Suryashakti Infotech designs and develops robust software solutions for virtually all industries including in-house (vertical market) and retail software. We focus our unique combination of creative, technical, and problem-solving skills on meeting our client's objectives. Because of our clarity of purpose, commitment to process, and broad professional skill sets, we are able to provide our clients with world-class solutions that are functionally superior and fully aligned with our client's strategic focus.

In a nutshell: we design (web sites, applications, and databases), we write software and we consult (on high technology and for all sizes of companies).

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Our team brings proven credentials, key vendor relationships, and with real-world expertise to bear on your technology challenges. We offer award-winning design, software development, database modeling, e-commerce solutions, hosting/co-location services, and so much more.

Our highly skilled technical staff can quickly develop a reliable, scalable foundation for your Internet or Rich Client Applications. Our creative and graphical specialists can design the "eye-appeal" to make your interactive site or application stand out in the crowd. Together, our team is unbeatable in delivering a high value for your investment.

Lastly, Suryashakti Infotech can customize its products or create custom web, client/server, and traditional applications. With a large combined programming experience in C#, Visual Basic, CGI, HTML, RPG, Java and many others; Suryashakti Infotech is uniquely positioned to meet your needs as a development firm.

Suryashakti Infotech possesses a skill pool of dedicated software developers and multimedia designers who continuously upgrade their skill sets to meet the ever growing demands of businesses worldwide.

At Suryashakti Infotech, we have designed, developed, managed, and programmed number of custom applications, full scale multi-tiered projects / solutions, mass market products and web sites for a wide range of industry verticals.

Our applications solve real business issues for our clients and are easy to use. Our products & applications have won numerous awards. Below is a list of recent projects we have tackled. Specific examples can be obtained by contacting Customer Service. We are also happy to give out our customer references which will astound you.

• Accounting
• Business Process Improvement
• Comprehensive Group Scheduling / Calendaring
• Customer Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Database Design and Development
• E-Commerce
• Employment / Resume Tracking and Management
• Game Engines
• Games
• Installations
• Inventory
• N-Teir Development
• Online Admission
• Real Estate Management
• Relational Database Modeling
• Small Business Solutions
• Student Management System
• System Information

Suryashakti Infotech has the knowledge and experienced staffs to design, implement, and execute an entire suite of end-to-end Information Technology (IT) solutions to meet your company’s business goals and objectives.

A recent customer survey revealed that Suryashakti Infotech solutions for clients were rated a 10 out of 10 for Reliability, Quality and Price.

We offer a guaranteed Response Time to problems and guaranteed Defect Minimums.

Customer Ratings (Chart)

Fields	Rating
Reliability and Quality
Response Time to Requests
Price
Clear Roadmap
Effort at Understanding Customer’s Business Process
Meet or Exceeded Specifications
Warranties
ROI
Reputation
Overall Satisfaction
Company Stability
On target metrics for ROI calculations

In short, we provide you a professional solution in the least time, with all the functionality you asked for, and all other functionality that you might need while running our solution. Easy to use, upgradeable, a commercial and professional look, modular and flexible software is what you get.

You get a Company that :
Communicates! You can have our president’s cellular number. That’s how serious we take communication.

• Has software on millions of desktops worldwide, commercial and custom.
• Can handle small, medium as well as large projects.
• Has years of experience in programming and designing.
• Cares about your satisfaction!
• Is a full-service development company.

You get Software that:

• Is well documented and uses the best techniques for reusability.
• Is reliable and artwork in itself.
• Is created in the best language for the job, not just the languages we know.
• Is maintained for a defined period for free.
• Is highly componentized and encapsulates complexity in simplicity.
• Is Manageable. We go to incredible lengths to make it easy to deploy, run, and manage our applications.
• Is Secure. All the code we write includes security from the ground up, not a patchwork of fixes for vulnerabilities that are known today.

Every project has different requirements and different results. However, the process of developing custom software tends to follow a few well-defined steps. Larger projects are almost always broken down into smaller business modules, each one of which will follow the development sequence independently. Smaller projects on the other hand, will typically follow these steps more or less in sequence. Even though they are treated as discrete steps, often the steps themselves will overlap. All of the steps are equally important.

One of the hallmarks of a quality development effort is that the proper amount of time is spent on the "non-coding" steps. Unfortunately, under tight deadlines, many inexperienced developers will frequently jump right into writing code, without giving proper consideration to gathering requirements, design, and sometimes even testing.

It is important to understand how the different steps / phases fit together, and what the roles of the client and the consultant typically are. While every phase of development requires the involvement of both client and consultant to some degree, establishing requirements requires the greatest participation by the client, while the development phase typically involves the least.

At Suryashakti Infotech we combine traditional object-oriented design, iterative rapid application development, and thorough deployment methodologies to deliver highly effective, reusable, and maintainable software applications. We follow a systematic and step-by-step methodology for all our solution and software development. In our development methodology we first follow our clients' defined processes and methods, and then incorporate our own internal process steps wherever they are appropriate.

The main objectives of following a methodology is to make the development cycle as efficient as possible, to complete development within the lowest possible cost, keep the highest quality, and achieve the fastest turn-around. Another important objective is to make future maintenance easier and faster.

The Software Development Process

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Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. There are several different approaches to software development. Some take a more structured, engineering-based approach to developing business solutions, whereas others may take a more incremental approach, where software evolves as it is developed piece-by-piece. Most methodologies share some combination of the stages of software development

• - Planning/Initial Planning/Domain Analysis
  Often the first step in attempting to design a new piece of software, whether it is an addition to existing software, a new application, a new subsystem or a whole new system, is, what is generally referred to as "Domain Analysis". Assuming that the developers (including the analysts) are not sufficiently knowledgeable in the subject area of the new software, the first task is to investigate the so-called "domain" of the software. The more knowledgeable they are about the domain already, the less work required. Another objective of this work is to make the analysts, who will later try to elicit and gather the requirements from the area experts, speak with them in the domain's own terminology, facilitating a better understanding of what is being said by these experts. If the analyst does not use the proper terminology it is likely that they will not be taken seriously, thus this phase is an important prelude to extracting and gathering the requirements.
  
