ISO 9001:2008 certified processes for software development

Technical competencies

Our specialists have the right mix of skills to approach complex projects in:

Data management
Data and application migration
Telecom provisioning
Data warehouse and business intelligence

Enterprise applications
Data security
Loyalty systems
Mobile applications

Portals/web applications
Internet of things
Quality and project management
Messaging middleware

Geo localization and navigation
Time series
Booking engines
Search and rule engines

Data management

ArtSoft Consult is a reliable partner for the development of data management solutions to your corporate needs. Over the years, ArtSoft Consult has developed content management systems, customer relantionship management systems, corporate data management applications, data warehouse, human resources management and information quantifying systems.

The industries for which ArtSoft Consult has developed data management systems are: telecomunications, manufacturing, automotive, virtual museums, entertainment and media market, clasifieds, e-commerce, HORECA, healthcare, internet services, distant education.

The characteristics of our service are:

Personalized to the customers needs
Secured data access
Information protection based on roles and permissions mechanisms
User-friendly interfaces (web, mobile or standalone) to manage the flow of the data

Enterprise applications

ArtSoft Consult has a longstanding experience in developing complex enterprise applications for business segments like telecommunications, automotive industry, manufacturing, entertainment, media market, public services & energy (oil, gas, water and electricity), hospitality and commerce. Our team proved over time a high capability to understand the customers' needs and to analyze his requirements.

The main characteristics of the applications we developed are:

Approached architectures: JEE/J2EE based servers, microservices architecture, Web services, thin clients (web), Swing clients, mobile clients
Interaction with different legacy systems like CRMs, billing systems, databases
Secured data access, information protection based on roles and permissions mechanism
Data encryption
Communication protocols: TCP/IP, RMI, IIOP, SOAP, HTTP/HTTPS, XML-RPC, etc.

Mobile applications

ArtSoft mobile applications are known for being innovative and entertaining.

We provide complete solutions for our customers including:

Native applications for iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android enabled phones
Solutions using cross platform frameworks (PhoneGap, Apache Cordova, Xamarin)
Scalable client-server solutions
Innovative data transfer protocols
Porting of web applications to all mobile OS browser
UX/UI design

We developed applications in the following areas:

Geo localization and navigation

ArtSoft Consult has architected, designed, developed and incorporated geo localization and navigation modules into software solutions developed for telecom, hospitality, public services, on-line media, commerce and marketing, professional services fields.

The business segments for which ArtSoft Consult has already developed messaging middleware-based applications are telecommunications, corporate data management, hospitality, entertainment and media market.

We have developed also some of our products using this field of expertise:

NavigArt – one of the first navigation applications developed for iPhone using OpenStreetMap
Coordinates Converter – mobile app used to convert geo localization data between different formats.

Data migration

Our company has the capability to provide high quality services in data migration. In this area we have a very good experience in the telecommunications industry, entertainment and media market. Our expertise covers data migrations from proprietary systems, Oracle Financial, Siebel, BOSS, WISE, CRM.

Our services cover the followings:

Data structure analysis for complex databases, including duplicate identification and duplicate management,data correlation between data from different heterogeneous systems, algorithms for data generation based on available data and reference business rules, etc.
Verification of the quality of the data to be migrated
Design of flexible, error tolerant migration scripts, including data backup
Implementation of migration scripts using the high performance andreliable technologies in order to manage the largest databases
Testing on more levels: functional testing including quantityand quality tests, load tests, performance tests, etc.
Database optimization for a fast and timely migration

Internet of things

ArtSoft Consult has architected, designed, developed software systems that incorporated smart devices connected to the internet. We have developed IoT related applications in the field of HORECA, commerce and fitness. The applications communicated with smart devices like scales, cofee machines and weareble devices, information collected was processed and stored in private database or cloud.

Our services cover the followings:

Product planning and innovation

Quality planning:

Software-QFD

Product Innovation:

Brainstorming, Mind-Map, TRIZ/ARIZ, Innovation algorithms

Software analysis, arhitecture and design

Brainstorming

Mind-Map

Design patterns

UML tools and techniques

Rational Rose, MS Visio, NetBeans, Open Office Draw, Star UML, Together, Requirements’ matrix

Database modeling tools

MySQL Workbench, DbVisualizer, Oracle SQLDeveloper, Toad

Project management

Project planning and management

Jira, Confluence, MS Project, ScrumDesk

Effort estimation

Top-down, PERT

Risk identification, evaluation and minimization

Software-FMEA

Software development methodologies

Agile, Scrum, Kamban, Scrumban, RUP, DSDM, etc.

