If your business is in the market for software development, desktop or web based application, our many years of experience will work for you!

Galaxy is an ideal choice for Software Development. We can provide complete "turn-key" solutions specific to your business needs, or use our expertise at the level where it's needed. We can fit in with your overall software development plans. Whether your needs are to supplement current development or to have Galaxy develop an entire software application, it would be our pleasure to help you with new or ongoing projects, including analysis, database design, coding, testing and implementation. It's all possible, the level of help, is up to you. Our clients are kept updated on the progress throughout the project lifecycle and can manage changes to the requirements. This enables process transparency and increased management bandwidth.

Our programmers have strong knowledge of cutting edge technologies like .NET and J2EE. We have perfected an impressive technique of delivering fast, effective, reliable solutions -- on time, in budget.

Software Development Methodology

At Galaxy Solutions, Inc. we apply our software planning, design and development skills to provide a timely, scalable, extendable solution to your company’s software needs. Effective software development follows a life cycle similar to that pictured below.

The purpose of the software development life cycle is to minimize the cost of the software over its lifespan. System features must be identified as early as possible in the life-cycle.

Feature Planning:

This stage is the appropriate place to make all software feature requests. The type of questions asked and answered in this stage include those that define how the software will be required to interact with those who use it, as well as other systems with which it may need to interface. .

Architecture Design:

This stage is where decisions are made about the underlying computer platforms, how the software will be deployed, how to provide appropriate scalability, as well as extensibility. New features added here are a little more expensive than those decided upon in the first stage, but it is still generally possible to easily integrate features into the system.

Development:

This stage requires that both the software features and architecture design be fixed to allow the programmers to be able to implement the required specifications in the software mix. In the early stages of Development, is it possible to make minor changes to features, but significant changes become very expensive, due to the need to rip out already developed code and replace it with new pieces. Towards middle of the development process, any changes become prohibitively expensive due to the issues testing and verification of the software product.

Deployment:

This stage obviously requires that the software features be completely set, without possibility of change. The development process must be complete, as well as testing for functionality and correctness. At this point, any change is so expensive that it probably isn’t worth the effort to make it. It would be better to begin the software life-cycle over, at the next revision level.

Maintenance:

This stage is used to resolve issues, identified as bugs, in the software system. It cannot be used to develop new features, or change the architecture of the software product. It is simply there to correct problems.            

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