Software Architecture Consulting
Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills Optimum Web provides business and technology-driven software and application architecture consulting services to create sustainable value for our clients.
We offer forward-thinking software and application architecture design complemented by a clear management framework to support our clients’ operations.
Why Software Architecture is Important?
We help our clients rationalize, optimize, and modernize the software applications, creating a roadmap for excellent execution, guiding the development process on:
- software design
- project management
- processes
- standards
- technology
- infrastructure configuration
- infrastructure management
- choice of tools and services
Software architecture consulting is crucial for ensuring that final solutions meet our clients’ expectations. Software Architects in our teams are senior developers who are responsible for the wide array of software design and management aspects.
Factors Influencing Software Architect’s Decisions
The purpose of the software architecture is to bring sustainable and tangible business value while meeting the criteria below.
High quality of software products
Quick time to market
Effective use of limited resources
Product alignment
Optimum development cost
Optimum maintenance & support cost
Customization-ready
Software Architecture Design and Analysis
Our service portfolio is intended to provide in-depth coverage of the software architecture design concepts, frameworks, tools, methods, and technologies to help our clients improve their technical or product management capabilities and share best practices for developing higher-quality software.
Key Quality Attributes of the Software Architect
Software development company as a stakeholder for the Architect
Software development company
Low cost of development, keeping people employed, leveraging existing corporate assets.
Client Stakeholder #1: marketing team
Client Stakeholder #1
New features, short time to market, low cost, competitiveness against other products.Client Stakeholder #2: product end users
Client Stakeholder #2
Behavior, rich feature set, performance, security, reliability, reasonable price.Client Stakeholder #3: entire client organization
Client Stakeholder #3
Low cost, timely delivery,not changed very often, reliable and inexpensive maintenance.
Modifiability
Extensibility
Interoperability
Performance
Security
Portability
Availability
Development Efficiency
Software Architecture Design and Development Scope
- Software architecture influence cycle
- Software architecture components and system qualities
- Software architectural patterns and tactics
- Attribute-driven design
- Software architecture documentation management
- Software architecture evaluation
- Teams’ structure
- Cost budgeting
- Effort planning
- Infrastructure design
- Testing & QA plans and procedures
- Maintenance & Support planning
Our Software Architecture Processes to Ensure Your Success
Architecture Analysis
Architecture Design
Architecture Evaluation
Architecture Evolution
- Creating high-level, comprehensive design of software solutions and product design documents.
- Collaborating with various stakeholders to define software requirements. Listening to and understanding multiple viewpoints as most requirements for architecture are not written down in any requirements document.
- Developing architecture concept design based on use cases and usage scenarios.
- Functional requirements.
- Clearly conveying the architecture design concepts to development teams.
- Outlining technological requirements
- Designing target deployment environment
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues with coding, design, or system management.
- Identifying constraints on an architecture and suggestions ways to overcome them.
- Negotiating requirements with clients and keeping them informed of progress, cost of implementations of individual components.
- Implementing management decisions. Providing flexibility in changing business and technology environments.
- Ensuring that the team or distributed teams adhere to development processes, schedules, and deadlines.
- Presenting regular progress reports to stakeholders and setting goals.
- Testing the final product to ensure it is completely functional and meets requirements, assessing needs for changes.
- Updating software solutions as required, with deep consideration on how the new system or architecture will affect the technical environment, cost, and effort.
- Maintaining and adapting an existing software architecture to meet requirements and environmental changes.
