Resources

A Brief Summary Of Smart Grid Technologies
12 August 2011
White Papers
With Smart Grid, the power industry is going through the biggest change since the Nuclear Revolution. Organizations are seeking to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of power delivery by modernizing both transmission and distribution infrastructure. While the rewards are great, making a successful smart grid happen will take out‐of‐the‐box thinking, hard decisions and prudent use of capital. This white paper is intended to familiarize the reader with the technologies and complexities of making Smart Grid a reality.
Lost & Found: Customers in Need of Mortgage Assistance
12 August 2011
Case Studies
In early 2010, one of the nation's leading mortgage service providers noticed their customers were not their ordinary customers; in fact, these were customers that were already experiencing difficulty by having their mortgages listed as deliquent and trying to work with their mortgage service provider to become current on payments. In addition to the hardships that were already being faced, these customers were now slipping through the cracks of inadequate processes and effectively getting misplaced in a myriad of departments all with intentions of helping their customers stay in their homes. Realizing the difficulty of the task at hand and the negative impacts awaiting of continuating to operate in business as usual mode, this company reached out to hiSoft for assistance on gaining control of processor IDs assigned to loans within the Home Preservation group.
Intangible Success: Delivering Delight in an Evolving Political and Financial Landscape
12 August 2011
Case Studies
One of the "Big Four" banks reached out to hiSoft to develop a more customer-centric operating model for their Loss Mitigation process, dovetailing in new workflow technology, ensuring no negative impact on the existing operating model and seamlessly delivering the implementation across the enterprise. hiSoft successfully completed the operating model redesign which resulted in improved customer communications increased positive customer feedback. The project was such a success, the client cited the project as an example of their improved customer communication in a report to the U.S. Congress in November 2010.
Sign of the Times: Improving Federal Home Mortgage Modification Program
12 August 2011
Case Studies
hiSoft was engaged by a major financial service provider to manage a initiative to increase the number of the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program modifications in their investor portfolio. While the project faced numerous internal (lack of integration and a centralized project structure) and external (political and economic pressure) challenges, the hiSoft team acted as a central “hub” for the client’s HAMP teams and delivered positive results for both the project teams and the client.
Control, Compliance & Conformity: Finding Success Amidst a Transforming Regulatory Mortgage Market
12 August 2011
Case Studies
One of the nation's leading mortgage companies decided to participate in the 2MP Program and hiSoft was engaged to manage the implementation of their 2MP program. This effort included addressing all compliance and regulatory requirements within the Treasury's revised directive immediately after the client signed the 2MP Servicer Participation Agreement (SPA). hiSoft partnered with the client to quickly assemble the project team to develop and implement the 2MP Program.
hiSoft Makes Metrics Visible for National Trucking Manufacturer
12 August 2011
Case Studies
hiSoft was asked by the President of a leading national manufacturer to develop a Dashboarding solution for the locations under his responsibility. hiSoft determined the key metrics associated with the leading national manufactuer's strategy, developed a streamlined process to collect the key metric's data, and created a physical dashboard to display the data in manner that was easy to interpret. As a result, hiSoft was able to provide the client with a simple and cost effective solution to making their key metrics visible and meaningful across the business, something the client had spent years struggling to accomplish.
Lotus Notes Content Migration to CenterStage/Documentum Enterprise Content Management System
12 August 2011
Case Studies
To lower the costs associated with the Lotus Notes environment, a global biotechnology company engaged hiSoft to migrate the Lotus Notes application contents to the CenterStage/Documentum enterprise content management system (ECM). Since the CenterStage product was relatively new, there were no vendor or third-party content migration tools/solutions available in the marketplace to migrate the applications from Lotus Notes to the CenterStage/Documentum ECM. The client chose hiSoft because of hiSoft's years of experience and demonstrated expertise in content migration.
How One Energy Company Faces the Future
12 August 2011
Case Studies
To comply with new government regulations, ensure employees were prepared to manage the changes, and encourage customers to shop for energy suppliers, a leading national natural gas and electric provider developed a regulatory deployment plan. To implement and communicate this plan, a significant set of complex changes needed to be made to business processes and messaging. To ensure the success of these changes, the client engaged hiSoft to assess a business readiness structure, approach and plan as well as develop a consistent change management strategy and deployment process.
Microsoft SharePoint Strategy & Pilot Implementation
12 August 2011
Case Studies
hiSoft was engaged by Lowe’s to plan an enterprise SharePoint implementation. A sound strategy for Lowe’s to make effective and efficient use of SharePoint was in order, as were detailed plans, budgets and funding to ensure success. The strategy to implement SharePoint was developed, and it received leadership consensus. Pilot implementation was successfully completed, validating the strategy and detailed plan.
Managing Innovation
12 August 2011
Case Studies
A leading national retailer had encountered several challenges in establishing an IT Innovation Program Management Office (PMO), including cumbersome and intensive documentation, lack of available resources and a lack of executive visibility hampered the progress of the development of the PMO. hiSoft developed a detailed PMO strategy that resulted in an integrated PMO approach between the business unit's strategy and objectives and IT research initiatives. This resulted in an improved enterprise governance structure and increased executive visibility.
hiSoft Spurs Manufacturing Company Communication & Collaboration
12 August 2011
Case Studies
A major international automotive manufacturer in the Southeast U.S. required a collaborative solution for communication within departments and across locations in the U.S. and Canada. While the company possessed some existing collaborative capabilities already, their current product did not meet their requirements for an employee communication tool.
hiSoft Helps Greenville, NC & NC League of Municipalities Collaborate with Rapid Turnaround SharePoint Solution
12 August 2011
Case Studies
In January 2009, the City of Greenville appointed hiSoft to leverage the City’s SharePoint platform into a secure, segmented solution to allow rich collaboration and be portable and redeploy-able for 2009 North Carolina League of Municipalities Conference and years to come. Additionally, the City wanted to not only solve the collaboration issue for the NCLM event, but also create a platform that could be extended to other topic-focused areas.
Management of Merger Integration Projects & Business Metrics for a Leading National Utility
12 August 2011
Case Studies
hiSoft was engaged by a leading national utility to standardize processes and supporting tools across the power generation business following the client's acquisition of another utility company.
hiSoft Leads Change Management Effort to Successfully Implement Regulatory Changes at a Large Utility
12 August 2011
Case Studies
hiSoft was engaged by a leading national utility to achieve compliance with new Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules regarding employee work hours. A dedicated change management effort was necessary to prepare the client's employees and supervisors for the implementation of a new time tracking software application. The software application and its supporting software were successfully implemented at all three of the leading national utility's three nuclear sites, minimizing the impact to the client.
CollECT Phase II: A Custom Capital Project Framework Based on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services
12 August 2011
Case Studies
The CollECT (COLLaboration Engineering Construction Tool) Phase II Initiative was designed to provide a single, unified and comprehensive platform to supply document management and collaboration services to project teams working on Major Capital and Capital Maintenance projects supporting Duke Energy Generation Engineering. These services support collaboration with both internal and external project teams including project support for major external service providers. The project includes work to standardize and streamline existing business processes across divisions and business regions leading to reduced timeframes for migrating project data into operational use.