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As a CMMI V1.2 ML 3 appraised company, we know how to deliver projects at a high quality and value for our clients using our broad portfolio of software project consulting services spanning diverse technologies.

Why VIVA

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With our deep tech experience and our quality and security certifications, we can go from an idea to implemented solution in no time. We solve key business challenges by addressing them with standardized processes with our expertise being in areas of Project Management, Agile Consulting, Custom Application Development, Testing, and Support and Maintenance to name a few.

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Application Development and Maintenance
Application Development & Maintenance

VIVA designs, develops and tests secure custom workflow applications to meet and exceed.

Test Automation (Quality Assurance)
Test Automation (Quality Assurance)

VIVA supports all test strategy and coordination, planning, creation and execution activities.

Big Data and Analytics
Big Data and Analytics

VIVA provides automated and self-service reporting solutions and developing data.

Data Governance
Data Governance

VIVA handles data governance strategic planning that will leverage data to drive.

Cloud based services
Cloud based services

VIVA plans and executes medium and large-scale migrations of storage, compute.

Enterprise Infrastructure and Network Services
Enterprise Infrastructure and Network Services

VIVA is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

VIVA supports the client personnel in identifying and documenting additional unique.

Project Management
Project Management

VIVA proposes and implements improvements to existing processes on a global basis as well as.

Mobile and Cloud App Development
Mobile & Cloud App Development

VIVA offers complete connected solutions which include mobile, web and cloud.

Agile Consulting
Agile Consulting

The VIVA team has extensive experience and in-depth understanding of the Agile software.

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Agile & Quality

We follow a strict Process & Quality standard through our projects across all our industries

We at VIVA believe a process focused on quality leads to a better output quicker, which is why we developed our Quality Management System (QMS) to organize our teams’ tasks and roadmaps. The QMS was built to enforce the Agile methodology that our teams follow to design, develop, test and deliver our solutions to our clients. Our integration of Agile and our focus on quality has been vital to our team’s success. With all of our projects, we keep our standards and practices at a high bar to build a culture of quality within the team.

INDUSTRIES SERVED
Automotive/Manufacturing

Automotive / Manufacturing

Top 2 Manufacturing companies & more

Government

Government

20+ Federal & State Agencies

Energy and Utility

Energy & Utility

Several Top Energy companies

Healthcare

Healthcare

#1 Healthcare provider & more

Telecommunication

Telecommunication

Top Telecom & Research companies

Financial Services

Financial Services

4 of top 10 Banks & more

Overview

Application Development & Maintenance

VIVA designs, develops and tests secure custom workflow applications to meet and exceed client expectations and needs. VIVA works with key stakeholders to understand their requirements to properly execute on them. VIVA also provides regular maintenance and security updates as well as provide our clients with multichannel on-going support.

Our team successfully implemented an enterprise supplier management and Tier 2 spend tracking solution for a Large Entertainment Client. The team successfully developed and deployed the application within the agreed budget and schedule. Currently, the team is responsible for the application maintenance. As part of the application maintenance, the team is responsible for ensuring the application is up and running 24 x 7, application house-keeping activities, bug fixing, enhancements and help-desk support. The team is also responsible of maintaining the web servers, firewall, network management, disaster recovery services, storage services, help-desk support services, infrastructure architecture, data protection services, database administration, cloud architecture and design, system administration, database servers, server backups, ensuring 100% server availability by configuring mirror servers, cloud security, high availability and other hosting services.

Application Development & Maintenance
Test Automation (Quality Assurance)
Overview

Test Automation (Quality Assurance)

VIVA supports all test strategy and coordination, planning, creation and execution activities for multiple test types identified as in-scope, champions overall quality efforts, identifies and defines acceptance criteria and test conditions, and creates and executes test scenarios that validate application acceptance criteria.

Our team successfully handled all test coordination, planning, and creation and execution of automated test scripts for various low to medium complexity projects with a Large Insurance Client. Our engineers coordinated and owned the test strategy as the overall quality champion on the team, identified acceptance criteria, defined the test conditions when stories or requirements were created, designed and implemented test automation architecture and enhanced and modified the test automation framework.

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Big Data and Analytics

VIVA provides automated and self-service reporting solutions and developing data visualizations for business users. Creating reports, insights and analytics in support of the clients’ need and initiatives; creating specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs; providing consultation to users and working on cross-functional teams to address the clients’ issues.

