Applications Development Services: Technical Summary
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A Clearer Definition of Success
The success of an engagement isn't limited to the final functionality of the application. A truly successful engagement is one that provides you with an efficient development process and makes manageable long-term maintenance a priority.
Successful development begins with proven, established processes that can be adapted and customized to meet your needs. That's where EDS excels. In addition, our personnel are unsurpassed when it comes to designing quality applications, extensions and enhancements that support your organization's business and technical needs.
The Flexibility Your Project Needs
Our proprietary Project Management Methodology (PM2) maintains a focus on efficiency and quality. This methodology:
- Supports cost control
- Reduces risk
- Accelerates time to market for new services
- Is combined with industry program and project standards such as PMBOK to provide additional value and quality
PM2 supports best-in-class, faster applications development with the lowest possible risk because it organizes, integrates and manages the execution of global common process sets. This process repository, Global Applications Delivery Quality Management System, is our applications delivery portal. As the single location for repeatable applications processes, GAD QMS facilitates consistent delivery of sound solutions.
GAD QMS maintains the processes, tools, roles, responsibilities and rigor needed to deliver high-quality applications. Still, it is flexible enough to integrate with your standards and methodologies while continuing to satisfy the intent of the original procedure, standard or template.
For applications that are more broad-based or transformational, we apply a “waterfall” approach that ensures an optimal balance of speed, cost and quality throughout the development process. The overall objective: to provide a framework that supports the quickest possible deployment, without sacrificing quality or functionality.
In some cases, market or business conditions necessitate an even more urgent deployment. When that happens, you can respond quickly and effectively with our Interactive and Agile Approaches. These approaches greatly streamline the process by focusing only on the most critical issues at hand to manage risk and deliver high value functionality more quickly. This development approach uses clearly defined layers to isolate and address specific conditions or inevitable change.
Whatever path your project takes, EDS is committed to moving at the speed of business, without jeopardizing quality or maintainability – while minimizing the impact on your day-to-day operations.
Draw Upon A World Of Resources
Whether you need a team to handle a specific development project or you're considering expanding your development and technical team beyond your own staff, EDS gives you access to 45,000 applications resources on six continents.
From business and industry analysts to project managers, our Applications Delivery resources are trained and proficient in the use of global processes and methodologies. Our Best Shore® strategy lets you tap the resources of qualified professionals in 60 global facilities and 14 centers of expertise. The Best Shore® approach gives you quick access to the capabilities you need, while allowing you to control cost, improve efficiencies, implement services more rapidly and promote continuous improvement.
Our centers of expertise specialize in specific technologies, programming languages, data integrity, and migration and process management (for example, Java, .NET, Program & Project Management, Data Engineering and Testing). All operate at CMMI Level 3 or above.
Technology Expertise Drives Agility and Quality
Being “infrastructure aware” is critical for your application architecture. Because development processes are driven by technology, creating quality, agile applications requires deep technological knowledge. Our applications centers of expertise provide the required depth of knowledge to deliver software solutions through rapid development cycles and global standard application frameworks. This allows us to choose the appropriate development methodology along with the tools associated with a specific technology stack to create a complete development solution. This solution integrates the developers, requirements and technology in an efficient and controlled environment.
We extend our technology expertise through our Agility Alliance program, as we partner with leading vendors to offer best-in-class solutions using the latest technologies and advancements. We also provide development for legacy applications, extending and integrating existing technologies to bring additional value to your organization.
Technology Overview:
Increase Your Competitive Advantage
EDS creates client applications with a focus on long-term cost of ownership.
Applications Development Services
- z/OS and Legacy Applications Development
- .Net Applications Development
- Java Applications Development
- Global Testing Services
- Data Engineering
- Open Source Applications Development
- Business Analysis
- User Experience
- Program and Project Management
EDS data engineering uses and supports the following technologies:
- ADABAS
- CA All Fusion/Erwin
- Casewise
- DB2
- IDMS
- IMS
- Informix
- Ingres
- Métis
- MS SQL Server
- MySQL
- NCR/Teradata
- Oracle
- Sybase
Alliances
Our alliances with our technology partners allow us to expedite the development process and create innovative new models to better serve you. Our relationships with Microsoft and Oracle enable your organization to reach a new level of efficiency in applications development.
Choose EDS For Your Applications Development Needs
You have a powerful ally who can take your applications development capabilities to the next level and continually support your efforts in the years ahead. We bring to the table the ability to:
- Increase the returns from your applications investments
- Create applications that capitalize on modern technologies to maintain your competitive advantage
- Align applications with your enterprise architecture direction
- Increase speed of development without compromising quality and security
- Develop applications that lower your total cost of ownership
For more information about what EDS can do for you, submit a business inquiry.
American Airlines
EDS is behind the continued success of American Airlines. Our Applications Development Services helped American develop feature-rich business applications so the airline could maximize its IT investments, reduce costs and trim operating expenses.