Aptara’s Technology Services unit architects, designs, develops, deploys and manages content software applications that drive real business innovation.

We build custom teams to support customers’ unique requirements, combining skilled technologists with experts in content development, content production, and digital publishing, to deliver solutions that result in operational excellence and lower IT costs for the world’s leading information providers and publishers.

Aptara Capabilities

Application Development

Aptara provides end-to-end custom application development services, including Application Architecture, Design, Planning, Engineering and Integration.  Our teams’ skills and experience span all of the major development platforms including Microsoft (C++/C#, VB, .Net), Java (Websphere, BEA, Apache), and popular open source technologies.

Application Management

We cover the full spectrum of application management services including Systems Planning and Implementation, Maintenance, 24x7 Production Support and Legacy Application Migration and Sunsetting.  We manage new, current, and legacy application portfolios, leveraging a rich offshore resource base to generate significantly lower total cost of ownership for clients.

Quality Assurance and Testing

Aptara’s Quality Assurance credentials are built on many years designing and managing quality processes for clients.  We employ industry standard best practices, test automation technology, and proprietary methodologies for QA Requirements Analysis, Test Design, Test Execution, Defect Tracking and Reporting.  In addition, we offer Independent Validation and Verification services to compliment clients’ internal QA functions.

IT Organization Outsourcing

Aptara’s specialty is in building and operating Offshore Development Centers (ODC) and Centers of Excellence (COE) for customers looking to leverage a strategic outsourcing partnership to drive improved IT operational excellence.  Using the ODC/COE model, customers achieve dramatic gains in operational agility, scalability and cost-effectiveness.

Strategic IT Transformation

Aptara excels when engaged to support significant IT organization transformation.  This means major Process Re-engineering initiatives, Platform Migration, or the introduction of new IT Organization and Process.  Bringing the full breadth of our capabilities to bear to customers’ strategic IT initiatives is where our professionals deliver maximum business value.  Strategic IT engagements are led directly by Aptara’s senior Technology Services leadership, who come from organizations such as Accenture, Price Waterhouse, and Merrill Lynch.

Consulting and Staffing Services

Customers use Aptara’s rich resource base to supplement their own IT organizations for short-term and long-term assignments with resources spanning the full Software Development Lifecycle.  Our IT professionals are agile and highly experienced in working in close collaboration with client team members, which results in seamless, successful engagements.

Aptara offers a full set of IT consulting resources including:

• Business / IT Analysts
• Software Architects
• Project Managers / Leads
• Software Engineers
• Web Developers
• Database Administrators
• Systems Administrators
• Quality Strategists / Engineers

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