Ariel's Services: Development and Deployment

Ariel Services: Development and Deployment

The skills required to produce high quality business software applications have become so specialized that it's challenging for any Information Technology Group to maintain the World-Class pace that organizations and clients expect.

Today, it is exceedingly difficult to maintain an experienced staff that has all of the specialized skills that high-level systems require. Those specialized skills include the ability to:

Integrate systems drawing from a variety of legacy systems.
Meet demanding schedules.
Build complex systems for future infrastructures.
Create databases, rule engines and knowledge databases.
Develop and manage media files (i.e. graphic, audio, and video file formats).
Manipulate media files confidently and with minimal effort.

In fact, many IT departments are over-tasked to the point of not having all of the resources required to achieve their chartered responsibilities. And nobody has time for on-the-job-training.

Ariel can help. We'll team up with your IT staff during the Development and Deployment of your project to help fill in the gaps in the specialized skills they have. Or if your staff is really short on time, we can lead the effort and do most of the work.

What are Development and Deployment Services?

Ariel's Development and Deployment Services give you the option to supplement your IT staff with a team of experienced consultants who design and build performance-centered applications every day. You choose the project. We will build the plan. Together we will execute it.

In the past twelve years, we have helped enterprises such as Payless ShoeSource, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Primerica Financial Services and other industry leaders develop and deploy countless leading-edge applications and systems.

What occurs during this activity?

This activity generally starts after a Detailed Design and Specification has been created and does not end until the system is deployed successfully to the enterprise. Based on your assignment of tasks, a team of Ariel consultants and your staff will:

Write all of the code to specification.
Document the code.
Develop all media elements.
Test the application.
Deploy the application.

What will I receive at the end of this engagement?

At the end of this engagement you will receive:

Source code
Object code
Media files
Logic, knowledge and rule databases
Test plan
- Development
- Execution
- Analysis and change control
Deployment plan and execution
- Candidate version(s)
- Controlled release
Support plan and execution

How will I benefit from Development and Deployment Services?

Your project will benefit from the thought leadership, expertise and efficiencies that can come only from a firm with our history and track record with leading edge technologies.

During the project, we will leverage the knowledge we have harvested from dozens of Fortune 100 implementations to help ensure the quality of your application and the success of its implementation. And best of all, you can gain all of this with minimal drain on your current resources.

Most business environments are filled with many challenges:

Demands that applications meet business specifications and yield predictable results.
The need to find high-level expertise that can supplement and optimize your scarce development resources
Effective change control that does not compromise the application's business impact.
Expectations from the business for smooth and effective deployment strategies.

Ariel's proven process lets you meet these challenges and achieve a return on investment that will please bottom-line conscious executives. Call us today to schedule a demonstration showing the before and after states of several applications that will help you realize the difference you can make when you Design with Humans in Mind.