First Rate BizTalk Case Study - Spanish Point Technologies

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First Rate & Spanish Point BizTalk Services. Spanish Point is a Microsoft. Worldwide Partner of the Year. Winner for Information Worker. Solutions and the only ...
First Rate & Spanish Point BizTalk Services

Customer: First Rate Business Issue: First Rate needed to quickly build a business solution using BizTalk and get their internal team up to speed in this important new technology.

First Rate is the UK's leading white label travel money provider with clients such as The Post Office, Abbey and easyJet. First Rate provides foreign exchange services, traveller's cheques, pre-paid currency cards and online international payments. First Rate have an internal .net software development team responsible for the development and maintenance of their key back office systems. When First Rate decided to adopt Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 they engaged Spanish Point Technologies to accelerate their on-boarding of this important technology.

Solution: Spanish Point provided on site BizTalk consulting services to help design and build the solution and knowledge transfer to the First Rate .net team.

“First Rate have a preference to be self sufficient in the key technologies in which we develop our business systems. When we decided to use BizTalk Server 2010 we recognised that a key challenge for our team was to get up to speed with this new technology as quickly as possible. However we had a commitment to a key stakeholder to a have in place a business solution of which BizTalk was a critical component. “ says Fayaz Iqbal Product and Development Manager at First Rate.

Technologies:  BizTalk Server 2010  Visual Studio 2008

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with the BizTalk competency, Spanish Point have a wealth of experience in working with financial services customers and BizTalk. “Many of our customers have internal .net software development teams and often our projects involve building the initial BizTalk solution and providing knowledge transfer to their teams.” says Donal Cullen CEO of Spanish Point. By providing on-site BizTalk consultancy, Spanish Point worked with the First Rate software developers to co-design and build the solution. This enabled the key knowledge transfer to take place in a way that allowed First Rate to both meet their commitments to stake holders and gain the necessary skills and expertise to build and support further systems incorporating BizTalk in the future.

Benefits:  Knowledge Transfer  Speed to market  Critical Backstopping

Spanish Point is a Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year Winner for Information Worker Solutions and the only Irish Partner to attain Gold level competency in Application Integration. Contact: www.spanishpoint.ie [email protected] +353 1 652 2000

“While many customers are happy with a turn key solution, Spanish Point recognises that financial services organisations often prefer to have deep internal .net software development expertise and be self sufficient in the development capabilities. When adopting BizTalk they may face a steep learning curve and that’s where we can help, by accelerating solution delivery using BizTalk and ensuring knowledge transfer.” says Cullen. “With our BizTalk Competency and Microsoft Premier Support contract, we can assist in building the solution, ensuring knowledge transfer and provide on-going key project support.”