Embodying your business values and processes into technology that drives more revenue, reduces costs and enables your employees to perform better.

Its always a tough series of decisions – To buy new software or build it? To build from the ground up or to create “extensions” and “customizations” for a package. The questions seem as endless as the possibilities.

And even when you decide to build or even extend a purchased product, what technologies do we use? What software do we code in? What database? Do we go with open source technologies that are “free” or proprietary products we need to license? To the non-technologist is seems like arguing about world creation in a foreign language – To the technologist it can be a “religious debate” of “x” versus “y”.

From the board room to the factory floor, Affari’s teams have been there. Understanding the context to the debate, the pros and cons of the efforts and technologies and understanding how to create a valuation metric for the efforts to provide you with the facts, options and impacts of the decisions you need to make.

And when the decision is made? That is when our project managers and software developers can roll up their sleeves. Providing support ranging from staff augmentation, project oversight or completely outsourced development. Our goal is simple – to provide the value and return on investment in your technology decision that you should expect to receive.

Having built everything from SEO analytics and optimization / bid management systems for Advertising/Marketing to Population health management and electronic medical records for at risk populations, to Configuration Management for a $1B data center. We are here to support your successful development.

Build v Buy

The latest technology is great, but not if it doesn’t provide quantifiable value to the company! Measuring value of the analytics effort is a critical component to success.

Project Management

Project schedules are agreed and kept. Scope “creep” is managed into version control and not by continually slipping dates.

Methods and Practices

With 70% of software lifecycle cost in maintenance it is critical to apply standard methods and development practices to ensure ongoing maintenance is as cost effective as possible.

User Ownership

End user participation in all aspects from requirements to interface design to code review is key to the success of any software development effort.

Appropriate Technologies

Affari’s development resource span all current data management technologies and languages ensuring up to date skills and knowledge and not a one size fits all response to your needs.

Software Development - Solving a Need

The reason we build software is to solve a problem. To enable our employees to work faster, smarter, easier. To drive our processes smoother and with less effort. Affari’s teams focus on the outcomes and not the technology itself as the value to the software development effort.
Too often, return on investment (“ROI”) is assumed and never actually stated, creating a measurable model before the first line of code is generated provides executives with a true finite understanding of the cost benefit of the effort. The technology may be exciting and impressive but if it costs more than it will return is it still a good investment?
It’s a given, during coding our users and executives will identify new features, functions and data for the application. By leveraging a continuous expandability into the code and data design up front, you can manage scope growth and make the release schedule at the same time. Once the initial release is out – and returning value – then grow bigger!
The code is a given! It's the “fun part” for a us! We all want to get to coding! Unfortunately, “just getting coding” is one of the main reasons 70% of the cost of your software ends up in maintenance! – The part most developers dislike more than all the design and testing documentation!

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