Situation at NIB

NIB is a dynamic organization, focused on the mission of creating jobs and developing careers for people who are blind. NIB works with more than 100 associated nonprofit agencies in more than 250 locations across the United States, offering a wide range of career opportunities with no boundaries.

NIB operates more than 150 base supply stores (BSCs) at military bases and federal installations across the country to provide one-stop shopping to military personnel and federal employees. The reporting from these BSCs was hindered due to an old application using unreliable technology components. The error-prone reporting often resulted in manual issue fixing, affecting productivity.

NIB required a modernization of its BSC reporting and established the following objectives:

  • Replace a legacy On-Prem application
  • Increase flexibility, scalability, and performance
  • Identify key data points required by the business
  • Enable the application on the cloud

The implementation of the sprint-based delivery model has really helped us to improve the quality of the delivery and make necessary adjustments early in the process to reduce rework at the end. AST has kept the NIB team involved during the development process with demos of the cloud-native application solution, which is implemented bi-weekly and tested as it’s ready.”

Nirmala Sivakumar IT Director, NIB
Let’s Create Progress Together!

The implementation of the sprint-based delivery model has really helped us to improve the quality of the delivery and make necessary adjustments early in the process to reduce rework at the end. AST has kept the NIB team involved during the development process with demos of the cloud-native application solution, which is implemented bi-weekly and tested as it’s ready.”

Nirmala Sivakumar IT Director, NIB

Solution & Benefits of Cloud-Native Application Development for Non-Profits

NIB partnered with AST to re-platform its legacy applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling NIB’s partner agencies across the US to report store data efficiently and, in turn, offer a wide range of career opportunities. AST’s Center of Excellence and expertise with advanced technology solutions were critical to the success of this engagement.

AST’s dedicated team of consultants built the custom BSC reporting application on Oracle Cloud in just 4 months, using the Oracle Visual Builder Platform. This development platform from the latest generation of Oracle SaaS products offers the ability to expand into Oracle Cloud to meet specific business needs.

Key benefits realized by NIB as a result of this engagement include:

  • Enabled various agencies working with NIB with an interactive approach to submitting their data online
  • Automated reminders to agencies regarding data submission deadlines
  • Enabled data audit processes and captured a more granular level of data
  • Improved existing processes with a modern User Interface (UI)
Industry: Non-Profit

Solution Components:

  • Oracle Integration Cloud
  • Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service
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Why AST?


AST’s expertise in Oracle Cloud Platform (OCI) technology and custom application development using cloud-native Oracle Visual Builder streamlined and improved business operations at NIB.