The last decade has seen unprecedented use of technology by all industries as a business enabler. As a result, currently, most organizations spend a significant portion of their IT budgets in maintaining legacy applications or managing multiple applications delivering similar functionalities. Besides this, application failures, downtime, or performance issues have far-reaching repercussions including diminished business performance, significant financial losses, reduced competitiveness, and lowered customer satisfaction. Global enterprises can unlock hundreds of thousands of dollars each year through effective application management, making it a critical business imperative.

Some of the key challenges that enterprises face, include:

  • High operational cost associated with managing legacy and redundant applications
  • Monolithic applications that are not agile or flexible enough to fulfill new business realities
  • Lack of application alignment with business requirements
  • Inability to proactively identify application failures or respond rapidly to incidents based on business importance
  • End-user complaints due to application performance or availability issues
  • Difficulty in integrating with web-based and modern distributed platforms and environments
  • Inability to meet required service quality objectives or comply with regulatory requirements
  • Shortage of skilled resources

CoreLink has adopted and gained considerable expertise in agile development methods to ensure that clients benefit from productivity improvements especially in terms of increased flexibility to respond to changing requirements. Additionally, CoreLink helps organizations maximize their return from an Agile transition through its proven Change Management methodology that helps enterprises smoothly traverse the cultural shift required by such process changes. In the traditional arena, CoreLink offers a suite of methodologies and frameworks which when combined with its vast domain and technical expertise provide the best balance in terms of cost, agility, and quality for building applications that meet business requirements. CoreLink enables enterprises operating in a dynamic business environment to stay competitive by equipping them with custom-built applications that address functional gaps within the existing IT infrastructure and/or make their systems more responsive to specific business requirements. The company’s expertise and capabilities has fetched it several industry recognitions. Our signature capabilities listed below distinguish us from our competitors:

Signature Capabilities

  • Gather, refine, categorize, and prioritize business requirements
  • Prototype and develop multiple release plans for incremental independent functional release
  • Assess cost effectiveness of different implementation alternatives (including build vs. buy)
  • Map business requirements with various COTS products for enterprise solution
  • Compare, Prototype, Test, select and certify various COTS products
  • Develop automated methods to deploy, integrate and maintain COTS products
  • Develop solutions to monitor the performance and security aspects of the COTS products

Our expert Application Development and Integration team has decades of experience of developing, integrating, deploying, and managing systems and software using variety of Industry Standard frameworks, life cycles, and models. Some key categories of such expertise are provided as follows:

Frameworks

  • Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF)
  • The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
  • Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) Framework

System and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

  • Defense Acquisition Life Cycle (DoD 5000)
  • ISO/IEC 15288/IEEE 1220 Systems and Software Engineering Life Cycle
  • Systems Engineering Life Cycle using Structured Analysis and Design Method
  • Information Systems Security Engineering (ISSE) Life Cycle
  • Software Development: Rational Unified Process

SDLC Models

  • Waterfall Development Model including Modified Waterfall
  • Iterative Development Models including Spiral Model, Rapid Application Development (RAD), and Joint Application Development (JAD)
  • Evolutionary Prototyping Model
  • Incremental Commitment Model
  • Agile SDLC Model (Scrum)