Carr Systems Incorporated
Technology solutions made simple
Consulting
Every organization that wants to remain competitive in today’s economic climate needs to periodically re-evaluate the process and technologies on which your success depends. Our experienced consultants understand the intersection of business and technology.
Our approach starts by understanding your business – your customers, workers, processes, and systems. Identifying potential problems, alternative solutions, risks and priorities are as important as knowing what the budgets and deadlines are. In the end, our success depends on helping you to achieve your success.
From business and systems analysis to software lifecycle management to custom design and development, Carr Systems has successfully delivered on consulting engagements large and small, and across many industries. For more information about these engagements, please visit the links on this page.
Areas of Expertise
Application Lifecycle Management
Yes, your software has a limited lifespan. Applications become outdated, in need of repair or even realignment with your business processes. We can help.
Lifecycle management is important to the success of any organization that depends on enterprise software. We provide planning for upgrades, future versions, extensions, mobility and more. Do you need a complete replacement of legacy software that suffers from ‘code rot’, or do you just need a modernization effort? Proper ALM is a must.
Our ALM services cover all steps in the systematic management of enterprise software. Work highlights include projects ranging from the very complex - such as legacy system analysis and documentation - to the more standard - creating plans for managing release cycles, issue tracking, and training. We have also optimized systems, improved productivity through mobility, and developed longer term software product roadmaps.
Our ALM clients have included the federal government, nonprofit organizations, and high growth companies faced with the challenge of outgrowing version one of their enterprise systems, like an SaaS platform. For more information, check out this example of our work.
Business Process Automation
"We implemented new software, but nobody is using it, and our work is more disorganized than ever. What are we doing wrong?" We have heard this before, and we can help.
Simply installing software to improve your organization’s operations doesn’t always solve the problem. Process automation starts with a thorough understanding of your products and services, workers, processes, systems, and customers. Assessing risks and solution options are as important as budgets and deadlines. Determining the right strategy for internal roll out, training, and adoption will make this important transition much more successful. And the more smoothly your operations run, the happier your customers will be.
For an example of our BPA work, click here and then visit our showroom.
Information Assurance
To one degree or another, Information Assurance is a part of many of our software consulting and development projects. IA touches so much in the software world, even when a customer has not identified IA as part of its requirements.
Information Assurance is also more than 'information security'. IA practices are part of an overall data management and risk strategy for an organization. At Carr Systems, we apply the standards of the Five Pillars to IA projects. Established by the Department of Defense, the Five Pillars focus on measures to protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation.
Examples of our Information Assurance work include projects for the DoD Healthcare and Business Intelligence platform development for start-up DonorTrends. You can learn more about these projects in our Showroom, or check out this example of our work.
Modernization
Maximizing IT investments is important to any organization. When legacy applications become a problem, Carr Systems has the answer. We can rebuild your core applications and entire business systems, minimizing business risks and helping you to control costs. A lot of planning goes into each project - and proper planning ensures successful execution.
Legacy systems may not be properly documented, and there may be little domain knowledge on staff.
We use a variety of techniques and methodologies to extract the good from your old application. These include:
* Software mining
* Reverse engineering
* Integration
* Business rule migration
* Automated migration / Re-factoring
Once this initial phase of work is done properly, designing and evolving your system follows our rigorous software development methodology. We work with you to define requirements, and we also apply full Application Life Cycle management if needed. Check out this example of our work. Don't let code rot weaken your business - call us.
Systems Analysis
Some problems can’t be solved quickly. Legacy systems can suffer from poor design, lack of documentation, and ‘code rot’ – code so old that nobody is sure who wrote it or what to do with it. In these situations, it helps to be part engineer and part detective.
An experienced, objective third party can often mean the difference between project success and failure ... breaking a logjam, seeing past internal issues to the customer's needs, or just taking a fresh look at processes that have stagnated, seem broken, or have yet to be clearly defined.
Our senior consultants have experience with a wide range of business applications - from custom databases built in 40 year old code (like MUMPS) to first generation rapidly built applications that have quickly outlived their purpose. Examples of our Systems Analysis work include:
- Critical Design Review
- Data Mapping
- Information Assurance
- Requirements Mapping
- Reverse Engineering
- System Documentation
- System Optimization
Remember: don't tear down that bridge until you know why it was built. It may be your only path of retreat!
Check out this example of our work.
