Exceptional Technology Solutions

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1 Exceptional Technology Solutions Alacrity Technologies is a privately held technology company that provides IT services and crafts software solutions to fit specific business and technology domains. For more than 16 years, Alacrity has provided the South African financial services, retail and logistics industries with exceptional technology solutions, strategic IT consulting and services, and technical resources. With a tremendous amount of domain knowledge and IP in the financial services, retail and logistics arenas, Alacrity offers a range of... continuous innovation and thought leadership... Resource Augmentation and Outsource Services that deliver true and measurable value to our customers. Our unique employment model ensures business continuity for your organisation, risk mitigation and access to a broad range of skills, experience and knowledge. Alacrity builds long-lasting and strategic partnerships with its customers that drive the continuous innovation and thought leadership that Alacrity has become known for. Vision: To become a pre-eminent South African based provider of technology services in our chosen markets Mission: To add real and measurable business value to our customers through the provision of world-class technology services

2 Trusted Experts in IT Consulting and Services Resource Augmentation Alacrity s Resource Augmentation team offers short and long term engagement opportunities for clients to bolster their capacity and delivery capability when it s needed most. These services can be in the form of specialist technical resources contracted full-time to the client for a specified period, or part-time expertise contracted in for specific deliverables. We have the following specialist competencies operating within and around the full software development life cycle (SDLC): AGILE Alacrity Scrum Masters are placed at client sites to coach and provide support to the teams, to help them perform at their highest level during the product development and implementation process. They are also responsible for ensuring that scrum practices are followed in order to achieve team success. AUTOMATED TESTING AND QA SERVICES One of Alacrity s objectives is to provide our clients with a specialised, reliable, highquality alternative to in-house resources for the development and implementation of leading QA and testing methodologies. Our Software Quality Assurance Engineers can fulfil a variety of roles, such as, program test managers; test managers; test team leads; test analysts; test automation engineers; and build & test environment managers.

3 BUSINESS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSIS Alacrity s Business Analysts are placed at client sites to be the intermediary between the business and the IT department. Our team of Business Analysts have experience in providing solutions for various organizations. The team invests its efforts in understanding the client s business needs to provide the best solutions. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Our BI consultants have a combined 120+ years of Business Intelligence domain experience, and as we are product agnostic, we are able to offer a holistic BI services solution to the corporate market. Our BI consulting and support services include: Analysis and Project Management; Architecture and Design; Database Management; ETL and Data Quality; as well as Reporting and Dashboarding. BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT Through this competency, Alacrity works in partnership with clients to facilitate and oversee the automation and enhancement of their business processes, using technology appropriate to the clients business and technology landscape. We ensure that these processes are sustainable and effective, and that the client is capable of maintaining and enhancing them as and when needed going forward. DEVELOPMENT Alacrity delivers quality custom developed technology solutions to suit each client s unique domain and IT environment. We provide business solutions through an in-house interactive development methodology, based on proven agile principles, called AWOW (Alacrity s Way of Working). We have extensive experience in Java,.NET and mobile technologies, in a range of applications, from web front-ends, to complex enterprisescale back-end systems and integration, and the mobile applications that leverage these corporate technology landscapes. ENTERPRISE AND SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE At Alacrity, we combine industry knowledge with strong technical skills to fulfill our clients architecture requirements. Our Systems Architects engage and work closely with our clients IT teams to provide the technical support needed to find the right solution to meet their business needs. PROJECT MANAGEMENT Alacrity has developed Alacrity s Way of Working (AWOW) as an iterative and incremental project management methodology based on proven agile principles. AWOW is a conceptual overlay that enables project teams to integrate with clients practices and methodologies and to select a best-fit approach.

4 Outsource Services Local and Offshore Development Services Alacrity offers quality IT solutions that integrate with, and enhance, our local and offshore clients existing enterprise architecture. Clients benefit from our enterprise-wide competency-based skills, domain knowledge, technical expertise, and development capability. We provide business solutions through an in-house iterative and incremental development methodology, based on proven agile principles, called AWOW (Alacrity s Way of Working). We have extensive experience in both the Java and.net technologies, in a range of applications, from web front-ends, to complex enterprise-scale back-end systems and integration. Sunset / Legacy Management Alacrity s roots are in legacy outsourcing. This service offers an ideal solution for organizations looking to sunset one or more of their legacy applications, whilst developing and implementing their next generation solutions. Maintenance Contracting Leveraging off our pool of diverse skills allows us to realise economies of scale in systems support that our clients aren t able to procure in their own environments. Think it The Think It stage concentrates on understanding the client s business problem and needs. Design it The Design It stage focuses on the business problem or requirement into a technology solution. Build it The actual construction of the software happens in the Build It stage. The development team will use SCRUM principles to manage the construction of the work. Check it During the Check It stage, the software goes through User Acceptance testing until user approval is received. Release it The software is deployed or implemented during the Release It stage.

5 Some of our Clients A little more about us At Alacrity we keep our finger on the pulse by maintaining high levels of involvement in the relevant associations, industry bodies and development communities to share knowledge and global best practice, and we encourage our clients to do the same. Alacrity is a level 3 B-BBEE Contributor and we take our responsibilities in terms of Social Investment and Enterprise Development very seriously. Alacrity Technologies (Pty) Ltd is wholly owned by Capital Eye Investments Limited.

6 Thank you for the opportunity to present our credentials to you, we look forward to offering value to you and your organization. Cape Town Office: Phone: info@alacrity.co.za Physical Address: 3rd floor, Park Building, Black River Park South, Fir Street, Observatory, 7925 Johannesburg Office: Phone: info@alacrity.co.za Physical Address: 2nd Floor, No 34 Melrose Boulevard, Melrose Arch, 2196