Case Studies: Retail
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- Modis assists internationally known retailer with IT systems construction, support
- Major home improvement retailer depends on Modis for critical PeopleSoft upgrades
- Modis delivers key consultants for high-tech retail testing lab
Modis assists internationally known retailer with IT systems construction, support
Client Overview: International home improvement retailer
This company is the world’s largest home improvement retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States. Modis provides information technology consultants in multiple skill areas for this company.
The Modis Solution: Exclusive recruiters offer consultants in multiple skill areas
Working with the client’s Vendor Management Office, Modis developed a differentiation strategy and earned direct access to hiring managers. Modis consultants won accolades managing the information security for a high-visibility Seibel CRM implementation. Our focused recruiting effort led by senior recruiters dedicated solely to the client, combined with our high-quality consultant base, resulted in numerous exclusive job orders and exclusives. Our business development manager continues to follow up directly with hiring managers to ensure all needs are met.
Key projects Modis consultants worked on for this client include:
- PeopleSoft HRMS upgrade
- PeopleSoft Database support
- PeopleSoft ERM Implementation
- Security
- EDI Support
- Documentum (Imaging System)
- NetCool Support
- Quality Assurance
- SAP Basis Support
- Tandem Support
- Websphere/MQ series support
- Java/J2EE development
- Network Management
- PC refresh project
- Mainframe Development
Major home improvement retailer depends on Modis for critical PeopleSoft upgrades
Client Overview: National home improvement retailer
Ranked among the Fortune 100, this retailer serves more than 10 million customers each week at locations throughout most of the United States. The company is one of the world’s largest home improvement retailers in the world.
The Modis Solution: Support PeopleSoft upgrades, implementations as needed
This client relies on multiple PeopleSoft modules for their back-office operations. As the company has expanded rapidly in the past few years, they have called on Modis to assist with numerous PeopleSoft production support and upgrade projects. Summaries of those projects include:
- Modis provided key personnel to a project team to perform complete upgrades to the PeopleSoft Financial suite supporting the client’s operations. We provided all levels of consultants from project managers to PeopleSoft specialists for the project.
- Modis assisted the client with a critical update of their operating version of PeopleSoft General Ledger. This update needed to be performed as quickly as possible, as PeopleSoft announced they would no longer support the client’s version in operation. PeopleSoft also did not support the migration path from the version in operation to the new, modern version Modis was to install. The client uses General Ledger as a reporting and analysis database, supporting more than 70 million rows of information. In order to ensure all of the data was migrated accurately, Modis first upgraded the client’s PeopleSoft to a more current version. Our consultants also developed customized program scripts to supplement the conventional upgrade tools as well. After two weeks of shakedown testing, our consultants migrated the application to the modern version.
- Modis later delivered a complete team of consultants to the client to manage updates for the PeopleSoft Financial and HRMS modules. These upgrades were coupled with a Budgets module implementation on an Essbase DB platform for On-Line Analytical Processing reporting capabilities.
The client has called on Modis to provide consultants to support their IBM legacy mainframe systems in order to assign their own technicians to support PeopleSoft initiatives. The client also counts on Modis to fill a wide variety of general specialties such as client/server developers, UNIX, C and relationship-database management resources.
Modis delivers key consultants for high-tech retail testing lab
Client Overview: Largest provider of office products
Founded in 1986, this retailer has become one of the world’s largest providers of office products. The company also takes pride in innovative methods of utilizing every available distribution channel, including stores, direct mail, contract delivery, the Internet and business to business sales.
The Modis Solution: Augment quality assurance staff for new testing facility
Based in Delray Beach, Fla., the client opened a high-tech test lab and needed a quality assurance team to begin testing various applications.
Modis recruited, interviewed and screened, and provided several testers for this team very quickly. The team tested applications in a client/server environment. Our consultants are responsible for developing test conditions, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts and executing the scripts. Technology involved includes WinRunner, LoadRunner and TestDirector.
In addition to supporting this testing lab, Modis continues to provide the client with consultants with expertise in database administration and other technical skill sets.