Consulting Services

Sometrix is a software development company, specialising in data integration and Internet-related projects. Our technical knowledge covers a wide range of software platforms.

Our services span a number of levels:

• tailored software development
• prototyping and feasibility testing
• mentoring and knowledge transfer

For each project we undertake, we develop an application by looking at its life cycle and the users at each stage:

1. requirement analysis
   - current plus future needs by ensuring the application is expandable
   - think through all possible business scenarios and how they are to be catered for, whether or not the functionality is to be implemented at this stage
    
2. design and development
   - ensures that the application is user-friendly (our aim is that user manuals and training should be minimal or not required at all)
   - established standards to ensure structured and maintainable code
    
3. testing
   - unit testing, overall testing as well as performance testing
   - testing by multiple staff
    
4. deployment
   - applications are designed to be easily deployable to minimise user problems and raise user acceptance
    
5. maintenance, changes and enhancements
   - where application behaviour can vary depending on environmental conditions, configuration settings are exposed which make changes easy without changes in code
   

Before significant resources are thrown into a project, it may sometimes be worthwhile to produce a prototype to verify:

• business benefits are justified
• business objective is technically feasible and can be achieved within budget
• evaluate the best / easiest approach to achieve objective
• user acceptance

Because of our knowledge in a wide range of technical fields, we provide mentoring to our client's internal staff using:

• projects we have completed before
• providing development approach, initial design, and standards
• sample or re-usable software components
• pointers to major resources