SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE SERVICES
Software Improvements provides services to undertake critical and high integrity systems and software developments.
In today’s highly competitive global marketplace a critical system is one on which a business or organisation is almost totally dependent for its very survival and prosperity. High integrity systems are always critical systems, but not all critical systems require high integrity.
High integrity systems must have a high level of dependability in terms of safety, security, reliability and performance. For example, our election systems when in use must be available 100 per cent of the time, record voters’ preferences exactly as they voted, ensure votes can never be amended or deleted once committed by the voter, nor unauthorised votes added. Further, the voting process must accurately and always implement the election rules as defined in the governing legislation.
Both critical and high integrity systems are dependent on high quality, reliable, cost effective software processes and highly competent professionals for their successful production, operation and maintenance.
COST-EFFECTIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
There are many methodologies or approaches that can be adopted for software development. Our experience over almost 30 years is that using model driven development provides the best basis for ensuring a development reflects the total requirements and within budget. However, the most cost-effective approach uses MDD with auto-code generation (dependent on using action language such as xtUML and an appropriate model compiler).
Our experiences with using model driven development have been gained across the following domains:
– Business system (government)
– Defence
– Elections
– Emergency services and security
– Medical
– Traffic Control
– Transport Logistics
– Software engineering
– Ubiquitous computing
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
The aim of professional services is to provide support to enhance or supplement an existing capability in a client’s organisation.
This may be a narrow focus such as tailoring a software development plan or a wider focus covering any or all of the following:
– Requirements Analysis
– Software Development Evaluation
– Software Design
– Software Development Approaches
– Software Development Improvements
– Mentoring
– Project Review