Scalable, extensible applications for 24x7 businesses, globally

For companies looking at outsourcing, Aress offers the ability to entirely or partially take over the development, maintenance, conversion and enhancement of all their custom built or packaged software applications. Given its strength of technology capabilities, adoption of the industry's highest quality processes and strong domain expertise in varied industries, Aress becomes a powerful extension and partner of the IT departments of its clients.

We use ISO 9001 quality processes to develop applications using scalable and extensible architectures for a wide range of industries.

We have extensive experience in providing custom software development solutions to organizations around the world. Our solutions have been addressing the needs of industries such as financial services, business intelligence, retail, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, and the government.

As organizations strive to integrate their business and IT strategies, our application maintenance services help organizations achieve their business goals and objectives, by providing on-time support and value adding services.

This century has seen a variety of new application development projects, most of them built on Web-based technologies with a strong orientation towards standards-driven (EJB, COM/DCOM) architecture. The experiences of the last century have forced users to adopt scalable and extensible architectures that can support 24/7 business availability to accommodate global customers and reduce development cycles to a minimum.

Our solutions are implemented with quality processes that adhere to ISO 9001 standards so as to enable our clients to enhance the quality of their products and services.

Our custom software development services include:

• Application development and maintenance
• Re-engineering
• Migration
• Mobile computing
• eCommerce

Re-Engineering

Present to future perfect

Technology advances. Business scenarios change. Existing legacy software systems need to move with the times too, evolving into state-of-the-art IT solutions that cater to expanding business needs, while preserving established business rules and practices coded in the old system. The benefits for companies are two-fold: they can leverage their investments in the legacy, as well as move out of proprietary and outdated technologies.

Doing this manually is laborious, error-prone and entails detailed testing. But ARESS's extensive experience and R&D strengths provide tool-based processes to achieve relatively painless re-engineering of applications and help organizations reach their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Our end-to-end re-engineering process includes:

• Assessing the customer's existing applications in the light of its organizational needs and strategic direction.
• Identifying a strategic solution which involves defining the target architecture, evaluating 'build', 'buy' or 'harvest' options, and planning.
• Executing the project using tool-based reverse engineering and forward engineering.
• Implementing the solution and transition of the system through data migration, system testing, user training and support.

We extract the business functionality from the existing legacy system and redevelop it, using model-driven, component-based architecture and state-of-the-art technology. This gives customers better flexibility and extensibility -- key requirements of enterprise applications that must meet current and future business needs.

To improve the technical performance of existing applications, we restructure the design of the modules. The techniques used are modularization, layering and rule externalization. Immediate benefits for clients include better application maintainability and the ability to make changes faster. There are mid- and long-term pay-offs too; when the customer's organizational needs and IT investment plan change, the foundation has already been laid for a phased re-engineering of system layers.

Migration

Business demands and technology challenges sometimes create the need for migration of applications or databases from one environment to another, either to improve operational efficiency or to manage risk. An organization may decide to reduce risks by moving away from an environment that has scarcity of skilled personnel and vendor support issues.

The advantage of migration as opposed to say, re-engineering is that it leverages the current business model and the features of the application and can be done in a cost-effective manner.

Aress can provide migration services that cater to various platforms. We bring in our tools and expertise to make a smooth transition.