Consulting

Recognizing that custom software development and deployment is about solving business problems and enabling new business models, BestSoft works carefully with the client to ensure the system we build will provide a solid return for the technology investment. Technology represents the foundation stone for business success in the 21st century, whatever the nature of the business is. BestSoft Inc., along with its many other capabilities, is a leader in the definition, delivery and management of technology-based business solutions.

We are a leading software engineering firm using advanced technologies to deliver on time and within budget software systems that enable our clients to conduct business electronically. These systems are typically critical to our clients' businesses. These must be reliable and secure and accommodate growth without extensive modification. Our core competency is solving our clients' business challenges by engineering software systems enabling core business processes. Our clients typically seek secure and reliable systems that process high volumes of transactions, manage and distribute large amounts of data according to complex business requirements and integrate seamlessly with their existing systems.

Initially, BestSoft's experienced consultants work closely with the client to determine project scope, define concrete objectives, and develop measures of success. The goals are to provide a rapid and solid start for the custom software development effort, ensure the business benefits of the technology investment, and provide a cost estimate for the entire project.

Database Design and Administration

Gartner Group research predicts that by 2012, organizations will be dealing with 30 times more data than they are today. We understand that for many companies data is a strategic asset, for some even a revenue source. Data is often extremely important and extremely underutilized.

Scaling the database infrastructure with open source software may not only be innovative itself, but can also encourage further innovation at the application level. This is a worthy goal indeed for any infrastructure planner.

BestSoft has years of broad expertise in developing database standards and naming conventions, operating procedures and backup strategy, performance optimization, logical and physical database design with world leading databases such as Oracle, mySQL and SQL Server.


Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

Gartner Group research predicts that by 2012, organizations will be dealing with 30 times more data than they are today. We understand that for many companies data is a strategic asset, for some even a revenue source. Data is often extremely important and extremely underutilized.

The definition of a data warehouse has taken on many meanings and interpretations throughout the years. But at its core, a data warehouse represents a consolidated view of an entity's data – an integration point for all sources into one vision of the organization. The goal of a data warehouse is to turn data into something meaningful through integration, cleansing, standardizing and improving the data from its original source. This allows companies and organizations to make better decisions about their direction and status of their business.

BestSoft has years of broad expertise in developing data warehousing solutions, ETL strategy, performance optimization and partioning. And our goal is always to improve your business decisions using strategic implementation from an architecture, planning, budgeting, or visionary perspective.


Enterprise Architecture

Throughout the development cycle, enterprise architecture involves many aspects - business strategy, technical infrastructure, competitiveness, and data and above all, delivering value to the stakeholders like the users, developers, managers and the architecture team itself. While the interests of the user community are well understood and religiously protected, the other stakeholders don't find so much support from the architecture. Because still they are expected to work for realizing the architecture and not use it as tool to come up with a good system, bringing their own expertise to bear. The architects on the team represent knowledge of the products of their organizational group (project, division, etc.) as well as the relative priorities of their system requirements (organizational goals, and product functionality and qualities). Architects cannot exist and work in isolation from the rest of the organization.

Teams are in a constant state of flux and who should be doing what is always a point of conflict. Many organizations have a weak or confused notion of the responsibilities and interaction of roles within the organization. In such conditions architecture teams may cut themselves off from the rest of the organization, produce architecture, but it will be in great danger of being rejected.

So what should one do to avoid such a discord and chaos?

  • The key might be in voiding temptations to try to reduce distractions, putting up a "wall" around the Architectural team so that they can make rapid and efficient progress. This isolation is the source of serious misunderstandings. Firstly, the architecture team may come to be resented as a "select" group off doing interesting stuff that is disconnected from everyday product pressures. In an atmosphere of resentment, the developer community will be looking for opportunities to find weakness in the architecture.
  • Secondly, keep track of product priorities and developer concerns. Unless there is strong communication between the architecture team and developers and project managers on the one hand, and strategic managers on the other, the system cannot be planned and executed as one cohesive unit.
  • Third, technical risks might be curtailed if the architect can maintain direct contact with well informed customers that may result in keeping the architecture effort informed of market directions.

