Application Development

There’s no doubt that custom applications can give your company a powerful competitive advantage. But designing specialized software internally can be time intensive and costly. At ASL, developing custom enterprise applications is our core competency. Our Custom Application Development has helped thousands of customers across the globe and across industries design, deploy and run Microsoft .NET-based applications that drive real, quantifiable business value.

We provide standard architectural design patterns and guidelines to establish consistency across your entire portfolio. That integration ensures all your systems are working and communicating seamlessly. ASL Business Solution’s Custom Application Development includes:

• Application Managed Services

• Cloud Applications

• Service-oriented architectures (SOA)

• Application integration that addresses the full integration lifecycle

• Web applications

• Rich Internet applications

• Mobile and RFID applications

• Grid/high-performance computing applications

• User experiences that use Silverlight, Microsoft Surface and touch technologies

• SharePoint development

Our custom development is focused on creating differentiated applications which combine deep back-end expertise with modern user experiences.

• Customers realize results through the rapid development of new, interoperable .NET applications with a user experience that is both useful and beautiful

• Microsoft Certified developers help get your services to market faster, lowering enterprise application development costs

• A framework that accelerates high-quality enterprise application development —provides standard architectural design patterns and guidelines to establish consistency across your entire portfolio

• Integration that ensures all your systems are working and communicating seamlessly 

Businesses are increasingly looking to move or build applications on public cloud platforms to improve agility and responsiveness to market demands — but this shift to the public cloud brings new complexities. Applications become more composite – leveraging not only capabilities like storage and database offered by the cloud providers, but also third-party SaaS capabilities like email and messaging. So understanding availability of an application requires inspecting the infrastructure, the services it consumes and the health of the application. The composite nature of cloud applications requires visibility into all the services to determine overall health and uptime.

ASL Business Solutions believes that a public cloud platform should not equal less visibility. Our private cloud application management solutions make it possible to gain deeper insight into the application, as well as implement enterprise policies like governance/auditing and environment management. These cloud-based monitoring and management services can collect a multitude of events, analyze them and identify critical information that requires additional remedial actions like adjusting capacity or provisioning new services. Additionally, tools and processes currently used for managing other environments can continue to be used, enabling efficient operations.

ASL Business Solutions’s Cloud Application Management solutions can help you:

• Gain an integrated view into your public cloud solution, including not just the application itself but also the underlying infrastructure, platform level services, as well as higher and third party SaaS capabilities

• Use our cloud-based monitoring and management services to proactively gather input from multiple sources and generate insights

• Extend and integrate enterprise policies and processes to your public cloud solutions to ensure maximum control and efficiency   

Like software development, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) continues to evolve. Many organizations employ some or every ALM process and tool, using the framework of a single methodology. But many projects and programs require varying degrees of management and governance. The fact is that the scope of ALM has changed: While it was once only applied to requirements, development and testing, it is now applied to a much broader spectrum of the lifecycle.

At ASL Business Solutions, we believe that the best approach is to use an ALM framework to enable a variety of methodologies, using a holistic approach tailored to your organizational needs. ASL Business Solutions Application Lifecycle Management delivers the following benefits:

• Uses the Microsoft online assessment tool, to help you identify weaknesses, assessing each one in full to understand its impact on your organization

• Leverages ASL Business Solutions’s ALM expertise gained from delivering thousands of applications, many of which were implemented by cross-functional teams at multi-site locations

• Finds the balance between your need for change and minimizing disruption with a detailed process which examines your current toolset and skills base

• Designs your development architecture and creates a roadmap for implementation, taking into account multiple factors, such as different levels of governance

ASL Business Solutions’s Application Modernization solutions helps you transform legacy technology. They provide an agile platform to accelerate time-to-market for new business applications, so your enterprise can work in ways that align with your business strategy — opening doors to new opportunities and reducing costs.
Working with you, the ASL Business Solutions team and our proven tools and methodologies can help you to modernize your application portfolio:

• Maximize your existing IT investments by migrating legacy technologies to current Microsoft .NET-based services

