APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
 

Smith Datacom's software development creates custom applications, providing full lifecycle support throughout delivery. Using an eight-phased approach, our experts research, define application requirements, produce a prototype, design, implement the application, review and assure quality, deploy and provide post-implementation support:

• Research
  We need to understand all essential aspects of your business. After we understand the structure of your business, its direction, and current IT investments, we discuss a variety of solutions that would be appropriate to your current and future success.  We help ensure that your technology solutions are meeting your business requirements.

• Requirements Specification
  Our team prepares documentation describing the essential functional and technical requirements for the specific project.

• Prototype
  We provide you an opportunity to make actual observations and necessary adjustments to a full scale test model.

• Internal design
  This phase includes development of database implementation scheme & application segmentation.

• Implementation
  Actual code writing process. Plus ongoing milestone completion control.

• Review & Quality Assurance
  Evaluation of code reliability plus application stability check. We utilize feature freezes and clean all remaining bugs.

• Deployment
  Performing installation to client host systems.

• Maintenance & Update
  Provision of ongoing customer support & product improvement. When you choose Smith Datacom, you benefit from our deep technical expertise as well as strong partnerships and industry experience. We have unique tools, frameworks and re-usable code that enable us to accelerate application development benefiting you by saving time and money to go live.
   

Considerations behind the scene for integration solutions
An integration solution does not just connect applications; there is an implied integration hierarchy, which starts at the data level, before incorporating applications, processes, and eventually businesses.
 

• Application Server
The application server provides a platform for encapsulating business logic and data components, across multiple tiers in an n-tier architecture. It provides a consistent interface to the other layers of the model.

• Application Layer
The application layer will encompass packaged applications, Web applications, custom-developed software, and legacy systems.

• Presentation Layer
The presentation layer is the point of contact between the user and an application or business process. This interface may be a standard PC client such as a Windows desktop, a browser, or a corporate portal.

• Process Integration
Business-to-Business links with trading partners have both a business process and a technical element. At the process level, the key is to ensure that the external (public) part of the process is kept distinct from the internal (private) process.

• Technical Integration
At a technical level, data and documents must pass between at least two systems. It is best that the integration links be technology neutral, such as XML formats for interchange purposes. It is important to support as wide a range of channels as possible, to maximize your company's scalability and future flexibility.

• Data Integration
Implementation of applications that utilize their own data sources and data models require more open access to these various data sources. A program object may require a data element, while a user is more likely to require a set of related data elements. The key element is to understand the differing requirements for data element integration and information integration.

Faster development and deployment of new applications
Companies today expect improved results and lower investment costs. They require measurable performance in terms of improved efficiency and time and cost savings.

Smith Datacom offers the remarkable combination of cost and time savings with improved features, performance and reliability.

Our teams can develop and deliver much faster: schedules and budget targets can be met more easily. Our Rapid Application Development (RAD) Model enables easy and fast development of new applications while decreasing your company time-to-market and increasing profitability.

Feel free to contact us or request a quote for more information on our application development services or vertical industry solutions.