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About the Customer

General Electric Company (GE), an American multinational conglomerate established in 1892, is incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston. The company operates in various sectors, including aerospace, energy, healthcare, and finance.

Project Details

General Electric (GE) was using a proprietary stack based on Adobe Flex for their desktop app store, a critical tool for showcasing and demonstrating their industrial products. However, Adobe Flex had become deprecated on modern browsers and operating systems.

Industry

Conglomerate

Services

Design, Development & Launch

Problem

The main challenge was that the current stack was deprecated, making it non-operational on modern browsers and OS.
GE’s sales team was losing prospects daily due to the unavailability of high-end systems required to run Adobe Flex.
There was a lack of knowledge transfer, with many modules and facets, including assets and videos, unknown to their technical and functional teams.
The deprecation led to monetary and opportunity losses, impacting the business negatively and causing concern among C-level executives as growth charts were moving downward.

Our Approach

BigOhTech started by decompiling the Adobe Flex codebase to understand the logic and functionality of the application.
React was chosen for its flexibility, component-based architecture, and large developer community.
We migrated Adobe Flex to React PWA with Electron, enabling clients and prospects to run the application on browsers and install it as a desktop app.
Used Canvas JS and React JS for custom animation.

Benefits

The modernization of this one application led the business to decide to upgrade 30 other legacy applications.
These initiatives allowed the sales team to reach out to their prospects more effectively.
The turnaround time (TAT) for client demos, including preparation and actual demo, was reduced by nearly 70%.
The Profit and Loss (P&L) panel throughout the application has been improved.