We empower organizations of all sizes with tailored IT strategies, designing scalable architectures, and implementing systems and solutions. Our focus is on simplifying complex software landscapes to minimize re-digitalization risks, while ensuring immediate and long-term business value.
We understand the common challenge faced by many established businesses, with non-standard, intricate, or outdated systems. While others may propose complete overhauls, we believe in focusing on your specific business objectives. By taking a thorough and agile approach, we guide you through small, validated steps, ensuring both cost-effectiveness and consistent progress.
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Head of Software Development, CSHARK
Enterprises frequently grapple with outdated legacy systems, hindering innovation and causing inefficiencies in application development. Through modernization and scalable architectures, we transform these systems to boost agility, user-centricity, and foster innovation.
As scale-ups evolve from startup agility to enterprise intricacy, their application development demands can surpass their current infrastructures. Adopting a tailored approach with modular design principles ensures seamless scaling while promoting innovation and maintaining stability.
Startups, though agile, face challenges with constrained resources and the demand for swif application iteration. Through lean development and rapid prototyping, they can achieve a harmony between speed, quality, and adaptability essential in a business’s initial phases.
Our application development process begins with a keen understanding of user needs and business objectives, utilizing tools like Discovery Workshops, Design Sprints, and wireframes for ideation and validation. Through comprehensive project scoping, cost estimation, and strategic roadmapping, we align with stakeholder expectations, ensuring tasks are timely prioritized for optimal project success.
Development
With comprehensive development services, we cover coding and database management to ensure robust applications. From frontend and backend development to seamless API integration, security measures, and cross-platform compatibility, our software solutions guarantee reliability, compliance, and a superior user experience at every stage of the development lifecycle.
Ideation & Prototyping
The Discovery Phase kickstarts our product design process, highlighting user needs and business objectives. Collaborative Discovery Workshops and Design Sprints pave the way, validating features. Transitioning to Product Ideation, tools like Empathy Maps and Wireframes shape our ideas, with a keen focus on prototyping and user-centric microinteractions.
Project Scoping & Estimation
Project scoping delivers a detailed project blueprint, detailing resources, timelines, and deliverables. Cost projections, framed within min/max estimation buffers, offer stakeholders clarity and set realistic expectations for the project’s trajectory.
Product Roadmap Creation
Roadmaps provide strategic plans, highlighting steps towards set goals. Distinguishing between Product Roadmaps’ strategic view and the data-driven approach of Product Development Roadmaps is essential. For success, we define the product’s main goal, allocate task owners, and continuously monitor for timely adjustments.
Prioritization
Many overlook the distinction between what’s important and what’s urgent. While everything might seem crucial, not all is immediate. A seasoned business analyst helps stakeholders prioritize tasks for today, tomorrow, and upcoming quarters.
We conduct a comprehensive technical audit of your solution architecture, performance assessments for optimized application experiences, and strategic market analyses for competitive positioning. Coupled with meticulous release planning, as well as adept data integrations and migrations, we guarantee future-ready solutions that align with user needs and market demands.
Technical Audit
Our Technical Audit Service meticulously evaluates your solution architecture using automated tools and expert manual reviews. This assessment delves into existing systems, software architecture diagrams, code quality, and potential future codebase scenarios. Beyond diagnosis, we offer tailored recommendations and insights, turning audit findings into actionable plans for your future tech endeavors.
Performance & Load
Performance testing gauges an application’s stability, scalability, responsiveness, and speed under specific workloads. We thoroughly evaluate aspects like page, browser, and network response times, server request processing, concurrent user capacity, memory consumption, and potential errors. By pinpointing bottlenecks, assessing load times, response durations, and scalability, we optimize applications, ensuring seamless user experiences. Using top-tier tools like Jmeter and Locust, our tests are compatible with programming languages ranging from Java and C++ to Python.
Benchmarking & Market Analysis
Benchmarking and market analysis help compare with top competitors, pinpointing areas for improvement and guiding tool or method adoption. Deciding between a blue or red ocean strategy becomes pivotal. Identifying competitive advantages is crucial, underscoring the importance of these analyses.
Release Planning
Release planning aligns closely with product vision and roadmap, emphasizing frequent releases and market-ready ‘candidates.’ Success measures are integral, including resource readiness and ensuring end-users understand product usage. This holistic approach ensures both operational and user readiness for each release.
Our DevOps services optimize your IT operations, from seamless software integration to future-proof infrastructure planning. Whether transitioning to the cloud, hosting on top-tier platforms, or ensuring consistent system performance, our solutions prioritize efficiency, security, and unparalleled service.
DevOps Support
Our DevOps Support bridges the divide between software development and IT operations, emphasizing automation for faster and more reliable releases. We offer tailored strategies, CI/CD implementations, infrastructure automation, real-time monitoring, and cloud management, all underpinned by continuous training and 24/7 support. This holistic approach ensures seamless operations aligned with your business goals and best practices.
Infrastructure Planning & Architecture
Our Infrastructure Planning and Architecture service specializes in crafting robust, scalable, and secure IT infrastructures tailored to present needs and future growth. We offer comprehensive assessments, strategic planning, advanced architectural designs, and integration of industry-leading security measures, ensuring optimal performance and resilience. Continuous monitoring and regular updates guarantee proactive issue resolution and a consistently high-performing infrastructure.
Migration to Cloud
We streamline the transition of applications, data, and infrastructure to the cloud, capitalizing on our expertise with major cloud platforms. From detailed migration assessments to ensuring optimal cloud selection, application transfer, and security implementations, we guarantee a secure and efficient migration process. Post-migration, we offer dedicated support, ensuring continuous monitoring and peak performance.
