The primary focus of Invantix is providing high quality solutions and services for our customers. We use a proven strategy to provide robust, scalable, and secure solutions that meets our customers business needs.

Our strategy focuses on the following processes to consistently complete projects on time and within budget. We use a form of the Rational Unified Process that will best suit the needs and scale of the project.

• Requirements. This is a very important part of the System Life Cycle since it drives the rest of the process. We use a requirements gathering strategy minimizes changes later in the process.

• Architecture. Base the system architecture on the business needs. All to often systems are either under or over architected. Realizing the use cases created during the requirements phase requires a special set of skills. Design of all tiers of the system and the interfaces between them before begining the implementation stage is critical to project success. The Work done during this phase will allow proper division of tasks during design and implementation.

• Design. During the design phase we conceptualize the primary components that will make up the system. The design of the database schema and the business layesr begin to form. Interfaces between system components are layed down in class, state, activity, and sequence diagrams.

• Systems Engineering. Looking at the big picture. How will this application or system fit within the rest of the enterprise architecture. Will this application need data form the enterprise data warehouse. Will this application be deployed globally.

• Test Plan - Just as the entire system has stages, so should the testing process. Beginning with unit testing where each component has a test plan and script. Integration testing should be planned at various points during the process. Finding out the components don't work together during the final phase of the project can set the project back. Regression testing requires scripts and team members who a skilled in testing. Developers should not be used in this phase of testing. Load testing should be carried out during all of the above testing phases. Load test components during unit testing. Load test during integration testing. And load test again before roiling out.

• Deployment strategy. Start this as early as possible. If new equipment is needed it may take time for equipment to be acquired and configured.

• Enhancements and upgrades. This is where configuration management skills and tools are needed. Using the proper tools allows bug fixes to production releases while minimizing the impact in the enhancements taking place for the next version of the system.

No one approach can meet the needs of every project we undertake. Just as the process for building a shed, house, hotel, office building differ, so does the process for different systems and applications. All of the projects we undertake include the above mentioned practices.