¶ Development Roadmap
Our vision for the next 5 years is shaped by technological advancements, user-centric design thinking, and our commitment to delivering unparalleled value.
¶ Commitment to Innovation
Technological Advancements: We will consistently invest in R&D, ensuring we are at the forefront of technology. This includes leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other emerging technologies to enhance our data led platform offerings. Our AI solutions will enable optimisation, efficiencies for both sides of the market (i.e. Asset Managers and Fund Investors).Integration of Advanced Analytics: We foresee a significant drive towards data-driven decision-making. To support this, we aim to incorporate advanced analytics and predictive modelling into our platform, offering actionable insights for our clients.
¶ Enhanced User Experience
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Personalized Experiences: Utilizing data analytics and user behaviour analysis, we aim to offer tailored experiences, increasing user engagement and satisfaction.
¶ Scalability and Flexibility
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Modular Approach: Our microservice-based architecture will continue to evolve, ensuring each component of our software is independently scalable, maintainable, and deployable. -
Global Cloud Deployment Strategy: Our platform will undergo refinements to seamlessly support cloud deployments across multiple regions. This advancement will transition our availability from the current zone-level to a broader region-level, ensuring not only enhanced high availability, but also optimized performance and adherence to data compliance standards.
¶ Security and Compliance:
Investment in Cybersecurity: In a world of increasing cyber threats, we will bolster our information and cybersecurity measures, ensuring the utmost safety for our clients’ data.Regulatory Compliance: We will keep abreast of global regulatory policies and changes, adapting our solutions to meet industry-specific compliances and standards (e.g., ‘Consumer Duty’ regulations in UK).
¶ Expanding Ecosystem
API-First Approach: We foresee an interconnected digital ecosystem. Our API-first approach will facilitate integrations, partnerships, and collaborations, allowing clients to connect our solutions with other tools and platforms effortlessly.Community Building: Over the next 5 years, we aim to cultivate a vibrant community of users, content library partners, fund data partners, other appropiate service providers etc. This will not only foster innovation through shared ideas but also provide invaluable feedback.
¶ Sustainable Development
Green Computing: Recognizing our responsibility towards the environment, we will adopt strategies to minimize our carbon footprint, optimize resource usage, and promote sustainable practices.
¶ Conclusion
Our development strategy is not just about technological growth; it’s about creating value, building relationships, and driving sustainable and responsible innovation. We believe that our roadmap aligns well with the evolving digital landscape and the aspirations of our progressive clients & partners.
¶ Major Re-Design
At Door, we have plans in the pipeline for a significant redesign of our solution’s interface. Here’s an overview of our intended changes:
¶ Timeline
We are targeting a release window for the new UX/UI in 2024, specifically around Q3/Q4. This redesign will be rolled out in a phased manner, with the initial launch focusing on the most crucial user-centric enhancements.
¶ Main Focus Areas
User-Centric Self Service: We understand the importance of giving users autonomy. The redesign will emphasize self-service features, making everything from user registration and sign-up to in-depth platform configurations being intuitive and user-friendly.Enhanced Networking Capabilities: Our platform will foster even more robust connections and engagements. The aim is to amplify the interaction between Asset Managers and Fund Investors, further promoting seamless collaboration.Data-Led Insights: In this digital age, data drives decisions. The redesigned interface will present insights in a clearer, more actionable manner, enabling users to make more informed decisions.
¶ Unchanged Aspects
It’s essential to highlight that while the user-facing aspects will undergo this transformation, the backbone of our platform - including the backend, infrastructure, logic, and services - will remain unchanged. This is not a shift in the product/platform’s core functionalities but a strategic enhancement in how users interact with and experience the platform.
¶ Conclusion
We’re excited about our upcoming designs & changes, driven by feedback, industry trends, and our commitment to ensuring our platform remains at the forefront of user experience and functionality.
¶ Release Strategy
Door’s release strategy has been fine-tuned to ensure seamless updates and minimal disruptions for our users.
¶ Release Framework
At Door, we have adopted a Kanban release process. This agile methodology allows us to prioritize and rapidly deliver software updates to accommodate evolving requirements and immediate needs.
¶ Release Frequencies
¶ Major Releases
These are comprehensive updates that might include new features, significant enhancements, or changes that might affect the fundamental way the software operates. Given our agile approach, we do not have a fixed frequency for major releases. Instead, they are scheduled based on a combination of user feedback, market dynamics, and our innovation roadmap. We adopt a microservice based approach; and are able to break a major release/change into multiple smaller issues/features/releases and are able to deploy continuously.
¶ Minor Releases
These include incremental changes, such as minor feature enhancements, improvements, and non-critical bug fixes. Owing to our Kanban process, we have the capacity to push minor releases daily, ensuring swift adaptability to user needs.
¶ Patches
Our system is equipped to release patches multiple times a day. These patches often entail urgent bug fixes, security updates, or other time-sensitive alterations. Their frequency is contingent on the necessity to maintain software integrity and user security.
¶ Enabling Technologies and Practices
Our capability to offer frequent and reliable releases is bolstered by the following:
Cloud Infrastructure:Enables scalability and flexibility, ensuring swift deployment and allowing us to serve a diverse clientele without compromising on speed or security.Microservice-based Architecture:By compartmentalizing our services, we can swiftly pinpoint, update, or fix specific segments without affecting the whole system. This reduces potential system downtime and ensures uninterrupted service.CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery):Automates our software delivery process. This not only speeds up our releases but also maintains the integrity of the software as each change is automatically tested before being deployed.Smart Branching Technology:Ensures a structured approach to version control, allowing us to simultaneously work on different features or fixes without hindrance.Automated Tests:Before any release, whether major, minor, or patch, our updates undergo rigorous automated testing to ascertain their quality, performance, and security.
At Door, we take pride in our adaptive and dynamic release strategy. This ensures our data led platform & solutions are always current, secure, and optimized for our users. Our infrastructure and practices not only make frequent releases possible but also ensure that each release upholds the quality and trust that our clientele expect from us.
¶ Branching Strategy
Below is a high level strategy of the Door code branching in order to achieve a continuous build and release process.