Application Development
DoIT can provide a variety of application development services including developing, installing and integrating existing applications; and can meet your application needs with variety of skills in programming, database administration, analysis, design, and project management.
Vendor packages
If you are considering the acquisition of a package application, or are ready to implement a purchased package; here are some of the available services we provide:
- Identification of requirements
- Market survey of available products
- Assistance in bid or RFP preparation
- Evaluate bid responses
- Estimate implementation costs
- Learn package functionality and underlying technology
- Explore benefits of product features and capabilities
- Develop customizations or user exits for special processing
- Partner with vendor or third-party consultants
- Install application
- Map current business processes to the new package
- Analyze gaps between current and new applications
- Convert data from existing systems
- Integrate new application with existing applications
- Create custom reports
- Develop data extracts for other applications or the Data Warehouse
- Provide day-to-day support and troubleshooting
Database applications
DoIT can develop or modify applications that add, modify, query and report information stored in databases. Services include:
- Scope the application to correctly design the application for the number of users and volume of data
- Define and document data requirements and definitions.
- Analyze data entry and retrieval processes, including mandated reporting and data submissions
- Design database tables and objects.
- Design easy-to-use data entry screens.
- Add secure access to your database.
- Test applications.
- Implement applications in the selected production computing environment, and schedule regular backups of databases.
- Develop processes to purge old data and archive the information.
Databases typically used: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, IBM IMS and DB2. Applications to manage data can also be developed using spreadsheet programs.
Web applications
DoIT can add custom functions to a web site or develop complete web applications. The fee for these services is determined either by the amount of time it takes to develop the application or as a fixed price.
Database applications on the Web
A web application can be created to enter, change and retrieve information stored in databases. The data updates may occur immediately or be transmitted to other back end processes that maintain the databases. Access to database applications via the web can be restricted to an authorized group of people, and encryption can be applied as data is exchanged.
Customized search facilities
DoIT can add a customized search capability to a web site to permit the visitor to search for documents based on a word or phrase. Customized searching is tailored to the content and organization of the information in your documents.
Image and text applications
DoIT can help you make a collection of images available to a large audience via the web. Digitized images can be published along with a catalog that describes the images. The text in the catalog provides search and browse access to the images in the collection.
Web interface to data and reports
DoIT can develop a custom application that reformats data or reports to create a web presentation. Publication on the web makes the information easily available to large number of people.
E-commerce
DoIT can help a campus department link to credit card processing, or develop a complete e-commerce application to handle the web forms needed to sell items and collect fees. DoIT can assist or integrate the web e-commerce site with back-end processes to fulfill orders and record registrations.
Application development staffing
DoIT can provide staffing for application development activities, such as technical consulting, project management, analysis, design, programming, debugging, quality assurance, performance tuning, upgrading code to new language versions, and installing new releases of vendor package applications.
Programming skills include SAS, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, PERL, Java Script, Java, SQR, Crystal Reports, Oracle Developer, PeopleTools, Access, Visual Basic, MS Office, HTML, XML, Active X, Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion, Natural, COBOL. Staffing for projects requiring these skills is subject to availability and prior commitments. For programming skills not listed, please check if experience is available or can be obtained.