Application Development
BSG have a long heritage in developing applications that drive clients' competitive advantage. The Application Solutions development team's remit is to challenge old concepts around user servicing to create client focused intuitive offerings.
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Overview
Using BSG's proven approach to designing and deploying application solutions, typical activities are:
- Proposition development, Feasibility, Business case, Proof of concept, Specification, Implementation planning
- Business and User Process definition
- Application Architecture - MS.NET & J2EE
- Technical Architecture
- Bespoke Application Development
- User Testing and Validation.
- Product integration
- Application Support
In addition to BSG's considerable in-house development capabilities, the practice also has access to offshore development resources, via our two Global Development Centres in Noida - India, and Manila - Philippines, and Business Analysis resources via BSG Africa, Capetown. This allows BSG to run an onshore/offshore/onshore model when required - specification onshore, build offshore, support onshore, all facilitated by BSG programme management. This enables BSG to offer you efficient and cost effective project development while ensuring the highest levels of quality.
All application solutions are subjected to rigorous test processes, following BSG's quality assurance methodology built around IEEE standards. Testing is carried out cross platform/OS/browser revision in our extensive testing facilities.
Application Types
BSG's experience and capabilities is proven in developing the following types of applications:
Web and Internal Business Applications - n-tiered (client, application and database) applications hosted and managed within BSG's data centre or your own
Client Application Solutions - To run on the local client machine
Mobile Application Solutions - These fall into three categories:
- Making existing web based applications mobile device compatible
- Creating data capture forms for mobile clients, enabling data to be transmitted to a data centre held application
- Creating mobile client applications
Environments
BSG's application development capabilities enable it to design and deploy solutions that can be specific or combine both Microsoft and J2EE based environments supporting a number of database management systems. All solutions are architected to provide a distributed, load balanced and highly available system.
All solutions make use of industry open standards.
Microsoft Application Environments
BSG's Microsoft application development capabilities build on the Microsoft server family and include:
Clients - Windows XP and previous versions, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Office 2003 and previous versions, Microsoft Visio, Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Windows Mobile Smart Phone
Application Server Software Platforms - Microsoft .NET Framework (includes ASP.NET, Common Language Runtime (CLR)), Microsoft Content Management Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Project Server.
- Business Solutions - Microsoft CRM
- Integration - Web Services (Including SOAP), Microsoft Host Integration Server, Biz Talk
- Language and Development Tools - Microsoft .NET Framework WIN Forms, Visual Studio .NET and other versions, Visual Basic for Applications, Microsoft WIN32 (Includes VB6 Forms, MFC), XML, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Visual C, C++, or C#, .Net Compact Framework
J2EE Application Environments
Multiple Operating System expertise including AIX/Solaris/Linux/Windows
Builds to suit a variety of application servers including:
- WebSphere
- JBoss
- BEA Weblogic
- JRun
- Sun One
- NetDynamics
All solutions employ industry based design patterns using Enterprise Java Beans
Database Management Systems
- Microsoft Access and all versions of Microsoft SQL
- DB2 Universal Database
- Oracle all versions
- MySql
Open Source Software
Open Source software is an idea whose time has finally come. For twenty years it has been building momentum in the technical cultures that built the internet and the World Wide Web. Now it's breaking out into the commercial world, and that's changing all rules.