BB&D software development teams have a well-grounded view of technology. This has been established over 20 years of system development. In an industry where many less experienced development teams are guilty of chasing technology for technologies sake, the BB&D teams provide an air of wisdom in both their approach and vision. One of the distinguishing characteristics of a BB&D solution is the level of planning and design that is applied in order to ensure successful development.
The software development teams have built systems on a wide variety of technologies ranging from VMS, CTOS, DOS, Unix, Windows, MVS and embedded operating systems. Unbelievably, many systems that were developed in the mid 1980's continue to be used today bearing testimony to the quality and value in a BB&D designed solution. During their life span these systems have undergone numerous conversions to different operation system platforms, databases, user interfaces, development languages and communications interfaces. The team understands that technology is transient, but can be sustained when underpinned by solid system architecture and design.
When designing a system, the team carefully considers long-term maintainability. They ensure that the application has sufficient abstraction in its design to make it readily portable to other environments.
Their broad skill base allows the teams to select appropriate technologies for a solution, based on the client's preferred technical architectures. The ability to move beyond the constraints of particular technology sets allows for the development of solutions that respond to the greater challenges faced by the business.
Through the development of hundreds of projects, BB&D have a broad suite of supporting modules and design patterns. From this extensive library, they can select proven components to accelerate projects, reduce costs and mitigate risk. The risk is reduced both at an immediate delivery level and in the long term maintainability of the solution.
Some of the architecture components that are immediately available include:
Workflow, document management and archiving modules
Security, authentication and EFT modules
Middleware, stub code generators and parameter maintenance modules
