Services

Solution Delivery

Systems Development
Systems Integration
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Network & Application Management Solutions
High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions
Software Testing
Performance Analysis
Testing Automation Solutions

Exactly what you need, when you need it

You want your business ideas translated into technology solutions now, not later. But you also want to ensure that the solution is cost effective and flexible, getting the most out of your current investments. Above all, you need to be secure in the knowledge that whatever solution is provided, it will be rock solid.

Options and choice

Unico offers you flexible options; dependent on your needs we integrate best of breed “off-the-shelf” (COTS) products or custom develop a solution, quickly, and effectively.

Flexibility without increased risk

Our expertise in mission critical systems means you can have the flexibility you are looking for without compromising the quality of the outcomes.

Systems Development

Unico’s specialist expertise in custom development helps you to cost-effectively differentiate processes and offerings from competitors and respond rapidly to changing market conditions. Our talented and experienced team of software developers have particular strengths in:

Complex processing
High-traffic volumes and real-time processing
High-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)
High-performance databases
Flexible configuration control
Web and graphical user interfaces

Unico’s systems development practice is structured to avoid the business risk commonly associated with bespoke projects. We provide:

Flexible and scalable architecture
Best practice and standards-driven design
Mature testing, integration and ongoing support services
Flexible business rules controlled by user-serviceable configuration
Client retention of all project IP

Systems Integration

It is rare to find off-the-shelf software that works as a complete solution when it is placed into an existing technology environment. Our Systems Integration services turn diverse systems into a single end-to-end solution.

Without careful management, integration activities can produce undesirable point-to-point connections, undermining your overall architectural integrity. Unico’s strong architecture background, together with our business focus, will give you confidence in the long-term viability of our integrated solutions.

Use our services to get the benefit from trusted, best-of-breed products of your choice while maintaining flexibility and confidence in the outcomes.

We offer start to finish solutions with complete services for complex projects including:

Planning and design
Configuration, customisation, hardening
Functional, performance and integration testing
Implementation/migration
Solution documentation, training and ongoing support

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Unico’s Enterprise Integration solutions enable your business to manage, monitor and adapt end-to-end business processes without undue delay, cost or reliance on IT stakeholders. Loose coupling enables new technologies and components to be deployed quickly and cost-effectively.

We follow modular, standards-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) patterns for the design, implementation and management of end-to-end processes, data and applications, supported by a number of powerful components including:

Business Process Management (BPM) providing the means to orchestrate, streamline, manage and change end-to-end business processes
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) providing a real-time view of current business activity that can be leveraged to identify issues and opportunities for improvement
Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) providing a central, managed repository of configurable business rules to be used across all functional and infrastructure components

Our approach offers the visibility, agility and extensibility promised by leading-edge integration techniques, grounded in Unico’s track record developing, integrating and supporting high volume mission-critical systems.

Unico partners with market leading J2EE integration suite providers such as TIBCO and Sun, or is equally happy working with our clients’ preferred technologies. Back to top Contact us for more information.

Network & Application Management Solutions

Unico offers specialist HP Openview implementations providing operations and management visibility across the mission-critical environment:

Instrumenting COTS and custom systems to provide visibility into fault conditions and performance across all elements
Detecting, alerting, resolving and reporting on network and element faults
Charting and analysing network and element performance
Improving service, reducing cost and mitigating risks by responding to faults as they occur, and taking proactive steps to ensure sufficient ongoing capacity
Leveraging industry standard network management protocols and interfaces

High Availability & Disaster Recovery Solutions

Our experience with mission-critical environments means that our clients often seek our support in implementing HA & DR plans.

We offer Specialist HA & DR Analysis and Integration services to maximise service availability and manage risk in mission-critical environments through:

Assistance with Business Continuity Planning (BCP) analysis and strategy
Single- and multi-site application clustering and data replication with Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) and Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
Robust and highly-configurable backup solutions using Veritas NetBackup

Software Testing

Steeped in a culture where system failure is not an option, our software testing applies mature methodologies and project planning regimes.

Software test planning, execution and reporting ensures that software projects meet 100% of the requirements, 100% of the time.

Functional testing ensures new software functions behave according to agreed specifications
Regression testing validates that code changes have not introduced new faults into existing functionality
End-to-end testing exercises systems in concert to verify communications interfaces and end-to-end functionality

Performance Analysis

Our experience with implementing change in mission-critical systems means that we have developed a performance analysis service that is second to none.

Predicting system behaviour under different traffic scenarios, this service provides a means to measure the performance impact of system changes and is an important input into capacity planning activities.

Load testing verifies that systems will continue to behave acceptably under expected traffic and usage conditions after software or configuration changes
Stress testing sends excessive load to a system to determine breaking-points and failure modes (behaviour beyond breaking point).
‘What-if’ analysis emulates and reports the outcome of hypothetical traffic conditions — for example, a 20% increase in a particular traffic type

Testing Automation Solutions

Automated testing provides more “bang-for-buck” from testing resources. In a mission-critical environment, introducing repeatability into testing practices translates to fewer faults, lower costs, faster time-to-market and significantly lower project risks.

Unico’s test tools capabilities include:

Scriptable intelligent load generators allowing for deterministic execution and analysis of constructed test cases
Production traffic capture and replay providing automatic and realistic regression and performance testing, and the means to reproduce and analyse production faults
Device emulators to test interworking in a development environment

Unico lets you have the flexibility you're looking for without compromising the quality of the outcomes.

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