Applix Consulting

Applix Consulting Services provides solutions, offering you complete utilization of Applix software capabilities for custom -- and often, difficult -- requirements. Applix Consultants are skilled in the development and implementation of all phases for your solution and help you quickly achieve the momentum you need. You gain from faster project development and deployment, as well as seamless integration of Applix software into your organization.

If you have workgroup, business, or enterprise needs that require custom development, you can benefit from the application development skills of Applix's Professional Services Organization. Applix Consulting Services offers a broad range of technical expertise and a dedicated group of consultants to bring your application solutions to the highest level of success. Using the seven-step development process, Applix-led development efforts ensure your satisfaction by using the required consulting resource in a well-defined timetable. Each step of a project is presented to you for review before proceeding, and regular progress reports and reviews keep you informed of project milestones, deadlines, and issues.

Needs Analysis

Identify business and user needs
Design corporate, department, and user applications
Design customized, project-specific solutions
Define project deliverables
Detail project budget and time scales
Write project proposal

Seven-Step Development Process

Requirements analysis
Technical specification
Project scope and definition
Project management plan
Application design and development
Product implementation and customization
Training, documentation, technology transfer, and hand-off
Real Time Tool Kit

Builder and ELF
On-Line Consulting Plan

Dedicated consultant available on-line via phone or e-mail
Direct access to an Applix Consultant, for one named contract in the business unit.
Custom application development and advice as needed

Consulting Plan

Direct Access to an Applix Consultant, for one named contract in the business unit
Unlimited Toolkit support for the term of the Support Plan

Consulting Advantages

Applix Application Consultants are in close contact with the Applix development teams, ensuring that you benefit from proven breakthroughs and technologies before they become available otherwise -- offering a fast track and a competitive advantage. The advantages you realize when using Applix Consulting include:

True state-of-the-art skill in all Applix development tools, including Builder and ELF. Development and integration skills in C, C++, Sun Microsystems' Java, SQL, all major enterprise relational database environments, and a range of key enterprise developer environments.

Custom Offerings

As technology grows and environments constantly change, Applix Consultants can work with you to tailor your application needs. With in-depth knowledge of solution sets, Applix consultants can integrate Applix software with a large variety of relational databases, all major real-time data sources, and an array of custom solutions and applications on the network.

Customers Who Take Advantage of Applix Consulting

Sun Microsystems
National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)
Banco Popolare de Bergamo
Arco
Edward Jones
JP Morgan
Motorola
Deutsche Bank
Ericsson
Government Agencies

Custom Applications

OLAP and data warehousing applications
Real-time data analysis and action system
Forecasting applications
Document control and management
Engineering Change Order systems
Sales Analysis & Reporting applications
Telemarketing solutions
Complex spreadsheets reporting
Customer Service systems
Executive Information system

End-users and Developers

Focus on task and business needs, leaving technical solutions to Applix.
Solutions are completed in the fastest possible time, with proven total integration with Applix product technologies.
Understand developer shortcuts in Applix software, which will enable you to successfully complete projects, on schedule and within budget.
Facilitate project plans by seeing how Applix software taps into enterprise applications.
Quickly answer your end-users' demands by mastering Applix's object-based paradigm.
Augment staff productivity, effective, efficiency.

Applix Professional Services provides services to meet our customers' needs. For more information, please call 1-800-8-APPLIX.