Business processes analysis
One of the first and most important steps in the development of information systems is the analysis of business processes. Requirements for the new automated system or enhancements to existing systems are always drawn based on the results of the research and analysis of internal rules of the organization. Success of the project depends on how good automatable area has been analyzed, how accurately the requirements for developing a product were identified, how well they have been described.
Specialists of our company, using modern methods of analysis, modeling, and extensive experience in different projects, work on identifying the requirements of stakeholders to create a system able to satisfy all business needs of the client. As a result, Customer receives a detailed regulations automation plan of the workflow with analysis of possible improvement options.
Business process analysis includes the following main stages :
• Collecting information about business processes in the company of the customer. At this stage, our staff gathers information by interviewing the client and users. Specialists analyze existing documents, inspecting rules regulating business processes of the company. Based on the information compiled set of requirements for the system being developed is composed.
• Analysis of received claims. On the second stage, a detailed analysis of the requirements is executed. The resulting requirements are carefully examined by our experts. Contradictions in the requirements are searched and eliminated. We investigate the currently available software products of other software companies to identify gaps and avoid the possibility of their occurrence in the new product. Investigated business processes are described and modeled in order to obtain a clear and unambiguous representation of the created system and performance evaluation.
• Requirements documentation. In the process of requirements documentation our team experts design future product mockups, construct various charts and diagrams for ease of reference, describe in detail each functionality. Eventually, the software requirements specification appears, which presents a complete behavior description of the created system. It includes detailed descriptions of all kinds of user interaction with the software.
Each phase results are discussed and approved by the Customer.
IT-solution architecture design
Architecture design is a next stage after analyzing and documenting the business process requirements.
IT-solution architecture design is a process of forming a structured application that meets all the technical and operational requirements, and provides the optimal overall quality attributes such as performance, security, controllability. It involves making decisions based on a wide range of factors. Each of these solutions can have a significant impact on the quality, performance, ease of maintenance and the overall success of the application.
Specialists of our company engaged in architecture design with maximum consideration of user needs. The key scenarios are defined according to the given system requirements and important parameters of quality as well as the main areas of satisfaction and dissatisfaction are highlighted. As a result, reduces the risks of insufficient system performance during peak loads are reduced as long as inability to scale the system, user frustrations; flexible solutions capable to rebuild in a relatively short time to the changing requirements of business processes are created.
During the design process applications being developed in maximum possible high-level environments able to meet product requirements. This gives you the opportunity to concentrate on what is really unique to the automated system instead of reproducing already existing functions.
During software architecture design attention is always paid to the following issues:
• How user will use the application?
• How the application will be installed and maintained?
• What requirements for quality attributes such as security, performance, parallel processing capability, localization and configuration, are claimed for the application?
• How to develop the application in order to keep it flexible and easy to maintain for a long time?
• What main architectural directions can affect the application now or after installation?
Development
Any system integrator will tell you that while production development takes the most time and resources. This is the most difficult and time-consuming step. In most cases during the development process, when the user interface and functionality of the final product are clarified, there are refinements which appear more clearly, changing the initial requirements to the desired, or, which is not uncommon, it turns out the impossibility to develop some parts of the functionality. This is only a small part of the risks appearing on this stage.
As a result of these factors, cost and deadline of the project increase drastically. This may be due to many factors - from the short deadlines to lack of competence of the developer company with improperly constructed software development process.
Years of experience in the IT-field has helped us to manage our production process to avoid risks described above.
First, senior developers involved in all stages of the production process. This helps to avoid mistakes in design – unrealizable or unacceptably difficult to implement functionality is not integrated - and quality control of final product.
Then, Customer is able to continuously take part in the production process. This is achieved by providing the visual components so the Customer is able to evaluate the results. Viewing current status of the project can be carried out as often as necessary for the Customer, without the involvement of additional resources. Due to this, response time is reduced to the minimum and all updates and comments that appear during the development process, cannot fundamentally affect the development process.
These and many other factors such as the individual approach to each customer, a rational approach to the choice of technologies used, impressive luggage of additional tools developed by us, allows us to realize projects of any complexity in the shortest time possible, using the minimum amount of resources.
By choosing us, you will be able to fully concentrate on your business objectives, being sure that all risks in producing of it-solutions for you will be voided.
Testing
Testing is certainly important and integral part of developing a software product. Depend on how carefully it was carried out - depends how soon the project will be released, and whether there would be necessary to correct errors after.
There is a huge variety of approaches to the problem of quality control, but effective testing of complex software products is an essentially creative process, which rarely involves strict adherence to certain procedures and clear rules.
At the same time time a well-tested software product is not just a set of satisfying requirements, it is also a fashion solution for the company which developed it. Only serious attitude to verification of products is the key to sustainable progress in future.
We perfectly understand the importance of testing and therefore implement it at all stages of development, from the goal setting to solution implementation.