Our team successfully produced datasets and reports for analysis using system reporting tools and performed research and assisted in analyzing data related to the division’s strategic initiatives and broader research needs for a Large Healthcare Client. Our team interfaced between the business and divisional data teams to generate tools to be leveraged in building analysis and reports which are actionable within the business environment. The team worked closely with customers to build relationships and continuously gain a deeper understanding of the divisions data in order to meet business needs. Additionally, the team analyzed complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers and identified and interpreted trends and patterns in data sets to locate influences.

Big Data and Analytics
Data Governance
Overview

Data Governance

VIVA handles data governance strategic planning that will leverage data to drive growth in business opportunities, improve customer experiences, and integrate business processes using technology throughout the data lifecycle. VIVA will provide a strategic plan and roadmap of integrating and supporting the client's existing portfolio of applications across various platforms and recommending new applications.

Our team successfully provided a strategic plan and roadmap of integrating the client's administrative applications data, beginning with the on-premise enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft HCM, migration to the cloud for a Large Federal Agency. The strategy referenced a high-level plan that provided an integration plan to support their existing application portfolio. The team provided recommendations for the people, processes, and technology. The recommendations delivered a centralized data management strategy and data governance framework of key data elements for the client. The deliverables provided the client with options to obtain the most value from business intelligence and analytics with quantitative and qualitative metrics. The strategic plan provided a data management solution that improved operational effectiveness, enabled business insights, reduced cost and complexities.

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Cloud based Services

VIVA plans and executes medium and large-scale migrations of storage, compute and server systems from private infrastructure to public cloud platforms as well as supporting, hosting and maintaining enterprise, and other applications, including transitioning applications from test to their production environment.

Our team successfully created cost-benefit estimates comparing total-cost-of-ownership of on-premise vs. cloud migration solutions, troubleshot the performance of cloud-based systems and ensured proper security and backup procedures were followed in these systems and managed cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines for a Large Telecom Client. The team worked with monitoring tools, managed access and permissions, scripted and automated where possible, maintained appropriate configurations, and provided recommendations on system improvements. The team was also responsible for network-scheduled jobs and maintenance calendar events and participated in planning, implementation, and growth of the infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Gov Cloud.

Cloud based Services
Enterprise Infrastructure and Network Services
Overview

Enterprise Infrastructure and Network Services

VIVA is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. VIVA participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.

Our team successfully ensured that the system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhered to organizational values for a Large Medical Client. The team implemented and integrated new information technology infrastructure using approved Information Technology (IT) processes. The team selected, planned, and implemented changes to a subset of the information technology infrastructure and applied information analysis to resolve infrastructure problems of medium complexity and moderate in risk. The team worked on systems/projects with relatively large numbers of interrelated processes and unclear relationships to other processes of moderate complexity.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

VIVA supports the client personnel in identifying and documenting additional unique requirements and outliers that are atypical to most other organizations and recommend data retention, conversion and warehousing strategies.

Our team successfully conducted a fit gap analysis between a Large Financial Client’s HR unique processes and requirements against Workday, Oracle HCM, and SuccessFactors system's functionalities and capabilities. Specifically, the team compared the client HR process variances/exceptions to Workday, Oracle HCM, and SuccessFactors systems' best practice processes. The team evaluated integration points and recommended best-of-breed development approaches and compared and contrasted role-based security models and highlighted impact of different models on the client’s compliance posture. The team also briefed senior leadership on fit gap findings and path forward recommendations.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Project Management
Overview

Project Management

We use project management and software engineering methodologies such as RUP, SCRUM, RAD, and JAD. Using our Project Portfolio Management (PPM) portal, a proprietary project management tool which inherits the salient features of CMMI V1.2 ML 3, ISO 9001:2015 and PMI-PMBOK frameworks for managing IT consulting activities, we create consistent project plans and help you to complete your projects on time and within budget. PPM, with its iterative and incremental approach, breaks down your project into four phases and nine disciplines (as per IBM Rational Unified Process), with each phase containing one or more iterations, building schedules, allocating resources, and managing budgets more effectively.

