Oberon Technoglogies :: Methodology

Several companies have realized the internal cost of building their own expertise in software application implementation and support teams to maintain those applications once in production. The cost to hire programmers, system analysts, management, support staff, (payroll, benefits, facilities, etc.) along with the capital expenditure to acquire servers, PCs, to develop software and the overall maintenance of this infrastructure can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Only to realize that once the research and development of this software is complete, there is a huge cost to your organization to continually maintain the staff and infrastructure you just invested in.

Oberon provides the software development, services and infrastructure to complete the task at hand at an affordable cost to you. Our expertise in software application development, along with our ability to provide long-term support (software upgrades, software patches, trouble shooting services, etc.), provides your organization the quality of software products you would expect with your own internal staff. Since your business is not software development, you can focus your time and energy on manufacturing the products you sell and service.

With an accumulation of over 35 years of product development, we have created an infrastructure and methodology that keeps our software development, implementation and product support at the highest quality level possible. Our 10 step product development process provides you the assurance you are maximizing your investment. With this methodology we not only deliver an application that will meet your needs technically; but will also meet your company’s business objectives. Our realized value methodology at a high level, includes the following steps:

Determine Business Objective
Develop Requirements
Develop Use Cases
Document “As-Is” process
Determine Value Criteria
Architect “To-Be” process
Implement Solution
Test Solution
Train Client on Solution
Realized Value Assessment

In addition to building and implementing applications, we work with our customers to define an appropriate business model for application support which many times will include application upgrades as your systems mature or grow. This can be performed on a monthly, quarterly, or even semi-annual basis. We work with you to determine the best maintenance business model for you and your clients, and then create a program to support this model.