Application Migration and Legacy Modernization Services

The client needed a Web-based recruitment solution that would enable the users to manage and process information related to vacancies, candidates, skills, and recruiters. There were two approaches to the solution architecture to select from: a full three-tier structure utilizing a separate data layer and an independent business layer, and a simplified structure with no data access layer. We suggested implementing a data access layer because it allowed for separation of the database related functionality from the business layer making the architecture more structural and flexible.

Flowmation brings together Digital Asset Management and Project Management Systems to provide a unique and powerful combination of their capabilities. Traditional Digital Asset Management systems work rather like libraries where you can browse, search and retrieve assets. Flowmation extends beyond this, enabling the assets to be organized as projects which can be worked on by both local and remote project members. Project tasks can be automated through workflows that are embedded within the system.

Silicon Systems is a Wokingham, U.K.-based company delivering leading-edge, highly supported IT solutions. Flowmation, its primary product, combines Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Project Management tools to help advertising, print and publishing firms easily organize their assets into projects that are accessible to both local and remote project participants. Flowmation was initially developed by staff in-house. However, as Silicon’s user base grew, end-user support and customer requests for more functionality increasingly began to absorb more time and effort. The current team could no longer handle the requests, and at the same time it did not seem possible to expand it quickly and at reasonable cost within the UK.