User Experience
Cogent Company can advise you on how user experience should be included as part of design and development of applications to improve usability of applications while providing a richer interface regardless of what platform the application is being developed for (Web, rich client applications, smart devices, and more).
- Web Development: Design and development experience, deployment and management of customer user interfaces
Data Management
Cogent Company can provide guidance when implementing an integrated data management and analysis solution that can enable you to reliably manage mission-critical information and confidently run today’s increasingly complex business applications.
- Data Infrastructure – Custom LOB: The required data store and management infrastructure related to a specific custom-developed line of business application (LOB.)
- Data Infrastructure – ISV LOB: The required data store and management infrastructure related to a specific independent software vendor (ISV) developed line of business application.
Software Development
Cogent Company can advise you on how to deliver high quality, secure applications that connect business processes. Microsoft application platform solutions offer the best integrated software development platform to help you manage the application life cycle, increase team collaboration and productivity, and improve software quality. It provides an integrated server with a single data store and built-in collaboration and quality tools for your entire development team together with a common development framework for Web services, rich client applications, smart devices, and more.
- Custom Applications: Organizational or departmental applications unique to the customer’s business processes, BEYOND packaged applications like ERP, SCM, CRM, etc., such as Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) or industry specific applications Development Platform Framework and tools decision for the development of applications, such as J2EE and .NET that allow a company to build integrated development environments from software components.
- Application Lifecycle Management: Tools and capabilities needed to support the end to end process of application development. This includes project management, requirements management, design, architecture, development and testing.
- Cloud-Based Solutions: Applications developed for and deployed using a cloud (Azure, Amazon, or a hosted cloud solution) infrastructure.
Service Oriented Architectures/Systems Integration
Business Process Management (BPM) technology integrates heterogeneous systems (Enterprise Application Integration or EAI) between organizations and trading partners and manages processes (such as BPM) that span people, partners, and software services. In addition to Windows Workflow Foundation and several SharePoint plug in tools, Cogent Company uses Microsoft BizTalk® Server provides these capabilities, along with easy administration and management functionality “in the box,” enabling you to build and deploy business process management solutions that drive increased efficiency, growth, and competitive advantage.
- Process, Workflow & Integration: Process, Workflow and integration include the forms, applications and middleware which connect front- and back-office systems in support of a business process or application, such as employee self serve applications and online forms (workflow), customer relationship management and supply chain management integration (EAI), company to company exchanges (B2B) and industry-specific applications
- Application Server: Core components to a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) in a distributed networked. It provides the platform for (custom) business logic within an application program
- Business Process Modeling & Design: Use of visual design surfaces to facilitate business diagramming applies, including simple business diagram scenarios or complex system architecture diagramming
