CASE STUDY

KenCharts

A startup at the sphere of platforms for trading at share stocks

Solution

Mobile Development

Industry

Financial Exchanges & Data

Outcome

The main goal of the project was to create an Android version of the existing application for tracking prices of the shares available on iOS. Computools specialists used optimal solutions to achieve their goals and made several improvements that made the application even more effective for the client.

Several key options we solved:

Adopted the platform for tracking prices of the shares for Android devices.
Added user-interface improvements.
Corrected logic of Price indicators.

+ 54%

Throughput, Users

+75%

Average Order

+67%

Increasing Productivity

+ 84%

Increasing Revenue

- 38%

Reducing Costs

29%

Business Process Automation

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The company-client is a startup at the sphere of platforms for trading at share stocks. The client is concentrated on the management and pioneering of innovative trading research tools along with significant platform solutions for fund management. They already had mobile application for tracking prices of the shares at different market stocks for the iOS platform and required to develop the same version for the Android devices. For this purpose they’ve decided to hire a team of professional developers, who could offer modern and reliable solutions for the main task. The developers worked in strong collaboration with in-house IT-department of the company. The goal has been reached successfully even with UI improvements and correcting logic of Price indicators.

Tight schedule

Lack of time for testing and launching the application

Many additional tasks that had to be solved

Some difficulties with improving libraries for the App development

Availability of the sample of the App on other platforms

Availability of all the necessary tools and data

Close collaboration with in-house client’s developers

Quick decision making on various issues

Digital Transformation Communication Framework

Computools

Team Lead

Project Manager

Developers

Linesale

Team Lead

Project Coordinator

Communication

At the very beginning of the collaboration it is important to build a convenient and reliable communication ecosystem, which will provide quick decision making and discussing any work issues. Based on the features of the project and his own experience, the Computool’s Project Manager offered to use Skype and Email for communicating with the Client’s team.For inner communication Skype, Basecamp and Email were chosen. These ways gave the opportunity to stay in touch with all the participants of the project, set tasks and complete them in time. Thanks to well-established communication, the project was completed on time.

Business Process Mapping

Described

Existing iOS version of the KenCharts application with all it’s screens and functionalities: - Online display of current price of the share - Price movements reflected on the candlestick and bar types of the graphics - Set of price indicators, like RSI, MACD, Bollinger, Stochastic etc.

Modeled

- ReactNative has been selected as the technology for the development of the Android version because: - Had supported all the required graphics libraries for drawing required graphics and indicators - Allows easily to port Android version to iOS support platform if any changes/updates are performed for the Android version

Planned

Our team of engineers has developed a road map for the development of the Android version. The Computools’ Project Manager allocated duties to the project participants, and set tasks in Basecamp. Following the offered step-by-step plan our team moved on to work.

Digital Platform & Technology

To build a state-of-the-art platform, we have carefully chosen a set of technologies with exceptional performance and security characteristics. Our chosen technologies were also highly efficient in terms of total cost of ownership and support.