BLOGS
Need to improve the quality of your applications?
Long Van

Have you ever designed, developed and deployed an application, only to find that it doesn’t exactly meet your business needs?  Finding functional gaps in your application during the testing cycle can be expensive.  Furthermore, any solutions that are developed during this time are in jeopardy of being sub-optimal. 

Gartner research indicates that up to 40% of defects can be uncovered and corrected during the business requirements gathering phase of a software development life cycle.  These defects can be attributed to inaccurate system specifications, duplicate requirements, and lack of subject matter expertise.

Introducing software quality assurance practices and methodologies early in the project life cycle not only improves the quality of your end product, but also reduces the overall cost of development, support and maintenance of the application in the long run when you take into account the cost of change requests and support of band-aid solutions.

Read the whole blog

Posted on: Friday, October 30, 2009


Share:    Email  

 Subscribe

 Subscribe to RSS Feed
 Follow us at twitter.com/donriverinc

 Feedback

Send us feedback

 Long Van's Bio

Name:  
Long Van

Long Van has amassed a comprehensive knowledge of enterprise-wide business integration initiatives in the telecommunication and financial communities through eight years of experience in these industries. Mr. Van works closely with global remittance providers to formalize product solutions that can be leveraged by financial institutions and network operators. These product offerings serve as the building blocks for scalable and extensible mobile financial service platforms, which support payment integration, banking, remittance, billing and carrier gateways.

 

Prior to joining DonRiver in February of 2006, Mr. Van served as an enterprise application integration technology consultant for various top-tier global management and consulting firms, including Accenture, Deloitte and CGI, where he concentrated on business and systems integration within the communications sector.  At DonRiver, Mr. Van focuses on the architecture and implementation of mobile financial service initiatives for numerous clients and holds the position of mobile financial services solution architect.

 

Mr. Van earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. In addition to his undergraduate education, Mr. Van received a diploma in Information Technology Management from the Canadian Information Technology College in Toronto.