Our Approach

In 2010, Forex Capital Markets was asked to display foreign exchange currency rates on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. Gehtsoft was tasked with developing an application that was compatible with NYSE equipment and had one critical requirement: 24/7 accessibility with zero downtime. It could not fail.

Gehtsoft’s development team not only delivered but we did so in just one month. Gehtsoft fulfilled the client's mission, and the monitor had zero interruptions throughout its four-year lifespan.

Financial regulations can change quickly, and if companies can't quickly pivot to stay compliant, they can face fines or simply get booted from the industry. When the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) decided to impose strict new rules on trading, our client's trading system was about to become obsolete.

Within three months, we were able to overhaul their entire system to execute trades as demanded by the new CFTC rules. Out of more than 100 foreign exchange companies operating before the rule change, only our client and a handful of competitors were successful in implementing the sweeping system-wide change quickly enough to stay in business.

One of our greatest successes in getting to know a customer came when an agricultural client began a project with us shortly before harvest season. With no option for delay, it was up to Gehtsoft to strategize the most valuable path to the final product. We worked in bi-monthly sprints, adding a new and fully functional feature to the project each time so that each key feature of the product was ready to handle the next stage in the harvest process as it came through.

Thanks to Agile and Scrum in action, the client was able to walk through the entire harvest season without a finalized version of the product — while still achieving the desired results on a budget.