News Archive / All

For an insurance company we took over the partial project leadership for a strategic project, the automation of the insurance application process. The goal is to develop the IT systems towards SOA. For this several client departments had to be coordinated and supported in the negotiation process with distributors and with respect to the overall solution finding. The solution comprises several heterogenous backend systems, automated data transfer and complex validations.

We inspected and evaluated a CRM application of one of our clients regarding code quality, simplicity of builds, the necessary project setup and potential possibilities for improvement. The review is completed within a week.

After the preliminary work of another service provider we took an integrated authentification and authorisation system based on Kerberos/OpenLDAP with "single sign on" (SSO) functionality live. The work was done on a step by step basis in multiple datacenters of one of our clients. The switch was carried out on all production systems without any problems.

We accepted new responsibilities in the area of database administration and environment support at one of our customers.

We developed a system which analyses and monitors the realtime service quality of the broadband access network (DSL) of a carrier. Network problems can be identified via statistical parameters and be analysed down to a single customer. Besides error analysis and SLA monitoring, the system provides load data for network planning purposes. The technology stack consists of Linux, Perl, Tomcat and Grails. The whole project was realised within four months and is currently used by the network operations and customer service departments.

The majority of our Mediation expert team got a training from two DigitalRoute trainers about integration options in the Java based mediation framework MediationZone®. In a few days we extended the base product with a JRuby node. It allows the implementation of mediation logic in JRuby instead of using the proprietary configuration language APL.

We extended an open source Mindmap Extractor plugin for Confluence. Besides an enhanced support for FreeMind mindmaps the new version supports the XMind and MindManager file formats, so that content is indexed for the Confluence search.

In January, a public "Certified Scrum Master Training" took place in TNG's office. It was succeed by a "Certified Scrum Product Owner Training". The training session was held by Boris Gloger, the first certified scrum trainer from Europe and author of the book "Scrum. Produkte zuverlässig und schnell entwickeln". Overall there are now 36 Certified Scrum Masters (CSM) at TNG, 11 of which are also Certified Scrum Product Owners (CSPO).

Our employees gave a talk at the Java User Group Munich about Java Development with Scrum. We presented tools and methods, spoke about best practices and passed on our experience from real projects. Due to an enormous interest from our clients, we repeated the talk in our office some weeks later.