COTS-based system integration
IPCS brings extensive experience in planning, managing, and executing projects that have significant Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) content. COTS-based software procurement and systems integration are closely related. Considering software development as a process of assembling collections of existing components has potentially several significant advantages:
- Reduced software development costs
- Reduced software maintenance costs
- Improved reuse
IPCS services include:
- Conducting detailed requirement analysis of the end-user/stakeholder business processes, Use Cases, Quality attributes and business model
- Architecture, and solution design including patterns, interfaces and infrastructure requirements
- Analysis of the COTS products/systems and emerging technology solutions from vendors including license negotiations, and tradeoffs
- Risk management (cost/schedule)
- Solution implementation/integration
- Project management
- Change management
