Ideation believes in providing customers with world-class solutions to solve their business problems using leading-edge technologies. Our staff have years of experience designing, developing, and deploying software solutions for customers on various platforms. We constantly evaluate new technologies and how they may benefit our customers while being careful not to use “bleeding-edge” technology which could be more costly to deploy and maintain. Combined with our close interaction with the customer, we are able to deliver solutions that exceed our customer’s expectations.
Desktop and Website Development
Ideation develops software systems and websites for a wide variety of clients, including federal government agencies and private industry. Using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and object-oriented programming techniques, we deliver high-quality software solutions for both desktop and web-based applications. We apply a 4D System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) approach to all our system development projects with an emphasis on quality control. This approach can be tailored to traditional waterfall or agile methodologies with incremental and iterative product releases. We also utilize rapid prototyping techniques to drive the requirements gathering process which allows us to quickly develop and deploy software applications.
Microsoft SharePoint Development and Deployment
Microsoft SharePoint is a web portal solution developed by Microsoft promoting team collaboration, document management, and information dissemination. SharePoint provides companies with the capability to deploy internet and intranet websites quickly using their provided website templates or third-party website templates. Ideation staff have been deploying Microsoft SharePoint solutions since SharePoint 2003’s initial release. Our expertise with SharePoint ranges from simple team site deployments to more complex custom project management sites requiring custom and third-party web parts. We are also well versed with integrating SharePoint and various Microsoft Office products resulting in comprehensive business solutions.
Business Process Re-Engineering
Typical business process re-engineering (BPR) efforts involve workflow analysis, “as-is” and “to-be” process modeling, gap analysis, value stream analysis, envisioning automated solutions, needs assessment, requirements management, technology assessments, and evaluation of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) packages. By facilitating and leading requirements gathering workshops, envisioning sessions, joint requirements development sessions, and conducting one-on-one interviews, we are able to elicit both the big-picture vision of clients’ objectives as well as the detailed system requirements and business processes. We use techniques such as storyboarding, visualization techniques, mind maps, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams (ERD), class diagrams, Unified Modeling Language (UML), use cases, requirements traceability matrix (RTM), and flowcharts to document and manage the various requirements in accordance with documentation needs. We’ve performed BPR in multiple business domains as follows:
- Enterprise Procurement Systems
- Enterprise Financial Systems
- Enterprise Project Management
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Cost Accounting Systems
- Executive Information Systems
- Decision Support Systems
- Online Survey & Reporting
- Healthcare Portals
- Project Dashboards
- Federal Grants Management Systems
Ideation has extensive experience in business process re-engineering and systems requirements management for multiple clients including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), United States Postal Service (USPS), Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Mobile Technologies
Ideation understands that the mobile technology arena is the future of software development. This is an unmistakable fact evidenced by the proliferation of iPads and smartphones. We continually evaluate our deployed software applications and new software development efforts to determine if they would benefit from mobile technologies. In order to exploit the potential of these technologies, Ideation is partnering with Intel to develop mobile applications for deployment on netbooks.