General Electric

Project Details

General Electric (GE) had been utilizing a proprietary stack based on Adobe Flex for their desktop app store, a critical tool for showcasing and demonstrating their industrial usage products. Their current tech stack Adobe Flex deprecated on the modern browser and Operating Systems.

Problem

• Main challenge was the current stack getting deprecated and turning out to be not being operational on the modern day browsers & OS.
• GE’s Sales team was losing on prospects every other day, Due to the unavailability of the high end systems to met the needs of adobe flex.
• Major challenge was lack of Knowledge transfer as well, Many modules and facets were unknown to their technical and functional team including even the assets and videos.
• There were monetary and opportunity lost, Which was impacting the business and C Level executives as growth progression chart was moving downwards.

Our Approach

• Started off with the challenging task of decompiling the Adobe Flex codebase to understand the logic and functionality of the application.
• React was chosen for its flexibility, component-based architecture, and a large developer community.
• Migrated Adobe Flex to React PWA with Electron. Enabling client and prospects to run the application not only on browsers but also install it as a desktop App.
• Canvas JS & React JS was used for custom animation.
• These initiatives enabled the Sales guys to reach out to their prospects more effectively.

Benefits

• Due to this one application modernisation business was able to derive the decision of upgrading the other legacy 30 applications.
• TAT for the client demo including preparation and actual demo was reduced to nearly 70%.
• PnL panel throughout the application has been improved.