Our project managers successfully led cross functional teams for a compliance-related project focused on improving an existing risk management process for a Large Transportation Client. Independently, they identified, developed, planned, and executed process improvements that improved efficiency and compliance to an existing risk management process with limited input from cross-functional core team members. They also identified and resolved complex problems with limited supervision and trained global teams and tracked metrics once new processes were implemented. They also worked across cultures and time zones effectively.

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Agile Consulting

The VIVA team has extensive experience and in-depth understanding of the Agile software development practices, their benefits and applicability across various industry verticals. We know that a disciplined Agile delivery is an evolutionary (iterative and incremental) approach that regularly produces high quality solutions in a cost effective manner. It is performed in a highly collaborative environment within an appropriate governance framework with active stakeholder participation to ensure that the team addresses the changing needs of its stakeholders. Disciplined Agile delivery teams provide repeatable results by adopting just the right amount of applicable governance for the environment they are developing.

Agile Consulting

Our certified SCRUM Masters can assist you to jump-start an Agile environment by performing the following tasks

  • Facilitate all time-boxed ceremonies such as daily stand up meeting, sprint planning, review/demo and retrospectives
  • Participate in Scrum of Scrums run on a daily basis with other scrum teams to review the daily progress towards the quarterly Ad-hoc releases planned by the business
  • Manage Scrum processes within the organization
  • Remove organizational and team impediments for the scrum team to have maximum productivity from sprint to sprint
  • Participate in release planning with the business and stake holders as part of scaled Agile
  • Coach, mentor and assist team members in meeting the day to day tasks
  • Conduct effective and result oriented scrum retrospectives to ensure knowledge comes out of experience and regular practice of all Scrum/Agile practices
  • Manage team dysfunctions, Motivate team on their strengths, work on areas for improvement
  • Conduct user story grooming session, help and coach teams to write granular stories with effective acceptance criteria
  • Ensure test driven development strategies with a single objective or Scrum metric of “working software”
  • Responsible for reporting team/Scrum metrics to management such as Burn down, Velocity, Epics across Releases
  • Effective user of Agile tool JIRA for Versions/Releases, Epics, story backlogs, sprints, tasks, sub-tasks management
  • Sync up data between various other tools like ALM, usage of various gadgets in JIRA to ensure better productivity is represented to business
  • Participate and provide input for successful run of Scrum practices in organization thru Scrum Community of Practice
  • Established successful practices for new software development and defect management across various ticketing categories
  • Report the Scrum benefits to business and provide inputs to scalability of Agile to business/organization
Mobile and Cloud Application Development
Overview

Mobile and Cloud App Development

VIVA offers complete connected solutions which include mobile, web and cloud components. Each of these components can be customized visually and logically to meet customer requirements. We develop on both the iOS and Android platforms as well as creating their Web counterparts, which we can develop using a range of tools/languages starting from html5/css all the way to reporting dashboards depending on how customized the customer wants it. For applications requiring a server-side backend we offer hosting and database solutions. Some of the technologies we use for the server side and Web UI side include Node.js, AngularJS, jQuery, Google Charts, SQL Server and MongoDB. We create customized salesforce and Office 365 (SharePoint Online) applications for our clients.

Pricing Models Summary

The Outcome-Based pricing model is what VIVA primarily uses and we find our clients like it the best as it is a fixed price model. Pricing is determined at the beginning of the contract as a fixed-price all-inclusive value and stays consistent throughout the contract duration so there are no surprises on our clients’ end. We also use a Time and Materials based model, but this is typically used when the client requires complex changes during an on-going contract.

Frequently Asked Questions

We want to make your lives easier and working on software is what we love doing so don’t hesitate to talk to us on any of your software needs.

What certifications and assessments do you hold?

VIVA has the following certifications and assessments: ISO 9001:2015, ISO 27001:2013, CMMI V1.2 ML 3, MBE, WBE, SBE, WOSB. Find out more in the Why VIVA section of our website.

Who are some of your clients?

As per our privacy policy we don’t disclose this publicly, but we work with top Fortune 500, federal, state and local government clients.

What are some of the Pricing models you support?

We are willing to work with you on a pricing model that best fits your needs. Our 2 most popular are Outcome-Based and Time and Materials based.

Can I give a half finished project for you to complete?

Definitely! We will work on any phase or all the phases or anything in-between. The best thing to do is have a chat with us so we better understand your needs.

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