Testing

Testing tools and frameworks

Selenium, Protractor, Ranorex, JMeter, JBehave, Testing Anywhere, WebUI Test Studio, TestComplete, SOAP UI, EasyMock, Mockito, jMock, WebUI test Tool, TCMS, Cucumber, ProjectLocker

Issue management tools

JIRA, Redmine, Rally, Trac, ActiveCollab, Rational ClearQuest, Bugzilla, Bugzero, Remedy, TestLink, TestTrack, etc.

UX/UI Design

UX Tools:

Axure, Adobe XD, Invision, Moqups

UI and graphic Tools:

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Zeplin, Adobe XD

Implementation

Programming languages:

Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, C / C++, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP .NET, Objective-C, Visual Basic

Technologies, libraries and frameworks:

Java: JEE, Spring, Spring Security, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Flyway, Swing, JSF, Apache Wicket, Velocity, GWT, JXL, Oracle Portal
PHP: CodeIgniter, Laravel, Symphony, Zend, Yii, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Prestashop
C#: Microsoft Visual Studio, Telerik Framework, Entity Framework, ASP Web API, WinForms, ASP.NET MVC, Neodynamic SDK
.NET: ASP.NET, Visual Basic
Ruby: Rails, Capistrano, RMagick, Geokit, RSpec
C++: Windows API, ActiveX, XCode, wxWidgets, STL, WinDDK, Qt Framework, Microsoft CRM
UI and Web development frameworks: Angular, React, VueJS
Ajax and JavaScript: NodeJS, JQuery, ExtJS, JSON, MooTools, ASP.NET Ajax control Toolkit, Dojo, etc.
Web technologies: Bootstrap, Typescript, D3.js, XHTML, HTML5, XML, XSL, XPath, XQuery, SAX, DOM, StAX, TinyMCE, JW Player, Highcharts, amCharts, Modernizr, Oauth2 security, Omniauth security
Mobile: React Native, PhoneGap, iPhone SDK, Android SDK, Xamarin, JQuery Mobile
BI: Tableau, Pentaho Business Inteligence, Crystal Reports
Web Services: REST API, Apache CXF, Axis, SOAP, WSDL, JAXB, JAX-WS
Messaging Middleware: Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ Series

IDE:

Eclipse, Idea, MS Visual Studio, Aptana Studio, XCode

Versioning Control:

Git, SVN, Rational ClearCase, Rational Synergy, MS Visual Source Safe

Build tools:

Maven, Ant

Continuous integration tools:

Jenkins, Bamboo

Databases/Data storages:

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Derby, Lucene/SOLR/ElasticSearch, MongoDB, LDAP, etc.

Application and web servers:

Apache Tomcat, JBoss AS, Jetty, IBM WebShere, Oracle Application Server, WebLogic, Windows Server IIS, Nginx

Cloud computing:

Amazon Web Services, Azure, private cloud

Enterprise Service Bus:

BizTalk

Sales Force Management:

SalesForce

Fast project initiation

Face-to-face meeting or video conference, NDA, project outlines and fast feedback
Contract negotiation
Rapid definition of the project (requirements, team structure, high-level time-line)
Architecture and technology definition
Software and UX/UI design
Start implementation

Proven capability

The team of ArtSoft Consult got extensive experience in running large scale and complex software development projects for customers in many countries.

ArtSoft Consult is able to prove the quality of its work, the recommendations from its customers being one of the means.

Customized business processes to deliver high quality

ArtSoft Consult has implemented and maintains a highly mature ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system (certificate no. RO-11608 from SRAC, Romania) for custom software development services, roll-out of software products, IT technical consultancy and connected services. The quality management system covers all phases of the agile software development.

The whole software development process from inception, analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, validation, maintenance, change request management, project planning, project management, monitoring and control is fully documented and runs entirely in electronic format.

The software development process is flexible and tailored for fast and low cost project development. The development model can be tailored according to customer needs. Customers can monitor the development of their projects and there are check-points for artifacts, as well as feed-back loops from the customer over the entire agile development process.

Highly qualified human resources

ArtSoft Consult knows that the quality of the specialists is one of the most important assets. In this respect, there is a clearly defined personnel policy, including a rigorous admission process of people, based on interviews, tests, proof-of-capability, affinity to the company’s customer-oriented culture, as well as clearly expressed commitment in achieving the company’s mission and quality objectives.

Based on individual development schemes, ArtSoft Consult encourages and supports continuous learning actions for its employees. Their performance is monitored. These actions are based on clear written rules and procedures that are documented within specific processes, as part of the company’s quality management system.