Finally, it all boils down to vision, communication and organization. The key purpose of architecture is to facilitate team communication and understanding. In software development methodologies reducing risk could be achieved by encouraging communication between various person and roles in a project, and involving business leadership in developing and implementing enterprise architecture.


Agile Development

BestSoft understands value of the Agile Methodologies, which optimize the development environment, reduce organizational overhead, and closely synchronize market requirements with iterative prototypes. Agile Process causes functionality and value to be produced incrementally so value can be realized early and built upon, and business strategy prioritizes the sequence of functionality delivery so that the return on investment is maximized. BestSoft offers mentoring in a variety of areas.

Our Developer Tool Belt consists of: Our Management Tool Belt consists of:
  • Object Orient Analysis and Design
  • Applying Design Patterns to real world issues
  • XP Programming
  • Test Driven Development
  • Scrum and other agile methodologies
  • Organization Change when applying agile methods
  • The synergy between Agile methods and CMMI/ISO9000 practices

Let the BestSoft master craftsmen mentor your journeyman programmers and managers into becoming masters of their trade.


Outsourcing

Most popular areas of outsourcing are IT and IT-enabled business processes for number of reasons, including lower costs, variable capacity, risk mitigation, process reengineering, and the opportunity to focus on core capabilities.

It can, however, involve a range of issues which have to be carefully considered. BestSoft addresses all potential issues at early stage by preparing and executing the transition plan, the SLA and the outsourcing contract.

It is important for outsourcing success that management has clear with expectations and sets them up front based on where the organization currently stands, and where it wishes to stand, with respect to the IT service. Having established this critical information, the path to IT outsourcing should be far clearer.

We are different from most outsourcing companies because of our top-notch IT talent pools in all of Eastern Europe. Just some of significant benefits of outsourcing to Europe are:

  • Smaller teams of real experts
  • Creativity and narrow but intense focus
  • The cost of maintaining a relationship between the USA and India or China is much higher compare to Europe in terms of travel, time zone differences and management costs.

By setting standards for outsourcing, BestSoft provides the full spectrum of software development services on a project based model and makes sure that your business goals are achieved faster, cheaper and better.


Security Assessment

Securing company information is an ongoing concern for stakeholders that need to comply with numerous data security laws, policy and audit procedures. As more and more businesses are being affected by security breaches and undetected vulnerabilities, business decision-makers are realizing that the lack of an information security review to alleviate their security deficiencies can be very costly. BestSoft provides an independent, non-biased approach to mitigate the potential risk and liability of an organization's technology infrastructure and business processes.

Information Security is much more than the latest technology, hot fix or virus patch. It encompasses all elements of a company's complex business environment. With legislation such as HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley and the California Privacy Law (SB1386) requiring higher standards of risk governance, privacy accounting, security operations and policies must now align with larger business objectives and corporate strategy.

BestSoft provides the depth of analysis necessary to ensure your intellectual property and IT assets are protected from external and internal vulnerabilities and recommends risk mitigation strategies where appropriate.


Web Development

Doing business in today's increasingly competitive marketplace requires companies to continually review their business processes. Unabated competition means that businesses every day must find ways to improve products and services, cut costs, provide more value to the customers, and effectively grow their customer base. Several competitive factors and pressures come into play for businesses operating in such an environment:

  • Companies need to cut costs and improve the productivity of all employees - from clerical workers to highly educated "knowledge workers".
  • Changes in organizational structure and the way companies operate are leading to new business models, such as collaborative product development and improved management of supply chains through integration with suppliers.
  • The rapidly changing marketplace requires that businesses not only respond to these changes effectively, but proactively change the way they do business, knowing that such change is part of today's business landscape. Mass marketing of many products and services may no longer be appropriate, however. Instead, niche marketing and targeting specific market segments often are more effective and efficient.
  • As markets continue to change rapidly, the life cycle of products and services shrinks in response. Astute businesspersons know that the speed at which a product or service gets to market has a direct impact on market share and bottom-line profits.
  • The cost of products and services is no longer the only factor that many of today's customers consider. More of today's consumer are highly educated and demand responsive service, detailed information about your organization and the products and services you offer, and individualized support.

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