Infrastructure
Our Infrastructure Hosting service delivers tailored, scalable hosting solutions on premier platforms like AWS and Azure. Emphasizing security, compliance, and cost-optimization, we provide robust support, from basic hosting to comprehensive maintenance. With 24/7 real-time monitoring, we ensure maximum uptime and immediate issue resolution.
Up-time Service Monitoring
Up-time and Service Monitoring service provides continuous oversight of your applications and infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and availability. Using advanced monitoring tools, we offer real-time insights, immediate alerts on disruptions, and comprehensive service health dashboards. Root cause analysis and regular maintenance ensure system reliability, rapid issue resolution, and a consistently superior user experience.
At the heart of our software development lies a rigorous Quality Assurance process, driven by agile methodologies and a steadfast commitment to performance, security, and user experience. Our strategic QA approach, coupled with advanced automation techniques, ensures cost-efficient, high-quality software deliverables that resonate with both project objectives and market demands.
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is integral to our software development, guaranteeing clients receive top-tier, dependable software solutions. We’ve pioneered agile QA methodologies like Reactive Risk-Based Hybrid Test Strategies, backed by thorough documentation, dynamic QA metrics, and transparent reporting. This unwavering commitment to QA ensures our software meets functional needs while excelling in performance, security, and user experience.
QA Strategy & Scaling
A test strategy is a high-level roadmap detailing the approach to software testing for a specific project, encompassing objectives, scope, types of testing, environment, and other critical components like risk assessment and automation strategy. It serves as a foundation to ensure testing aligns with project and quality objectives. We emphasize test scaling, continuously reviewing and adapting our test strategies throughout the delivery cycle to accommodate evolving project demands and ensure consistent alignment with quality goals.
QA Automation
We view test automation as a pivotal investment for future-oriented projects, prioritizing cost-efficiency and accelerated development. Through our automated testing, we not only increase productivity and test accuracy but also significantly reduce the software’s failure rate in the market. With proficiency in multiple programming languages, our team ensures expansive test coverage, early problem identification, and consistent test maintenance for our clients.
From expertly guiding you through the intricacies of data migration, offering tailored solutions for minimal costs and risks, to seamlessly streamlining data flows between platforms and strategically designing user-centric information architecture, we empower your business with secure, efficient, and user-friendly solutions.
Data Migration
We guide clients through the process of data migration, analyzing scenarios, advising on optimal solutions, and coordinating technical work and external teams for a smooth transition with minimized costs and risks. Data migration involves challenges such as cleaning, reevaluating, and enriching data to ensure accuracy and relevance. Three migration categories—Big Bang, On-Demand, and Parallel Run—offer distinct approaches, each with its benefits and considerations. Success factors include comprehensive planning, data security, rigorous testing, and stakeholder involvement.
Data Integrations
We specialize in seamlessly streamlining data flows between diverse platforms, ensuring that your data lifecycle is not just secure and effective but also exceptionally smooth. Trust us to provide you with a solution that empowers your business with the seamless integration and flow of data, contributing to the efficiency and success of your operations.
Information Architecture Strategy & Design
To create a user-centric product, we convert user needs into specific functionalities by analyzing feedback and prioritizing features, ensuring each function addresses essential user requirements. We strategically distribute these functions across the product’s screens or pages, establishing a logical and user-friendly flow for intuitive navigation. Content and needs are then translated into distinct components, with deliverables including sitemaps, user flows, and user journey maps.
Depending on the product phase, one may choose between a PoC or MVP. While a PoC or prototype is utilized in the pre-product stage with minimal investment, an MVP introduces core functionalities to gauge market reception and determine further investment potential.
Our Maintenance & Support services encompass comprehensive documentation and training sessions, ensuring users are adeptly equipped to utilize our products. We offer expert facilitation to aid in decision-making, leveraging seasoned professionals skilled in consensus-building. Additionally, our strategic release planning is in harmony with product vision, guaranteeing user readiness and understanding for every product release.
Documentation and Trainings
These activities include workshops and functional documentation. This ensures end users have the essential tools and measures. It also equips them with the knowledge to use the developed product effectively.These activities include workshops and functional documentation. This ensures end users have the essential tools and measures. It also equips them with the knowledge to use the developed product effectively.
Facilitation
A facilitator aids stakeholders in decision-making, problem-solving, and idea transfer. They excel in active listening, understanding others’ behaviors, and providing structured thought processes. A seasoned facilitator knows how to drive consensus among participants.
Release Planning
Release planning aligns closely with the product vision and roadmap, prioritizing frequent releases and selecting key market-ready features. It emphasizes ensuring a release’s success through resource readiness and operational preparedness. Crucially, it ensures end-users understand and can effectively use the released product.
The ability to adapt and run multiple projects with growing scope of complexity and market demand. FinTech and RegTech industry is very demanding and the pressure to deliver quality software for Tier 1 and Tier 2 global banks and financial institutions is constant. CSHARK understands our challenges and the industry, therefore can provide reliable software solutions in a highly competitive timeframe.
The knowledge brought by CSHARK boosted the development rate and quality to an extremely high-level. The code quality increased drastically by reaching an 80% code coverage in just a few months of work, while the amount of feature implemented more than doubled since the arrival of the CSHARK development team. Throughout the different internal reviews that we often have, an unanimous feeling of wonder at the development has been expressed.
We were impressed with CSHARK’s capabilities from the get-go. They were clear about what was expected and responded well to our questions. In terms of their strengths, I’d say their ability to deliver resources quickly was great. Also, the technologies they used were outstanding, which supported the delivery of their services. In general, their software team was very skilled and delivered high-quality code.
Navigating the complex landscape of financial & regulatory technology, CSHARK delivers software solutions that empower, innovate, and transform. Witness the fusion of finance and tech through our unparalleled expertise.
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