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Application Development

Our unified development process, supported by our proven onsite-offshore development methodology, and our quality management system, shortens the application development timeframes providing significant business benefits to our customers.

• Expertise in diverse platforms: We have expertise in hardware and software platforms such as Unix, Sun Solaris and Windows NT. Our heterogeneous mix of skills enables quick ramp-up of resources for both large and small application projects with relative ease.
• Design and development expertise: We provide both end-to-end solutions (analysis to maintenance) and specific design/development services. This flexibility is supplemented by our vast expertise in design and development of host-centric or n-tier client-server architecture across a wide variety of environments.
• Usage of tools and techniques: Our expertise helps us incorporate the best of breed tools and techniques in the software development life cycle. These include CasePac as well as Rational Rose, IEF/ CoolGen, Forte, Oracle Developer and Designer 2000
• State-of-the-art facilities: Our state-of-the-art software development facilities, and high-speed data links and video-conferencing allow us better connectivity and communication.

Application Maintenance

We sustain a wide variety of applications for customers with our maintenance organization present in virtually every SCG development center across the globe. We relate easily to parameters such as the age of the systems, processes and standards followed, lack of availability of documentation and lack of expertise in the relevant technologies. But what we are best at understands the richness in business functionality of systems and the built-in rules of the organization - the not so obvious but 'real productivity assets of the organization.'

Our mature application maintenance process includes three inter-linked processes - adaptive maintenance preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance. Our comprehensive methodology for application maintenance captures the functionality and processes for the entire sustenance life cycle which include:

• Providing the necessary tools to identify business rules
• Providing valued-added services to enhance the capability of the systems
• Building the tools and techniques to enhance staff productivity
• Staffing and training the team on the system needs, the tools and the process
• Defining the quality and measurement program

Reengineering and Migration

SCG has executed large reengineering and migration projects involving database and language changes and data conversion, from one platform to another. Our Reengineering process includes:

• Analysis of existing applications
• Identification of suitable technology and platforms
• Replacement of obsolete applications through fresh development or integration of established products.
• Migration of applications to the new platform
• Design, development and integration of the new environment.