the new architecture across the full application.
- Jonah helped in the transition from a proprietary, legacy security framework to some simple APIs for accessing / updating the LDAP profile database directly.
- Jonah successfully delivered the software products over many iterations, and continues to be engaged by RouteOne, having become one of the company's trusted technology partners.
- Questions? Ready to move your project forward? We'd be happy to discuss a solution for your needs. Contact Us to find out more.
