Software development is the key to success in this highly competitive world of business. From banking, stock trades, ticketing, retail, cellular, everything is supported by a software program. Offshore Software development provides solutions to company(s) that reduce manpower, paperwork, monitoring, time and above all ensures transparency in all activities.
Steps is a custom software development company based in USA offering a wide range of software outsourcing services. We at Steps recognize the importance of custom software development and offer offshore software services that provide cutting edge solution utilizing the latest technologies. Our company has qualified and experienced team of offshore software professionals with varied domain knowledge and expertise advantage in custom software development services.
Our software development company offers onsite and offsite / outsourcing services including offshore services including offshore services in a professional and cost effective manner. Our offshore services are provided at an hourly competitive rate of 12$ to 25$. For onsite services please feel free to contact us.
OUR OFFSHORE CUSTOM SOFTWARE SERVICES INCLUDING FOLLOWING:
- Custom Software Development
- Networking
- Application Design and Development
- System and Data Security
- Database Design and Development
- Data Modeling
- Project Study/Solution/Implementation
- Data warehousing
- QA/Testing
- Enterprise Systems
- Business Processes
- System Administration
- Technical Support
TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERTISE
We offer custom software development services as per client’s technical specifications. We have professional expertise in the following technologies:
LANUGUAGES: HTML, DHTML, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, Java, JavaScript, XML, VB, VB.NET, VBScript, C/C++
PLATFORMS: Windows, UNIX, Linux, IBM Mainframe, AS400
DATABASES: Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, MySQL, IMS, DB2, Ms Access, RPG
SERVERS: IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, Application Server, SQL Server, Apache, Linux, Cold Fusion
TECHNOLOGIES:COM/DCOM/COM+, SOAP, ADSI, ADO, ODBC, OLE DB, DTS, OLAP, SQL-DMO I AND II, UML, Design Patterns, JDBC, Java Beans, Swing/JFC, Servlets, .Net Framework, XSL, Office 2003 API, SQL Server 2000
Customer Software Development Process
Our custom software development process involves active discussions with the clients through a well-thought out process involving active consultation, participation and involvement of all stakeholders. This ensures quality software products and involvements of all stakeholders. This ensures quality software products and solutions that suit the requirements of the client’s needs.
Our professional software development methodology involves the following activities:
Process Activities/ Steps in Custom Software Development
REQUIREMENT
The most important activity in development of a custom software product is defining the business requirements. Our skilled development professional undertake extensive discussion on the business, the product and the services offered and define the business requirement that suits the customers. A clear business requirement propels the software development process and act as a catalyst in delivering quality solutions in real quick time.
CUSTOMIZATION / SPECIFICATION
Customization/Specification is the task of defining the technical or technological requirements needed to develop the application that suits the customer’s business. Generally customers may not be aware of the different technologies available. Our software development professionals guide them to understand the technologies available. Out software development professionals guide them to understand the technologies and suggest appropriate guide them to understand the technologies and suggest appropriate specification on the platforms, languages, server, etc that fits the customer’s business needs. Proper customization/specification of the technological requirements of the application provide cost-effective and customer-made software products.
SOFTWARE DESIGN AND SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
The abstract representation of a software system is known as software design or software architecture. We ensure that the software system not only meets current requirements of the product but also supports future requirements. We, as part of software development process or software architecture, ensure that the software system interfaces with other software products, hardware, operating systems etc.
DEVELOPING / CODING
The most important part of software development process is the medical development of the application or software system into a software product that meets the requirements of the customers. This includes deigning the user interface (UI) and writing codes. We ensure that UI is user friendly and the coding is well designed to prevent any breach of security.
Quality Assurance / Software Testing
We undertake extensive testing during the development stage and as well as after the completion of the software application. Our testing parameters include:
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- System Testing
- Smoke Testing
- Regression Testing
- Functional Testing
- Performance Testing
- Load Testing
- Stress Testing
- Compatibility Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance / Software Testing
We provide necessary assistance during the implementation of the developed software product. We also offer training and support to the users on the various feature of the software product and how best it can be used.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation is an important part of software development as it provides technical support for using and understanding the product and its features and also for future maintenance and enhancement of the software product. We provide a complete set of documentation on the internal design of the software for future maintenance and enhancement. For users we provide technical support providing materials such as user manual, instruction guide, installation manual, online help, etc.
TRAINING AND SUPPORT
Training and support is a crucial part in making the software application a successful one. We provide in-depth training for the software professionals of the maintenance and development department and the users of the software. We explain to the software maintenance professionals about the software developments process undertaken including internal design, the software architecture and the technologies used in the software product for effective understanding and maintenance. On the other hand we provide training for the software users and developers to understand the product and its features so that the product is used to its full potential. Our training and support is the key to our successful software development services.
MAINTENANCE / UPGRADING / ENHANCEMENT
Training and support is a crucial part in making the software application a successful one. We provide in-depth training for the software professionals of the maintenance and development department and the users of the software. We explain to the software maintenance professionals about the software architecture and the technologies used in the software product for effective understanding and maintenance. On the other hand we provide training for the software users and developers to understand the product is used to its full potential. Our training and support is the key to our successful software development services.
SAFETY & SECURITY
One of our key priorities in software development is to develop a software product that is safe and secure. You may be aware that a non-secured software product or a software application without fool-proof coding/programming has a potential risk towards safety and security of the entire database of sensitive information. We, therefore, give special attention both at the development stage and during our testing phase to ensure that the coding and programming are well-designed to prevent any breach of security.
We follow VPN, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and use appropriate Encryption, Framework, Design and Architecture to ensure safety of the developed software application.
We also follow strict internet protocols and cyber law specifications during software development for the safety and security of the software products.
Steps Technologies has been working with Open Source technologies for more than 2 years. We have been one of the early adopters of some of the open source processes which have become de-facto standards today. We have a sizeable team which is well-versed in open source technologies including products and frameworks which are readily available and which can be customized to serve diverse customer needs.
Steps Technologies has been investing in customizing and deploying Open Source applications and frameworks since its inception. We have several world class products which have been developed using Open Source frameworks which have been thoroughly validated by millions of users.
We have a pool of professionals dealing in all the Open Source technologies including PHP, Java, Perl and Linux. All of our developers work on Linux using the robust Open Source IDE, Eclipse and test the application on all the browsers from Mozilla to IE.
Steps Technologies has expertise in the following well-known ready to deploy Open Source applications:
- Portal Frameworks - U-Portal (Java) / PHP-Nuke / Post-Nuke / Mojave / Mambo / Q1-Portal (Steps Technologies One's customized portal framework)
- Application Frameworks - Struts (Java)
- Build Tools - Ant (Java)
- E-Commerce - OS Commerce
- Search Engines - Lucene
- Issue tracking systems - Scarab / Bugzilla
Benefits of Open Source software:
- Open Source software has taken the world by storm in the last few years because it offered software development at less then half the cost of proprietary software.
- It has also shown to be reliable and highly stable compared to non-Open Source technologies
- Cost savings typically range from 70% to 90% compared to a product developed from scratch, depending on the complexity of customization
- Time to market has been reduced drastically
- Complete flexibility for meeting specific needs as it can be customized to individual requirements as the source code is available (not available with proprietary software)
Steps Technologies has been working with Open Source Technologies since its inception and has a strong technical team dedicated to understanding and developing open Source Applications. Steps Technologies One offers you best value for the money invested in development.
Steps Technologies also provides support and maintenance to exiting Open Source applications as we understand the application framework very well.
