Traditional software development is costly, slow, and requires a significant IT infrastructure to be created for development and testing. This traditional infrastructure is inflexible, however, and has to be able to support peak demand. As a result, it’s not being fully utilized for much of the time.

The expertise and experience of EMC Consulting with cloud application platform technologies like VMware vFabric, SpringSource, and Microsoft Azure uniquely equip our consultants with the skills required to deliver strategy, implementation, and application development services for platform as a service (PaaS).

EMC consultants assess our client's application development capabilities for the cloud, recommend a strategy, and provide resources to modernize the application architecture as well as migrate development and test platforms.

The Agile formal approach minimizes risk and enables projects to adapt to changes more quickly. Agile development incorporates frequent inspection, team work, and accountability. Changing an organization that has relied on traditional waterfall development to an agile one can be daunting.

An experienced coach can help bridge the gap. EMC Consulting helps clients to create agile development organizations through assessment, training, and coaching.

During an assessment, EMC Consulting explores your environment identifies key issues and makes recommendations. Our training and coaching suites quickly bring a whole team to the level where they can start Agile development.

They include:

• Agile estimating and planning
• Certified Scrum master
• Certified Scrum product owner
• User stories for Agile requirements
• Five-day boot camp for an entire Scrum team

The rise of mobile devices brings new challenges and opportunities. New competitors are encroaching on traditional brands, and customers now expect instant access to everything. However, mobile devices enable you to create direct, intimate relationships with your customers while mobile applications are infrastructure-light and rapidly deployed.

EMC consultants can help you to identify where mobile enablement will increase your business advantage and where it fits into your current governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) and security constraints. We’ll show you where cloud services will accelerate mobile enablement and what organizational, process, and skills are required.

Our services help you to prioritize business initiatives for mobility, identify mobility use cases, and develop the reference architecture for key mobility components. We assess your current mobility readiness including governance, policy, technology, skills, process, and risk. Finally, we develop a roadmap identifying the next steps we recommend that you undertake.

As a leader in enterprise content management technology, EMC has defined many best practices in use by customers today. From object, metadata, and taxonomy modeling to distributed architectures, search optimization, and tiered storage, we are expert in applying ECM best practices to your business.

Decades of deployment experience with a diverse set of customers gives us deep knowledge of many industries in almost every corner of the globe. That knowledge enables us to apply the appropriate best practices to your unique business requirements.

Case management modeling accelerates business solution development by embedding our best practices framework into the technology. This enables us to refine and optimize your unique business processes using a common, configurable tool set.

Information that drives your business decisions can change dramatically over its lifecycle, as it intersects, merges, and feeds supporting functions. Mission-critical applications are evolving into critical business processes that require integration at the data, process, and platform levels.

Enabling distinct business processes to work together creates a foundation for intelligent information management. Applying case management rules to an information lifecycle makes the right data available to the right process on the right platform at the right time for optimum decision-making.

Using case-based modeling to improve the effectiveness of your business processes adds value to your content and provides a more efficient decision-making environment.

EMC Consulting can help you build business process management (BPM) systems and integrate applications using Microsoft BizTalk Server. Our certified consultants include Microsoft MVPs, who can help you organize applications into services that reflect the business needs of your organization.

Our consultants:

• Review business requirements and goals for BPM and enterprise integration.
• Examine existing systems and processes and create an implementation plan.
• Design, develop, and implement systems using BizTalk Server.
• Perform BizTalk Server upgrades and migrations.

Cloud improves IT and business agility by changing the way in which IT services are delivered, consumed, and managed, making it easier for business and application stakeholders to select services matched to their cost and service level requirements.

EMC Consulting helps you realize these benefits by integrating self-service provisioning, change management, and performance management for applications with workload management for proactive capacity management.

Our experienced consultants help you reap the flexibility of private cloud to shorten application development and make your business more agile through:

• IT provisioned as a shared service
• Flexible demand management
• Self-service interface to IT services