bowandbaan

At Bow and Baan, we have developed proprietary methodologies perfected from our extensive experience, to ensure that we analyze your IT business structure and existing processes in a very careful and structured way to improve existing operations and keep the cost low. With our expertise, we can create dynamic applications and portals with extensive use of multimedia and business intelligence to help you keep in touch with your customers, suppliers, employees. To help businesses in keeping the costs low, we mostly use open source solutions. Our technology experts guide you through technical strategy including j2ee, java application servers, JSP, Servlets, EJBs, SQL databases etc. Our methodology includes : Analysis We identify optimal processes and technology usage through evaluation and research. We identify key areas, critical processes, growth promoters in your business process flow and determine best options necessary to cost-effectively deliver your product or service, by leveraging the entire process flow of your business. Objective We define project objectives for web based strategy and create a process map. Defining requirements The gathering of requirements is a key stage in the development of any software system. At Bow and Baan we have extensive experience in gathering requirements. Our experts define functional and technical requirements for the project and develop rapid prototype for your review. Modeling and Designing This stage involves developing flow charts, sequence diagrams, relationship diagrams, class diagrams etc. to reengineer business processes. At this stage, we pay careful attention to interactions, information, interfaces and flow. Deployment We implement the final project • Perform systems integration or customization services to develop the required Internet application • Use our development team to create high-quality, cost-effective applications • Tests and quality assure the entire solution before launching it at your business site Maintenance Post implementation, we monitor performance against specified benchmarks for specific period of time, complete detailed documentation and if required we train your staff to ensure seamless integration into your environment. We advise you on how to approach next generation development. Application Development At Bow and Baan, we understand that it's necessary to keep non-productive expenses low while concentrating on core competencies and critical processes is critical to outstrip your competition and increase ROI. With our innovative and creative application development, we help you concentrate on your business leaving behind headaches and frustrations of maintaining legacy systems. Designing and developing customized applications for our clients is our forte. At Bow and Baan, we have proven frameworks and development methodologies to design creative solutions. Our experienced professionals deliver state of art solutions to suit your business needs and strategic goals. Our services Include: - Application Development - Turnkey- web based - Databases - Client-server - n-tier enterprise - Task specific - Customization - Version upgrades - Databases - Language migration - Re-engineering - Application maintenance - Bug fixes, user support, and other essential ongoing maintenance - Documentation - Root-cause analysis - Enhancements Bow and Baan's on-site/ offshore delivery model is ideally suited to the time and talent-intensive demands of application management. With Bow and Baan application development you can expect; - Rapid development - Low risk - Quality - Considerable cost savings Web Need to upgrade your presence on the internet? Or maybe you just need to get a presence? We believe that a web site is just a part of a company's overall marketing effort. We make sure that your website serves a specific business need and is consistent with your overall marketing strategy. Our staff will work with you to create a plan that suits your business needs and get your new internet site up and running in no time. No web site project is too large or too small - we can handle anything from small sales and informational type sites to large database-driven dynamic sites. When it comes to the web, we create the most cost effective solution for your unique business needs. And we don't oversell you on technical "bells and whistles" you don't need. Some of our web capabilities include: - standard web site design and creation - custom online application development - e-commerce and payment processing - rich media and interactive web sites - flash animation and application development - domain name services - complete hosting services - ongoing maintenance and support plans - video and audio streaming - database integration - content management systems - intranet and secure extranet development Each site is unique - designed to your specifications and to answer your requirements We can provide specialty software programming for a broad range of web related solutions. Modern web sites are getting increasingly complex and interactive. Keeping your web site current is a challenge we can help you meet. Our programmers work in PHP, JSP, Cold Fusion, CGI / Perl, ASP, Multimedia and more. We develops Internet strategies for the digital economy - building your brand, increasing revenue, improving customer loyalty, boosting stock value, improving partnerships and increasing communication flow. It really helps to have a competent friend on site. Multimedia Print medium, radio, theater, television, cable and the internet of course, all have taken a respectable niche in the entertainment industry. Emerging media is getting a major boost from technological advances. With our experience in the field of designing and deploying corporate presentations, we can give you consultancy services as well as designing services in the areas of web presentations, CD presentations and printed brochures. Our services include - Video-streaming - 2D animation and Illustration - Visualization and simulation - Special effects - Broadcast graphics creation - Design Interactive projects - Interactive CD-ROMs for self running tradeshow presentations - Interactive high quality product catalogues Graphics - Digital sales or service manuals - Business Partner communications - Virtual guided tours - Self explanatory CD mailers Multimedia comes handy in giving a lot of benefits to business in way of Differentiation, Determining best practices, Cut time-to-market, Shorten the sales cycle, Increase productivity, Strengthen customer relationships, Promote brand consistency, etc.. At Bow and Baan, we know that, today any industry has to