AIMS Consulting employs a results-oriented, spiral development model
to design and implement its customized business solutions. Resultant
systems are highly flexible, expandable, extendable and maintainable
- i.e., they can start modestly and seamlessly grow in phases as budgetary
resources increase in response to near-immediate returns on investment.
Because efficacy can be judged early on in the project, its overall
risk is highly controllable.
Spiral
Development Methodology
Design Principles
Flexible to reflect changing business environments so
that changes in data sources or analytical engines can easily be implemented
Expandable to include new types of input data or analytics
Extendable to include new functionality such as web
publishing, new reports, and/or additional features
Maintainable to allow for easy modifications and upgrades
Hardware and Software Independent, which ensures that
the design is deployable on any platform, including relational databases
and/or object oriented GUI development tools
Open, to
provide end-user tools as well as access through ODBC drivers
Self-documenting of all modules and the overall design