Applications are the lifeline of any business relying on IT solutions. Applications have evolved in the last two decades from simple mail and 2-tier client-server applications to complex heterogeneous custom systems.
These not only support underlying business processes and back-end operations, but also drive customer-facing business opportunities. As such, CIOs are measuring the success of technology investments in terms of business outcomes-profitability, risk, growth, and cost.
Today, the challenges are more pronounced. Point and near-term solutions fall short of meeting these challenges in growing business needs and managing applications from begriming to end. This results in business risks, loss of business opportunities, and higher maintenance costs. IT organizations struggle due to lack of disciplined processes and technology-oriented approaches, thereby putting the business at risk. Good development processes and tools can help mitigate these risks.
With an ever-increasing number of packaged applications, off-the-shelf products, and development frameworks, selecting the right technologies to architect solutions becomes increasingly challenging. Each vendor aggressively pushes their own software stack and the allure of low-cost locations brings its own set of problems due to distance and cultural differences. Datawiz Application Development Solution will allow you to:
Leading organizations realize that applications must be continually refined and adapted to changing needs or situations. This may require a significant re-engineering or corrective effort. Datawiz Consulting & Integration Services can work with you to improve poorly-designed production applications and transform them into a more agile platform to support your growing business.
| Strategize | This phase involves the review of business objectives, and defining a plan for desired system/solution. |
| Analyze | In this phase, business requirements are refined, end-user needs are detailed, and concepts of operations and performance standards are established. Gaps to address underlying business and/or technology problems are addressed. |
| Design | A technical and implementation design is developed. A proof-of-concept may be developed to validate the design, if required. |
| Develop | Tools and technologies required for developing and implementing the solution are acquired. The system is developed and tested to meet business and operational requirements. Upon completion, appropriate training and knowledge transfer plan is developed. |
| Deploy | The system is installed, configured, and tuned to meet operational and performance guidelines. The system undergoes final user acceptance to validate compliance with requirements. Development of documentation is completed. |
| Maintain | Datawiz provides a range of application maintenance and support services to help manage and transform your applications once they are in production. These services are highly customized to support your unique IT environment and requirements. Please contact Datawiz for an assessment of your application maintenance needs. |
Complete end-to-end solutions:
Datawiz partners with its customers to provide a complete end-to-end solution from development and testing through deployment to maintenance. This supports your near- and long-term goals while reducing the cost of managing applications. HP's large partner ecosystem enables Datawiz to bring the necessary resources and skill-sets from partners to complement its service delivery and hence ensure success.
Client-centric solution provider: Datawiz uses its diverse understanding of available and supportable technologies, their use-cases, and strengths and weaknesses to architect a tailored, client-centric solution that aligns with your business needs.
Datawiz has extensive capability of incremental lifecycle development methodology to enable quick delivery of core functionality. Our methodology incorporates CMMI practices to ensure on-time delivery of high quality products. The goal of this methodology is to not only help reduce the work and eliminate rework cycles, but to also allow for concurrency of development activities.
To help deliver software solutions more efficiently, Datawiz assists it’s client with the future migration of applications using industry leading technologies in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). We have achieved early success with service-oriented architectures (SOA) focused first on small, incremental projects that show immediate returns to the business. By focusing on those processes and activities, which appeared many times across the agency's business areas, we began to see places where we could reuse existing services to help build new ones.
In order to reduce the design and development phases of the SDLC, Datawiz has also employed certain aspects of Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology. Contrary to a traditional waterfall approach, this methodology places the developers and SME in close proximity. SMEs have the knowledge and authority to make decisions during development allowing for better communications and thus reducing the amount of time to incorporate a change or clarify a requirement. Through our work with other major clients we have utilized this methodology to great success.
| Quick Time to Delivery | At Datawiz we aim to give our clients a ‘Quick Win’ so that users quickly realize the benefits and lessons learned which can be used for future phases. This multi-phased approach offers visibility and control, mitigates risk, and increases efficiencies during deployment. |
| User Involvement | This approach allows the project team to engage the user community quickly and present an analytical solution that the users can “see and touch” early in the development lifecycle. It allows for improved communication, greater success with change management, quicker issue identification and resolution, and a more educated user base as we approach testing, training, and deployment. This resulted in the organization being knowledgeable about the capabilities and architecture of their solution which in turn helped us accurately model their needs and provide a platform that could continue to grow with their objectives. |
| Cyclical | Our approach to applications development is cyclical yet structured. While the approach described may appear as a waterfall, phases will overlap thus giving a cyclical approach. The methodology embraces the ideas and concepts associated with concurrent development and iterative or rapid development methodologies. Our methodology uses a fluid cycle, in which involved parties are simultaneously involved in the various steps. For instance, after the Analysis stage, Design and Development will strongly overlap, often appearing to occur simultaneously. With experienced PMP certified project management personnel, Datawiz will apply the best management practices to maximize the work within the defined project critical path. |
| Allow Requirements to Change | Datawiz found that in a dynamic applications development environment, business users can identify many requirements but once they see the capabilities of the software tools and ease with which data may be accessed, they think of increased functionality and data requirements. We believe that this approach is the best way to give the business user the most effective tool for accessing information. |
| Knowledge Transfer | Throughout our effort, we at Datawiz are committed to transferring knowledge to the client. Transferring knowledge to the organization is critical to the long-term value of the investment in a new system. The project work plan is developed with this goal in mind. Client team members may be involved in each task to assist the knowledge transfer process. Datawiz encourage the client personnel working hand-in-hand throughout this project. |
