The Houston Texans new general manager needed to improve the team’s ability to assess and rank athletes. Scouting and selecting the right players is key to a team’s success, making it critical to update the organization’s college and professional player scouting application to meet their changing reporting and analyis needs.

The existing scouting application presented challenges with the recording, submission and analysis of scouting data for a variety of reasons. The data was stored across multiple Microsoft Access and SQL Server databases which required the Texans’ database administrator to move information between systems. It also required the users to know which database to search in order to locate information. In addition, the application’s architectural limitations precluded the delivery of information in the format the general manager required.

The Texans determined that the solution was a new custom application, based on Microsoft .NET. but, with just one full-time programmer on staff it was impossible for the Texans to create in time for football season, less than a month from project start.

Requirements in hand, the Texans approached Catapult for application development expertise. The combination of Catapult’s Microsoft knowledge and its experience on other Texans projects made Catapult a perfect fit.