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Application Services |
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IT Application Services: Solutions for every Information Technology task that Client wants to be done
“There is only so much money that is available for IT and there is tons to do,” says a CIO and in fact several others. Technology options are still one of the best ways to improve every corporation’s competitive position. And with the topline not growing as fast as you would want it to, cutting IT spending is the way that corporations/Public Sector/Government Agencies choose to boost the bottom line. Offshoring, global sourcing and outsourcing have become the mantra for business salvation in the last decade and this with superior technological capabilities, thorough expertise in multiple industry verticals and a flexible service delivery model, Goldstone can become to be a place of choice for outsourcing IT projects for small to medium Corporations / Government agencies.
Goldstone should provide a flexible delivery method which implies our capability to provide onsite, offshore and nearshore capabilities in major international markets. This along with the fact that highly skilled manpower with the right exposure and attitude is provided at the fastest turnaround times known becomes a determinant of Goldstone’s success.
Goldstone through its IT services division can help several clients meet their sourcing needs by helping them identify, plan and execute their IT requirements with a view to diminish operational costs and maximize performance.
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Application Development, Enhancement & Maintenance |
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Portal Services |
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Business Process Re-engineering |
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Enterprise Application Services |
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Legacy Conversion |
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Middleware Implementation & EAI |
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System Integration Services |
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Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence |
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Application Development and Maintenance |
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With new developments taking place rapidly in the business and technology scene, it becomes imperative to create new solutions or revamp existing solutions to newer environments. With shrinking IT budgets and ever increasing requirements, corporations/government agencies have to consider solution providers who bring in the advantage of added expertise and reduced costs through labor arbitrage and innovation.
Goldstone has a record of accomplishment of completing hundreds of highly successful application development engagements in Geospatial areas. Though working with Goldstone does give the client a cost saving, the real value we provide is the business focus that we intrinsically build into each step, bringing the client a real, added business value that is converted into a strengthened bottom line. |
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The application development practice covers the following activities
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New application development |
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Existing application enhancement |
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Application consolidation |
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Application migration |
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Typically, Goldstone’s application development solution should be spread over five distinct phases.
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Discover (Requirements Gathering and Analysis) |
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Design |
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Develop (Coding, UAT) |
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Deploy (Implementation and short-term support) |
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Drive (long-term support) |
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However, in many cases, we can also start at any of the above phases and progress on to the rest of the phases.
The Drive phase encompasses most of our application maintenance functions including
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Request Management |
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Incident Management |
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Incident Processing |
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Work Arounds and Resolutions |
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Root Cause Analysis |
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Interaction |
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Portal Services |
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Goldstone is designing, deploying and managing enterprise web portals that provide continuous availability of services to users.
We provide portal integration services that include new, legacy, cross-platform applications, data and metadata. We have developed a systematic process for designing and implementing portals, which includes definition of organization requirements and the design of a portal that integrates existing systems. Our implementation will meet current and future organization requirements, as well as provide an effective implementation of the portal, complete and thorough testing and delivery of portal functionality that tracks each organization requirement. Goldstone provides services to maintain your portal, which keeps the information up to date, connected and relevant to your business goals. |
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Goldstone offers the following list of portal services:
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Portal Development from Scratch Level |
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Content Management |
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Search, Security, System Management |
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Transaction Management |
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Migration from any Portal to other Portals along with workflow , content etc |
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Portlet Consolidation |
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Any Portal related work in Apache, Liferay, SharePoint, Weblogic and Websphere |
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Legacy Conversion |
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An unbelievable amount of data and transactions that take place in the world still is contained, or make use of legacy systems developed decades ago. As organizations look to the future and prepare for growth, they have to modernize their platforms, systems and technology to be able to respond well to market needs, reduce the total cost of ownership and just be more competitive by utilizing the advantages of technology.
Goldstone should have a legacy services practice that can work with the client in modernizing or transforming their legacy applications. By modernization, the client’s legacy systems are moved to modern platforms and optimized architectures. The values in the client’s legacy applications are preserved.
We should have a process-centric approach and familiarity with different technological platforms and extensive domain expertise. This will help to make our services comprehensive. Based on experience, architectures such as .NET, J2EE, UNIX and Linux are the more preferred target architectures. In all our services, we should take care that the client’s existing legacy systems, the new business functionality and all the interfaces with external systems are intact.
