Application Development and Maintenance

The new millennium has brought forth a host of new application development projects, most of them built on web-based technologies with a strong orientation towards standards-driven (EJB, COM/DCOM) architecture. The experiences of the last century have forced users to adopt scalable and extensible architectures, which also can handle 24/7 business availability to accommodate global customers and reduce development cycles to a minimum.

Expertise in diverse platforms:

We have expertise in hardware and software platforms such as IBM Mainframes, IBM RS/6000, AS/400, Unix and Windows NT. Our heterogeneous mix of skills enables quick ramp-up of resources for both large and small application projects with relative ease.

Design and development expertise:

We provide both end-to-end solutions (analysis to maintenance) and specific design/development services. This flexibility is supplemented by our expertise in design and development of host-centric or n-tier client-server architecture across a wide variety of environments

Usage of tools and techniques:

Our expertise helps us incorporate the best of breed tools and techniques in the software development life cycle. These include MasterCraft™, CasePac, IEF/ CoolGen, Forte, Oracle Developer and Designer 2000 Rational Rose, ER Win & UML notation.

State-of-the-art facilities:

Our state-of-the-art software development facilities, and high-speed data links allow us better connectivity and communication. We relate easily to parameters such as the age of the systems, processes and standards followed, lack of availability of documentation and lack of expertise in the relevant technologies.

But what we are best at, is understanding the richness in business functionality of systems and the built-in rules of the organization - the not so obvious but 'real productivity assets of the organization.' Our mature application maintenance process includes three inter-linked processes:

o Adaptive maintenance
o Preventive maintenance
o Corrective maintenance

Our comprehensive methodology for application maintenance captures the functionality and processes for the entire sustenance life cycle which include providing the necessary tools to identify business rules:

o Providing valued-added services to enhance the capability of the systems Building the tools and    techniques    to enhance staff productivity.
o Staffing and training the team on the system needs, the tools and the process defining the quality    and    measurement program.
o Extensive usages of process measurements help us to constantly improve our quality, productivity,    and
   on-time delivery capabilities thus enabling us for innovative software maintenance.

Our Reengineering process includes:

o Analysis of existing applications
o Identification of suitable technology and platforms
o Replacement of obsolete applications through fresh development or integration of established    products.
o Migration of applications to the new platform Design, development and integration of the new    environment.