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Custom Application Services

With CMMI5 certification, Ci&T specializes in application development and outsourcing. With a global service rendering structure and research centers in renowned universities, it is acknowledged for its technological mastery and very high predictability of timeframes and quality.

Methodologies and processes

Unified Process

Ci&T is proud of its history of success stories, which result from a great maturity in project management and the use of a proven methodology, based on international standards such as CMMI, PMI, RUP, ISO and CBD. The Ci&T Unified Process software development process – a mature and constantly evolving process – describes and guides all the project activities at Ci&T, where performance is measured through rigid controls and indicators set forth by PMI. These metrics are shared with the client and allow significant gains in productivity and quality.

Agile Methodologies

Agile development is a conceptual framework in software engineering that promotes foreseen interactions throughout the development cycle, focusing on delivery speed.

Among the several agile development methodologies, Ci&T uses SCRUM:

• Development model based on practices
• Total focus on speed of delivery
• Oriented toward projects with frequent deliveries and that are more subject to changes in scope
• Better compliance with deadline requirements, with less paperwork and more interaction
• Evident gains in efficiency

SCRUM is based on the Sprint concept – an effort focused on the 4-week period starting at goal definition:

Superior Technical Solutions and SOA

The Ci&T technical team’s high level of maturity in componentized and distributed system architectures, formalized and evolved internally such as J2EE and .Net technical reference architectures, makes the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach intimately linked with the company’s project, implementation and solution delivery methodology.

This mastery is achieved through research and development and expertise in innovative projects. It is enhanced by agile mechanisms for the exchange and development of internal knowledge – such as practice discussion groups (in person, blogs, wikis, forums) – and external knowledge, where Ci&T’s research and development laboratories in universities play a key role.

Ci&T has professionals who are certified in the SOA approach and in the main technological tools and platforms that comprise its foundation, such as modeling tools, system integration, ESBs and other infrastructure solutions.

Highly mature delivery models

Project-based

We use an innovative model for the execution of software projects, with functional advisory units specialized by client and by industry segment, as well as development centers that are highly efficient in business technologies and practices.

With a mature and certified process, our clients obtain a complete solution, starting with functional advice and process modeling services, proceeding to architectural design and development of the solution, application migration and integration, and arriving at operation, training and transfering of knowledge.

Outsourcing

We offer our clients the opportunity to focus their efforts on their competitive strengths, while our experts take responsibility for all the complexity involved in managing and evolving information technology systems at the pace required by the business.

Our services range from a private set of applications to an organization’s entire portfolio. They involve the entire application development cycle, including service and project management, business analysis, definition of requirements, architecture, design, coding, testing, implementation and support.