Company Profile

Don Estes & Associates provides the direct consultancy services of Don Estes, and is the point of integration for his international network of specialized consultants and technologies that can be deployed to solve a variety of specialized IT problems.

Areas of particular interest:

• Modernization of legacy assets through renovation

  • Infrastructure changes such as language, platform, or database change

  • Restructuring legacy code to significantly reduce the cost of maintenance

  • Re-platforming legacy applications to mainframe Linux, to Unix, or to Intel

  • Services oriented architectures in legacy or mixed technology environments

   

• Modernization of legacy assets through re-architecting

  • Business rule extraction, including flowcharting and UML diagrams

  • Import of extracted business rules into business rule management systems (BRMS)

  • Generation of replacement applications from the business rule repository via frameworks

   

• Business Process Management (BPM) solutions

  • Business process optimization

  • BPM integration with legacy applications

  • Transition from legacy technologies to BPM
     

• IT project risk analysis and risk mitigation

  • Low risk and low cost project architecture solutions to replace aging legacy applications with modern implementations

  • Testing, test automation, and risk optimized testing

  • Agile programming and agile project management

  • IT procurement, especially procurement of legacy modernization services

  • Vendor management and project oversight
     

The consultancy enjoys both vendor and end user clients.  Vendors utilize our services to gain technological depth in novel projects, and to be able to explain complex proposals to both management and technical staff.  End users employ us for specialized knowledge, solution architecture, and vendor procurement and management, and to provide external quality assurance and progress monitoring for critical projects.

Contact Information

Telephone

+781-577-1556 (universal number)

+781-860-5277 (office)
+781-910-9680 (direct to Don Estes cell phone)
 

Fax

+617-249-0446

 

Postal address

P. O. Box 230, Lexington, MA 02420 USA

 

Electronic mail

All inquiries to: "donestes" at "donestes.com"

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