Expert Technical Consulting

Interfacing between Business and Technology - Business Domain Knowledge

Clients look upto consultants to point them in the correct direction when it comes to technology. IT consultants should be aware of the client's business industry, business trends and requirements so that they are optimally answer the following questions:
Which solution should I use, How much should I pay, What all features do I need, What about adding these set of components, Where will this solution run, How much investment do I need to do?

• We can work as Offshore CTO's for you !!
• As software consultants, we understand your individual needs and your organization's IT requirements.
• We formulate software application specifications that are aligned with the business objectives.
• We help identify inefficient practices and/or models of operations that can be improved and streamlined with information technology.
• We offer Business Process and Business Strategy Consulting to help streamline operations for efficient IT practices.
• We conceptualize and suggest optimal IT solutions that address the problem and are also optimal with respect to cost and value addition.

IT strategy - Overall Technical Strategy

The overall technical strategy outlines the IT approach and methods that will be used in implementing a product. The following items are formalized as per trends, requirements, budget and timeline.

• Select Frameworks - Advising and Selection of backend and frontend technologies like language, database systems, servers etc - Outlining all tools, algorithms, techniques and methodologies that should be used for implementation.
• Engineering architecture design - data flow diagrams for all user interaction scenarios
• Software design and DB schema design - Outline all components to be used by application and lay out Input/Output rules and schemas.
• Design User Workflow - Outline all user interaction stories - Account for an easy to use interface.
• Advising and Selection of web framework, web paradigms and hosting platforms.
• Creating a module wise distribution and implementation schedule for delivery.

Good Software Design - Scalable, secure, well-tested, fast and Easy to use software solutions

It is important that software be functional - But more important is that it should be scalable, secure, fully tested, maintainable, easy to use and performance friendly.

Launch Setup and Deployment Architecture

Once an application is complete, it must be hosted in production so it can serve live traffic. Depending on site usage patterns and activity trends, a suitable machine setup is required to sustain the load. We understand what it takes to run and maintain a busy application with 99.99% uptime and consistent serving speed.

We can help provide the following services:
- Create a production deployment architecture that will work for your application.
- Setup, deploy and maintain an application on the cloud - Amazon, EngineYard, Salesforce.
- Pick the right machine size and instance setup for running the application.
- Perform application load balancing and app cloning.
- Account for a distributed serving architecture as per traffic patterns.
- Provide caching layers across all machine instances.
- Setup app version control and sync with deployment setup.
- Setup caching layers and proxy layers for traffic routing.
- Provide shared, dedicated and managed hosting services.
- Perform application software upgrades and updates.

Analytics and Feedback

In order to make an application 360 degree complete, we must think about aspects outside the immediate scope of development. This includes collecting metrics on application usage, aggregating them and forming intelligent insights. We help shortlist, suggest and integrate application with necessary tools that provide metrics like:

• total num of users
• traffic patterns
• errors and bugs dashboard
• app throughput and latency
• user feedback and satisfaction
• Page Views and traffic sources
• Mailing and newsletter campaigns