  - Requirement Analysis/Specification Analysis
  The starting point in establishing requirements is a careful analysis of the existing process which is to be automated. By examining the existing process, we can fit the design to the way your business actually operates. Of course, this examination also opens the possibility of modifying the business process to take advantage of the way computers handle information. For example, you would only need to enter data once, even though in a manual process it may need to be copied several times. The key here is to remain flexible, and look for opportunities to streamline certain tasks, without forcing you into any specific procedures.
  
  In this phase, both consultant and client discuss the system to be developed. We determine the minimal set of features to be supported (the "needs"), as well as the ideal system desired (the "wants"). The reason it's important to establish these priorities is that many projects are constrained by time; the client has specific needs that must be met within a specific time frame. This is often one motivation for breaking a large project into multiple development cycles. High priority, mission-critical features can be implemented in earlier phases, while desired but less essential features can be added in a later phase. Consequently, once the requirements have been established and prioritized, an initial timetable is determined.
  
  One of the most powerful tools used in establishing requirements, particularly user interface requirements, is prototyping. What that means is that the consultant will create a dummy application that looks like the final product, but without any of the business logic built in. This prototype is easy to build, and can usually be done in a few days, even for larger systems. Its purpose is to allow the user to see what the final product will actually look like, and get a sense of how much data will fit on one window, how that data is organized, what steps are required to perform specific tasks, and so on. What that means is that usability issues are addressed early in the development process, while they're still easy to correct.
  
  - Software Architecture - Design & Specification
  One of the most important steps, even though it's frequently ignored. It actually consists of two steps.
  
  The first is to establish a high-level design that specifies what the different parts of the system will be, and how they interrelate. During this phase, decisions are made regarding what hardware and operating systems are required, as well as what software tools will be used. User interface standards are established based on the prototype discussed above, so that every window has a consistent 'look-and-feel' in its presentation, and is consequently easier to use.
  
  The second part is a detailed specification of each business module, window, and function within the system. A detailed database design, or schema, is also established at this point. As with prototyping, performing a detailed design allows changes to be made early, while it's still relatively easy. Done properly, this serves as the foundation for the technical documentation of the system. It also serves as a blueprint to guide the development phase. At this point, a firm timetable can usually be established.
  
  Note the distinctions between requirements gathering, analysis and design. A requirement gathering refers to the task of identifying the business problem or need at hand. Analysis refers to the task of understanding the business problem at hand. Design, on the other hand, refers to the process of planning the solution to that problem.
  
  - Development & Implementation
  This is the part of the process where software engineers actually program the code for the project. This phase usually comprises the majority of the project life cycle. Taking the design established in the previous phase, the application itself is then built. Often the system is built in multiple phases so that critical functionality can be deployed as early as possible.
  
  - Testing & Integration
  Testing software is an integral and important part of the software development process. This part of the process ensures that bugs are recognized as early as possible. Even though it's listed as a separate phase, the bulk of the testing actually occurs during the development & implementation phase. This first part is commonly known as “unit testing”. Its goal is to make sure that the individual components of the system work well, both separately and in conjunction with other parts of the system. If done poorly, the user will later experience problems such as system crashes, or poor performance. Done well, the user may not even be aware of this form of testing at all.
  
  The other type of testing is known as “system testing”. Its goal is to make sure that the original requirements have been met, that the business rules embodied in the system are correct, and to verify that the system works as a coherent whole. This stage of testing is done in close coordination with the eventual users of the system. This is another reason why it's important to have the participation of the end users in gathering requirements. Often, a new application will replace an existing one; in such a case, testing often includes running both systems in parallel for a defined period of time.
  
  - Documentation
  This is probably the most frequently forgotten step. Documenting the internal design of software for the purpose of future maintenance and enhancement is done throughout development. This may also include the authoring of an API, be it external or internal. Documentation serves two purposes.
  
  While one of the goals of effective user interface design is to minimize the need for user documentation by making the system easy and intuitive to use, proper documentation is nonetheless important in training both current and new staff in the use of the system. User documentation is the guide to using the system, as well as making the most of its features. User documentation may come in different forms, from printed manuals to online help files.
  
  Technical documentation, on the other hand, is used as a guide for future developers to make changes to a system months or even years later. Even the developer who designed and wrote most of a system would be hard-pressed to remember every detail of its implementation after a period of time.
  
  - Release/Deployment
  This is where it all comes together. Hardware is installed, and the network configuration is established. Depending on the design of the system, database, application, and web servers are installed on dedicated server machines. Existing data, if any, is converted to the new system. The finished application is then installed, and final testing is done to make sure that all of the pieces of the system are working correctly in concert with one another.
  
  - Training & Support
  A large percentage of software projects fail because the developers fail to realize that it doesn't matter how much time and planning a development team puts into creating software if nobody in an organization ends up using it. People are often resistant to change and avoid venturing into an unfamiliar area, so as a part of the deployment phase, it is very important to have training classes for new clients of your software.

Maintaining and enhancing software to cope with newly discovered problems or new requirements can take far more time than the initial development of the software. It may be necessary to add code that does not fit the original design to correct an unforeseen problem or it may be that a customer is requesting more functionality and code can be added to accommodate their requests. It is during this phase that customer calls come in and you see whether your testing was extensive enough to uncover the problems before customers do.