Application Development

Choice of platforms, tools and programming languages to build software applications have grown exponentially. With that the complexity of developing, maintaining and supporting software applications has also increased. It is not only the goal of software development teams to build applications that customers love but also build them to be able to maintain and support easily. Reducing the complexity becomes an important goal. The benefits are hard to ignore. Reduced maintenance costs, better quality, easy to implement new features, prolonged use of the software are some of the key benefits which simply means greater return on investment (ROI) and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for our clients.

An organization with 1000+ employees may typically rely on 200+ applications to conduct their business operations. This number increases when you add vendor, partner and client applications that employees may interact with. Integrating these applications to interface with each other is a major challenge for organizations and application development teams alike. Legacy applications may not support mature API’s making integration more difficult and risky. Over the last couple of decades many APIs, integration platforms have emerged and evolved to make the integration of disparate systems easier. We have experience leveraging these standard APIs, where applicable, to simplify the integration process. We have experience with custom integration solutions where standard APIs and tools may not be suitable or have limitations.

Software security continues to be a major considerations for organization building the applications to organization adopting the applications. Increased popularity and adoption of Cloud has further increased the focus on securing software applications. Security must be a consideration for all aspect of software development life cycle, from architecture to development to testing to deployment and support. Security should be part of architecture and design. Training development teams on Secure Coding practice is essential. Data encryption should be built in to the applications as they are being developed. Monitoring software assets and conducting regular audits must be part of standard operating procedure. Vulnerability detection must be automated to keep the cost under control.

Testing methodologies have evolved in the recent decades however organizations continue to face challenges with quality assurance. Setting up test environments and test data to represent production environments is still a major struggle for many companies. Adoption of test automation involves high upfront costs and demand highly skilled resources. Quality issues with specifications, architecture and development are harder to detected and resolve. Enabling effective communication among all the parties involved in the product development is another major consideration to eliminate quality issues.

Agile Software Development methodologies have been around for a while. However they have gained popularity in the last couple of decades and the number of companies that transition to Agile methodologies are on the rise. Teams working in Agile framework deliver usable software in short regular internals. They improve communication among the teams and stakeholders. Agile teams are flexible and adopt to change quickly. However building successful Agile teams takes careful planning, management buy-in. It is essential to train and support the team through the Agile maturity process. In many instances Agile frameworks may need to be customized to company needs. Our Agile journey has not been without challenges. But the transformation has enabled us to adopt and deliver the best Agile has to offer. Our clients benefit the most from these Agile practices. We are a software development company. We have the technical knowledge and the experience necessary to develop Application that meet our customer needs.