Online Mortgage application Web sites are ubiquitous these days; back in 2000 a working proof of concept could be built in a few days. Today in the hands of an expert using ASP.NET 2.0 RAD tools, a useable real world, small to medium scale systems can be developed and online working in the same time scale.
The rush to register domain names from the late nineties combined with the dawning of the third millennium itself produced the impetus to turn out lots of working prototype finance service systems.
City Group are well known and technically speaking one of the more advanced banking organisations to employ leading edge technology for its customers on the Web.
This is part of a series I'm putting together to give potential clients a feel for
some of the issues I tackal and how I tread the technologies to solutions
path.
This small series will also serve the purpose of giving "would be"
consultants a better feel for the range of business types and how their needs do
and do not differ.