Adesso AG : Developing better software even faster: adesso deploys agile techniques for Trox

Dortmund, June 11, 2013 - Trox GmbH is currently working together with IT service provider adesso to update its Easy Product Finder. The companies' long-term project is designed to modernize and extend the component and system configuration solution for air conditioning and climate control technology. adesso's approach is to use the very latest

From Dubai's Burj al Arab to the Veltins-Arena stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, climate technology from Trox GmbH is employed in hotels, sports venues, trade fair buildings and airports all over the world. The company develops, produces and markets components and systems for regulating the temperature of interior spaces. For countless professionals in the construction industry, the Easy Product Finder from Trox is an essential tool when configuring components and systems that are part of air conditioning and climate control installations. The program provides access to all technical data and makes planning easier. In addition, it plays a key role in the company's advertising and sales processes - which means the update project is of
central importance for Trox. For this reason, the company opted to join forces with IT service provider adesso on developing its new release, and it was particularly impressed with the agile project design, called Scrum, that adesso applied to the undertaking.
Trox saw that Scrum offered a whole host of advantages. Instead of waiting for months before a major update was ready, Scrum meant enhancements were available every three weeks, and the Easy Product Finder was expanded in this way step by step. One of the characteristics of this agile development process is how the team successively issues a functioning, extensible release with new functions in short development cycles, called "sprints" within the
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business. These short cycles make the project very flexible, as it can respond to changing requirements as they arise. At the same time, this approach makes it possible to define plannable results thanks to the standardized structure of the development cycles.
Working together, experts from Trox and adesso defined what was needed from the new version, while at the same time running a parallel analysis of the existing software architecture. The results were combined to generate a concept that formed the foundations of the work which would be carried out during the sprints.
Version no. 2 of the Easy Product Finder offers a range of improvements compared to its predecessors. The available product portfolio is being continuously expanded, new functions such as the media library and parts lists make it easier to use the system, and there is also a revised interface with a new user option structure. Under the hood, there is a .NET-based system that makes sure users have straightforward, uncomplicated access to all of the Easy Product Finder's functions.
Martin Schmitz-Ohrndorf, head of adesso AG's consulting competence center, predicts that agile projects will becoming increasingly important over the coming years: "They are flexible but plannable, fast but precise. The
continuing development of the Easy Product Finder shows that agile approaches manage to bridge the gaps between scores of different requirements."

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adesso is one of the leading IT service providers in the German-speaking area and focuses its consulting and software development activities on a company's core business processes. adesso's strategy is based on three pillars: the deep

industry-specific know-how of its staff, the comprehensive expertise in technology and the application of reliable methods in software implementation projects. Following this approach, adesso develops superior IT solutions, which enhance the competitive

position of a company.

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adesso was founded in Dortmund in 1997 and employs more than 1,000 members of staff in ten offices. The share is listed on the regulated market. Some of the most important customers are Allianz, Hannover Rück, Union Investment, Westdeutsche Lotterie, Swisslos, Zurich Versicherung, DEVK and DAK.

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