Case study · F&I
Data Entry Application, A Case Study
A US F&I products provider for automotive, marine, and powersports needed to retire paper forms and scattered spreadsheets. We built a web data-entry platform for 80 concurrent users with real-time QC.
- Client
- A US automotive F&I products provider
- Duration
- 3 months
- Team size
- 4
- Disclosure
- Anonymised
Headline metrics
- 80
- Concurrent users
- Days to weeks faster
- Warranty turnaround
Additional context
Retiring paper and spreadsheets for a faster, auditable way to capture high volumes of protection-product data.
01 / Challenge
The problem in front of us.
Physical paper forms ate office space and raised security and reliability concerns, and managing unsystematic data across many Excel sheets was inefficient. The provider needed automated data entry for many concurrent users, with dual-monitor support.
02 / Approach
How we set the work up.
Given a high-level business requirements document, we deployed a four-person team, a senior developer, developers, and QA, over three months, with J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, XML, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL expertise.
03 / Solution
What we built.
We built a web application supporting 80 concurrent users on Tomcat, Struts, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL. It automatically allocated forms with different formats and fields to specified user groups, ran real-time quality control, and centralised form processing.
04 / Outcome
What it has held up to.
The client revised its warranty delivery schedules, saving days and in some cases weeks. They gained accurate record retrieval, multi-threaded processing, real-time QC tools for managers, and automated form allocation.
Stack
What it runs on.
- Tomcat
- Apache Struts
- Hibernate
- PostgreSQL
- XML
- DWR
- JavaScript
- J2EE
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
We'll start with a two-week diagnostic. No slides, no promises we can't keep.