Evocate Services

Evocate provides a number of different services that range from consulting to software development. We spend the time it takes to understand your industry and come to grips with your key performance indicators and return on investment expectations. We follow an Agile development methodology and align our selves with Prince 2 project management principles. Some of the services we provide are ...

IT & IS strategy consulting

IT Strategy Consulting

Evocate can assist you with developing an IT/IS strategy that mitigates risk yet leverages cutting edge technology. We understand the need for high reliability and zero system downtime. Maintaining stringent security measures while at the same time ensuring performance levels is not always an easy task and requires well thought out plans and designs. We can provide industry insight towards Strategic IT/IS decisions as well as methods to streamline internal policy and procedures that align with IT/IS. In addition to this, We can provide consulting for building your own internal Software development department and sourcing all relevant software & hardware.

Build Business Requirements

Business-case consulting

We can assist or conduct “As is” business case work-shopping and “To be” Business Requirement documentation. Our sessions are structured yet interactive which helps to formulating options that are both practical and innovative. We can provide services for rationalising core business needs and formulating Functional Requirements “FRS” that focus on leveraging cutting edge technologies as well as exciting new concepts. This includes Solution design and information architecture. We also offer services for Aligning system requirements with the business vision and compiling Technical Specifications that are targeted at minimising developer specific over-sights. This includes System Design and developing standards.

Project Managment

Project Management and consulting

Our Project Management service is not limited to Evocate Projects and may be employed with Non-Evocate Projects as well. We are happy to take on existing projects that are in trouble and need guidance. We provide a unique blend of software development insight and business acumen to the projects we manage. This greatly increases the potential of success. We measure success based on quality objectives satisfied, goals attained, deadlines met and the surplus in project budget.

Custom software development and integration with existing legacy systems

This includes building code (as per Microsoft Best Practices) that is extremely easy to maintain. Developing software either on-site or off-site depending on project requirements is part of the Evocate experience. All Evocate development resources are certified by Microsoft as well as tertiary qualified software engineers. We specialise in databases, web applications, web sites, windows desktop applications, windows services, web services and Service Oriented Architecture. Some of the technologies we use are web 2.0, dot net 3.0/3.5, Silver Light, Ajax, SharePoint, Visual Studio 2008, MS SQL 2008, WCF,WPF and WWF. Read more about software development here ...
SharePoint installation, set-up and configuration services are also provided. Read more about Customising and developing SharePoint solutions here ...
Database migration is also a service provided by us. MS Access to SQL and MySQL to SQL. We also analyse existing database structures and data volumes and determine a suitable migration strategy that minimises risk, user impact and system downtime. Read more about database migration here …

Support and ongoing maintenance

Evocate Support

At Evocate we take support seriously. Our skilled staff are well versed with our customers systems and environments. We offer customised service level agreements that suit our clients needs. Our support staff are friendly and always happy to help.