Excellent communication practices

Permanent communication with the customer (e-mail, audio and video-conferencing, chat, phone, etc.)
Use of predefined reporting schemes (time sheets, customized reports, etc.)
Synchronization of activities with the development teams of the customer
Communication with multiple development teams:

for every project, on our server is assigned an e-mail account (any problem sent by the customer will be received and solved by the team)
clearly defined contact persons (direct e-mail addresses, messenger ID, mobile phone)
periodical workshops and/or video conferences with the customers

Robust security practices

Infrastructure

Restrictive firewalls
Authentication and encryption when offering services
Anti-spam and antivirus email system
Access to resources based on "need-to-use" criteria
Detailed logging strategy

Confidentiality

NDA between ArtSoft Consult and its customers
Care for the intellectual property of the customer (know-how, products, etc.)
NDA and non-concurrency agreement between ArtSoft Consult and its employees

Reliable and up-to-date technical infrastructure

Use of the latest technology, following the international standards
Reliable Internet bandwidth: two load-balanced broad-band internet connections and an additional back-up line
Video-conferencing equipments, phone lines, up-to-date workstations, servers (application, database, backup), mobile devices, phone/fax line, scanners, printers, copiers, MM projector, etc.

Attractive guaranty practices

3 month guaranty from the delivered software product
Client property over the code and project documentation

Research and development

Being involved in several Research and Development projects for our customers, ArtSoft Consult has the proven capacity to approach R&D projects. References can be provided upon request.

Very attractive man-day rates

Based on the operational advantages of Romania in the IT sector, as well as based on reliable management practices, ArtSoft Consult is able to work out projects at very attractive rates in the market where it operates.

Cultural adaptation

All employees have very good or excellent English language skills (written, spoken). This is one of the “must-be” requirements at employment. Also, we have employees that speak French, German, Hungarian or other languages. Most of our team members also have extensive experience working abroad, in western business environments.

ArtSoft Consult implemented and maintains a quality management system according to ISO 9001 since 2003. Our quality management system is certified by SRAC, Romania according to ISO 9001:2015 standard.

The quality management system of ArtSoft Consult covers all phases of the software development process and professional consulting services in IT. It was issued for “Custom software development services, roll-out of software products, IT technical consultancy and connected services". [certificate No. RO-11608]

The quality management system of ArtSoft Consult is entirely operational in electronic format.

The quality management system includes internal check points (reviews) of the major artifacts. All non-conformance are handled through a well-defined defect control process, tailored to allow customers remotely monitoring project evolution.

The quality management system also includes procedures and work instructions related risk management, corrective actions, as well as with continuous improvement and process innovation. We pay much attention to reduce the poor-quality costs so our customers can benefit of a low cost development process.

Because the employees are our most valuable assets, a continuous training process is also defined. The statistical process control keeps under control the whole system.

We bring this value to your business through:

Excellent capabilities on project management and technical skills, resulting in on-time project delivery
Qualified people, mature and well-documented quality management system and efficient communication approaches, resulting in quality beyond the expectations of the customer
Ability and commitment to approach complex and challenging projects, resulting in innovative solutions
High flexibility in project approach, getting fast harmonization with customer’s needs
Possibility to cover all phases of software development process, providing complete services over the whole project life-cycle
Proof of capability based on low cost pilot projects, increasing your the confidence
Use of efficient methodologies for fast project initiation
Well-defined software development process, adaptable to your requirements
Customer-centered project management, systematic feed-back loops, powerful quality assurance tools and innovative specialist skills, resulting in low risk project approach
Outstanding team of specialists: cohesion, proven experience in successful international projects, constructive company culture, harmony
Competitive man-day rates, resulting in significant cost savings

Customers can see in the cooperation with ArtSoft Consult a big potential to reduce the costs of software development while ensuring high level of quality, innovation and on-time project delivery.

Areas of application

Technical competencies

Data management

Enterprise applications

Mobile applications

Geo localization and navigation

Data migration

Internet of things

Tools and technologies

Product planning and innovation

Software analysis, arhitecture and design

Project management

Testing

UX/UI Design

Implementation

Software development process

Project management

Commitment to high quality

Fast project initiation

Proven capability

Customized business processes to deliver high quality

Highly qualified human resources

Excellent communication practices

Robust security practices

Reliable and up-to-date technical infrastructure

Attractive guaranty practices

Research and development

Very attractive man-day rates

Cultural adaptation

ISO 9001:2015 certification

Best value to our customers

We bring this value to your business through: