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.