Technologies
As a business owner, with the number of options available in servers, operating systems, language, database, connectivity, it makes the decision of choosing the right combination of technologies and providers extremely difficult.
.NET / SQL Server
We have identified three basic areas in which one needs to make a choice, while selecting a technology solution:
- Architecture
- Construction
- Ownership
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We can help choose right one for you.
Net framework provides the core technologies for developing web services and solutions. Blackbucks .Net web / windows developers exploit all the benefits of .Net technology to create powerful applications meant for processing big amounts of data and ensuring its top of the line quality and complete security. With our .Net application development services, businesses get reliable, scalable, and easy to use information management systems, which enhance the corporate collaboration and communication.
PHP / MySQL
PHP is accounted for by its cross-platform support, reliability and open-source nature. PHP web developers at Blackbucks use the advantages of the script design clarity, easy embedding into HTML, huge libraries and architecture compatibility to provide stable, flexible and fast applications to business owners worldwide.
Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
More and more business leaders are looking at Analytics as critical enablers to outperform. We leverage KPI backwards approach, deep industry expertise and experience in handling complex analytics and information management engagements, to deliver differentiation at the front and standardization at the core.
Sharepoint
SharePoint development experience has equipped it to provide multiple SharePoint services, catering to the varied requirement of our customers. Here are the services that we provide:
Android & Mobile Applications
With the high-performance operating system powering a wide spectrum of smartphones and internet-enabled devices, the market for Android application development is rapidly growing over the years. Power packed with user friendly and intuitive interface, remarkable features, and exciting applications, Android is coming in vogue today. And this ever-growing Android market is a lucrative opportunity for businesses to reckon with. Several businesses are looking for customized and flexible Android application development services to tap the market for Android devices and reach out to a larger global audience. Android is an open source platform, delivering an intuitive and flexible platform to design and develop exciting applications for individual and business needs.
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Services
Application Development
Blackbucks Application Development services help you address evolving business and technology challenges by defining, designing and building applications tailored to meet your business requirements. We deliver high quality, flexible applications that are easy to maintain, modular to facilitate enhancements, and are reliable, secure and easy to deploy using our Global Delivery Model. It is based on industry-standard process quality frameworks (such as CMMi, CMM) and uses rigorous methodologies to mitigate risk and deliver cost and time-to-market benefits.
Our custom development service offerings are targeted towards the principle outcomes of increased advocacy, higher end-user productivity, and rapid adoption with a primary focus to help you boost your ability to harvest increased business value from your investments.
User Experience
We do not develop software from an engineer point of view. For us user experience is of utmost value. Our services help you build applications that embody three key design outcomes – easy to use, useful, and engaging. Our dedicated team on user experience is focused on delivering superior UX design services to our clients.
Application Maintenance
Blackbucks’ application maintenance services help you get the best out of your existing IT applications. The services span offshore-ability analysis, maintainability analysis, maintenance and enhancement and are delivered using the Global Delivery Model. We use structured knowledge management tools and ITPL methods to enhance the life of your systems, ensure that they evolve with your business, reduce system downtime and help you focus on strategic initiatives by minimizing the time spent on routine activities.
Application operations
Includes 24x7 monitoring of applications for availability / performance / capacity, batch monitoring / management. Application service desk includes incident management activities such as incident recording, initial investigation of issues; tracking and escalation management, and closure; user administration and service reporting.
Production support
Involves a detailed analysis of incident, incident resolution, and problem management activities such as trend analysis, root cause analysis, known error establishment, and creation of RFC and break-fixes (excluding code changes).
Release and change support
Comprises setting up of various test environments, release / change activities such as release coordination, emergency releases, build and code deployment, managing release calendar, and configuration management / SCM tool administration.
Implementation Services
The decision to embark on a large-scale IT product implementation project has the potential to transform the way an organization operates. Such a project impacts not only the IT systems, but also business processes, team structures and the organization’s competitiveness in its industry. It provides the leadership with a rare opportunity to take a step back and challenge the “It’s always been done this way” mind-set.
A product implementation can be viewed as a series of phases. An effective change management program would run parallel to the implementation, preparing the organization to react favorably to the impending transition.
Initiation - There are several considerations to be taken into account during the early stages of a product implementation. Decisions around product suitability and adherence to business processes are the result of a detailed evaluation and selection exercise involving stakeholders from business, operations and technology.
Implementation - The implementation stage comprises a set of initiatives across the firm. Planning for these initiatives before diving deep into “activity mode” is a key determinant of success. Almost all firms have a set of defined processes for executing large programs. These processes need to be customized for the product implementation to ensure efficient implementation.
Post-implementation - Successful implementation is not the end of the journey for the firm’s leadership. It is equally inclusion of additional workflows and integration of new systems can help to avoid the common pitfalls of over-customization or the platform becoming obsolete sooner than the expected time. Business goals and the marketplace evolve continuously, and hence process changes should keep pace to stay aligned with the business objectives.
