SemanticSpace - Enterprise Solutions | Reverse & Re-Engineering

At Semanticspace, the Enterprise Solutions group offers end-to-end software services to both business enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs). We provide innovative and reliable software solutions in application/product development, re-engineering/migration, integration, maintenance and support. We also extend our Product Line Engineering (PLE) capabilities to build reusable frameworks and components based on which the future applications/products can be built on.

Our strong understanding and experiences in Product Development Life cycle enable us to build mission-critical, complex and cost-effective solutions helping our clients to implement/market their products faster.

Technical capabilities (not limited to)

		Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux, BSD Unix
		Languages: C#, C++, VB, VB.NET, VC++ and JAVA
		Architectures: .NET, J2EE, J2ME
		Web Technologies: ASP, JSP, VB Script, PHP, CGI, PERL, HTML, DHTML, WML, XML, CSS
		Databases: SQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2
		Application Servers: WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Apache, Oracle
		BPM/SOA: Documentum, Seebeyond, TIBCO

We assist our customers in bringing best of the software by using cutting-edge technologies that best suit their business needs. We offer the most cost-effective development services, in a unique onsite-virtual onsite model that distinctly differentiates itself by providing complete visibility of the offshore processes to the onsite team.

Custom Software Development

Over the years, SemanticSpace has built expertise in providing Custom Software Development services at various stages of the software product development.

Typical stages where SemanticSpace provides value to the customer are:

		Requirements Management Gathering and Delivering Requirements Specifications together with the customer by understanding customer’s markets, technologies and deployment, production scenarios
		Analysis Analysing the customer requirements from the technology and financial feasibility, modeling the requirements using modeling techniques, evaluating the business processes and rules. Evaluation of the methodologies and development processes that best suit the customer’s business requirements.
		Design Architectural design, high level design and low level design, UI design. The deliverable include architectural and design documents, UI design, prototype wherever applicable, implementation model derived from the design.
		Development: Creation of the actual code, as per the design. In addition to the primary deliverable – the code, documentation of processes and use of coding standards are given utmost importance. Key principles of Agile Processes – making software in re-usable
		Testing At SemanticSpace, every development output is tested and independently validated by a dedicated QA team. Test plans, Test cases are generated as per the customer requirements and Test reports are generated. We strongly recommend a V-V model in the QA processes, with the objective of identifying the potential defect areas ahead in the development cycle.

Case Study

Custom software development offers the best alternative when your business processes are unique and there is no off-the-shelf solution available in the market to deploy a ready-made software.

Similar was the situation with one of our clients having global presence,we custom-developed a state-of the-art Pipeline Management System and a Workflow Management System for loan processing. SemanticSpace was involved all the SDLC phase right from requirements to development and testing. The client’s mission critical application was developed using ASP, ASP.NET and middle tier components are developed using VB, VC++ and C#. NET.

Similarly we have also a built a B2B portal for under-writing. The web-based system had critical business rules built within the system and it was interacting with various other applications either maintained by different divisions of the client or third party applications.

Setting up the development environment was a great challenge where the connection between the third party application need to be maintained, security of the customer data need to be maintained and compliance was great issue as well.

SemanticSpace successfully delivered the services in all cases wherever the client required a unique solution, that required understanding of not only the technologies but also the business requirements.

Product Line Engineering

Product Line Engineering support is another unique facet of SemanticSpace’s project services. We have successfully extended our Product Line Engineering capability to one of the Fortune 200 customers.

PLE has many features that distinguish it from standard software development services. The key concepts of the PLE support extended were:

		Rapid Prototype Development of the Framework for software product line
		Development of Framework onto which all the future products pertaining to financial services business domain of the client would ultimately migrate
		Building software components that form the common core assets across the product lines

Case Study

SemanticSpace’s client, a leader in mortgage and finance business has initiated a strategic move towards moving all its software applications to a common framework. The Architecture to address architecture issues like UI-framework, Web Services, caching, Logging API, Application Navigation, Error Validation and Recovery. SemanticSpace provided all software development services, in onsite-offshore model to build a prototype of the framework in a rapid pace. Re-usable software components have been developed to form the core assets, which the entire product line of the

Upgrade and Migration

Migration to new technologies, is tricky situation for companies. In most cases it is marriage of the old with the new! Companies across the world have dissimilar applications running on different platforms and find themselves in a situation that they need to migrate to the latest technologies as their Independent Software Vendors release higher versions with new technologies and add-on tools. At SemanticSpace, we support our customers by providing cost-effective off-shore dedicated services to assist them in migration of their software applications to new technologies.

