Where is web-development capacity needed?
The client lacked the web-technology resources needed to bring a new reporting product to market.
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Building web reporting and online tax-filing products
A Norwegian supplier of cloud solutions for accounting offices, auditors and independent companies needed web-development capacity to create a financial reporting portal and later modernise an established desktop tax-filing product.
- Client context
- A Norwegian cloud accounting software provider
- product partnership
- 5 years
- reporting and tax filing
- 2 products
- initial dedicated team
- 2 developers
The situation
The business need and delivery constraints
The client lacked the web-technology resources needed to bring a new reporting product to market.
A mature desktop tax-filing application had to be extended to the web without breaking established workflows.
Early TypeScript and AngularJS versions were evolving rapidly and introduced compatibility and upgrade challenges.
Key Questions
What did this project need to address?
How will the web product connect to desktop workflows?
A mature desktop tax-filing application had to be extended to the web without breaking established workflows.
How will changing web technologies be handled?
Early TypeScript and AngularJS versions were evolving rapidly and introduced compatibility and upgrade challenges.
The solution
The approach taken in this engagement
Established a dedicated product team that delivered a web reporting portal, then built an online tax-filing system connected to the desktop product through APIs.
How we worked
Engineering and collaboration in practice
01 · Delivery activity
A financial reporting portal
Created a portal where users could receive financial data from accountants and discuss it collaboratively.
02 · Delivery activity
The first product team
Delivered the first product with a two-person .NET team over approximately one year.
03 · Delivery activity
Web technology selection
Researched emerging web technologies and selected TypeScript and AngularJS for the second product.
04 · Delivery activity
Desktop and web integration
Connected the web tax-filing system to the existing desktop application through APIs.
Technology and delivery context
Technologies used in this project
.NETTypeScriptAngularJSAPI integration
The result
What changed for the client
Delivered capability
Successfully launched the web reporting product to market in 2013.
Product outcome
Completed the main functions of the online tax-filing platform over more than two years.
Continuing value
Maintained a five-year product-development and support relationship until the client company was acquired.
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