Discover how Nationwide Building Society used Microsoft .NET tools and technology to translate a legacy application, representing almost 40 man-years of effort, at a cost of only 1 man-year.
Nationwide Building Society has spent the last two years building a new home loan application, to support new business processes and to enforce consistent business behavior across all means of delivery, from its branches to the Internet to its third party intermediaries. This application has been converted to use Microsoft® .NET.
The first deployment of this new version will be for the intermediary market, an important channel for new loan business. The existing application represents 30-40 man-years of development effort in a proprietary language, involving over 200 business processes.
Nationwide has written a translator that converted this existing application automatically to 14 MB of Visual Basic® .NET code and 10 MB of XSD schemas, the latter in turn being used to generate 40 MB of strongly typed dataset code.
The translation effort has been accomplished by a team of three people, working part time for about a year, with a total effort of about 1 man-year.
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