What We Do

Application Architecture

Application Architecture quantifies and qualifies the technology implementation of business requirements and goals. It involves comprehensively capturing functional business requirements and translating those requirements into technology implementations which adhere to best practices and industry standards.

Application Architecture concerns itself with ensuring that all components of a software system not only fulfill the business requirement for their existence, but also that each component has been designed and evaluated to satisfy every technology requirement which may be placed on it.

• Involves all stakeholders in the project to provide their input
• Reduces unforseen circumstances and potential pitfalls
• Provides a blueprint for the project
• Ensures adherence to best practices and industry standards
• Provisions for future modifications, extensions, and integrations

Research & Development Prototyping

It is often necessary to prove out new ideas before leveraging them. Your staff may have higher priorities or may be lacking the necessary expertise to develop and validate new ideas and techniques to increase your technology's competitive advantage.

We can quickly devise and develop prototypes for new directions which your staff can build upon once the models have been validated. This is a powerful approach which ensures validation prior to execution.

• Allows for experimentation with new ideas
• Provides rapid feedback and validation
• Prevents the need for a full-blown project
• Reduces sidetracking of and strain on resources

Technology Assessment

It can be hard to know what the current state of your existing technology assets are if you're not an expert in such things. A Technology Assessment provides a comprehensive breakdown of where you are in relation to the rest of the world, as well as what areas you can improve in.

If you believe that you can do more, but don't know what's holding you back, this is a solution which will detail to you in language you can understand where you stand, and where you can go.

• Get honest and expert feedback from a neutral third party
• Identify and rectify "weak links" you may be unaware of
• Document systems and applications for which there is no documentation

Project Guidance

Leading technology initiatives can be difficult, especially if you are lacking the expertise to understand the technical aspects of the project. We help bridge that gap by providing Project Guidance in the form of technical project management. We understand the business drivers and the technical aspects of projects.

We have successfully guided many projects to success by lending a hand to make sense of the cryptic, as well as to ensure the proper implementation of business and technical requirements.

• Augment your projects with business-driven technical experts
• Learn pointers on managing technology initiatives
• Beat deadlines
• Deliver requested functionality the first time

Best Practices Training

Most developers don't intentionally create bad products. They simply don't know any better. On-the-job learning can only go so far, and for critical projects, developers should not be figuring it out as they go.

By investing in educating your staff about best practices, industry standards, common pitfalls, and successful patterns, you not only increase the quality of your projects, but also reduce the sunk costs of such projects. We help not only educate your staff, but also provide them with a "hotline" for questions when they need answers.

• Harvest talent from within
• Reduces sunk project costs
• Increases project effectiveness

SaaS & SOA Development

Integration functionality between applications can be difficult. By rethinking your approach to development to include SaaS (Software as a Service) and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), you can expose common functionality to multiple applications throughout your organization.

By consolidating and exposing functionality using these techniques, immediate rapid development initiatives and cost savings can be achieved.

• Exposes functionality in a standardized and shareable format
• Increases speed of integration
• Consolidates common functionality

Mobile Development

Mobile devices allow your business users and constomers to interact with you even when they are not behind a computer. Powerful new devices expose a powerful new opportunity paradigm to doing business.

Your existing applications can be extended to support mobile device integration. Imagine the power of being able to do business whenever and now wherever.

• Expose existing applications to mobile devices
• Let your customers always be in touch
• Give field employees and out-of-office staff application access
• Achieve real-time objectives previously hampered by the need for connectivity

Software Inspection & Code Review

Your technology is not only an investment, it is an asset. By having a third-party inspect and review your software and code, you can be assured that your investment will come to fruition.

Too often, only the surface of a project is examined, whereas the problems always lie beneath. Just like a home inspection or a review of a business's books, software inspections and code reviews make sure your investment will become an asset and not a liability.

• Ensure you are creating an asset and not a liability
• Receive a neutral third party's expert assessment
• Reduce the risk of project failure
• Preemptively identify damaging issues

Quality Assurance

Making sure an application meets your business's needs is no small task. At some point, the users of your systems must validate for themselves that their needs and requirements have been met.

Too often, those users are asked to beta software which is simply not ready for them. By having a third party perform your initial quality assurance, your users will merely have to perform business acceptance of the system, and not have to deal with error pages and faulty logic.

• Turn your quality assurance tasks into business acceptance tasks
• Receive comprehensive reports on working as well as broken functionality
• Offload defect identification and reporting from your users and onto quality assurance professionals without increasing your staff
• Get a neutral third party's assessment

Source Control & Build Environment Setup

Source Control and Build Environments are a key component to the success of any software project. Far too often, source control is not used effectively, or not used at all.

Your technology is an asset; the source code to it is the foundation of that asset. Let us help you secure that foundation and ensure its solidarity.

• All source code in one place
• Ability for multiple developers to work concurrently together
• Ability to track application changes
• A reproducable method for building and testing your projects