1.       Collection of requirements and specifications.

Statement of Business Problem: what business problem are you striving to solve today? How can a custom software solution help you with tomorrow’s problems?

Requirements & specification: We will uncover together which business problems are to be resolved and which alternatives exist. Often it is helpful to compare your situation to similar environments elsewhere.

Platform: Which platform are you currently using and plan to use in the future?

Market research: We will discuss your plans and research for existing solutions on the market. Our market research results will be presented to you to decide whether you want to go ahead and purchase existing solutions from other vendors or develop a new solution from scratch with FastNeuron.

Components: New application development can be accelerated by using particular frameworks and in-house, proprietary, or open-source components. It is an essential step during this phase to discuss these options in the beginning of the project because major cost and time savings can be achieved by carefully selecting components that suit your needs.

System integration: Are you planning to integrate your new solution with other existing systems?

2.       Rapid Prototyping

Even the best analysis can never lead to all the answers; therefore, our team prepares a non-functional prototype of the user interface (UI) through which we can further check if all required features have been agreed upon. Furthermore, you can make changes and additions to the visual application design before actual implementation efforts begin.

3.       Implementation

Budget plan and schedule: Before implementation efforts commence, we agree on a rough schedule and budget plan. Depending on the size of the project the plan is further dissected into milestones and deliverables.

Frequent integration: Because we believe in frequent feedback and integrate-and-test cycles, we welcome your input and comments at all stages. By having frequent deliverables we can assure we stay on track and develop the exact solution you wanted. In addition, this process allows you to fine-tune your specifications as needed.

4.       Installation

Most enterprise-level solutions we develop are required to ship with a fully-automated installer. We thoroughly test all install packages on the operating systems specified before we ship and try to minimize manual installation steps as much as possible. On server platforms our team can also assist in installing complex server application as necessary.

5.       Test & Maintenance

The quality assurance strategies we deploy ensure that our software ships to the highest quality standard possible. We have automated testing facilities in place and use state-of-the-art error prevention techniques; however, since a small probability of defects always remains, we provide an online issue-tracking facility to all of our customers where change requests can be added at any time.

6.       Long-term support

From our experience we can tell that good software lives on for quite some time. After all you also want to protect your investment and extend your custom developed software solution because your business processes depend on it. In fact, FastNeuron has many long-term support options available for you and you can rest assured that your investment is safe for many years to come.