Case Study: a leading educational assessment company achieves faster, more efficient assessment digitization with HCL

Leading Educational Assessment Company - Customer Case Study

The client, a leading educational assessment company, faced the significant challenge of digitizing its value chain to move from paper-based to online assessments. This required modernizing a complex portfolio of legacy mainframe applications, migrating reporting technologies, and adapting to extreme seasonal variations in workload, all while maintaining high security standards. To address this, they partnered with HCL for its digital engineering solutions.

HCL implemented a comprehensive solution that transformed legacy COBOL and AFP systems into a modern, web-oriented Java framework. They integrated new tools for test administration, automated scoring, and reporting, and implemented a Core-Flexi resource model to handle seasonal demand. This digitization effort by HCL yielded substantial results, including a reduction of over 22 person-years of manual effort through automation and optimized processes, alongside improved application availability on mobile devices.