Establishing an effective software architecture is mission-critical for maintaining a competitive advantage. Making the right technical decisions, at the right time, is imperative to the continued success and growth of your businesses. Creating a solid foundation makes your platform scalable as well as increasing its performance, reducing costs and avoiding duplicity.
Creating a Solid Foundation for Growth
Software architecture helps you in implementing a vision. Looking at the architecture is an effective way to view the overall state of IT and to develop a vision of where the organisation needs to or wants to go with its IT structure.
Having software architecture also helps you prioritise conflicting goals. It facilitates communication with stakeholders, contributing to a system that better fulfils their needs. Communicating about complex systems from the point of view of stakeholders helps them understand the consequences of their stated requirements and the design decisions based on them. Architecture gives the ability to communicate about design decisions before the system is implemented when they are still relatively easy to adapt.
Establishing a Clear Roadmap
Whether you’re seeking support for a project, guidance in procuring or using technology, or simply knowledge and insight from an industry specialist, we have the experience and resources to help. Our Consultants have the technical and business knowledge to understand business processes, those which work and those which need to change.
We’ll work with you to create a roadmap which outlines how to get from where you are today to where you want to be in order to realise your business vision. Our Consultancy Services include the creation of technical and business strategy documentation. We pride ourselves on the quality and reliability of these documents and the depth of the process from which they are borne.
Software consulting can be a standalone process to help you establish exactly what you need or it can happen as part of a project and before we start building your software.
SoftmArrk™ Software Architecture Review
Tailored to the specifics of the organisation, budget and the level of detail required, SoftmArrk™ typical durations are 5, 10 or 15 days, and includes a full-stack investigation and selective ‘deep dive’ code reviews.
The review provides expert analysis and insight into a variety of key areas, including:
- Scalability, availability, and performance
- Use of automated code quality tools
- Test coverage and test quality
- Maintainability
- Technical debt
- Security
- API