Application Development

Inclusive Technology Solutions (ITS) provides custom application development and is capable of producing practically any software solution your company requires. Applications tailored specifically to the needs of your company can open the door to new services, automate time consuming processes, or grant your current resources a force multiplier.

Our custom application development services offer your company an opportunity to develop a competitive and economic advantage by making technology more productive and work for you. These solutions can become an efficient method for both industry leaders and small companies to reduce expenses, retain a competitive advantage, and achieve a higher return on investment.

ITS provides total flexibility in terms of custom application development. The application development cycle is process-focused and essentially "Client Driven". Our primary design goal is always a well-structured, maintainable application tailored to meet both your professional and practical business needs serving its intended purpose throughout the software lifecycle. Only then do we select the technologies that will best meet these requirements.

The custom application development process normally includes, but is not limited to:

• Detailed and comprehensive analysis of the business needs,
• Preparation of design specifications
• Development cycle begins
• Initial design concept
• Development milestones completed
• Testing/validation
• Client support (Training & support material provided)
• Ongoing development and maintenance

Desktop Application Development

Inclusive Technology Solutions (ITS) believes "off the shelf" applications are a large part of today's business world. However, nothing works like a custom application fitted to your business and budgetary needs. Our developers can build an inclusive desktop application, one that will stay with you and your employees: sales tracking, shipping, printing, email, business process integration, or numerous other custom solutions.

Desktop applications development technologies include but not limited to the following: C#, VB.NET, JAVA and VB. View complete listing
Database development included but not limited to the following: SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, Oracle, PointBase, MS Access. View complete listing

Our applications can be multi-tiered and can be easily modified as your business and needs grow. Our applications can also communicate over the network, internet, wireless, or be utilized in remote management of databases or websites as well as using web services to communicate with 3rd party vendors or other B2B applications.

You can also expand and analyze existing databases for data modeling, replication, database optimization as well as server workload optimization in search algorithms.

Doing business using an outdated application only hurts your bottom line. A new, state of the art custom desktop application from ITS will increase your employee's productivity and customer satisfaction. While quickly providing your company the return on investment (ROI) that is expected.

N-Tier Application Development

Inclusive Technology Solutions' (ITS) past experience in custom applications in the Client/Server arena helps us develop N-Tier applications. This distributed robust architecture typically lends itself well to large-scale, distributed, or enterprise level applications.

With the growing popularity of the J2EE framework and Microsoft's COM/DCOM, the technology powering N-Tier applications have become more developed, minimizing the negative aspects of two-tier (Client/Server) applications. Application behavior such multithreading and security are handled in a streamlined manner. Most importantly, tiers separate the data storage, business logic, and user interface in a way that is modular and expandable, adding a level of future proofing and scalability to your system, unattainable in monolithic applications.

N-tier applications can provide separate layers for each of the following services - Presentation Layer, Dynamic Presentation, Business logic, and Data base access. For example, allowing a Web server to serve Web pages, an application server to serve applications, and a database server to serve databases. With the benefit of an n-tier architecture and ITS's strong expertise on the J2EE framework and Microsoft platform the team at ITS can deliver unprecedented value to customers. Learn how ITS can help your businesses do business better.

Development Process

At Inclusive Technology Solutions (ITS) we follow a process oriented development methodology. By design we are able to minimize project risks and reduce project development time. We take pride in understanding your business while providing optimized solutions that fulfill your business goals, instead of merely providing technical solutions. All our applications are built on the basis of this philosophy.

We have defined seven processes for our software development; requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. We generate UML diagrams representing the Use Case Model, Analysis Model, Design Model, Implementation Model and Test Model.

1. Requirements Gathering

In this stage, client requirements are gathered. This process requires information from the client in the form of documents, existing systems & process specs, on-site analysis interviews with end-users, market research and competitor analysis. This stage has the following steps:

• Analysis with business application goal and high level requirement gathering
• Creation of project scope document and feature list
• Provide technical recommendations and high level requirement specification

2. Analysis

A detailed analysis is completed from the information in the project scope document and feature list. This stage has the following steps:

• Analyzes and create the software requirement specification
• Create case specifications & diagrams along with generating the use case model
• Design business rules and flow diagrams
• Establishment requirements
• Verify the scope and estimates against the contract making revisions if necessary

3. Design

Application design is developed on the basis of the software requirement specification. Using case specifications, business rules & diagrams and the scope agreed upon in the requirement definition stage. The design stage incorporates the following steps:

• Designing architectural diagrams
• Establish entity relationship diagram, data flow diagram and deployment diagram
• User Interface prototype is developed and validated against the project requirements and presented to the client for approval
• Validation of the scope, estimates against the contract and revisions are made if necessary
• The Implementation Model is generated from design
• The Test Model is generated from use cases

4. Development

In this stage, the actual code based on the design is created and tested against design requirements and test cases. This stage has the following steps:

• The development of code base proceeds as per implementation and design models
• The application source code is tested according to the test cases and test plan
• Documentation of processes
• Creation of Use Case Test results

5. Integration and Testing

The developed application is tested through test cases, test plans and user acceptance criteria in the deployed environment.

• Integration and quality testing is carried out resulting in test reports.
• Client acceptance tests carried out.
• Client feedback and debugging.
• Client acceptance

6. Deployment and Acceptance

Stage six publishes the developed application on the live server.

• Integrated Application and Deployment plan
• Implementation on client Premises or Hosting Server.
• Implementation Signoff by Client.
• Transition of application to the maintenance team.

7. Maintenance

Our maintenance phase covers steady-state system health maintenance including database, application and network maintenance. Application feature enhancements whenever requested by client are planned and are developed and executed as with the consideration of the existing system and its existing data.

• System Health Maintenance
• Feature/Application Enhancements

The steps above are iterated through until the final deliverable is completed.

We will submit a detailed project schedule in accordance with the above deliverables. The project schedule will clearly indicate the responsibility of the client and the developer and indicate the dates by which each person will submit their deliverables.