Technical expertise at ZHL is core to our business and culture. Everyone in the company is responsible for developing themselves as technologists. We mean technology in the broad sense; the technologies required for QA, for effective, disciplined, and timely release management, for requirements definition, as well as for cutting edge architecture consulting.
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (BPM)
How you do business is as important as WHAT you do - and if your people can do it better, faster and less expensively than your competition, you win.
With ZHL, collaboration becomes the foundation of innovation for your business. ZHL works with you to efficiently analyze and design complete forms-based business process management solutions. Experienced consultants provide design and implementation assistance on projects involving large form volumes, critical data, business and processing rule definitions, distributed network environments and complex coding. ZHL's substantial solution development experience ensures ZHL consistently completes high quality and high value projects that are delivered within client specified time-frame. Whether you are an experienced BPM/workflow user or new to business process management, consider the expertise our professionals have to assist you in the implementation of a successful and complete BPM solution.
With ZHL, collaboration becomes the foundation of innovation for your business. ZHL works with you to efficiently analyze and design complete forms-based business process management solutions. Experienced consultants provide design and implementation assistance on projects involving large form volumes, critical data, business and processing rule definitions, distributed network environments and complex coding. ZHL's substantial solution development experience ensures ZHL consistently completes high quality and high value projects that are delivered within client specified time-frame. Whether you are an experienced BPM/workflow user or new to business process management, consider the expertise our professionals have to assist you in the implementation of a successful and complete BPM solution.
ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION (EI)
Every enterprise has to respond to the following challenges today.
All this needs to be done while minimizing the impact to current infrastructure and technology, and integrating the current infrastructure and technology with the new services. EI technology provides the necessary tools and procedures to address these problems while still maintaining investment in current infrastructure.
The team at ZHL provides a unique and powerful blend of expertise in EI technology. Your ZHL team can create custom EI tools, as well as apply packaged tools to build mission critical applications in various industries such as healthcare, finance and communications. We can also provide you a rapid path to an effective QA team for your EI solutions, tools, and products; EI is a complex domain and ordinarily training up a specialized QA team is resource-intensive. Our deep understanding of the technology and its usage in actual deployments allows us to provide either of the following services:
- Increasing a customer base by providing new channels for current services and products
- Integrating assets brought in through mergers and acquisitions
- Integrating assets brought in through mergers and acquisitions
The team at ZHL provides a unique and powerful blend of expertise in EI technology. Your ZHL team can create custom EI tools, as well as apply packaged tools to build mission critical applications in various industries such as healthcare, finance and communications. We can also provide you a rapid path to an effective QA team for your EI solutions, tools, and products; EI is a complex domain and ordinarily training up a specialized QA team is resource-intensive. Our deep understanding of the technology and its usage in actual deployments allows us to provide either of the following services:
- Work with product companies developing EI tools, and incorporating EI as an integral part of their product offering.
- Work with product companies developing EI tools, and incorporating EI as an integral part of their product offering.
ARCHITECTURE
Good architecture can be responsible for the success or failure of your software project - enterprise software products or IT solutions. This comes as no surprise to experienced software and technology systems managers. The related situation in which the required architecture expertise is not available in-house is also familiar. Companies migrating their software to a new platform, or evolving it to take advantage of new technologies, companies looking to move to the next level of scalability as they grow, and companies looking to future-proof their new product or solution development, all may experience a need for additional expertise, without the desire or requirement to staff internally. ZHL's principals have experience as Architects of top US software companies and bring their expertise to our consulting engagements.
ZHL offers architecture consulting in the following areas:
ZHL offers architecture consulting in the following areas:
Process Management Architecture
BPM Architecture includes:
- Identify the business process which needs to be automated.
- Identify the business roles and participants.
- Abstract the reusable modules.
- Decide the Data Access Model based on business data definition.
- Design the workflow for the business process.
Integration Architecture
When companies need to strike a balance between adopting new industry standards and protecting and leveraging existing investments, an evolutionary migration from legacy to modern technologies is required. Companies may need to move to service based architectures for extra- and intra-enterprise integration, in addition they may be facing the integration of technologies that do not integrate naturally or easily: .NET versus J2EE, Java versus C# versus C/C++ versus COBOL.
Performance Architecture
Architecting for performance has several components:
- Loosely coupled systems integrated via synchronous and asynchronous messaging.
- Loosely coupled systems with high end-to-end throughputs and low latency responses.
- Scalability from single machine to clustered server farm environments.
Application Architecture
Ground-up applications and solutions need to be architected with consideration for:
- Decisions on component and service based architectures: J2EE, .NET, Web services.
- Multi-tiering for separation of model, view, and controller, for display device independence, and for pluggable third party and customizable components.
- Long-lived and complex business processes.
- Manageability and monitoring for enterprise class operations.
- Recoverable and fault-tolerant components.
OPEN SOURCE
Enterprise software license costs can often eclipse the cost of the hardware it runs on; software developers and customers want alternatives. Developers and business stakeholders also want to realize the software dream of fully reusable software above the object, component, or service level - reusability at the application or system level. Open Source has proven that it can reduce license costs and provide a great starting point for building systems.
However, Open Source software, for all its benefits, has some risks. The components typically have documentation, support, and usage that are incomprehensible to all but the most technically savvy. It is for the most part a do-it-yourself environment. Open Source licensing is also an issue to manage. Without proper understanding of the various licenses and how to incorporate them, companies and developers can end up with all of their IP in the public domain or be in violation of another's IP.
At ZHL, we have extensive experience in Open Source development. First of all, we use Open Source products for as much of our own tools and infrastructure as possible. Second, we have a large portfolio of client development projects and augmented client teams currently working on Open Source.
However, Open Source software, for all its benefits, has some risks. The components typically have documentation, support, and usage that are incomprehensible to all but the most technically savvy. It is for the most part a do-it-yourself environment. Open Source licensing is also an issue to manage. Without proper understanding of the various licenses and how to incorporate them, companies and developers can end up with all of their IP in the public domain or be in violation of another's IP.
At ZHL, we have extensive experience in Open Source development. First of all, we use Open Source products for as much of our own tools and infrastructure as possible. Second, we have a large portfolio of client development projects and augmented client teams currently working on Open Source.