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Concurrent Engineering

Digital Horizons creates large and complex platforms and products, each of which have a number of components including Cloud Platform, Data Management, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, APIs and Apps. These platforms and products are created from business ideas and market needs in a rapidly dynamic technology landscape. Each of these needs to be visualized, designed, developed and brought to market in a short period of time to address potential market opportunities. Each platfom and product requires the involvement of a number of skillets, each very different from the others, working together in close coordination to create the right balance and outcomes in user experience, functionality, performance and robustness.

Digital Horizons has formulated and refined a detailed process for the architecture, design, development, testing and delivery of platforms and products. Digital Horizons creates these platforms and products for a wide range of industries, application and functional areas. The platforms and products are created for enterprise customers, startups, in partnership with other companies and sometimes as part of our own product portfolio. Products are developed, managed and operated over a range of timelines depending on the market response, need for scalability and updates and commercial and funding viability.

Each product begins with a simple intent of user application, functionality or industry purpose. We then imagine it with all its hues, colors, forms and possibilities. Our team visualizes the product and translates these into simple descriptions. We are a team whoh have been working together for years. We understand each other and simple, short communications are enough for us to develop these further.

Dialogue is our platform for collaboration, team work, planning and reviews. Dialogue allows us to stay engaged with our teams and yet remain focused on our technical tasks. Dialogue makes us efficient, free and connected.

Our concurrent engineering methodology enables us to create apps for our products and platforms to support all mobile and computing devices - Android, iOS, Mac, Web, Windows. Our web versions work in the browser across devices and our native apps provide unique user experiences by maximizing the characteristics of each device.

Digital Horizons teams use the concurrent engineering framework to design, architect, develop, test and deliver platform and products efficiently, quickly and smoothly. Apps are well tested and robust. We deliver outstanding user experiences and reliability in functionality and features. Customers have lower risks in their platform / product strategy and the total cost of ownership is low because of the efficiencies and synchronized team work with which we work on these together.