Cymbiotix can provide a wide variety of web-based software solutions to make your business more profitable. From simple internet e-brochure websites to complex database-driven e-commerce and e-business solutions that integrate with your existing processes and technologies.

Solutions include:

• The consultative development of an Internet strategy as an integral component for marketing, sales support, and customer relations.
  
• The consultative development of an intranet strategy as a vehicle for company-wide document management, knowledge management, client relationship management and automated document assembly.
  
• The consultative development of standards for visual appearance and content management of websites.
  
• Design and development of websites that support a number of business functions. Our actual solutions depend on your IT infrastructure and architecture plans but we specialise in solutions that are based on Microsoft's .net framework.
  
• E-commerce solutions that extend the capability of your existing IT systems and also integrate with them.
  
• Integration of systems using XML as a middleware component.
• Consultancy on how best to optimise your website for indexing by search engines.

Our principles of best practice

We are proud of our software development practice that ensures the software we deliver is what you want and expect and is delivered on time and within budget. Our practice is based on five guiding principles that inform our software development process:

• User requirements are modelled visually (using UML).
  
• Requirements, change requests and construction are managed through use-cases.
• An iterative development process is used.
• A component-based software architecture is used to facilitate reuse.
• Quality is continuously verified and best assured through a formal development methodology.

Work starts when our analysts develop a Unified Modeling Language (UML) model of your business processes - meticulously documenting your existing system to understand your current and future business needs. At this point functional and technical specification documents are completed and signed-off by you - to ensure the proposed solution will meet all of your expectations. This planning, in conjunction with prototyping as necessary, ensures the solution starts out on a solid footing.

Next our graphic artists work with you to create an aesthetic metaphor and theme that espouses your company's values and image. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) is designed, developed and optimised for the web.

Once the planning and design phases are complete construction begins. The order that each UML use-case will be taken through the construction and testing process is identified. Each use-case is written as a self-testing component and, depending on the size of the project and deadlines, will be finished before the next one is started. This enables everybody to see exactly where the project is up to in the development process. As the use-cases are completed they are assembled into the final product and its system testing harness. We encourage you to use these incomplete versions and give us early feedback. Once the last use-case is finished we can start a full system and integration test. When this is finished the software is presented to you for acceptance testing and sign-off while we complete the documentation.

We believe that Cymbiotix has a robust software development process that produces reliable, scalable and easy to maintain solutions on time and on budget.