Application Development
The foundation of our application development success is a clear understanding and management of the development life cycle.  Our eight-step development methodology that we employ during all application development efforts includes:

The Initiation phase allows us to define the management and development team, scope the level of effort, and identify the key goals for the next phase.

The Requirements Analysis phase results in clearly defined business and technical requirements that are verified and approved by the customer.

During the Design and Specification phase, our development team completes the technical/ functional specifications documents and the overall system design document based on the validated requirements.

The Development phase is when the actual software coding is performed.  Frequent progress update checks are performed to ensure development stays consistent with the design, specification documents, and the budget.

One aspect of the life cycle process that many application development companies don't spend enough time with is Quality Assurance.  We perform extensive testing on all aspects of functionality, performance, business logic, and data accuracy.

Once the application has gone through all of our rigorous testing procedures and is approved by the client, it is implemented into its functional environment during the Production phase.

Since application is constantly changing, it is important to keep the code base up-to-date.  NIS provides superior software support for its client during the Maintenance phase.

The Enhancement and Evolution phase is where NIS implements new and changed technical and functional requirements as they arise.  Because application is constantly evolving, it is important to have a technology partner like NIS to keep your investment current.

Infrastructure Management
NIS delivers powerful solutions to address all the challenges involved with implementing, maintaining, managing, and securing local and wide area networks.  We deliver comprehensive services in Network Design, Engineering, and Security.  Our infrastructure management solution enables our customer’s applications and services to perform at optimum levels, while providing real-time visibility into mission critical applications and complying with security and regulatory requirements.  Our Infrastructure Management Services include:

Network Design and Engineering

• LAN/WAN Design, Implementation, and Maintenance
• Outsourced Help Desk Support
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) Implementation and Support

Network Security

• Network Security Assessments
• Network Vulnerability and Penetration Testing
• Enterprise Level Anti-Virus Support
• Firewall Implementation and Support
• Access Control and Data Security

Business Intelligence
NIS provides its customers with business intelligence solutions specific to their needs.  Our goal is simple: enable our customers to transform their organization's data into fact-based decisions.  Our process is simply to identify the data of greatest value, transform it into useful information, and quickly disseminate the resulting knowledge throughout the organization.

For most organizations the problem is an overabundance of data, resulting in information overload.  Most decision makers are forced to spend countless hours poring over canned reports, manually entering selected data from these reports into spreadsheets, and then massaging that data to produce some type of meaningful results.

We have quickly implemented solutions enabling our customers to better budget, manage, and execute billions of dollars supporting thousands of programs.  We can do the same for your organization.  Our business intelligence services include;

• Requirements Analysis
• Strategic Planning
• Data Quality and Profiling
• Enterprise Data Integration
• Reporting and Analytics

Web Services and Hosting
NIS web development services are categorized into two main areas: web site design and development, and web application development.  These services range from the design and development of simple web sites, to showcase your organization's identity, to scalable enterprise-level applications used to enhance or modernize key business processes.

Website Design and Development
NIS’ creative team has years of experience providing professional web design and development to customers in many different industries.  Our clear and methodical approach to web site design and development allows us to deliver a professional web presence and provide a strong return on customer investment.

These are just some of the factors that our design team consider when assessing your web site design and development requirements.

Web Application Development
Web application development is more important in today's technology-driven world than ever before.  Even many of today's simple web sites employ some form of a web application.  Our senior development team has an abundance of experience delivering to clients web applications that provide solutions to key business requirements.

While leveraging the latest technologies, we always keep client-specific goals as our top priority.  We choose not to implement technology simply for technology's sake.  Rather, we prefer to draw from our extensive development experience and implement the most appropriate technology solution to deliver the best result for our client.

NIS can develop sites and applications designed to integrate into existing systems or suggest new platforms and configurations to optimize performance and usability.

Application Development Services

• Custom Web Applications
• Content Management Tools
• Data-driven Web Sites
• Intranet and Extranet Development
• Web Portals and Hosting