Ascend IT consultants provide the
tools, experience and resource to develop targeted information
technology initiatives that can improve productivity and systems
management. Our consulting expertise include Java, Cold Fusion,
Nuance, Edify, and Microsoft toolsets to create multi-tier web
and voice-base applications tailored to your specific business
needs. We use Java, Perl, JSP, CFML HTML, XML and Voice XML in
Microsoft NT, Nuance, and Linux/Apache environments to develop
highly scalable voice and web applications that enable real-time
sharing of platform independent data. Our expertise covers broad
range of data storage tools, such Oracle, PostgresSQL, Microsoft
SQL Server, Java, JavaScript, CFML, XML, and Voice XML.
Ascend consultants utilize a discipline that starts
with planning and management to provide the critical connection
between corporate strategic goals and project goals. The tools
and techniques used with our methodologies provide the structure
needed to get consistent results and the flexibility to be applied
easily by all project staff. Our consultants deploy the following
discipline to deliver a successful Project:
· Planning Phase
· Requirement Phase
· Design Phase
· Development phase
· Integration Phase
· Testing Phase
· Implementation Phase
· Release and Maintenance Phase
A project schedule with the above task and subtasks
will be developed, agreed, and accepted by our client at the beginning
phase of the engagement. Each phase will have deliverables to
guarantee a timely completion of the project.
Ascend offers to our clients a wide range of consulting
services designed to address, comprehensively, today's IT challenges
in a variety of markets. We deliver targeted, market-specific
consulting services by leveraging our team's technical knowledge,
domain expertise, and use of standard methodologies.
Ascend's Consulting Services focus on:
E-APPLICATIONS
Ascend offers consulting, design and development
assistance for a comprehensive e-solution framework that helps
our clients to develop large scale, mission critical e-business
solutions; implement and integrate e-business application solutions.
Designing
and Implementing E-Commerce and E-Government Applications
Ascend's e-commerce and e-government consulting
experts help organizations to seize the opportunities of web-enabled
solutions. Ascend offers consultancy services in a spectrum of
products and services and helps clients to identify appropriate
platform, tools and applications, select hardware, network and
software and training to take advantage of e-commerce and promote
web accessibility.
Ascend's web applications development expertise
caters to the development of end-to-end solutions to a wide variety
of combinations arising out of customer's business models, business
strategies and IT infrastructure platforms and Technology paradigms.
Business models could be one of brokerage, advertising, affiliate,
subscription, utility, community or manufacturer. The business
strategies could include strengthening position in existing markets,
capturing new markets or converging existing markets on different
IT infrastructure platforms such as Corporate intranets, extranets,
and the Internet. We use multiple technologies: Java or HTML to
present information to the client, XML as a standard mechanism
to describe and integrate various types of content, HTTP or CORBA
IIOP to communicate from the client to the application server
or database server, Java and Enterprise Java Beans as the way
to build applications, LDAP as the protocol to access the Directory
service and SSL as network encryption protocol.
For e-government applications, Ascend can assist
in Web enabling to make existing applications Web-accessible.
Web-enabled business applications generally consist of four major
elements: Presentation logic (which uses web technologies), Integration
logic (which combines business or government functions into a
marketable offering), Business logic (which implements a line-of-business
function), and Data access logic (which maps business entities
onto physical data records). Customers have the benefit of combining
various types of content and access them in a variety of ways.
APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT
Ascend provides Application Deployment consulting
services comprised of project leaders, application development
specialists, analysts, and programmers. Our consultants have experience
with a broad array of programming languages and application development
tools. They specialize in a variety of database management systems,
Windows applications, and data communication monitors, which operate
in a wide range of computer hardware environments as well.
Our expertise includes Integrated Operations Management,
Enterprise-Wide Business Applications, Customer Relationship Management,
Supply Chain Management, and Custom Software Development.
Some key applications supported by Ascend consultants
include:
Integrated Operations Management
Ascend combines a comprehensive approach and experienced
teams with product suites from leading solution providers like
SAP and Oracle, PeopleSoft, Baan, and SAP. Our emphasis on best
practices like ASAP for R/3, have made us first choice for leading
organizations around the globe.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Applications
The range of choices available for an enterprise
attempting to put an ERP can be overwhelming. Ascend guides its
clients through the selection of potential ERP solutions. We have
a track record of implementing successful ERP solutions across
a spectrum of industries. These solutions are typically integrated
with Supply Chain, and customer relationship management.
Customer Relationship Management
Ascend's Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
consulting expertise cover the range of customer interactions
such as sales, marketing, customer service, and call centers and
is targeted on client problem areas. After identifying key areas
of concern, we devise strategies to create greater customer impact.
These strategies are then implemented by carefully choosing the
appropriate CRM product, and developing practical execution plans,
post-implementation support, and training.
Ascend provides complete business consulting and
technical implementation services for supply chain management
(SCM). Ascend's SCM consulting services range from strategic opportunity
assessment, project scoping, sizing and audits to implementation,
global rollouts, upgrades, training, archiving, and database management.
Custom Development of Applications
Ascend consultants work with many different paradigms
of applications development incorporating best practices to be
utilized throughout the Problem Statement, Requirements, Analysis,
Design, Construction, Business User Final Acceptance and Transition
phases of the system development life cycle. For Object-Oriented
Projects, we deploy Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Unified
Process in the context of Joint applications Development and Rapid
Application Development.
As part of our services, we undertake the maintenance
of legacy applications using a proven methodology that benefits
the client directly by reducing maintenance costs through improved
productivity.
This includes:
· Version upgrade services
· Database migration
· Language migration
· Reengineering
· Functionality upgrades
· Porting
· New database and application deployment
Ascend has undertaken re-engineering of legacy
applications on IBM, Unisys and other platforms, and has successfully
re-engineered applications that have little or no documentation.
Ascend's migration consulting team can port legacy applications
written in outmoded languages and across platforms, across languages,
and across versions.
