Development and Customisations
As a Sage accredited Developer for over 10 years, we can provide customisations and enhancements to the standard Sage 200 and CRM functionality to meet the requirements of specific business processes.
All our developers are fully accredited in a variety of development languages including the latest .Net architecture that is employed within the Sage 200 Commercials environment, and browser development tools such as asp and java for customisation to Sage 200 CRM.
The Acuity Development Methodology
All of our development projects follow a structured methodology that ensures that you receive a customisation that has been tested thoroughly and signed off by you before being deployed in a live trading environment. The main areas are as follows:
Specification
- Business Needs Analysis and scoping of functional requirement
- Production of bespoke Functional Specification and costs
- Consultancy and discussion of Functional Specification for signed agreement
Development
- Production of Application Code according to agreed specification
- Internal Alpha release testing and reporting of errors to development project manager
- Internal Alpha release fixes and Phase 2 testing
- Completion of Alpha testing and internal signoff of prototype
Testing
- Beta release to customer site test environment
- Beta onsite customer testing and reporting of issues
- Analysis of reported Beta issues and discussion change requests
Change Control
- Change request comparison to original specification
- Agree revisions to specification if required and code changes to Beta
- Ongoing Beta testing and code changes as per revised specification
Acceptance
- Onsite acceptance and signoff of test environment
- Customisation deployed into Live trading environment
- Onsite Go Live Support to address any reported issues
- Release of User and Developer supporting documentation as appropriate
Version Control
- Upload of customisation version references and locations onto customer database in Acuity’s Sage CRM system
