Core Capabilities

Solution Architects perform the eChain Design activities, and are focused on solving business needs in an innovative and strategic manner. Decisions are evaluated against how they will allow the enterprise or a single software system to grow and perform in the long term. Great care is taken to create and identify opportunities for re-use. Budget, time to market, scalability and reuse are key decision factors in selecting the appropriate solution design from many alternatives

Business Needs Assessment (BNA) is a methodical, detailed analysis (BR0) and documentation of your companies business project requirements, business rules, scope, workflows, actors, use cases, process maps, etc., needed to gain consensus on the common vision of the business needs. The BNA is a critical step in successfully identifying and developing solutions that meet the business needs.

Fit Gap and Solution Blueprint A short engagement that builds on the BNA in which eChain Solution Architects help you evaluate how closely the desired solution fits with your requirements and the improvements you would like to achieve for your business. The Solution Blueprint also helps to determine how to customize the solution to fill any gaps (so the solution can be tailored precisely to the dimensions of your enterprise and IT needs), and prepare a detailed guide to implementing your solution.

Custom Solution Design We design and build solutions that meet your vision in the optimal technology that will ensure rapid and cost-effective time to market. eChain specializes in analytical integrated solution development in multiple technologies. Solution Architects follow a rigid methodology to clearly capture and document your business requirements, identify multiple technologies for Fit Gap and Solution Blueprinting, and deliver to you a documented Solution Design, recommendation, and time and cost estimate for realization of your vision.

Skills and Capabilities

Experience 100+ aggregate years designing, building and deploying enterprise solutions with exposure to multiple software packages/vendors, programming languages and technology platforms

Design Methodologies Knowledge and experience with agile and object-oriented methodologies (OOD), notations, and processes: Rational Unified Process (RUP), Extreme Programming (XP) , Unified Modeling Language (UML), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)

Development Technologies Extensive experience with the .NET framework and other technologies: C#, Visual Basic.NET, ASP.NET, ASP, JavaScript, J2EE, Visual Basic Script, Transactional development, asynchronous processing, HTML and DHTML, XML, XSLT, LDAP, .NET Enterprise Services

SOA Extensive experience designing and/or developing solutions in a Service Oriented Architecture

Server Technologies Experience with server software including IIS, MS SharePoint, Enterprise content management systems, MSMQ, BizTalk, Active Directory, .NET remoting, and Search engines

Infrastructure Technologies Strong understanding of infrastructure and security concepts. Working experience with server farms, firewalls, networks, and distributed systems

Database/Data Modeling Experience with database and metadata modeling, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Customer Facing Ability to understand your business, prepare and make presentations to program leadership on architectural approaches and models to gain consensus, strong interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to work with executives and developers