The primary goal of the Architechs on our IT Applications team is to work with our customers to architech solutions across the following areas: 

Office Productivity Applications/Software

• Increase the productivity of information workers (office managers, secretaries, data entry personnel, etc..) by identifying, purchasing, implementing, and integrating office productivity applications like:
  • Office Suite - Outlook, Word, Excel, OneNote, and others
  • Reporting tools - Access, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Reporting Services
  • Collaboration tools - SharePoint, Project, Project Server, Live Communication Server
  • CRM solutions - Business Contact Manager, Saleslogix, others 
  • Financial appplications - Microsoft Office Accounting, Microsoft Dynamics (GP and AX), and Quickbooks  
  • and many others. 
    
• Once implemented, they also provide on-going assistance with these applications via on-site and off-site support. For more information on this topic, please visit ManagedTech Services for IT Applications .  

Web Presence

• Increase collaboration with customers and vendors.
  • Secure login for customers and vendors
  • Access to files they are authorized to see and download
  • Sign up for newsletters 
• Improve the ease of managing the content on the web site.
  • Secure login
  • Change text
  • Change images
  • Create "News" items with publish and expiration dates    

Custom-built Applications / Software

• Create common architechure services and standards to increase the productivity of their entire development staff and to reduce their on-going maintenance costs.  

• Design, build, and deploy their custom applications on-time and on-budget.  

• Integrate key aspects of their critical internal and external business applications to automate processes that reduce input errors and alleviate the cost of unnecessary duplicate data entry.  

• Increase the collaboration between their information workers.

IT Architechs' focus is on the Microsoft platform. Our direct experience and relationships with the appropriate partners has allowed us to deliver solutions for our customers across the following spectrum of custom application development:

• Custom business applications (Microsoft Visual Studio .NET).  

• Application frameworks (Microsoft EntLib 1.0).  

• Application integration of internal and external business systems (Microsoft Biztalk).  

• Database design and optimization (Transactional/Relational via Microsoft SQL and OLAP via Microsoft’s Analysis Services). 

• Collaboration (Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server).  

• eCommerce (Microsoft Commerce Server).  

• Reporting (Microsoft Reporting Services).  

Based on our experience and rigor gained from working on large projects for large companies, all of our solutions benefit from our focus on:

• Enterprise Application Architechure – architecture and standards that can be leveraged by multiple business application development teams. Our team assists with 1) coding and methodology standards and guidelines, 2) the use of application blocks and frameworks such as EntLib v1.0 or code blocks from MS Patterns and Practices, and 3) the use of tools to enhance build-configuration, testing, and installation.  

• Well-defined project management – ensure proper communication and setting of expectations to deliver a custom project on-time and on-budget.  

• Application infrastructure - determining the optimal development and production server configuration to run your critical business applications.  

Upon completion of an IT Application audit or custom project, some of our customers leverage our ManagedTech Services for IT Applications to support their on-going application maintenance needs.