OmniSphere Methodology

OmniSphere follows a structured System Development Life Cycle methodology, comprised of Industry Standards and best of breed methods, tools and Techniques.

Our methodology has been field-tested for a number of years at several sites with variety of technologies and tools.

Business Analysis

OmniBuilder supports industry standards methods and techniques to help you capture and manage the business requirements; OmniBuilder offers the most complete repository of the business requirements today supporting both UML and Information Engineering.

This phase we capture:

• Business Strategy
• Business Requirements
• Business Functions, Processes and activities
• Business Use Cases and scenarios
• Business Objects; including properties, relationships, events, methods and rules
• Business rules
• Workflow and procedures

Tools to help Analysts:

• Rational Rose
• OmniBuilder
• Import Business Templates
• Completeness Checks
• Web Business Model browser; allow enterprise access to the business model and providing annotations capabilities

Reuse in the Analysis is achieved through:

• Business Template; to import an entire model or an area of specialization into your model
• Object inheritance; to inherit all objects properties and behaviour
• Domain Reuse; to reuse common definition of common properties
• Use of Analysis Patterns to reuse previously defined complex business requirements

Design

Our consultants use Design Pattern methods to:

• Pre-designed components
• Define design components (features)
• Separate design rules from business rules
• Capture design rules across projects for later re-use
• Identify Security Rules

Prototype

• Facilitate prototyping by providing full data access from the business model
• Full prototyping of the application
• Publishes the analysis and design as web pages
• Allow annotation of the model to record feedback and decisions

Construction

• Generate application code using OmniBuilder
• Generate technical documentation
• Generate user documentation
• Generate install procedures

Testing

• Performs standards test of generated components
• Generate test scripts of SQL objects
• Generate data validation routines
• Generate test scripts for third party testing tools

Deployment

• Produce install procedures for first time install
• Produce upgrade procedures
• Produces porting logic and installation routine including alters to SQL configurations
• Produces diagnostics to ensure proper installation

Enhance/Support

• Through workflow system; capture enhancement requests and support requests
• Manage Configuration
• Produce
• Tracks progress
• Provides On-line access to support and enhancements database to the user community

Reverse Engineering

• Reverse engineer from SQL configurations

Work Management Workflow and Project Management

OmniSphere uses structured Project Management approach in throughout the project life cycle covering.

Using our in-house Work Management System and MS Project

• Plan and estimate work
• Manage scope changes and approvals
• Identify tasks
• Tracks project activities
• Monitor and report progress