CASE STUDY Business continuity at Davy Challenge • Ensure business during migration from continuity after Microsoft Visual Basic removed Visual Basic support About Davy • Migrate complex Established in 1926, the Davy Group is Ireland’s business systems leading provider of wealth management, • Ongoing maintenance asset management, capital markets and and enhancement of new financial advisory services. The Davy Group is solution headquartered in Dublin, with offices in London, Belfast, Cork and Galway and employs over 600 Results people. • Migration of business processes into new The Challenge system Visual Basic is a legacy Microsoft language. From • No system downtime April 2008, development was no longer supported ensuring business by Microsoft, creating potential operational continuity for Davy difficulties for existing Davy applications and customers increasing their risk profile. • Reduced support costs Davy had three key systems written in Visual Basic that continued to meet their business needs and would require ongoing enhancement as they were key to Davy’s growth plans. The Solution Zing Technology was chosen because of the team’s technical experience. Zing analysed each system from a technical perspective and provided: • High-level architecture design for a .NET- based solution • Recommended migration approach • Fixed cost proposal and plan for delivery “Zing provided an experienced, The Zing development team, using a test-driven delivery-focused technical development model, delivered fully tested team, ensuring successful applications into production. application migrations. We have a strong relationship with The Results Zing and would not hesitate to Davy now has a platform that can expand with recommend them” business growth. The existing business processes continue to work, but with reduced support Killian O’Connell costs. There are also a number of performance improvements and security advancements Application Development Manager accruing from the .NET architecture. Zing Davy provides Davy with a high quality, flexible, local support service. www.zing.ie October 2011.