Application Engineering
Blackbucks’ reengineering services help modernize legacy systems to enhance flexibility, mitigate risk, minimize disruption and lower costs. We enable you to address issues in the legacy system such as multiple technology platforms, high cost of maintenance, unsupported systems, shrinking employee expertise, lack of integration and web capabilities. The services provide a metrics-based framework to help you choose from different modernization methods – web enabling, re-engineering, re-hosting, componentization, and new development.
Management Consulting
Our primary focus is on bridging the gap between business and IT to help clients realize measurable business value from their IT-enabled investments. As a result, we have become one of the fastest growing consultancies in the industry by combining technology lifecycle and vertical industry expertise and experience. In the process, we have transformed management consulting while helping our clients transform their businesses.
Where business, IT, and implementation are separate, we bring them together. Where others emphasize technology projects, we focus on transformational opportunities — client processes with the greatest potential value to customers and to stakeholders. We've changed the traditional consulting model of serial engagements -- business strategy consultants followed by IT strategy consultants followed by implementation strategy consultants, with never the same people. We provide vertical industry and process expertise with extensive experience in technologies that help drive innovation. Instead of simply handing off projects to our business applications, systems integration, and IT implementation counterparts, we are joined with them at an organizational level to seamlessly deliver end-to-end services.
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Framework
Software Development Process
For all of our customers, we are able to adapt to their software development processes and cultures, but we also bring a set of knowledge and good practices we have acquired and learned over time, which all of our developers are trained to use: We have developed a framework of our own based on SIX SIGMA and LEAN. We have also extensively studied widely popular models for assuring high quality of our solutions.
Our software development methodology is based on practices and methods described in "Agile Methodologies". We take care of each developer individually and check for the quality of the work of each team member. We believe that by doing this, we will see great benefits across the entire organization.
Starting a Project - Every software development effort at Blackbucks starts by defining in the most clear, explicit, and precise way the goals and objectives you wish to accomplish. We build this with the information available and our own experience. We then move to identify the necessary resources, the scope, and size of the project, and to estimate the time needed to accomplish it.
Breaking it down - Each project is then broken down into tasks—highly detailed activities that, when completed, push the project closer to its goal. The result of this is a task schedule; all tasks will be assigned to a group of developers where each member will take responsibility for them and will take advantage of a large knowledge base to estimate the time and resources needed to accomplish such tasks.
Starting the Week - Each week, every developer is tasked with creating a weekly plan. This should include every task s/he is committed to finishing that week. This is usually the developer's first task each week. This is done to provide a clear path for the developer during the week, a way to check progress and to gain a better understanding of the impact of new tasks. The developer is expected to update this schedule after each task has been finished, updating estimates, priorities, and deadlines as needed.
Daily Scrum - At the start of every work day, the developer will share with his supervisor and teammates the following information in response to the following questions:
•What was completed the previous day?
•What will you be working on today?
•Do you have any obstacle preventing you from working correctly?
Keeping track of progress - After finishing each task, the developer will log the start and end times, in addition to any useful information about the work (description of changes, next steps to follow, the status of the task, etc.) The supervisor will constantly monitor the project's progress, working to remove any obstacles and to correct the course when needed. Communication with the client regarding progress and deadlines will also be handled by the supervisor.
Constant review - At the end of the week, each developer will perform a review of the work done, listing what has been completed, what was left unfinished, what estimates did not match the actual time invested, and what obstacles or unscheduled tasks appeared during the week.
Software Quality Assurance
At Blackbucks, we value the quality of the product and service provided to you. We are constantly looking for defects and strive to correct them as early in the process as possible.
You can rest assured that your project will be handled with care and that it has been reviewed by experts at every step of the process. Getting it right, from the start Quality assurance starts early in the process. Early on, the developer will put together a document detailing the project objectives, resources needed, and a solution proposal. The supervisor will review this document and ensure its correctness before moving forward.
Rigorous Testing - The work is continually tested during development, following a checklist of what to test and the correct way to test it, as agreed upon by the developer and supervisor. The same checklist will be applied and verified on all available environments. These environments are usually categorized as: Development, Quality Assurance, and Production. We aim to develop this in a way that facilitates testing, which is better when automated.
Everything is Reviewed - After working on a development task, the resulting product will go into a "code review" phase, led by the supervisor and involving the developer. This review aims to detect, early on, any possible error introduced to the system, whether it is in the logic or the code. In addition, the review ensures that good practices have been followed during the development and that the project's coding standards have been respected, producing code that is easy to read and maintain.
Our software development methodology is based on practices and methods described in "Agile Methodologies". We take care of each developer individually and check for the quality of the work of each team member. We believe that by doing this, we will see great benefits across the entire organization.
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Portfolio
Services
Our services to number of organizations in application development result in highly satisfied customers because of the framewok we follow, the scrum methodology that helps the customer identify the issues in the initial phases, the extended support we provide by beng available to them in their meetings.
Please refer to our Products section to have a view of few of the products that we have developed.
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