eChain Strategic Services

Custom Solutions 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.

Assembled Solutions eChain recommends and embraces the Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) approach to solution delivery, which is a term for software or hardware, that is ready-made and available for sale. COTS is often used as an alternative to in-house development, and leverages Best of Breed solutions. The use of COTS is being mandated across many government and business programs as they may offer significant savings in procurement and maintenance.

The motivation for using COTS components is that they will reduce overall system development costs and involve less development time because the components can be bought or licensed instead of being developed from scratch. COTS development comes with many not-so-obvious tradeoffs-overall cost and development time can definitely be reduced, but often at the expense of an increase in software component integration work where eChain excels.

Middleware and Messaging A Best-of-Breed COTS approach involves seamlessly integrating and synchronizing multiple best-of-breed applications internally and integration to external partners. eChain uses Message-oriented Middleware (MoM), which is a client/server infrastructure that increases the interoperability, portability, and flexibility of an application by allowing the application to be distributed over multiple heterogeneous platforms. It reduces the complexity of developing applications that span multiple operating systems and network protocols by insulating the application developer from the details of the various operating system and network interfaces. Message-oriented Middleware is also an important component of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) both of which provide companies with significant interoperability, ease of access, and supportability.

Rapid Turnkey Development eChain provides Turnkey development services for many of our clients and solutions. Our Dynamics AX development and customization Service is almost entirely turnkey. We start with a generic services agreement and per hour inclusive rate which must be signed and approved prior to any billable work beginning. Development activities are described in our Change Request document which includes a description of the problem, work to be performed, and estimate breakout of effort to deliver your enhancement through the testing/certification cycle and into your production environment. From Contract to Production can take as little as 3 business days.

Technology and Project Resources

i2 Implementation
>> i2 Engagement Management
>> i2 Solution Architects
>> i2 Transportation TM, TP, SCS, TMod
>> i2 Demand Management i2 DP, i2 DM
>> i2 Supply-Chain Management i2 SCP, i2 DF
>> i2 Integration & Middleware CIS, ABPP, EDI

Microsoft Dynamics AX
>> AX Developers
>> AX Master Data Migration
>> AX Consultants
>> AX Engagement Management

SAP ERP
>> SAP Engagement Management
>> SAP Integrators
>> SAP Development - ABAP, ABAP Objects, ALE/IDOCS, BAPI, Interfaces, Enhancements (BADI*s/User Exits), Conversions, Reports, Dialog Programs, ALV

Application Development Experts who thrive on challenges to meet deadlines at any cost using multiple technologies
>> Java - JDK, PHP, JSP with JRUN, JavaScript, J2EE
>> Visual Basic - VBScript, Visual Basic, Visual C, Visual C++
>> Microsoft - .NET, C#
>> Web - HTML, WML, ASP, ASP.net
>> Database - Oracle, SQL, SQL Enterprise, MySQL, MS Access

Microsoft SharePoint
>> Sharepoint Solution Architect
>> MOSS 2007
>> Develop custom content, workflows, forms
>> Task flow analysis, user experience models
>> Scenarios, interaction flows
>> Large-scale development projects
>> Prototyping and user testing

RFID Technologies
>> BizTalk RFID Solutions
>> Active, Passive and Hybrid Solutions
>> Custom RFID Solution Design
>> Partnered with Revolutionary RFID Hardware Manufacturers