Application Development

Insight is one of the few companies in Oman specialized in customized application development. Our service includes:

• Web-based Internet/Intranet Application Development.
• Customization.
• Consultancy services.
• ECommerce.
• Integration.

At Insight, we have got the right expertise & experience in internet and intranet application development, all of our work is web-based. We can help organizations build an application starting from scratch or can help them improve their existing one. We can even help organizations who want to transform their old legacy system to a modern, easy to use web-based application. 

We strictly follow the standard development process to avoid hazardous situations. We use the latest technologies like .NET & JAVA and Methodologies like AJAX (improves the user experience in a web-based applications) & XML (widely used format for sharing structured data across different platforms, particularly via the Internet). We adhere to latest web2.0 standards

Features

For delivering a successful application we try to understand the requirements, needs, priorities, perspectives of the intended users. In addition to that, both the business and the functional objectives of the application should be clear for us as well as client. At Insight we try to build and manage internet/intranet application that incorporated the following key elements: 

• Fully functional.
• Interactive interface.
• Professional design.
• Simple & clear information organization.
• Intuitive easy navigation.
• Reliable & high performance.
• Low cost development & maintenance.
• Continuous monitoring.

Standard Process for Quality Assurance

To ensure these features in our application we adhere to a standard, iterative and phased development process. The following are the phases we undergo in the process of developing a internet or intranet application: 

1. Planning: In this phase we identify the application scope & boundaries, functionalities, users & stakeholders. We then prepare a project proposal & plan. We also present a demo to the client if required.

2. Requirements Gathering: After client’s agreement we start gathering the requirements. We identify actors and use cases, conducts meeting with users, gather artifacts they use study the legacy/manual system workflow.

3. Analysis: In this phase, we analysis the requirements & artifacts gathered in the previous phase. We draw develop DFDs, use case diagrams, activity diagrams/sequence diagrams, class diagram to get a better understanding of each system use cases and its scenarios. We identify the problems that are going to occur in this phase.

4. Design: In this phase we design solution and implementation for the problems and functionalities defined in the previous phase. We design application architecture & workflow. We also define the database structure in this phase.

5. Implementation: In this phase we implement the functionalities designed in the previous phase. We implement the system architecture by integrating the functionalities together to work as a single application.

6. Testing: We do the quality assurance by perform the alpha testing. Alpha testing is done at our side. We perform unit testing, integration testing. Then we perform the beta testing which is done at the client side for a period of time. Bugs (if any) are fixed in this phase.

7. Deployment: After the acceptance test at the client side we deploy the final application. We setup and configure security and the hardware required for the application. We also train users (if required).

8. Evaluation: We monitor the performance of the application for a period of time. We perform application maintenance for small changes and updates. For modification or big change we again go through all the phases.