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Retirement Plan Design Tool Development

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development
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Industry
Industry

Financial Services

Duration
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81 months

Budget
Budget

Confidential

Start Date
Start Date

1 January 2013

Team Size
Team Size

1-5

Engagement Model
Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

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81/100
Strong

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Client

Confidential

mapLake Oswego, United States of America

Project Summary

Altoros provides outsourced development to a financial services firm to build a retirement plan design tool. They reprogrammed Excel calculations into Ruby on Rails, designed the UI and reporting structures, and implemented frontend HTML/CSS. The small dedicated team (3–4 people) has stayed on schedule, scope, and budget and is praised for responsiveness and technical competence.

Key Challenges

  • Develop a tool to help retirement plan fiduciaries model matching program designs in real time
  • Calculate the impact of plan design changes across all employees, including marginal cost and benefit analyses

Project Deliverables

  • Database design
  • UI design
  • Reporting structures
  • Reprogrammed Excel calculations into Ruby on Rails
  • HTML and CSS frontend implementation

Project Solution

Altoros helped make the client's internally designed retirement plan tool operational by designing the database, UI, and reporting structures, reprogramming calculations from Microsoft Excel into Ruby on Rails, and implementing frontend HTML/CSS. The vendor also handled work that is separate from the client's core benchmarking system and supported scalability research for high-volume participant calculations.

Project Outcome

  • The service and software are not yet operational, but Altoros has stayed on time, scope, and budget
  • The team exceeded project management expectations, providing regular follow-ups and clear task ownership
  • Researched parallel computing and multi-processor approaches to support tens of thousands of participants

Platforms

  • WebWeb

Tech Stack

  • Ruby on RailsRuby on Rails

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

5star5 out of 5 stars

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Despite minimal guidance, Altoros has worked independently and taken the project further than internal stakeholders expected they’d be able to. Responsive, highly skilled, and amiable, the team stays on schedule, scope, and budget. Customers can expect a reliable and cost-effective offshore partner.”

Anonymous

CEO

Note: This endorsement is based on publicly available client feedback from external review sources.

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