• Take advantage of service-oriented architecture (SOA) approaches to increase functionality of existing software applications

• Benefit from increased stability and flexibility with our specialized expertise in addressing challenges associated with legacy software such as Microsoft Visual Basic, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server

• Effectively manage the entire application migration process in an agile manner by combining Microsoft’s industry-leading partner tools with ASL Business Solutions’s own assets, templates and processes

Today, cloud computing is both a key enabler and a driver for business change. For many enterprises, this makes cloud a major part of their technology and business strategy. Initiatives that drive growth, reduce costs and attract and retain customers are more attainable. Cloud lets organizations deliver IT without boundaries, breaking down traditional silos, connecting and empowering people across the enterprise ecosystem and simplifying information access. ASL Cloud Applications solutions help customers change business processes and the way works gets done, to increase productivity, boost revenues and speed time to results.

ASL Business Solutions is Microsoft’s partner  for the Windows Azure Platform. Customers worldwide turn to ASL Business Solutions to assist with cloud strategy, portfolio assessments and pilot migrations. For organizations that wish to build or migrate their applications to the cloud and Azure, ASL Business Solutions offers a full complement of services:

• Cloud Strategy

• Cloud Application Selection

• Cloud Application Assessment

• Cloud Application Proof of Concept

• Cloud Application Build or Migration

• Cloud Application Management

ASL Business Solution’s approach is to build solutions appropriate to the needs of each organization, helping you:

• Understand and choose the right approach with ASL Business Solution’s services including cloud strategy, portfolio assessments and pilot migrations

• Build applications which enhance the scale, cost and flexibility of the cloud, while still retaining control when integrating across traditional IT boundaries and existing systems

• Maximize the benefits of the cloud with solutions tailored to your unique business needs, be it software-as-a-service solutions or custom applications

Mobility is no longer solely about deploying devices to employees. Instead, it’s about developing a mobile strategy across all facets of your business that changes the way works gets done. The convergence of powerful handheld devices, and increasingly flexible environments, is creating both opportunities and challenges to connect with customers and increase worker productivity.

No matter which industry or platform, ASL Business Solutions has the proven expertise to deliver robust, enterprise mobile solutions and by enabling your employees to make smarter, faster decisions, your enterprise realizes results. ASL Business Solution’s consumer applications can help you manage the brand and purchase experience, while delivering greater value to your customers.

• We specialize in developing compelling applications for businesses and consumers with rich user experiences and intuitive interfaces

• With privileged-partner-level access to Microsoft Windows 8, ASL Business Solutions can help you make the most of an even bigger wave of mobility that Windows 8 brings to the workplace

• ASL Business Solutions specializes in building cross-platform solutions so that employees, partners and customers are seamlessly and securely connected to your existing infrastructure — regardless of the technologies involved

• We can help bring your distributed teams closer together, providing them with direct access to organizational data, customer details and actionable information

The digital landscape is changing. With ASL’s portfolio of Digital Marketing Solutions, you’ll have a scalable platform to both keep up and drive innovation. By giving your marketing professionals tools to help them react quickly – with little to no IT involvement – they can stay focused on marketing strategy and deliver campaigns more effectively. Using our Microsoft expertise, we deliver solutions that fit your business and work with the systems and processes you already have in place.

ASL Business Solutions Digital Marketing solutions provide clarity about the effectiveness of your online content and campaigns. Timely analytics help you identify and track information about online behavior, so you can better understand how customers approach your digital sites, and what specific online actions they take. By connecting these insights, you’ll know how well marketing strategies are working, and have the tools to quickly revise and refine content to improve results.

ASL Business Solutions Digital Marketing solutions transform your systems so you can take full advantage of emerging trends in online marketing:

• Build upon an agile foundation to increase responsiveness in a dynamic and uncertain market

• Transform the avalanche of digital data into clear, actionable insights and improve marketing effectiveness

• Deliver highly personalized, relevant digital experiences that enable meaningful, one-to-one conversations and increased goal conversion

• Profitably identify and pursue emerging opportunities

• Create an e-commerce experience that empowers your customers to buy the way they want to buy