The IT solutions proposed by BSB are the result of a strict working process that guarantees their efficiency, their quality and their adaptability to the environment of every IT architecture. To do so, the BSB consultants combine knowledge of their client’s business with advanced technical expertise: they are thus in a position to understand the exact needs of the clients, to advise them in their best interests and to set up the most appropriate tools.

The teams

The BSB consultants are recognised by the company’s clients for their reliability and their professionalism. Indeed, BSB sets great store by the quality of its personnel in order to propose the best solutions to the clients, both from a functional and technological point of view. These high standards are made possible by a number of strategic choices made by BSB:

• The expertise that BSB puts at the service of its clients is based largely on the experience of its teams, especially as a high proportion of its consultants and experts have over 10 years of experience.

• All the members of the BSB personnel are university graduates or similar: they are mainly engineers, economists and IT specialists.

• All of our team members – consultants, analysts-programmers, business experts – are directly employed by the company: BSB therefore masters all of the skills of the teams that it assigns to its clients’ IT projects. BSB does not outsource its activities.

The functional expertise

Our consultants know your business. They are able to modelize it by integrating the know-how that BSB gathered throughout the years. The knowledge of your business, of its challenges and constraints, of its mechanisms and processes, are essential to them. In that way, they are more than capable to inform you on the changes coming ahead within your sector, to advice and guide you in your strategic choices or assist you during the implementation of your business strategy. 

The technical expertise

In order to offer as much flexibility and independence as possible to its clients, BSB has developed specific skills in a broad range of technologies, taking care not to be bound to a single technology supplier. The demands made by BSB in this respect have triggered technological choices in favour of solutions and applications that are intrinsically :

• scalable

• portable

• adaptable

• integrable

• ergonomic.

To achieve these objectives that are essential for the efficiency of the solutions, BSB opts for object oriented development technologies, JAVA, the applicative server type models (EJB), the integration of the Internet dimension. The last generation development standards such as JAVA/J2EE, XML, XLST, .Net, etc. are therefore used every day by the BSB consultants and developers.

In procedural technologies, BSB complies with the specific demands of each client and to the existing architecture. In particular, our experiences have allowed us to develop advanced skills in :

• Cobol

• PowerBuilder

• Ideal

• …

Methodology

All the projects implemented by BSB are structured rigorously to obtain the best results. The methodology developed on the basis of both the experience of BSB and standard methodologies is deployed according to the different stages necessary to carry out an IT project, whatever its scale:

• evaluation and strategy

• project plan

• roll-out

• breakdown and execution of the project

• completion

Furthermore, BSB has set up a comprehensive support service on behalf of its clients:

• hotline

• bug intervention and correction service

• evolutive and corrective maintenance

• development of new applications

• support to roll out

• training

• management for underlying technical environments

• …

Research & development

From the outset, BSB set up a department dedicated to technological and functional monitoring. The work of the BSB R&D team enables BSB to:

• advise and guide its clients towards the strategic and technological choices best suited to their actual day-to-day needs

• define the architectures of enduring projects, capable of supporting long-term visions

• intervene to deal with highly specialised problems suffered by clients during or after the implementation of a solution.

Thanks to partnerships with several major players in the field of IT, BSB draws from a first class source of information : SAP, Oracle, Sybase, IBM, BEA, IDIT Technologies, Gartner Group.