Solution
Ascendum's Software and System Architecture Design team has proven experience in strategic enterprise architecture solutions, web application architectures, integration architectures, infrastructure architectures, as well as SharePoint and Business Process Management (BPM) platform architecture solutions.
Complementing our Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) solution, offered by our Business Transformation team, we work with our client's IT senior management team to assess the business - IT alignment goals and IT strategic roadmap to design and implement an Enterprise Architecture that encompasses your current and future business application and provides the scalability, flexibility and extensibility to ensure that your IT systems grow and perform in concert with your corporate vision.
In the Applications and Platform Solutions Architecture team, we design with a full system perspective to ensure that the Solution Architecture fits within the Enterprise Architecture while achieving specific immediate and forecast business needs. We strive for integrated solutions that meet multiple business functional needs thereby optimizing re-use and multi-purposing. This minimizes the total number of applications to be maintained within the enterprise thereby reducing infrastructure and support costs while maximizing security, performance and business functionality.
For those enterprises that are ready to move a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), our team can plan, design and implement an SOA for your enterprise, based on your particular needs and resources, including plans for SOA governance and implementation of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology as needed.
Design and implementation solutions employ the technology that the software development lifecycle model best meeting your IT management style, from traditional waterfall and iterative, to the most progressive agile methodologies. Able to manage technology implementations from cradle to grave, we offer the agility to engage at any point in the development cycle and gracefully transition future development, enhancements, hosting and support into our Global Development Center and Service Center environments.
We have dedicated application/web development and support teams that that have proven experience in their applied technology. We have teams in each of the following specific technologies:
- SharePoint WSS and MOSS configuration and enhancements
- .Net frameworks including C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net and multiple data binding methods
- Java, J2EE and the use of many of the common proprietary and open source integrated development environments in use today
- Web 2.0 technologies
- Business Process Management application enhancements
- Application database design, development and administration in SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, DB2 and Sybase
