Information Architects Associates

IT services companies offer application development in a variety of forms. Contracted or hybrid internal/external rapid application development, full development project outsourcing, or offshore development are common services and all have their place in today’s market based on project need.

In some cases traditional application outsourcing has been viewed as a costly alternative to internal development. The domestic hourly rates appear to some to be too high to justify using external resources. Studies have shown that total cost of ownership is actually lower using external development as compared to hiring and retaining staff needed to build and maintain enterprise applications.

Rapid Application Development:

Rapid application development (RAD) leverages pre-defined frameworks (building blocks) to shorten the development effort. This has proven to greatly reduce the effort needed to build the system to the defined specification and ensure that maintenance standards are adhered to.

IA offers complete outsourced "end-to-end" system design and development services from our offices in California. This includes RAD to meet short and long term business needs. Using the same process, documentation, design, development, and quality assurance expertise available separately, IA staff has the capability to produce large and small scale systems for our clients. As an added benefit we have access to offshore development resources as part of our resource planning strategy. This combination allows us to provide development services as competitively as anyone in the industry.

One key advantage to having IA perform the full development lifecycle is our "business partnership" approach to the service. IA believes our responsibility is more than just developing the system. Our senior consulting staff will work to ensure that the project is structured and accomplished to meet the financial and strategic objectives of the client, not just the technology and process objectives. We strive and “go the extra distance” to develop the cost-saving and revenue enhancing potential of a project to help offset the new system costs and increase the return on investment to the client.

Full development specialties include:

• Enterprise Applications
• Data warehouse applications
• Government tax administration systems
• Data processing and standardization systems
• Customer relationship management system
• Case management systems
• Document imaging systems
• e-Business and e-Commerce applications
• Internet development