Solution Services

Overview

Development

Programming

Enhancement

As a senior programmer analyst with twenty plus years experience, and degrees in the science of computer information science, I specialize in providing Internet Based Application Systems Design and Development Services satisfying client requirements achieving their objectives on-time and on-budget.

Each client is unique, as are their objectives and requirements. And, each client's technical expertise and capabilities typically determines their desire to participate actively in the design, development and maintenance of their systems. Some clients desire to participate indepth while others desire to participate passively restricting their participation to design of their system.

JHZ-CS offers different categories of service tailoring each project for the client's particular needs and requiremnts: Development, Programming, Enhancement.

Development provides a complete solutions; typically designing and developing an entirely new system or subsystem, and includes all project components. This comprehensive service produces a complete system that is ready to go live.

Programming provides logic and data systems design and development. This service is typically limited to logic and data components with user interface components being provided in template format the client customizes to their specific requirement with regards to graphics and aesthics. If the client requires graphic services, the project becomes either an Enhancement or Development project.

Enhancement provides all the various tasks to modify an existing systems for the purpose of enhancing function, usablity and performance.

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JHZ-CS projects follow a standard set of processes and procedures:

1. The client describes their requirements.
2. JHZ-CS performs an initial requirements analysis identifying a solution path verifying feasibility, determining cost and time to complete.
3. JHZ-CS generates a project proposal defining the obejective to be achieved along with the terms and conditions to achieve them.
4. The client reviews and comments on the project proposal.
5. The project proposal is revised and reviewed until agreement is achieved.
6. The project proposal is formally initiated and becomes the project agreement defining project progression from start to completion.

To assure success, JHZ-CS strongly recommends the use of open-source platform independent technologies combined with a strict policy of adherence to approved standards. These technologies and standards help assure systems remain productive, easy to maintain and enhance, as well as easily migrated across systems with minimal modification requirements when that need occurs. All this results in significant benefits to JHZ-CS's clients and their organizations.

These technologies include:

• PERL (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language)
• SQL (Structured Query Language)
• Javascript® (client-side logic)
• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
• QuickTime (multimedia)

These technologies provide a comprehensive toolset available on all major computer platforms. JHZ-CS strongly recommends adherence to standards and advises against use of extensions that risk detrimental impacts and restrictions to future enhancement and migration paths.

JHZ-CS provides comprehensive website development services expanding upon its website programming service providing the other components that make up a website. There are many aspects and components involved in this service. Each project is designed to meet your specific requirements. For your convenience a brief discussion below describes some of the more fundamental aspects of establishing a new website.

Establishing a New Website

Fundamentals - For any new website, domain name registration and website hosting is a requirement. A website domain name is the www.yourcompany.com web address that people use to access the website. Website hosting is the service that provides the physical space where the website actually resides. The registered website domain name points to that location.

Initial Content - An initial online presence for any company should include information pertaining to its business activity, its products and services. Typically, this information is already available in company marketing materials. Often these documents may be converted to digital format using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Graphics contained in those materials may often be usable, often being able to be scanned to produce the initial web graphics and logos. This service

includes these tasks as well as establishing the overall layout, format, color scheme and organization of the website.

Initial Functions - Initial functions for a new website are recommended to include e-mail links to contact persons that typically already interface with the public. Depending on the extent of product and service information a search function may be recommended, if the company has numerous products and/or services to provides users with easy access to the information they seek.

Ecommerce - Companies with numerous products require an organized presentation. This is especially important if the objective is to transact online sales. Typically, online customers are conducting comparative shopping. If they don't find what they're looking for quickly and easily, they'll continue looking elsewhere. An Ecommerce facility provides item selection

(Shopping Cart add to order function) and order processing (check out). For credit card sales processing, a merchant account and credit card clearinghouse service account is required. Check with your bank to learn what services they offer, then compare with other financial institutions; fees vary significantly. A secured website check out area is strongly recommended to protect customer information during transmission from their browser to your web server. This requires a site certificate and the web server must support what is referred to as SSL (Secured Socket Layer). It is also necessary to establish policies and procedures for order processing, fulfillment, packaging and shipping.

These are just some of the aspects involved in establishing a new website and the tasks performed as part of the Development Service here at JHZ-CS. To help you keep costs to a minimum, JHZ-CS can act in an advisory capacity assisting you in performing many of these tasks yourself.

JHZ-CS specializes in providing Internet based application systems design, development and enhancement services. More than tweny plus years experience as a senior programmer analyst and systems engineer allows me to assist clients establish, maintain and enhance their continued business successes. I have been specialized in Internet based technologies since 1996.

I strongly recommend the use of open-source platform independent technologies; see Solution Services Overview. These technologies provide the greatest level of assurance that systems will remain both flexibile and efficient as requirements changes. Coupling these technologies with strict adherence to approved standards, avoiding extensions to those standards, results in optimum performance across all platforms.

JHZ-CS structures projects using its established Process Method assuring smooth project progression from start to finish. The effectiveness of JHZ-CS's process method is demonstrated by its track record of on-time on-budget successful project completions.

JHZ-CS Enhancement Service provides support to "existing" application systems, Web CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts/programs, data and/or websites. Typical enhancements include improvement to appearance, presentation layout, format, performance, functionality and overall ease of use.

This service also may include conversions of "platform dependent" components to "platform independent" formats for the purpose of achieving improved maintenance objectives supporting future platform relocations or migration requirements in preparation for a move to a new/different server or enhancement of an existing server's operating system.