adopt a three pronged approach – PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION and EXHIBITION. Whether you use push or pull marketing strategy, we provide services in the area of digital exhibition/presentation to reach your target markets. E-Business Creation and Conversion Whether you are updating your existing e-business infrastructure or creating new a e-business portal, at Bow and Baan, we understand that it is just not a technical decision but a strategic decision for making your business more transparent, efficient, interactive, dynamic and competitive. Bow and Baan transforms your business into virtual-business seamlessly. We understand today's customer demands 24x7 service. We help you Create online service and delivery centers to serve your customers 24x7. Our experts at Bow and Baan have successfully completed many e-Business Portals including integration and process management. We analyze your business needs and design solutions in well structured and most efficient manner, while embedding business intelligence and statistical analysis into your e-Business suite. Operational efficiency - By eliminating operational redundancy, designing processes to seamlessly communicate with each other and quality, you can run your business better. Cost savings - By improved quality and efficiency you can cut costs considerably. Project Development Cost - By Our offshore model you can save 50-70% compared US development costs. Channel Communication - By Streamlining different communication channels and linking your business to customers, suppliers and employees you can deliver better value. Process Integration - In today's business environment, no business can expect to build a successful product or service without integrating processes successfully. At Bow and Baan, we enable your business processes with IT to build competitive advantage and to realize tactical advantages you have over your competitors. We implement technologies built into your portal that connect all channel information, transactions, and decisions. Whole channel systems will be able to continuously generate new source of competitive advantage through cyber collaboration, on-line buying, networked planning, operations management and customer fulfillment. With our technologies, you can not only meet your customer expectations but you can exceed them. E-Learning Training of end users is as important as application development. Yet, in too many cases, training is often an afterthought. In recent years, electronic learning, or "e-Learning," approaches have emerged that enable end users to learn at their own pace, and at their own convenience. More importantly, the flexible nature of e-Learning courseware enables training to be customized to the user's needs. Because training is such a critical factor in the success of delivering new applications, Bow and Baan has formed a dedicated e-Learning practice. We take a multidisciplinary approach to e Learning by assembling a team with all the necessary technology, business domain, content, and course design skills. And we deliver e-Learning content using the latest - Computer-based training (CBT) - Web-based training (WBT) - Video-based training (VBT) - Interactive multimedia We bring benefits of e-learning; - Geographic independence - Self-paced learning - Interactive and dynamic elements to facilitate a simulated application environment Guided tours, examples, and hints to help users understand concepts, features, and functionality - Frequent quizzes to motivate step-by-step use of the software Bow and Baan's e-Learning practice supplies the missing link to application delivery. Let Bow and Baan's e-Learning practice help your organization derive maximum value from its new software investments. Brochures When no one else is there to represent your company, your marketing materials and brochures speak for you. The big question is: what are they saying about your company? Let us show you how properly designed collateral materials can communicate the right image and effectively convey the advantages your company has to offer. Logo A logo often is the most prominent visual element of a company's, product's, or service's image. The challenge of a properly designed logo is to communicate everything you want to say about your company, product, or service in a simple visual design. Our professional design staff produces custom logos for reasonable prices Search Engine Being found in search engines is important to the success of any site. Yet with the web growing out of all control getting your site in the top positions becomes harder and harder. Expert search engine optimisation is crucial. Google currently searches over 4 billion web pages. People who spend five or more hours a week online spend 71% of their time searching for information. 85-90% of all Internet users rely on search engines to locate sites. 93% of Internet users never look past the first three pages of search results. Search engine optimisation means optimising a web site for the best possible positioning in the majority of search engines. This has become a specialist job in its own right, as important as the designers or programmers. why should you use Bow and Baan? The most obvious reason is that we achieve results. Interface The interface includes all the elements of a system that a person interacts with to achieve their goals. That interaction is the key to designing an effective interface and developing a system that helps that person achieve their goal smoothly. Bow and Baan's approach to any project is to define who the users are and what they want to achieve. This information then forms the basis for decisions made during the design of the system and its interface. Content Development Bow and Baan understands how users read - and access - Web content. We'll help you deliver content and communicate your messages in ways best suited for the medium. • Optimizing content - We'll apply our Web editing and usability skills to help you make sure your information is organized and displayed in a way that enhances readability … increasing the power and value of your existing content. • Custom content – Bow and Baan's extensive team of writers, designers and developers will translate your vision into online content, including custom copy, articles, tools, graphics and other electronic communications. Flash intros Flash Intros are a great way to welcome visitors to your web site. Flash Intros create a visually inspiring introduction to your web site and act in the same way that a television advertisement would by providing a short presentation of your products and/or company logos etc.