Our consultants and project managers compliment this process rigor with business acumen, marketing, and product management services to help clients improve applications and websites and keep them properly aligned with business needs.

Shift experts can help your organization to address the maintenance and growth needs of your web-based systems by partnering with your organization to provide services that help you to:

Site growth and scalability
Release planning and management
Functional enhancements
Component/platform upgrades
Systems integration
Quality assurance
Secure hosting

Areas we are typically asked by clients to consult on include:

Scalability
Performance
Repeatable & Re-usable Architecture Design
Data Integration
3rd Party Tool Integration
Security
Identity Management Solutions (Federated Identity Management)

Using the Shift AgileApproach methodology, we iteratively plan, design, develop and release working software in surprisingly rapid time while retaining flexibility for change and adhering to solid architecture principles. The core of our business is building quality web applications. Our team features some of the best web software developers in the industry. We have extensive experience building, integrating, and managing a variety of web applications.

Clients turn to our team when they need a world class application developed -complex or unique. Whether the need is a custom workflow application for managing grants, a statistical database for crunching numbers or software that manages the NFL salary cap – our team has built it and can turn your process into a well designed system.

Frameworks, languages and components we typically use to develop great software include:

Java/J2ee (JBoss, Hibernate, WebWork, Struts, SPRING)
LAMP architecture (PHP or Python)
Drupal/Joomla and other CMS
Ruby on RAILS

The success of our clients is often based not only on excellent content but also on a user experience which brings users back, or allows easy engagement with content. Our analysis team casts a critical eye towards taxonomy and layout and makes smart recommendations and offers innovative user engagements and ways to best showcase content and site elements.

The mix of these creative skill-sets to an already robust development capability result in the best possible web solutions: sites that are built well and designed beautifully.

Engagements that Shift conduct include the following:

Develop a site marketing plan
Create requirements or mockups of a new system
Create Information Architecture plans for a new site
Position your site for the right target audiences
Develop a content syndication/sharing strategy
Recommend Search Engine Optmization (SEO) strategies and technical approaches
Audit a site or web application for usability, functionality, or security purposes
Analyze web traffic and determine usage patterns and anti-patterns
Teach you how to increase conversion rates and traffic for websites

At Shift, we take dependability seriously and provide assistance every step of the way, even after the project is delivered.

To meet the specific needs of each client, we have invested in deepening our industry-specific, domain related knowledge and provide solutions using the latest technologies.

At Shift we use a tailor-made process which allows us to anticipate and understand our client’s emerging needs and work in close partnership to make businesses stronger, valuable, more profitable, and more productive.

At Shift we believe in changing the thought process and drive productivity through new innovations.

Shift aims to develop diversified solutions simplifying communication and collaboration.