eFoundry Advantage Services

Launching e-business initiatives quickly, professionally, and cost-effectively can be all that stands between an organization and its success. Knocking the socks off the competition with compelling sites that encourage customer, partner, and employee collaboration and productivity is a clear requirement. So, Web infrastructures and applications must be designed to allow business and IT managers to do their jobs better than ever by creating and delivering Web initiatives — no matter how complex. Achieving these goals requires infrastructures and applications that are scalable, reliable, secure, high performing, and provide a solid return on investment.

Web Project Management Team

eFoundry works with you to create a Web Project Management Team that includes key members of your IT and business staffs as well as our e-business technology experts. Together the team closely manages everything from project milestones, to identifying and securing the right technology resources, managing revenues and budgets, project issues and risks, and finally installation and system acceptance.

Requirements Analysis

Identification of your Web system's requirements begins with a complete understanding of your business goals, existing information architecture, and required site functionality. This occurs following in-depth work performed by representatives from your IT and business staffs and eFoundry experts.

Architecture Design

Technology Architecture

Our Technology Architecture Design service identifies the technologies and products required to develop your Web infrastructure and J2EE based applications. This work results in a detailed Web Architecture Design document for the design and implementation of your entire system including content management for portals and the deployment of Web services, if required. It also outlines complete design for production, staging/management and development platforms; integration with third party technologies; and a plan for production workflow.

Information Architecture

eFoundry works with your staff to clearly define your site's e-business goals and identify key audiences. An "information blueprint" is created to serve as a guide for all aspects of the site including, content (text, graphics, video, etc.), form, function, metaphor, navigation and interface, interaction, and visual design. This process results in an intelligent, intuitive site that encourages productive, profitable use by the people who are most important to your organization.

Detail Solution Design

During Detail Solution Design, eFoundry further develops the technology infrastructure including definition of all content assets and optional, single or multiple value content attributes. In addition, our technology experts take on the essential work involved in page template and page element design.

Site Configuration

This service provides the configuration for your system architecture and detail design including creation of page templates and elements, debugging the templates and elements, developing pagelets, workflow configuration, caching and publishing, as well as loading XML formatted data applications.

Testing

A rigorous Acceptance Test Plan is created by the Web Project Management Team and is intended to increase the assurance of a successful site deployment. Our testing is designed to push your new Web infrastructure and applications to its limits while constantly keeping in mind required site functionality and e-business objectives. During this phase, we closely monitor and test site functionality, performance, integration, and user experience.

Deployment

When it's time to deploy your site, eFoundry works with your IT staff to move the tested application code to a production environment. During this critical stage, site administration procedures are completed as well as additional checks of security, workflow and ultimately final publishing. eFoundry experts ensure that your IT staff is trained to successfully manage your new site and confident as they work with business managers to launch your e-business initiatives.