Services

Northgate Digital

Our Services

Application Development

Whether it’s a new web presence, software as a service application, or a long-awaited data warehouse, Northgate Digital is a full-lifecycle service provider ready to take your next application from vision to reality. Our project managers, business analysts, expert programmers, and QA analysts deliver results with a formal development lifecycle (SDLC) and attentive, customer-focused service.

Requirements-driven development and thorough QA ensure your business gets what it needs, and our Agile development lifecycle means no guesswork or surprises for your IT budget.

Technologies, Languages, and Platforms

Northgate Digital hires only top-tier technologists to bring you deep subject-matter expertise in a wide range of skills and technologies. Our core compentencies include:

Languages & Middleware

Java, .NET
C, C++, Objective C, Cocoa
PHP, Python, Ruby
SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL
HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Servers

Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish
IIS
Weblogic
Apache
Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Content Management

Celerity
Autonomy Teamsite
Documentum
Opentext
Umbraco, Joomla, Magnolia

Other

Service-Oriented Architecture
Web Services
AJAX, JQuery, ExtJS
Virtualization, Xen, VMware

Support & Maintenance

Managing and maintaining existing information systems is crucial to business survival. Studies have shown that more than 60% of global IT budgets are spent on application management and maintenance. As business needs and technologies evolve, the challenges and costs involved in managing existing IT investments increase.

Partnering with Northgate Digital gives you the freedom to focus on your business.

We provide the proven knowledge and processes help you to control costs, maximize your investments and align IT operations with your business strategy. For day-to-day management and maintenance, Northgate Digital combines 24-hour expert support with best-in-class configuration and change management throughout the application lifecycle.

Our expert staff of project managers, architects, and developers comes together to provide your business with a wide range of application management services, including:

Application Maintenance, Enhancements, and Tuning
Portfolio Analysis and Management
Project and Program Management
Off-shore/Near-shore Development Management
System Architecture and Integration
Process Consulting

Hosting & Administration

Leave downtime to your competitors

In today’s global economy, a slow or unresponsive application can mean lost business any time of day. Northgate Digital combines proven, industry standard application infrastructure with state-of-the-art virtualization technologies to ensure your mission-critical applications run at peak performance around the clock – with no downtime for maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.

Unlike cloud computing, where your applications run on hardware shared with many other customers, Northgate Digital hosting and application delivery runs entirely on dedicated hardware. There are no shared resources. That means your applications have 100% capacity at all times.

Flexibility and scalability

For SaaS and multi-tenancy applications, Northgate Digital’s virtualized hosting platform provides unprecedented performance and scalability. From single-server installations to multiple geographically separated server farms, your applications benefit from unlimited horizontal scalability, with little or no modification to your software.

24/7 Expert Support

Application delivery at Northgate Digital is backed by the same great support as our software development. Whether your question concerns hardware, software, data, or all of the above, an answer is always only one phone call away. In addition to our 24-hour web, email, and phone support, all hosted applications benefit from the following services:

24-hour application, infrastructure, and resource live monitoring
Automatic load balancing for scalability
Content delivery network integration for download performance
Application and hardware-level security
PCI compliance
Software installation, certificates, email, and domain configuration
Automated on-site and off-site backups for disaster recovery
Monthly and as-needed operating system security patches
4-hour hardware replacement service-level agreement (SLA)
100% power, network, HVAC service-level agreement (SLA)

ISO 9001:2008 Certified Quality Assurance

When you build software with Northgate Digital, your development and quality assurance processes are independently certified to be compliant with ISO 9001:2008 standards for quality management and process improvement. Published and maintained by the International Organization for Standardization, the ISO 9001 quality management standard was designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and business users while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to products and programs.

Our attention to quality extends beyond simply meeting ISO 9000 requirements. We integrate security testing, performance testing, and automated regression tests to help ensure that every software project we deliver is as secure, scalable, and functionally perfect as possible. Testing is integrated throughout development, so that quality is incorporated from the very first line of code to the last.

Testing Tools

Northgate Digital uses a range of software for ensuring quality, including:

Automated Testing

Selenium, Loadrunner
TestComplete
CasperJS
Protractor
Visual Studio Test Professional
Robotium
SonarQube

Manual Testing

SoapUI
Postman
Atlassian Jira / Bamboo
HttpUnit
JMeter