Beginning in 2014, Apexon (in partnership with Kony, a leader in mobile application development) mapped GlobeOne’s business and operational needs to the capabilities of the Kony product platform to design, develop and launch GlobeOne’s highly flexible mobile banking solution in just 16 weeks. Over the next 5+ years Apexon worked on new integrations and additional development work using Kony’s platform.
Success Story Financial Services
GlobeOne Launches New Digital Banking App GloballyApexon developed an end-to-end mobile development platform with partner Kony
GlobeOne is the world’s first digital banking club, offering members multiple banking and finance options along with a variety of rewards and perks.
GlobeOne is utilizing digital technology to connect a global community to provide highly affordable and accessible financial services based on a predictable fixed annual fee. Its business model is predicated on the ability to connect with multiple banks around the world so that they can work together.
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A collective of banking veterans and digital innovators who created a new way to bank
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Designed for today’s mobile world
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Serving the large population of unbanked and underbanked
The Customer Journey
- Retail Banking Application Development
- Kony Integration
- Mobile Application Development
- Test Automation
- Mobile Application Development & Bank Integration
- New Member Bank Integration
- Additional Kony Development
the Results
Key Outcomes
Accelerated
Time-to-Market
Time-to-Market
From strategy to launch in just 16 weeks
Agile Development
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Providing agility to adjust to changing market dynamics
Rapid business
growth
growth
In new global markets
Go Digital
Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence
Be digital
Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives
Evolve Digital
Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes
Enable digital adoption in a quick, and agile manner
Apexon assigned the right mix of resources to enable GlobeOne to launch globally in just 16 weeks.
Apexon used best practices and innovative problem solving in the blueprint, development, and UAT phases to ensure both short and long-term success.
Build digital infrastructure and foundation for enterprises to scale
Apexon leveraged Kony Studio, Bug Fixing Visualizer and Mobile Fabric to build in features iteratively along with the backend integration while incorporating various changes along the way.
Leverage data engineering to make strategic decisions and get digital right every time
The Kony/Apexon collaboration enabled GlobeOne to deploy the flexible development infrastructure it needed to connect a global financial community.
The challenge
Connecting customers to A network of global community banks
GlobeOne’s mission is to create financial inclusion for the growing number of unbanked and underbanked consumers around the world by improving and enhancing their financial health and well-being.
The company does not want to be a bank, rather, its goal is to provide the front-end infrastructure, integration and access points needed to connect its customers to a large network of community banks across the world. In order to execute on this vision, GlobeOne needed to create a standardized development infrastructure for its different channels and applications (including mobile, native, and desktop) to accelerate time-to-market and ensure maximum flexibility to respond to the unique dynamics of different geographic markets around the world.
Kony started working with GlobeOne to provide the foundational development platform for the their application, but it still had to solve three outstanding challenges:
A business model requiring many-to-many integration in cross-border financial services
The need to ramp up and expand quickly into new geographies and languages
The ability to develop for multiple platforms, devices and operating systems around the world
The Solution
innovative problem solving & resources
Apexon assigned the right mix of onsite (project manager and technical lead) and offsite (development, QA and a technical lead) resources to ensure on-time delivery, flexibility and responsiveness for both Kony and GlobeOne. Throughout three different phases, Apexon and Kony brought best practices and innovative problem solving to ensure the short and long-term success of the GlobeOne implementation. The phases included:
Phase 1
Blueprinting | 2 Weeks
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Analysis, user stories/requirements
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A series of UI wireframes and a clickable prototype mapped to address different user needs leveraging the Kony platform
Phase 2
Development | 11 Weeks
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Leveraged Kony Studio, Visualizer and Mobile Fabric to build in features iteratively along with the backend integration while incorporating various changes along the way
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Developed and deployed additional features; fortified existing features – accelerating GlobeOne’s ability to quickly add new functionality as it expanded into new geographies and added more banks to its global community
With the help of Kony and Apexon, GlobeOne was able to deploy the development infrastructure it needed to connect a global financial community. It has continued its rapid expansion into new geographies while maintaining the flexibility and agility to adjust to changing market dynamics.