A software project can be a pretty major undertaking for most companies. Often, you are coordinating input from business experts, developers, project managers, and end users. And that's before you get to the testing and deployment! No business is static, and as your business continues to grow and evolve, your software has to be able to move with you.

You wouldn't build a house without a plan, but every day people trust their software development projects to 'seat of the pants' developers who offer no proper planning and no contingency for when things change. BuiltSmart Solutions Architecture, on the other hand, helps you to integrate a tailored IT solution into your business with the minimum of disruption and the maximum of efficiency.

Through our solutions architecture processes, we offer our customers the ability to deploy IT solutions that can be maintained and enhanced in line with your business. Our solutions architecture follows the steps shown below:

• Define - document what it is that this project is going to deliver and how it fits into your business
• Design - design a technical solution to the requirements that have been defined
• Develop - apply the right tools and resources to develop the best fit solution for your business
• Debug - test and debug the solution to ensure that it meets our rigorous quality control standards
• Deploy - deliver, install and configure the solution for you so it integrates with your business processes

While some will say that you don't need documentation, or that formal testing is a waste of time and effort, the thing to remember is that the best software in the world will do you no good if it doesn't fit in with your business processes and the way that you do your work. Our Solutions Architecture services treats each software development as a project with its own lifecycle. Through our lifecycle steps, we develop the right solution for your business, giving you a solution which will do the job right from day one, while retaining the ability to be enhanced as your business evolves.

Each of the stages of our lifecycle has defined requirements (inputs) and deliverables (outputs), so it is easy for you to track the progress of your project and it is easy to see what is going to happen next. Through our structured approach, we make it easier for you to plan for your new software, and prepare for its integration into your business.

If you have any questions about how we work, or how this can benefit you, please contact us.