Application Development Services

Whether you need to improve the effectiveness of your existing applications, or need to build a powerful new web solution from the ground up, we have the expertise and methodology to meet your needs. We provide complete end-to-end services for mission-critical applications demanding high-availability and superior performance. Our comprehensive offering includes: an initial assessment, design, project planning and management, development, integration with existing applications and hosting. And, our centralized knowledge centre ensures that our team has immediate access to relevant, project specific information for a consistent understanding of your environment and processes. This makes us completely accountable, provides one point of contact, and eliminates problems that often occur when multiple suppliers are involved.

Solution Type Corporate, Collaborative and Commerce Web Sites

Corporate, Collaborative and Commerce Web Sites Electronic Document Management Process Automation Information Processing and Exchange Grow your business – Enable employees, partners and clients to communicate, collaborate and conduct transactions securely on line. Our solutions make content management and publishing quick and easy to manage Portals – Invest in a secure turnkey portal to give access to a broad array of resources and commerce, e-business and enterprise solutions to augment organizational goals and processes. Intranets – Provide collaborative solutions for each business unit or for your organization overall. Enable employees to quickly locate and view relevant information contained in electronic documents and applications, improving your employees’ productivity. Extranets – Improve customer service and on-line product support through secure access to relevant customer and supplier resources. Once implemented, our solutions allow you to create electronic forms, set up discussion groups, blogs, and personal sections to post information critical to strong business relations.

Solution Type Electronic Document Management

Corporate, Collaborative and Commerce Web Sites Electronic Document Management Process Automation Information Processing and Exchange Build efficiency – Thanks to electronic document management users can easily locate, manage and reuse information using well organized directories. Web content management – Enable your business units to add, modify or remove their own content and web pages in a timely manner with integrated user-friendly tools designed to publish quickly and securely. Electronic forms – Enable your personnel to collect, share, reuse and manage the information required to support the collaboration and decision-making processes of your organization. These versatile and dynamic forms can include rules for validating prerequisites or for an approval sequence. They can take the form of expense reports, vacation requests, surveys, etc. Document and archive management – Equip your organization with solutions for the acquisition (digitalization), classification, management and storage of documents and encourage a culture of sharing and learning through information exchange. Build in rules for archiving, security and audit trails established in organizational policies to safeguard your sensitive documents and to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.

Solution Type Process Automation

Corporate, Collaborative and Commerce Web Sites Electronic Document Management Process Automation Information Processing and Exchange Improve your productivity – Build transactional capability by linking your various applications and by automating information exchange and workflow for more streamlined operations. Operational integration of established systems and various applications – Allow your disparate systems to communicate easily and operate efficiently. Automate data import and export to ensure consistent data while freeing up employees from repetitive tasks. Workflow – Simulate the critical path of tasks shared by several groups in a given process, with deadlines and validation controls, and provide each participant with the information necessary to fulfill their respective tasks. Automatically generate reports indicating currently active tasks, the responsible party and the levels of approval granted to date. "Webify" your applications – Convert your existing office applications to web-based operations and facilitate deployment, maintenance, access and usage. Combine functions or stand-alone applications in an easy-to-use format.

Solution Type Information Processing and Exchange

Corporate, Collaborative and Commerce Web Sites Electronic Document Management Process Automation Information Processing and Exchange Stimulate your business – Facilitate transactions with your clients and suppliers in a secure environment and monitor the performance of your various business functions at a glance -- take the guesswork out of decision-making. Electronic Catalogues – Enhance B2B and B2C e-commerce by personalizing access to catalogues according to different client target groups using integrated navigation tools, price lists, and real time inventory data management applications. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) – Interact with established stand-alone systems such as CRM, ERP and accounting systems by supporting the exchange of electronic data. Automate the production of documents from order intake to delivery and customs processing. Key Performance Indicators (KPI) – Monitor critical information needed to support sophisticated strategic and tactical decision-making in real time. Increase your employee’s responsibilities, measure the success of your various business units and use accurate data for planning future business goals and objectives.

Custom Applications

We deliver a full range of services including initial assessment, design, project planning and management, application development and integration with your existing applications. Our web applications are robust, secure, and available 24 X 7.

Fusepoint Development Model

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Once we have completed your initial assessment and have a full understanding of your objectives, our team of certified experts utilises a proprietary methodology called the “Fusepoint Development Model”, to break down your project into defined, manageable phases. Our application development approach is based on the following principals: architecture centered development; concurrent execution of project activities, evolutionary prototyping and collaboration of teams and independent centers of expertise. It is an umbrella approach which encompasses all elements of design, quality control, validation and project management. In breaking down the project life cycle into different phases, we can easily work with you to set objectives, requirements, activities and deliverables for each phase of the project.

Fusepoint Development Platform

Fusepoint has invested heavily in developing a solid technical foundation for application development using object oriented (OO) principles, a multi-layer architecture and industry recognized design model. Developed in C# and using .NET technology, you can rely on Fusepoint’s development platform for rapid deployment, flexibility and cost effectiveness. And we don’t stop there – we are committed to continuous improvement in an ongoing effort to enhance the development platform to better meet our customer’s requirements. Once your project is fully implemented, we hand you the administration of the development platform with its fully documented source code. You can rest assured that we will give you everything you need to manage, maintain and make modifications to your application.

Java Development Platform

Fusepoint's team of experts know many of the Java development platforms (J2EE) on the market today. Our specialists can adapt and develop application components designed for a multi-layered architecture. In accordance with our ISO 9001:2000 certified development framework, our architecture and analysis work, as well as the source code are fully documented in order to facilitate maintenance. This helps ensure continuity by providing the information needed for future system upgrades we develop.

Fusepoint Development Environments

Fusepoint uses separate and secured development environments for the different phases of your project. During its development cycle, your project will reside on different environments adapted to the nature of the tasks at hand. The four integrated development environments used by Fusepoint provide all the tools needed to create, generate, validate and deploy an application, from beginning to end:

• Development – comprised of several office workstations for development and a database server for the integration, quality control and validation environments
• Integration – comprised of a server with a source and web site manager dedicated to development, and a database server for the development, quality control and validation environments
• Quality control – comprised of a server with automated testing tools, and a database server for the development, integration and validation environments
• Validation – comprised of a server containing the same operating system and the same application access elements as the production environment, and an independent database server containing data as close as possible in volume and type to that found on the production environment. At your request and under certain conditions, the validation environment can be located in your facility