Professional development of system architecture and software

The internet has evolved over the last few years into an important communication media. Gone are the days when corporate internet sites were pure marketing tools. Today, the enterprise internet portals serve more and more as interfaces to the internal business processes for customers, suppliers and employees, with direct impacts on service quality.

The advantages of such portals are:

continuous availability
personalized appearance
shorter turnaround times
clearly favourable price per contact in the comparison to other medias

While the opportunities accompanying these technologies are evident, the introduction and continuous improvement of appropriate internet and intranet platforms bear numerous risks, e.g.

short and long-term suitability of the system architecture for the intended purpose
interfaces to the existing IT infrastructure and the integration of existing IT systems
security of the inter- and intranet platform
protection of investment

The main concern of IP Systems ServCon is to minimize the risks for our customers during the introduction and improvement of such platforms and to lead corresponding projects to success.

This requires competence. Our competence results from experience developed over a long period of time combined with a deep know-how of well established methods and technologies. For many years, IP Systems' Professional Services department has developed and integrated internet portals and individual intranet solutions for our customers.

Core competencies

Relational databases and LDAP directories are central components of today's IT infrastructure. The seamless integration of existing data into new applications is of crucial importance for our customers. Here, we offer comprehensive know-how for the conception, development and optimisation of applications that are based on relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB/2, Informix, Ingres) or LDAP directory services (OpenLDAP, Sun ONE).
E-Mail and SMS applications are essential in today's IT- and Telecommunication business. The implementation and the improvement of messaging platforms and mobile applications is - apart from the development and integration of portals - one of our substantial core competencies.

Methods and technologies

Quality is the most important demand of our customers. We achieve that high quality by the employment of well established software development methods and technologies.

Quality starts with the system model. We use standard methods such as UML or XP protecting the investments of our customers.
For the development we use - depending upon our customers' requests and basic conditions - the Java/J2EE technology or CORBA and C++.
We support both - UNIX systems (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Linux) and MS Windows-NT/2K/XP - as target environments. Additionally, we offer support for OpenVMS and MVS applications.

We are glad to be measured by the quality of our achievements. No matter whether a project requires

the integration of standard components,
the development of a new service or
the optimisation of existing systems

the task is always divided into measureable, clearly timed steps and solved in time.

However, for us, quality does not end with the supply of a solution. Additionally, we support the systems provided to our customers during their entire life cycle with support contracts including clear SLAs.