What do you do if you have a specific need that is not served by any pre-packaged
SaaS application, or if you need to stitch together multiple SaaS applications with
each other and/or with legacy systems? We deliver custom, user-centric applications
and integrations that focus on providing exceptional business value and a satisfying
user experience. We help ensure that your users or customers are not disappointed,
dissatisfied, or unhappy with the suitability or usability of solutions that just
don’t fit their needs and/or don’t play well together.
Our services practice areas include the following:
Custom Application Development
At 7sm we practice what we preach and follow project management, business process
analysis, and technology development best practices when embarking on a project
for you. Our development process includes the following deliverables:
Discovery:
- Stakeholder interviews to determine need, gaps, and desired customer experience
- Audit of current business application(s) and business processes
- Competitive field research
Analysis:
- Personas that convey the thoughts, identity, emotions, and goals of your customers.
- Scenarios of relevant example situations that reflect the behaviors and motivations
of the application users.
- Requirements defining a clear scope of the most essential requirements.
Planning:
- In this final portion of the project definition, we create a project plan and high
level statement of work that creates
a specific course of action.
Design
- Site Map – Makes sure the design accounts for everything that is required and helps
us solve findability issues.
- Wireframe – Provides early insight into information hierarchy and what the solution
might look like.
- Behavior/Task Flows – Helps convey how a user specifically navigates the system
to complete a task.
- Visual Design – Focused on emotion, brand, and comprehension, the visual design
elements are the final say in
what the system will look like to the end users.
- Prototyping – Testing our designs with users helps refine our thinking and keeps
the mistakes on the cutting room
floor vs. in the codebase.
Build/Test
- We practice Test Driven Development and follow strict internal coding standards
that lead to well documented,
high quality solutions.
- We involve you in our build cycle and conduct regular demos to demonstrate progress
and insure effective
communication and feedback between us and your team.
Systems Integration
7sm rapidly builds extensive integration tools for our clients that make disparate
business applications talk to one another
to provide the right insight and information
to executive and line managers, employees, partners, and clients. We have the
experience
and knowledge required to build the bridges that tie together your business applications
across the enterprise.
That includes:
- Building new Web services
- Utilizing 3rd Party API’s
- Setting up Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) processes
- Extracting and Manipulating data from legacy applications and data sets
- Data Migration
Technology Staff Resourcing
Working with you and your human resources team, 7sm will provide temporary or surge
staffing resources to accomplish
what needs to be done in your business. Our close
collaboration with you is what separates us from standard placement
firms. Our contractor
skill specialties include:
- Project Management – PMP, PMI, PMBOK, Agile/SCRUM, and familiarity with a broad
range of project
management toolkits.
- Business / Process Analysis – Virtual CIO/COO, current organization process mapping,
ideal state business
process definition, change management, and process audit and
control.
- Technology Development – Technology stack knowledge to include Microsoft, Java/Unix,
LAMP; large scale
enterprise and web-based systems, existing systems integration,
and QA, Agile/Scrum methodology.
