System

Name of the system: Aloan

Name of the software producer (company): hIghQ

Short description of the functionality offered by the system:

Aloan is a loan manager application. It is capable of  monitoring different loans, including mortgage plan calculation and follow up.

RJV/ONVA gives out a number of loans to non-profit organizations. Before Aloan was developed, the task of managing and reporting these loans was done externally by a bank. RJV/ONVA paid this bank a serious amount of money each year for performing this service. RJV/ONVA received summary reports from the bank every 6 months.
The rest of the time RJV/ONVA didn't had any idea on the status of payments and such. Now that hIghQ has developed Aloan, RJV/ONVA doesn't have to pay anything anymore to this bank and the numerous reporting facilities that are included in Aloan make it possible to get a clear idea on the financial status on a day by day basis. Developing this application was cheaper than the cost of 1 yearly fee for the bank service.

Sector/industry: Finance

Type of application: Administration & Reporting

Use

In production since: 1997

Number of users: 2

Used by: RJV

Development

Start date: May 1996

End date: December 2000

Number of people involved in development (counted by their main activity):

Managers: 1
Developers: 1
Analysts: (not filled in)
Testers: (not filled in)
Other: (not filled in)

Number of man years:

Planned till final delivery: 1/2
Already consumed: 1/2

The development effort will stop on: ?

Smalltalk dialect used: VisualAge for Smalltalk 4.5

Other tools used: ENVY, Refactoring Browser

Size

Number of classes in the system: 100

Number of use cases: 20

Technical

Platform: Windows 95/98/NT

Type: Client/Server

More Information

URL with more information on the system or project: http://www.highq.be/projects/rjv.htm

URL with information on the software producer: http://www.highq.be/

URL with information on the client: http://www.rjv.fgov.be/