Application Development

Intent

At Acism, we focus on creating software solutions that solve real business challenges, integrate seamlessly with the organization's workflows, and are built to last.

Every organization is unique in the way it operates. The software created for the organization needs to embody their uniqueness. Therefore, the software that supports these operations has to be unique. A 100% match with the requirements is possible only with custom or tailor-made software solution. Anything less is a compromise. Acism develops such tailor-made applications for our clients.

From a customer's perspective, developing a tailor-made software means an investment of money and time. We deliver them the best value for this investment.

To our customers, developing a software is a major intervention aimed for a positive impact. The work will be much more streamlined there onward.

Challenges & Resolution

Challenge Resolution
The success rate of software development is low, resulting in wasted money and wasted opportunities. We provide a guarantee of successful completion (barring factors outside our control).
The domain experts have no control on how the software is designed to operate. A visual model that depicts the actual working of the software is available, so that the domain experts can understand it.
The long term maintainability of the software is often a challenge, with people churn. Our software development model is robust enough to factor in people churn. Software design is flexible, to allow future enhancements.

Our Value Proposition

  • Agility: Our systematic approach involves modular development in small iterations. We maintain good records and the software design is visual. Therefore changes may be absorbed to a good extent (with adequate extra effort).
  • Work Warranty: The detailed requirement documentation and visual design help even the team members who come in later to dive in and fix problems. The systematic and modular approach leaves less room for such problems in the first place.
  • High Maintainability and Enhanceability: The team members who developed the software do not have to be around to maintain and enhance the software. This is because of the discipline of maintaining requirement documentation and visual software design.
  • Project Success Guarantee: The project success guarantee is delivered on the basis of better manageability. Also, we play it safe and use mature open source technologies with a decent supply of trained manpower. Therefore our projects do not get trapped into a non-recoverable state.
  • Simple WBS -> Better Manageability: With our approach, the coding task shifts from coding large features to coding business logic into individual components. This results in a highly granular Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which can be planned and tracked better.
  • Flexibility of Incremental Development: Customers experimenting with new markets find it desirable to develop some features, pause for a while, and then again come back to develop some more. This can be executed well with our model due to the ability of restarting with minimum overheads.
  • Design Validation by Domain Experts: Our up-to-date visual model can help the domain experts (and other stakeholders) to find out the details about the internal working. They see how the control and data flow between various components. They validate the design and get it changed if needed. This boosts the confidence in the solution and cuts down rework.
  • High ROI: Our systematic, disciplined and transparent approach cuts down on rework and unpleasant surprises. This enables us to maintain high quality even in the face of inevitable team changes. Our focus on long term customer needs helps our customers realize a high Return on Investment (ROI) on their investment.

Special Interests

Applications that are hard to develop conventionally

  • Areas with high complexity and high stakes -- such as Billing, Life support, Satellite, Defense
  • Large enterprise applications -- such as ERP, CRM systems
  • Areas needing special domain expertise -- such as Fintech, Healthcare, Manufacturing