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Goldstone offers the following list of application migration/ re-engineering services
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Application migration analysis |
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Application migration assessment |
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Application migration implementation |
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Porting of application |
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Data migration analysis |
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Data migration assessment |
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Data migration implementation and poring |
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Re-engineering of application |
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Re-engineering of databases |
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Upgradation of applications |
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Upgradation of database |
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Enterprise Application Services |
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An enterprise application is a business application, obviously. As most people use the term, it is a big business application. In today’s corporate environment, enterprise applications are complex, scalable, distributed, component-based and mission-critical. They may be deployed on a variety of platforms across corporate networks, intranets or the Internet. They are data-centric, user-friendly and must meet stringent requirements for security, administration and maintenance. In short, they are highly complex systems.
Designing and developing such enterprise applications means satisfying hundreds or thousands of separate requirements. What’s more, every development decision you make to satisfy each requirement affects many other requirements, often in ways that are difficult to understand or predict.
The benefits of implementing an ERP, CRM or SCM solution are several. However, the complexity involved and the uncertainty of change is daunting.
With Goldstone’s services for package applications client get a broad range of expert resources. Goldstone also brings to the table, the expertise, processes, tools and methodologies that are required in a successful implementation. The support we provide should be both flexible and effective helping the client to quickly realize a definite ROI.
We will also help the client build a stable environment and implement the required processes so that predictability and availability is high and the cost of ownership is reduced. Our services should be time-bound so that the client can easily realize the business benefits. Schedules are mutually agreed upon and Goldstone has to build a track-record of on-time completion.
We can choose any of the following to provide full consultation and provide expertise in implementing the following package solutions end-to-end.
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ERP (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft) |
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CRM (Salesforce, Siebel) |
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SCM (SAP, Oracle) |
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System Integration Services |
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Goldstone Systems Integration services ensure tighter business-IT alignment, business results-oriented solutions, effective information management, better return on existing investments and increased focus on cost and revenue management. We combine complex technologies together with our proven processes to maximize compatibility, interoperability and enterprise wide information integration.
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In SI Portfolio we cover the following list of services
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Architect, Integrate and Manage custom application and information infrastructures |
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Integration of Software and Hardware components |
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Network Integration |
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Enterprise Application Integration – Seamlessly integrate disparate applications, systems and databases to ensure secured sharing of data and information |
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Legacy to Web Migration |
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Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence |
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Goldstone has extensive experience in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions. Business Data warehouses are vital competitive tools and they can be complex too. Goldstone’s team represents a pool of diverse technology skill sets including Data Acquisition, Data Modeling, Meta Data Repository, Data Management and OLAP.
Goldstone’s well-documented methodologies incorporate standardized modeling and design processes and rapid application development processes to give clients the twin advantages: rapid return on investment and long-term savings in development and maintenance.
Goldstone’s Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (DW/BI) services provide you with an end-to-end offering of data services and tools from design and development lifecycle management to business knowledge and insight.
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Goldstone’s capabilities include
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Source data analysis |
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Data acquisition |
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Data extraction cleansing and loading |
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Managed query and reporting environments development |
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OLAP interface and decision support development |
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Web-enablement of data marts and data warehouses |
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Functional prototype development |
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Goldstone Data Warehousing and BI offerings include
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Data Warehouse/Data Mart Readiness Assessments and Planning |
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Data Warehouse/Data Mart Development and Deployment |
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Web-Based Reporting Solutions |
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Business Intelligence / Portal Integration |
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Business Intelligence Project Management |
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Maintenance services to provide ongoing support, maintenance and enhancement of the system |
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Re-engineering services to redesign existing systems and architectures |
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Business Process Re-engineering |
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The need for businesses to improve the way they operate by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their business processes. Business process is a set of logically related tasks performed to achieve a defined business outcome. Re-engineering is the basis for many recent developments in management. The rapid development of changing customer needs, demand of new processes is a continual demand to design and implement a simple and industry recommended business processes and the same time enabling with technology is a key challenge. |
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The unique approach followed by the Goldstone for Business Process Re-Engineering is
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Identify the processes |
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Review, Update and Analyze As-IS |
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Design To-Be process |
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Testing of To-Be process |
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Process Implementation support |
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Based on this need, Goldstone continues to offer its clients a superior business process improvement service, based on robust methodologies and tools and underpinned by a proven track record of results, locally and across the globe. |
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Goldstone offers the following Process re-engineering services
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Process study, design and development |
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Process modeling |
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Process analysis & designing |
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Process simulation/testing |
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Process implementation support |
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Enterprise Transformation Services |
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With businesses undergoing continuous transformation, it is imperative that their IT aligns fast with the growing business needs. Our focus is on aligning Business and IT strategies through structured enterprise architecture methodologies and adoption of SOA, Web 2.0, SaaS and Social commerce within the enterprise. |
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Web 2.0 |
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SOA |
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SaaS |
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Enterprise Architecture |
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E-Commerce |
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Portal Design, Development & Maintenance |
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Cloud Computing Services |
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