Enterprise Application Development

The EAD team of Xminds is responsible for developing enterprise scale applications. The term Enterprise Application means a set of services that provide support functionality to the core-business of an organization and help tackle challenges in their fundamental business area. Along with application development, the EAD team provides post implementation support, production deployment, hosting support, and more. The Enterprise Application Development system can automate a variety of services. A couple of examples include:

Money transferring services for fund transferring companies
Online ticketing services for a travel companies

The EAD team is one of the most accomplished teams at Xminds. Through experience, they are aware that their implementation directly affects the way in which a particular business is operated, and that it has a considerable influence on revenue generated by the client.

When a project is assigned, our EAD team with the assistance of domain experts makes a detailed study of associated industries. Then the team makes a list of features of market industry solutions which is analyzed and compared to the client's business requirements. The team identifies particular features that would give the business a competitive edge in the market, and a detailed project proposal based on this information is presented to the client. This valuable information is an integral part of the proposal and the Enterprise Application Development team makes absolutely sure that it results in increasing client revenue.

The EAD team is duty bound to ensure ROI in a reasonable amount of time. In addition to supporting the fundamental business areas, EAD also indirectly adds business value through Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) services and web enabling legacy applications. The spectrum of EAD services include:

Enterprise Custom Web Application Development
Enterprise Application Integration
Enterprise Portal Implementation

Enterprise Custom Web Application Development

Xminds has been implementing enterprise scale web applications since its inception. Xminds has an excellent track record of executing turnkey web application projects that address specific business needs. As such, we have produced our own scalable Enterprise Web Application framework that offers expertise in leading open source web application technologies. This is a proven cost effective web development service solution for executing enterprise level applications.

With the advent of Web 2.0, Xminds is one of the first companies to develop Rich Enterprise Applications (REA) and prudently incorporated Web 2.0 practices.

EAI( Enterprise Application Integration)

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is an emerging market that Xminds, with our proven expertise, is well placed to tap into. EAI is one field where it is not easy to prove your capabilities. Each Enterprise Application Integration project has issued new challenges and possibilities for Xminds. According to recent studies in the EAI market, it has been found that instead of spending large amounts of money in large scale platforms like TIBCO or WebMethods, businesses tend to embark on small scale project-specific integrations. Traditionally EAI practices were considered long term investments, but now it has evolved into project-specific short term investments.

Realizing the importance of ROI in EAI, Xminds has utilized our expertise in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to develop unique Enterprise Application Integration practices. The goal of an SOA is to allow business activities to be orchestrated as components in applications, targeting both internal and extra-organizational factors, thereby ultimately enhancing business agility.

The EAI services cover the following areas

EAI Strategy and Solution Consulting.
ROI Analysis for EAI Projects
Integration audit – analyzes implementation of an integration platform.
Web services enablement – creates Web services-compliant interfaces within a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for legacy and packaged applications.
Solution Architecture and Design.
Post Implementation Support.

Enterprise Portal Implementation

Our Enterprise Portal team has emerged as the alpha team of Xminds. With Gartner pegging the worldwide portal market at $1 billion and IDC projecting a $3.1 billion market in 2006, Enterprise Portals are big business and Xminds, with its proven expertise, is well placed to tap into this market. Combined with many years of domain and portal expertise, Xminds is prepared to emerge as a leader in vertical portlets or otherwise Vortals.

The need for Enterprise Portals derives from the existence of legacy databases that most enterprises are saddled with. These contain data that is manipulated through a variety of code, screens, and reports that are hard to replicate. However, these systems are information backbones for an enterprise and cannot be ignored, even though the data often lacks consistency and the systems are so diverse that the average user is familiar with only two or three applications at best. That is where Enterprise Portals can help by offering smooth single screen, single sign-on access to a wealth of legacy data.

Xminds has always followed these rules of thumb when building Enterprise Portals:

Improve the ability to find and retrieve the "right" information
Improve the ability to find people and what they know
Organize the intranet and create a sense of "place"

Our Enterprise Portal expertise spans across:

Collaborative portals including collaboration, knowledge, management and categorization applications (Documentum, FileNet)
Generic Portalsdesigned to cover most generic needs (Sharepoint, Mysap, and Webshpere)
Integration portals aim to provide the largest amount of information by providing various modules (Vignette, Plumtree)

Xminds encompasses skills across all phases of Enterprise Portal development including:

Portal Administration
Portlets development
Portal architecture and Strategy
Workflow development
Content Management
Portal Infrastructure(deployment, clustering, security hardening)
Business Value Assessment for Portals
Portal Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Integration of Web Content Management Systems into the Portal