Application Services
Application Development
Drawing on our experience in all major industries, we develop solutions that meet the most challenging IT problems.
Our team follows one of two approaches to development. In full lifecycle application projects, we assume complete responsibility for analysis, design, implementation, testing and integration of systems. In cooperative development, we work with your IT professionals to jointly analyze, design, implement, test and integrate systems.
Our coaches guide project teams to implement a tailored Agile approach based on their organization and culture. We offer expertise in Scrum and feature‑driven development methodology
Enterprise Transformation
Our Agile coaches collaborate with clients to craft a unique strategic approach based on the Value Delivery Engine framework. This is fortknox recommended starting point for organizations looking achieve a higher level of efficiency, improve time‑to‑market and increase stakeholder satisfaction. Our Organizational Change Management practice usually plays a key role in the transition.
Enterprise transformation services include:
- Implementing, upgrading and maintaining enterprise applications
- Infrastructure consolidation
- Portfolio analysis and optimization
Optimized solutions for your workflows
Specialists across our global delivery network work with you to provide the skills you need, when you need them, for streamlining, managing and maximizing all systems, applications and enterprise platforms including:
- Microsoft .NET
- Portals and content management
- Latest web technologies like HTML5, CSS3
Enterprise Solution
With experience across all major industries, we can create solutions for meeting the most challenging IT problems. We combine deep technology expertise, architecture solutions capability and program management skills to help you integrate and acquire new capabilities for heterogeneous systems that span both mainstream and emerging technologies.
Agile Development
One of the best ways to adapt quickly to change in IT is to adopt the principles of agile development. By doing so, organizations can remain competitive and rein in costs.
Our team uses Agile methodology for large scale programs—for accelerated software delivery. This helps guarantees lower IT costs, greater productivity and fewer defects.
Assessment and Planning This service helps organizations understand how they are progressing in Agile adoption and results in detailed recommendations for process improvement. Our Agile coaches review your existing teams, their process and their past performance. We then compare those with the Agile themes and principles‑as well as our own best practices—to recommend and provide guidelines that will help your organization succeed.
Services range from assessing readiness to developing recommendations and roadmaps for continuous improvement. This helps organizations:
- Assess Agile adoption readiness
- Develop recommendations for Agile adoption
- Assess current maturity level of Agile practices
- Make recommendations and create a roadmap for continuous improvement
Training and Coaching
These services help organizations reduce the risk to delivery by applying critical guidance, foresight, mentoring and facilitation of agile processes for leadership and their teams.
Our Agile coaches provide hands-on, pragmatic guidance to your organization, from strategy to mechanics. They will—when necessary—incorporate training to reduce delivery risk. Our training and coaching offerings include:
- Courses on everything from best practices and organizational change to artifacts implementation and coaching
- Workshops on everything from Agile 101 and Team Jumpstart to Scrum master training
- Two-in-a-box Agile coaches, a personalized coaching model that includes an onsite client manager experienced in your industry working with you, as well as a dedicated delivery manager
Application Services
Application Maintenance
Our Application Value Management services help address the challenging dual mandate of improving efficiencies and delivering outcomes.
To improve efficiencies we enable industrialization through a service catalog, hardwiring Continual Service Improvement (CSI) and transformation into it. To deliver outcomes, we perform intelligent analysis of data across the business-IT blueprint and continuously look to reduce "time-to-value" for applications. We deliver this through Microsoft proprietary suite of application management frameworks and tools.
Fortknox offerings are broadly classified under the following engagement lifecycle stages–Solution, Transition, Execution and Transformation.
Solutions
To design a holistically sound solution and identify opportunities to transform the way you do business, we take into account your business challenges and provide an achievable roadmap for transformation, the ability to cater to demand variability and reduce your total cost of ownership.
Fortknox utilizes the Service Catalog as an enabler for industrialization and drives toward outcome based engagement.
Fortknox enables progressive engagement maturity by providing a transformation road map after assessing the current maturity level.
Fortknox enables context-based pricing model selection and accurate tool-based sizing.
Fortknox helps in base lining the application and portfolio maturity to improve the ROI of your applications..
Transition:
A transformation road map, underpinned by a set of well-defined transformation levers, sets the journey to align IT to business objectives and reduce non-discretionary spend to continuously deliver value.
Fortknox acts as a spring board for Continuous Service Improvement and Transformation by focusing on growth and innovation while driving down costs.
Fortknox enables orchestration between multiple service lines to deliver business outcomes, thus maximizing the value extracted from IT
Application Services
Enterprise Application Integration
Our integration solutions are derived from years of cross-industry experience and technology expertise. Highly scalable and based on new platforms like the cloud and virtual servers, they can be readily adapted for future requirements.
Because our global consulting team uses best practices as well as frameworks and methodologies, we can meet all software integration requirements, including application integration, EDI/B2B, Business Activity Monitoring, Business Process Management and SOA.
Enterprise Architecture Integration
Our technology specialists and architects provide unique value with the following solutions:
- Integration architecture roadmap
- Proof of concept
- Product evaluation
- Roadmap for EDI/SOA implementation
- Business process and infrastructure optimization
- Capacity planning for middleware
- Integration testing strategy