There are many application development environments and platforms in use today. The rise of Internet technologies in the past few years has superceded many of the client/server applications in use. Still, companies need to ensure that their applications can continue to be developed, maintained, and upgraded where necessary.

Companies also need to continuously build new applications to take advantage of the opportunities the web presents. As mergers and consolidations happen, there is a need to bridge applications and access data from multiple systems. Companies need application development professionals who are skilled at the latest and existing technologies.

Ikon Solutions consultants and professionals are skilled in many application development environments and languages such as Linux, Visual Basic (VB), C/C++, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Power builder, UNIX, Delphi, Visual C++, Visual Fox Pro, Visual J++, Visual Source Safe, and .Net.

For a successful corporate data warehouse implementation, a company needs a full complement of skilled IT professionals. Positions needed on the team include a project manager, to ensure the warehouse is aligned with the business needs and to develop project plans to support the warehouse as it matures. Also needed is a data modeler, who creates the subject area diagram, the logical data model, and the data warehouse data model. Other critical positions include data warehouse architect, database administrator, programmer/analyst, and business analyst. Companies come to Ikon Solutions for the professionals that make up this team.

Ikon Solutions consultants and professionals have experience with many data warehousing and mining technologies including Angoss Software KnowledgeStudio and KnowledgeSeeker, Computer Associates Neugents, Gemplus SLP InfoWare, IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner, NCR/Teradata TeraMiner, Oracle Data Mining Suite (Darwin), SAS Enterprise Miner, SPSS Clementine, Quadstone Decisionhouse, and Unica Affinium. Ikon Solutions consultants and professionals are skilled at products from most vendors in the data space including Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Information Advantage, InfoSpace, Microstrategy, Platinum (CA), SAS, Hyperion, Redbrick and Prism.

Every system should have at least one person, a systems administrator, in charge of system maintenance and operation. It is the responsibility of system administrators to ensure the smooth operation of the system and to perform a wide variety of tasks that require special privileges. In most cases, it makes sense for companies to outsource this function.

Ikon Solutions consultants and professionals possess a strong understanding of Windows NT/2000, MS-SQL, Oracle database technologies as well as end user applications. In the Linux world, our consultants are familiar with Linux system administration tools: COAS, Linuxconf, Webmin and YaST. Ikon Solutions systems administrators are skilled at the many technologies available to manage, monitor, and improve the system.

Applications that do not work in production can cost companies millions of dollars. Imagine how many potential customers would leave a web site if the links did not work properly. Sound quality assurance programs utilizing high-quality testing tools are required to ensure customer satisfaction.

Ikon Solutions delivers a wide range of quality assurance and automated testing services featuring tools from major vendors including functional testing tools and scripting languages with tools such as QARun from Compuware, WinRunner from Mercury Interactive and Visual Test from Rational Software (IBM). Load testing tools and associated scripting languages on tools such as LoadRunner from Mercury Interactive, QALoad from Compuware, Webload from Radview Software and others.
Ikon Solutions consultants are also skilled at managing the testing process with test data management tools such as File-Aid from Compuware for test data generation, extraction, and comparison and TestBytes from Mercury Interactive; and whitebox testing tools such as NuMega DevPartner for checking code complexity, code coverage, and memory leaks.

UNIX systems are in place in every industry and at almost every company. The need to manage and administrate these systems is a huge concern for corporate IT. Companies need to have skilled UNIX professionals in place to ensure that these mission-critical systems are optimized and running smoothly.

Ikon Solutions consultants and professionals are skilled in the most popular UNIX environments, as well as some of the more obscure ones. Ikon Solutions consultants are skilled in HP-UX, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris, among other UNIX technologies. Ikon Solutions consultants are also very proficient in Linux and its variants.