Software Development

Distributed Systems

The e-world is heterogeneous and distributed. ELCA has gained a wide expertise in implementing large distributed systems and provides a fast, successful and cost-effective approach to master your complex e-business projects.

 

Information Systems

Information systems have become an essential business support for any enterprise. As such, they must be targeted to the changes and innovations that inevitably and increasingly characterize business environments.

  • Information systems development represents ELCA's core business, including:
  • Client/server applications implementation
  • Database modeling and design 
  • Expertise using high productivity 4th generation tools 
  • Rapid Application Development (RAD) based on prototypes and software module deliveries 
  • Use of transactional monitors to ensure high performance and data volume 
  • Internet, intranet and extranet interfaces

Components & Objects

We use object-oriented methods to ensure seamless communication between analysis, design and implementation. The corresponding state-of-the-art, object-oriented tools help us master development complexity and allow for efficient refactoring. Object-oriented notations (e.g. "use cases") heop to foster a meaningful dialogue between users and software engineers. We have extensive experience with component-based development techniques that enable re-use and provide solid, yet highly flexible systems.

Process & Methodology

The key success factors for all our processes and methodologies are transparency, proactive risk management and capitalization on know-how.

  • Transparency is central to our project organization and reporting. It is the customer's guarantee that ELCA is doing its utmost to achieve quality within the deadline and budget. 
  • Risk management is an essential task for our project leaders from the tender to the end of the project. It is embedded in our planning and reporting with the provision of reserves and buffers. 
  • Project management is one of the most valuable aspects of our know-how. Our knowledge is capitalized in ELCA's training, methodology and Intranet portal.

Architecture

Our extensive expertise in software architecture and distributed systems combined with our strong methodology means we can offer high-level consulting services in this area.

In particular, we are specialised in services such as architecture scoping and architecture assessment.

Offshore Development

Long before most other IT services companies in Switzerland, in 1995 ELCA started thinking about new approaches to software development and the possibility of having a software development center abroad. In 1998 ELCA opened an office in Ho Chi Minh City. Since then our team there has grown to over 70 people. ELCA Information Technology (Vietnam) Limited is 100% foreign owned by ELCA Informatique SA.