Custom Application Development
As experts in developing Microsoft Dynamics GP, customizations, we can deliver the solutions you need to streamline your most critical and time-consuming processes within Microsoft Dynamics GP. With our experience in delivering custom solutions for Great Plains, we have a superior understanding of Microsoft Dynamics GP’s, architecture. We have worked with every module within Microsoft Dynamics GP, extensively and know exactly which development tools to use for each specific customization. Using a large repository of existing code from previous customizations, we have developed our own "toolbox" for developing new customizations which translates to significant costs savings to customers. Also, we don't bill you on an hourly basis. Our development team's throughout knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics GP, allows us to provide accurate quotations. Once we have finalized a quote price, we stick to that price even if we have cost overruns. As a result, our development services are virtually risk-free in that you will get exactly what you paid for, if not more. If Microsoft Dynamics GP, is not functioning the way you want it to, contact us today to discuss your development needs with a technical sales specialist.
When we develop a custom solution for you, our highest priority is how our technology supports the attainment of your corporate goals. With this priority in mind, we are dedicated to providing superior quality services, strategically designed to support all the stages of the application development life cycle. For each of our projects, we apply the following 5 phase software implementation methodology:
I. Plan and Understand
The key to getting what you want is ensuring that we know exactly what that is. We formulate your requirements through a distinct communication strategy where we:
- Discuss expectations, investment control, workforce planning, and capital planning
- Develop project policy and standard
- Perform a gap analysis
- Perform a feasibility analysis
- Set a project time frame
- Establish vendor, client, Binary Stream Software roles
- Schedule initial resources
- Complete a detailed implementation plan
- Review procedures
II. Design and Development
Based on your system's requirements, our specialized systems engineers and programmers apply highly sophisticated analytical processes to the planning, design, and layout of new applications including:
- Requirements analysis specification
- Conceptual/system design
- Logical detailed/program design
- Physical design
- Complex coding
- Detailed code review
III. Quality Assurance; Test, test, test!
Through our quality test process, exhausting and thorough testing is conducted to ensure the system produces the right results. Software checks are administered by both our experts and you to ensure the software is operating as it should, compatible with your IT infrastructure and easy for end-users to work with.
- Unit test
- System test
- Acceptance test
- Evaluate security/confidentiality
- Integrity test
- End user assessment
- Software fixes
IV. Conversion
When we change or integrate our new software application with your old system, we take a conservative approach to do it in the most efficient and safest way. We consider all elements of the conversion process and work together with you to provide:
- Detailed documentation
- Cutover strategy
- Activity schedule
- Workforce planning
- Security/recovery planning
- Transition assistance
V. Post-Implementation Support
After the new system is installed and the conversion is complete, our technical specialists review the system with you to determine your support and maintenance needs. We conduct:
- Post-conversion feedback
- Training
- Plan out strategy for updates and upgrades
- Assess end-user/final business benefits
