Enterprise Application Development

The EAD team of Xminds is responsible for developing enterprise scale applications. The term Enterprise Application means a set of services that provides support functionality to the core-business of an organization and help tackle challenges in their fundamental business area. Along with application development the EAD team provides post implementation support, production deployment, hosting support etc. For instance EAD system can automate

• Money transferring services of a fund transfer company
• Online ticketing services for a travel Company

The EAD team is one of most accomplished of all the teams in Xminds and because of their experience they are very well aware that their implementation directly affects the way in which that particular business is operated and has a considerable influence on revenue generated by the client.

When an EA project is signed off, EAD team makes a detailed study of associated industry with help of domain experts. Then the team makes a list of features of market industry solutions which is then analyzed with client business requirements. A Detailed Project Proposal is presented to the client and while preparing the proposal the team is very particular in identifying features that would give them a competitive edge in the market. These value additions are an integral part of the proposal and EAD team makes it absolutely sure that these value additions will ultimately result in increasing the client revenue.

The EAD team is duty bound to ensure ROI in a reasonable amount of time. Other than supporting the fundamental business areas,  EAD also indirectly adds value to business through  Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) services, web enabling legacy applications etc.  The spectrum of EAD services include

• Enterprise Custom Web Application Development
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Enterprise Portal Implementation

Enterprise Custom Web Application Development

                         Xminds has been implementing enterprise scale web applications since its inception. Xminds has an excellent track record of executing turnkey web application projects addressing specific business needs and we have come up  with our own scalable Enterprise Web Application framework leveraging its  expertise in leading open source web application technologies. This has proved to be a cost effective solution in executing enterprise level applications.

With the advent of web 2.0, Xminds prudently incorporated web 2.0 practices in these area and are one of the first companies to develop Rich Enterprise Applications (REA)

EAI( Enterprise Application Integration)

EAI is one of emerging markets and  Xminds with its proven expertise is well placed to tap this domain. EAI is one of the fields that  are not easy to prove your capability and each  EAI projects has  thrown up new challenges and possibilities for Xminds. According to recent studies in EAI market, it has been found that instead of spending large amount of money in large scale platforms like TIBCO, WebMethods etc businesses tend to embark on small scale project specific integrations. Traditionally EAI practices were considered as long term investments, but now EAI is more of project specific short term investments.

Realizing the importance of ROI in EAI, we have leveraged our expertise in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to develop its unique EAI practices. The goal of an SOA is to allow business activities to be orchestrated as components in applications targeting both internal and extra-organizational actors, ultimately enhancing business agility.

The EAI services cover the following areas

• EAI Strategy and Solution Consulting.
• ROI Analysis for EAI Projects
• Integration audit – analyzes implementation of an integration platform.
• Web services enablement – creates Web services-compliant interfaces within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for legacy and packaged applications.
• Solution Architecture and Design.
• Post Implementation Support.

Enterprise Portal Implementation

Enterprise Portal team has over the years emerged as the alpha team of Xminds. With Gartner pegging the worldwide portal market at $1 billion and IDC projecting a $3.1 billion market in 2006, Enterprise Portals are big business and Xminds with its proven expertise is well placed to tap this market. Combined with many years of domain as well as portal expertise, Xminds is well set to emerge as leaders in vertical protlets or otherwise Vortals.

The need for Enterprise Portals derives from the existence of legacy databases that most enterprises are saddled with. These contain data that is manipulated through a variety of code, screens and reports that are hard to replicate. However these systems are information backbones for an enterprise and cannot be ignored even though the data often lacks consistency and the systems are so diverse that the average user is familiar with only two or three applications at best. That’s where Enterprise Portals come into the picture—offering smooth single screen, single sign-on access to a wealth of legacy data.

Xminds has always followed these thumb rules in building enterprise portals

• Improve the ability to find and retrieve the "right" information
• Improve the ability to find people and what they know
• Organize the intranet and create a sense of "place"
  

Our expertise spans across

• Collaborative portals includes collaboration, knowledge, management and categorization applications (Documentum,FileNet)
• Generic Portals designed to cover most generic needs (Sharepoint, Mysap, and Webshpere)
• Integration portals   aim to provide the largest amount of information by providing various modules (Vignette, Plumtree )

Xminds has skills across all phases of Enterprise Portal development including

• Portal Administration
• Portlets development
• Portal architecture and Strategy
• Workflow development
• Content Management
• Portal Infrastructure(deployment, clustering, security hardening)
• Business Value Assessment for Portals
• Portal Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Integration of Web Content Management Systems into the Portal