Consulting Services
Kobatera provides high-level information technology consulting services to major corporations and regional firms with the vision and desire to apply Internet related technologies to achieve competitive advantage. We see success through our clients' eyes. We focus on understanding your business, and only making recommendations that fit within your business model and are practical to implement. Our goal is to create significant value and return on investment for our customers.

We have chosen to focus our consulting services on specific areas that we feel are in short supply in the industry, yet can provide tremendous value to visionary organizations. These areas are

• Internet Strategy We work with companies to discover opportunities to apply Internet technologies to gain advantage over their competitors. This may be as extensive as creating entirely new product offerings, or as simple as using the Internet effectively in an area such as customer service.
  
  
• Internet Architecture We work with companies to define a coherent and consistent Internet architecture that will achieve the organization's goals. This may be as extensive as developing an architecture that integrates with numerous mainframe and middleware systems to provide real-time data to secure Internet sessions, or as simple as choosing a platform for a standalone self-service system.
  
  
• Enterprise Architecture We work with companies to define a coherent and consistent enterprise architecture that will achieve the organization's goals. This can be as complex as developing an overall enterprise architecture strategy dealing with hundreds of systems, or simply contributing portions of a strategy that deals with the use of Internet technologies in both internal and external facing systems in the organization.
  
  
• Software Development Project Oversight Far too many software development projects fail to deliver their promised results, and many never deliver any at all. Frequently, these projects could be successful if a few best practices are introduced or adhered to. We draw on our extensive software development experience and industry best practices to provide software development project oversight services for large development projects, both Internet and non-Internet related. We do not manage the project itself, but review all aspects of the project, its goals, structure, staffing, management, etc. to provide recommendations on addressing deficiencies. We provide oversight for projects that are run by internal staff, external staff, or a mixture of both internal and external resources.
  
  
• J2EE Performance Kobatera has extensive experience in J2EE performance architecture, testing, and tuning, and provides consulting in those areas. Because the vast majority of performance issues are caused by design decisions, we prefer to be involved in projects from the early phases. We can provide advice on time, cost, and resource estimates during project planning, design recommendations, coding standards, testing strategies, and specific tuning recommendations.
  

Kobatera's consultants have extensive experience in the domains of Open Source software, Internet business strategy and technology, J2EE architecture and design, imaging, and many aspects of the credit card industry such as collections, application processing, customer service, and more. We have experience in many other industries and technologies as well.