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What is Application Development?

In today's world, companies are developing custom applications to meet their business needs. Companies utilize their existing technical staff or outsource their core development to a trusted partner, like Buchanan Technologies. Whichever approach is chosen, it is critical for organizations to design, develop and deploy their applications with minimal risk and in the most cost effective and timely manner possible.

Buchanan Technologies' Application Development Center (ADC), located in Toronto, Canada, has extensive experience designing, deploying and supporting custom and packaged applications, such as MOSS SharePoint 2007. Utilizing our proven methodology, we reduce client risk and deliver cost effective solutions to our clients

We have automated business processes, integrated disparate systems and built collaborative solutions. We can enhance and improve your business operations using custom or packaged applications designed to meet your specific business needs.

Our Application Development center team leverages industry best practices and the latest development technologies to deliver solutions that help our clients achieve a competitive advantage. Our proven approach is built around the following:

Solution Delivery Experience. Broad experience in delivering custom development solutions and packaged application deployments to meet our clients' needs.
Proven Methodology. A best practice based methodology designed to reduce risk and deliver quality solution that meets your requirements.
Our People. Our architects and developers are experts in leading software products with the certifications and industry experience to prove it.
Cost Effective Solutions. Our clients have realized up to a 40% cost savings when utilizing our Application Development Center.

Solution Delivery Experience

CUSTOM APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Buchanan Technologies has an in-depth technical and project management experience in all facets of the custom application development lifecycle. We leverage the Buchanan Technologies' Solution Delivery Methodology to help clients through the process of designing, implementing, deploying and supporting custom solutions in the .NET, JAVA and POS technology space for organizations across multiple industry verticals. The following list includes, but is not limited to, some of our most recent engagements:

Cost Management System - Tracks transit authority projects and spending for a large US metropolitan city
Workout Tracking System - Captures workout results within the gym setting and provides club members and trainers with a web-based reporting system to review results and progress
Client Management and Scheduling System - enables social services agencies to schedule staff and clients and manage confidential client files

PACKAGED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Buchanan Technologies has extensive experience in designing and deploying Microsoft Packaged Applications. Currently, many of our clients are using our services to design and deploy MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) into their organizations. Our experience includeds designing and deploying MOSS Infrastructures, Custom MOSS Enterprise Rollouts, MOSS Training and the development of MOSS Governance Models.

PROVEN METHODOLOGY - ENSURING PROJECT SUCCESS

The key to successful application development effort is to utilize a proven, repeatable methodology to guide the application development lifecycle from inception through to completion. The Buchanan Technologies' Solution Delivery Methodology has been developed based on industry standards and best practices gained through years of delivering application development projects.

Proven Methodology

The Buchanan Technologies' Century Methodology consists of seven phases that run in the following order: Discover, Design, Develop, Validate, Deploy, Transition, and Support. Each of these phases has a defined set of milestones that must be reached before the next phase in the project may continue.

Managing and mitigating project risk is critical to the success of any project. The Buchanan Technologies' Solution Delivery Methodology takes a proactive approach to risk management. Our methodology promotes proactive communication between the Client and the Project Team through project status reports, risks logs, issues logs, and change requests on which are communicated and provided to the Client on a weekly basis via written reports and status meetings.

OUR PEOPLE - LEADING EDGE PROJECT TEAMS

Our Team is made of Project Managers, Solutions Architects, Developers and Quality Assurance Testers who have real world experience creating custom solutions in leading edge technologies. Our core development platforms come from industry leading vendors like Microsoft, IBM, Lotus, and Oracle. Our people continually develop both their technical and professional skills through training and certification programs; and maintain their certifications to give our development projects the most current experience possible.

COST EFFECTIVE - GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BUDGET

Our Application Development Center is located in Canada's largest city and technology capital - Toronto, Ontario, Canada. By utilizing the Application Development Center facilities, Buchanan Technologies can help their clients eliminate the costs of building and maintaining their own development environments. In addition, Buchanan Technologies offers application management services; and applications developed by Buchanan Technologies can be easily migrated from our development teams to our application maintenance and support teams for ongoing application maintenance and support.

For more information, please email: info@buchanan.com.