Software Services In the company of Home Grown, organizations can automate their outdated data capture systems or paper based systems and migrates seamlessly and cost-effectively – from other less flexible processing solutions. Home Grown technologies are production class, cutting-edge and user friendly…and, most importantly offer value and a better return on investment. Home Grown offers application development employing the Full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). These systems are built on Home Grown’s very own THOTH™ Architecture. Custom Application Development Enterprise architecture is a comprehensive framework used to manage and align an organisation’s business processes by using a series of inter-related models. Business processes include the IT software and Hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations and projects with the organisation’s overall strategy. Areas of analysis include: •  Process- driven Enterprise Architecture •  Enterprise Transformation Planning •  Object and component-based modelling •  Relational data modelling •  Structured analysis and design Home Grown uses this methodology to help with guiding the company in making sound, targeted decisions about how to manage its/client’s information, related assets, for maximum effectiveness. Business Integrations in operations A brief look at Interoperability, interconnectivity and synchronizing systems Rather than looking at a solution at hand, Enterprise Architecture includes the development of an Information Technology strategy and governance framework, which is aligned with the client’s business strategy.  This ensures that client’s goals are our goals, and, allows for the client to focus on the problem areas first, whilst knowing that the solution provided is a part of a holistically integrated solution which can be extended as the needs arise without having multiple applications, each dealing with a specific aspect of the business thus requiring additional resources for their integration.  This services oriented methodology effectively eliminates “Data Islands”. A data island is information stuck in an application with no effective way of integrating that information with information from other applications and/or other data sources. The Home Grown team then analyse the clients’ application requirements, formulate potential solutions, conduct feasibility studies of the solutions and presents a business case justifying the chosen solution. Diagram below demonstrates a solution to distributed operations.