#devday copenhagen - bluegarden presentation

BLUEGARDENTAKING PAYROLL TO THE 21ST CENTURY

Andreas Sjöbergansj@bluegarden.com

#DevDay

AGENDA

� Modernizing a payroll system (using .NET and Visual COBOL)

� Scalability and performance impacts

� Continuous Delivery and Agile development

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BLUEGARDEN GOAL: NO 1 IN PAYROLL AND HR

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2014

2010

BLUEGARDEN LÖN

> 2,3 million per month> 600 employees

CUSTOMERS (BLUEGARDEN SWEDEN)

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plus more than 120 more...

”BLUEGARDEN HR-PLUS IS ONE OF SWEDEN´S MOST COMPLETE HR-SYSTEM”

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…according to the report “HR-system in Sweden” by Herbert Nathan & Co 2013Strategic processes

Recruting

Employment & introduction

Development

Education

Compensation

Time

Payroll

Targeting

Termination

Administration

Reporting

HR-PLUS ARCHITECTURE

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Windowsapplication

COBOL exe COBOL GNT

Service bus Service

Webapplication

3rd partyintegrations

WHY

� Creating new modules in both .NET and COBOL

� Better integration possibilities

� Scalability

� Performance (almost 9x faster thanks to scaling!)

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Time for payroll (in minutes)

Previous platform New Playform

Then Now

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CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

Version

4 hours 10 minutes

Branching

Code freeze Continuous – stable master

Upgrades

Maintenance window Zero downtime deployment

DEMO

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SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

� Cloud

� Mobile

� Containers

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Anyquestions?

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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