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Our primary object in providing clients with services is to help them get the most out of their technology spending from a short, medium, and long term perspective. In achieving this we will leverage any combination of our unique skills, experience, and resources to meet an individual client's needs.

From a skills and experience perspective we cover areas such as general system design and development, web application design and development, data management and flow analysis, and, overall process and technology re-engineering. From a resource perspective we can leverage our web application framework and components where appropriate and we can also utilize our unique data quality management solution as required.

Following is a brief description of each of our primary service offerings. Please note this list is not meant to be limiting and if you think we can be of assistance to your organization in a particular role or circumstance not covered here please feel free to contact us.

System Migration Management Service

Our system migration management service helps clients reduce the risk of errors occurring during periods of transition from one processing system to another. By utilizing this service data and programming errors are discovered before a given system makes it into a production environment.

Web Technologies Consulting

The goal of this service is to help clients leverage and integrate web technologies within their organization. In doing this we can for example help in the selection evaluation and positioning of web technologies. We can help a client design and build and/or trouble-shoot their web applications. We may allow clients to utilize our own web application framework and components to accelerate the development of their web applications.

Architecture Consulting

The architecture consulting service focuses on helping clients create the most efficient and cost-effective IT solutions for supporting their particular business requirements. Applying this service to a given client's needs could take many different forms. For example the architecture initiative could focus on an individual application and business function, or it could target a given business line and set of applications. The initiative could target a business function and class of systems across the entire organization or it could extend across the businesses of the entire organization.

Overview

System Migration Management

Web Technologies Consulting

Architecture Consulting

n-Tier's web technologies consulting service is targeted at companies who want to make the most out of their use of web technologies. The service provides clients an opportunity to leverage the years of experience gained in building and perfecting our own state-of-the-art web based software. As part of this service we also offer clients the opportunity to utilize our web application framework and components to accelerate the development of their own web applications.

At n-Tier we believe we are at the beginning stages of the next part of the web/web technologies revolution. Whereas the first part of this revolution focused on the opportunity to deliver large volumes of information easily on a global scale the second portion will focus on delivering advanced software solutions and services on a global scale. The key business drivers behind this shift in the use of technologies is the significant reduction in costs gained by delivering solutions out to clients and employees in an environment which eliminates most costs and delays incurred in maintaining and installing software on individual users PCs and also in many instances reduces the requirements and costs of purchasing those PCs significantly.

Potential Deliverables

With these business drivers and technology trends in mind we have spent significant amounts of time perfecting our own web application architecture and have done so in a manner that enables the delivery of advanced, user friendly, and usable web applications as lightweight browser based software. As part of this service we enable clients to leverage this effort and experience to help accelerate their own web initiative. From a potential deliverable perspective we cover a broad range of areas including for example:

Web architecture design/implementation
Web architecture trouble shooting/re-engineering
Provision of n-Tier's Web Application Framework

Overview

System Migration Management

Web Technologies Consulting

Architecture Consulting

n-Tier's architecture consulting service is focused on helping clients create the most efficient and cost-effective IT solutions for supporting their particular business requirements. Working with your organization we help define a long-term IT architectural vision through short and medium term initiatives with clear and measurable results. The scope of our involvement in your overall architecture is flexible and based solely on your needs. Within this context we can construct a set of deliverables for any number of scenarios including for example, architecting a particular solution, architecting a set of solutions for a particular business line, or architecting a set of solutions for a set of enterprise-wide business functions.

The business objective of the service is to help clients maintain their cost-effectiveness and derive as much efficiency as possible from their IT infrastructure. At an individual solution level this means architecting and building solutions that adapt and support changes in their related business processes without ongoing redevelopment. In a broader context this means clarifying how business processes are supported and segregated across the infrastructure and what particular technology is used in supporting these different business processes. Once a clear and shared understanding of core processes and technologies is derived this information can be used to target and eliminate duplication of effort and to minimize the number of different technical environments utilized. This information leads to a shared vision and a clear plan outlining where and how the overall IT architecture should evolve over the short, medium, and long term.

Potential Deliverables

The structure and precise details of our deliverables is flexible and dependant on an individual client's needs but may include for example.

Business process analysis
Inter-process data analysis
Technology requirements analysis
Combined process and technical analysis mapping
Process automation duplication analysis
Technical environment duplication analysis
IT architecture plan

Overview

System Migration Management

Web Technologies Consulting

Architecture Consulting