Development Services - Oracle and Open Systems
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Overview
In today's ever-changing technology landscape, it is nearly impossible for one individual to have expertise in all areas of middleware within his or her own enterprise, let alone be expected to handle the associated development and integration challenges that may arise. Fortunately for our clients, TUSC's collaborative, expert team has seen it all. We routinely encounter technology situations that most systems professionals only encounter once or twice in their entire careers. Our collective experience in development tools and underlying database features ensures the optimal use of technology, from architecture and design through development and implementation. Toe-to-toe, the competition cannot compete with our extensive expertise in the realm of Oracle technology.
In addition to technical knowledge, project management is vital to reducing risk throughout your development project. After years of successfully managing Oracle efforts of all sizes, TUSC employs a methodology that combines years of field-proven experience and tools with PMI best practices.
With both technical expertise and a proven project management methodology, TUSC can assist you throughout the entire development lifecycle. Our experience runs from Open Standards tools, Web Centric tools and SOA, to traditional client-server forms and reports. Our understanding of Oracle's development tools and industry standards allows us to take complete development project responsibility or to simply provide expert assistance, customizing our approach to best suit your needs. New Application Development
TUSC can manage a broad range of needs when it comes to custom application development. From back-end data handling and crunching to customer or employee interfaces; from small quick-hit add-ons for existing applications to new approaches for providing better customer-related services; TUSC has the right mix of skills required to ensure success. TUSC also employs productivity toolkits that protect your investments, allowing you to leverage existing technology and rapidly improve productivity.
Whether you are implementing new technology and want help to ensure a solid architecture and design or you need TUSC to manage a substantial development effort, TUSC has experienced project managers who also understand both the driving business issues and the technology.
Internal / External Application Integration
Whether intra-departmental or integration between companies, TUSC advocates the use of SOA and Web Services to accomplish both internal and external integration. The benefits to deploying this technology are many:
| * | Speed of deployment - When implementing this technology to link suppliers, customers report that creating the first link is three times faster than custom development. Implementing the second and third links is ten times faster. |
| * | Low cost of deployment - Companies have realized significant savings for both hardware and software. |
| * | Non-disruptive deployment - Because Web Services use your existing infrastructure and your existing code base, implementing this technology within your environment is non-disruptive. |
| * | Flexibility - Because Web Services are loosely coupled, adaptations and additions are easy to make. |
| * | Security - This technology uses the standard protocols (e.g. Secure Socket Layer) that are available to any Web application or browser and thus possesses the same authentication and encryption securities. Web Services pose no greater security risk than any of the other thousands of data exchanges already occurring daily over the Internet. |
TUSC has developed proprietary SOA migration tools to help customers rapidly realize these benefits, while protecting legacy investments.
Systems Migration
Together, TUSC and your IT staff have the right combination to ensure a successful migration. While your staff has expertise in your legacy systems' database, code, and business rules, TUSC has the expertise in the target platform, which is critical to success.
A database migration is more then a simple mapping of data. It requires an understanding of field-level idiosyncrasies, indexing, parameter settings and design. As experts in Oracle (database, tools and middle-tier), TUSC ensures that every detail is orchestrated properly. Whether you are porting systems to a new database or are re-writing applications in a different development tool, TUSC works hand-in-hand with your staff to plan and execute a seamless migration.
Center of Excellence
One key challenge for organizations today is establishing best practices for a given technology environment and ensuring that those processes becomes self sustaining with in-house staff. If not approached properly, companies are left with environments that are unnecessarily complex and difficult to maintain.
Through its Center of Excellence program, TUSC helps establish processes that guide an IT organization around pitfalls, while mentoring in-house staff to ensure long-term productivity gains and self-reliance.
TUSC accomplishes these goals by providing a core team of Oracle experts to work with application development and DBA teams. Over time, the client rotates key resources through the Oracle Center of Excellence. With this rolling knowledge transfer, the client is better able to support Oracle projects and maintain best practice processes.
Application Lifecycle Services
Different stages and aspects of a development effort require varying skills. Even top-notch IT departments don't always have the necessary skills available exactly when they're needed. TUSC can provide supplemental staffing to fill those gaps. Our expert staff will not only solve the immediate issue or need, but they can also provide overarching guidance based on years of experience.
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