TECHNICAL UNITS: Software Development
Today's organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges, new hybrid ways of working, and dangers from cyber criminals. The ability of a company to solve problems and meet challenges is increasingly dependent on the software it has and its ability to use it. No matter what industry our clients are in, "all companies are software companies", to quote Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
Today, software is a key source of capacity, competitiveness, innovation, quality and agility for companies. And it is the continuously updated repository of our knowledge.
ALTEN in Switzerland aims to be there for its clients by providing a software development service to solve their problems through the creation or update of custom-made, easy-to-use applications.
As part of our Technical Direction, the Technical Unit for Software Development focuses precisely on this objective. It comprises two focus areas:
Technical applications refer to all software used in the products or services provided by our clients or in the production processes of those products or services.
On the other hand, business applications are all software that our clients use to run the business.
This separation between technical and business applications is not only logical but also technologically rooted since the technologies used to realise the above applications are different. By their very nature, technical applications depend on the technologies used by our clients to realise their products or services; they range from C++ for embedded systems to Java Enterprise Edition or Microsoft .NET for other systems. While for business applications, the Technical Unit's choice is to rely on Microsoft's technology stack based on the .NET core framework, an open-source tool that enables the realisation of business applications for Windows, macOS and Linux.
The Technical Unit can take care of all steps related to the software development life cycle (SDLC) through the four Competence Centres of the Technical Unit:
Thanks to these Competence Centres and their highly competent leaders (CCLs), we can offer software development solutions that enable our clients to bridge the gap in software development at any stage of the project. The Competence Centres can indeed be deployed individually, in combination with each other, or all together depending on whether clients need help at a specific stage of the project or want to rely completely on ALTEN for the implementation of the entire applications.
The Technical Unit, for instance, has strong competencies in software testing. Our engineers, many of them ISTQB-certified, verify the quality of applications against numerous parameters, both functional and non-functional, bringing Swiss values of quality, reliability, and precision into the context of software development. They can perform checks throughout the development lifecycle, both manually and automatically, working both at the customer's premises and remotely in our test factory.
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