A major U.S. financial institution benefits from a team of Calypso specialists with a proven methodology to meet critical deadlines.
Key Benefits |
Impact |
| Accelerated Upgrade | Completed 4 months ahead of schedule, avoiding costly delays |
| Operational Cost Savings | $1M+ in annual savings through optimized Calypso functionality |
| Reduced Testing Effort | Automated regression testing cut execution time by 30% |
| Zero Downtime | Seamless transition with zero business disruption |
| QA Cost Optimization | $200K+ savings on testing efforts |
| Ongoing Cost Efficiency | $140K annual savings from regression test suite for monthly releases |
Lack of upgrading leads to a critical point Like many of the leading financial institutions around the world, the corporate and investment banking arm of this large U.S.-based firm used the robust Calypso platform for running its entire front-to-back office derivatives (OTC and ETC) business. While they had been using Calypso v10.x since 2009, they had delayed upgrading to the latest version of Calypso for several years, including the essential v14.x upgrade. This was primarily due to the complexities involved, and the perceived impact of the upgrade on the business, among other technical reasons.
Proven methodology, Intense regression testing save the day. With an existing solid working relationship with this financial institution for six years, Quinnox was selected to help their division execute this critical upgrade. Leveraging our deep understanding of the challenges, and rich expertise with the Calypso platform, a team was put together to ensure a smooth transition to the latest platform using a two-pronged approach: 1) leverage a proven upgrade methodology 2) put an intense focus on regression testing.
The first goal was to deploy a like-for-like upgrade. This would ensure that all currently available functionality was available and unchanged to the users to the greatest extent possible. This would also eliminate the operational risk of implementing new functionality parallel to a massive upgrade. Another priority was to ensure that the upgrade would result in an enterprise level application server architecture that would be scalable.
With these two project drivers top-of-mind, the solution included
Complex upgrade complete ahead of time, over $1million in potential annual savings.
With the expert help of the specialized Quinnox Calypso team executing a custom solution, this complex and challenging upgrade was executed ahead of the typical 18-month schedule by four months. This aggressive timeline was especially important, not just from a productivity and functionality perspective, but in terms of avoiding additional costs. In fact, a delay of even one week would have resulted in a go-live delay of at least one month, with a cost implication of over $200k.
A major contributing factor to this success was the “battle-tested” Quinnox methodology for executing Calypso upgrades, which has been validated across multiple upgrades over several years and many engagements. This methodology helped us successfully deliver on the aggressive upgrade timeline with zero downtime post-upgrade.
Other important cost-based results included:
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