Enterprise Architecture

Starfire has a broad range of IT skills to assist clients with unique problems that don't readily fit into orthodox IT categories. This is usually because there are problems that cut across a range of disciplines and involve a degree of complexity that requires innovative thinking to solve elegantly.

 

Starfire Technologies provides expert systems engineers to analyze your enterprise environment and gain an insight and understanding of how to better manage its complexity. The objective is to integrate people, processes, and infrastructure. Enterprise systems integration bridges architectural barriers that exist between disparate systems and applications. The value Starfire brings is turning this apparent complexity into simplicity.

Architecture Assessment Services
Starfire personnel have the IT expertise and experience required to perform a detailed enterprise systems investigation to discover the key elements of your enterprise architecture that are ripe for improvement and in some cases, complete overhaul. The technology assets, initiatives, and processes we review in your enterprise environment can be as focused or broad as you need. Starfire engineers are qualified to perform assessment services in the following areas:

  • Enterprise Applications
  • Delivered Services
  • Enterprise Initiatives
  • Enterprise Systems
  • Enterprise Storage
  • Network Devices
  • Deployment/Lifecycle Discovery
  • Business Process Discovery
  • Best Practices Review

Starfire evaluates corporate initiatives, maps details, and considers the business processes impacted by refreshing the enterprise architecture. The assessment services Starfire provides are in-depth and systemic. Starfire identifies:

  • Enterprise strengths and weaknesses
  • Areas of incomplete integration
  • Areas in need of efficiency improvement

At the completion of our assessment process you receive the results in a detailed report that includes recommendations for improvements to your enterprise architecture. From the foundation that this report provides, you will be empowered to make the decisions necessary to improve your enterprise architecture and the business processes it supports.

Communications Systems

Starfire utilizes and recommends IBM's Domino family of products to maintain productivity. Domino provides enterprises with secure and reliable messaging, calendaring, scheduling, and collaborative application solutions. Foremost among these are:

  • Lotus Notes
  • Lotus Sametime
  • Lotus Quickr

Lotus Notes gives users a single access point for e-mail, scheduling, task organization, collaboration, and messaging. Sametime is Notes' messaging client that improves group collaboration and team productivity by enabling people to instantly contact each other and exchange ideas while they are fresh.

Lotus Quickr is an exceptional tool that enables users to easily design a secure, on-line workspace that fosters collaboration and project awareness. Individual libraries can be designed for projects within your organization or for collaboration with external customers. Quickr improves the flow of communication, resulting in better project accountability and tracking.

Application Development
When complex business problems require solutions that cannot be purchased off the shelf, Starfire provides a team of highly skilled application architects and developers to design, build, and implement the solution.

Starfire can create the business applications you require to function with your existing applications and fulfill your business needs. Starfire designs business applications that function across multiple operating platforms with the capacity to be rapidly adapted to new platforms that are deployed in the future.

Programming skills and tools:

Java
C++
J2EE
.NET

Additional languages supported:

C
REXX
Perl
Lotus Domino/Notes Macro/LotusScript/API
FORTRAN
Lisp
Pascal
Smalltalk

Assembly Languages:

POWER
IA32
IA64
PA-RISC
MC68HC11
M68000