Case Study
We recently assisted one of our global clients in migration of their loan processing application to .NET technologies. As many similar situations, the applications was also enhanced with additional features, which in most cases turns out to be the best time to add new features to the application.

Reverse and Re-Engineering

Faced with the challenge of maintaining a non-performing, non-scalable software application you have built? At times, it could just be that only few components need to get repaired. One of the possible means of rectifying the situation and salvaging the investment that has gone into development is Reverse and re-engineering. It required additional skills, not only the technological, but also the keen eye to probe into the buggy zones!

At SemanticSpace, we salvaged some of our customer’s business-critical applications by reverse engineering the earlier code and re-engineering application.Reverse & Re-engineering services at SemanticSpace include:

		Problem Identification
		Design Control
		Code Reviews
		Dependency Management
		Refactoring
		Componentization
		Cyclical Dependency Removal

Our customers benefit from improved performance, maintainability, and ease of enhancements to their software.

Case Study

On of our customers in education domain had problems with its student application designed to support students through organization tools, database management tools and assignment formatting tools. The application did not scale up. The client also needed to add additional features to the system.

SemanticSpace offered its reverse-reengineering capabilities to the client. Project involved re-engineering the entire application and enhancements complete overhaul of the database engine.

Support & Maintenance

SemanticSpace offers software maintenance and enhancements supports to some of the mission critical applications of its clients. The services include:

		Defect rectification
		Enhancements
		Technical Support
		Shipment/Download of new releases of customer’s products, including bug fixes, product enhancements, and new documentation when available
		Trial downloads of any product in the product family
		Access to prerelease and beta versions of new products and upgrades

Case Study

At SemanticSpace, we are currently supporting a J2EE based application in Real Estate Closing Services, integrating – Appraisal, Credit, and Flood Determination systems. Project Scope includes enhancements to features and refactoring based on customer feedback.

Streamlined Digital Information Management that mitigates costs, inefficiency and inconsistency of maintaining paper intensive environment in today's mostly hi-tech business era.

Innumerable documents containing diverse information can leave organizations searching for relevant information and spending valuable time in maintaining and streamlining the repository from time to time. In today's world of minimum paperless business, organizations are looking at finding ways to streamline document management and many ISVs have come up with solutions to manage customer's complete document repository.

The tasks that are usually taken up for content management include importing content or editing a document, website etc. Every organization across industries has to deal with creation of content in all formats. Content management solutions are becoming next tech-generation solutions to maximize communication, improve efficiencies, and meet regulatory compliance.

Challenges faced in Content / Document Management

		Repository of documents/content spread across the organization and inaccessible
		High costs are rendered in maintaining materials, time and personnel to manage the repository
		High risks security of documents/content and in turn track of lost documents
		Data errors resulting from inaccuracy of image processing
		Inconsistency in quality of images and data originating in desperate imaging centers

SemanticSpace has expertise in implementing "Documentum" for customers to manage content and documents across the departments in the organization. It includes the following areas of practices.

Application Integration

In the earlier days of software era, independent software programs were developed to address specific needs of business organizations using the technologies that were popular at that time. Today, it has become a great challenge to most of these organizations to seamlessly integrate those programs with the new applications evolved across their old and new business areas based on their ever-changing business needs.

The whole suite of enterprise applications in any business organization might have been developed using diversified technologies and might be offering automation of different business operations. Application Integration is required to bring interconnectivity and interoperability between these heterogeneous applications across the business areas in one or many organizations.

To bring business integration and intelligence, application integration can be conceptualized, designed, developed and implemented in the following aspects:

		Data Integration (through Web Services, XML, etc.)
		Business Logic Integration (through Web Services, etc.)
		User Interface Integration (through Web-enabling, etc.)

At Semanticspace, we provide application integration starting with in-depth analysis on existing application portfolio, business goals and best-suited technologies. We work with customers to come up with an ’Application Integration’ plan based on their new business goals, budgets, plans and priorities.