Services

Our services

Derks.IT have been active since 2000 on many different fronts of software development. Our strength lies in the realization of your plans for the Internet. From API to web application and from web site to web shop. We anticipate your needs and help you make the right choices during the implementation process, but even more important, also before.

Because we believe in the use of existing building blocks, we make extensive use of Open Source Software. This allows us in a simple way to tackle problems (‘challenges’) that have already been solved. It also has the additional advantage of higher quality due to the large number of users.

Analysis

The first step in any project is taking inventory. Roughly working through the main requirements can often provide new insights into the project that it is even possible to realize it in a completely unexpected way.

To determine exactly what your needs are, we can help you determine your needs and formulate them. The idea ‘I want a website’ can sometimes really be as simple as it sounds, but it usually requires a more detailed analysis where in interaction with our experts your requirements are clarified in a structured manner.

Recommendations

After the analysis the to be delivered functionality will be clearly established. Based on this we determine our advice to you in which we make ​​recommendations with respect to the use of techniques, methods and frameworks, based on our experience and expertise.

Depending on your needs we can provide more than one solution. In our experience there are many roads that lead to Rome and it is sometimes good to think further than the most obvious solution.

Realisation

The creation of your website or web application is the next step.

We believe that projects have the best chance of success if the communication is transparent and all parties are doing as much as possible what they do best. To this end, there is often daily contact, sometimes several times a day. The Agile / Scrum method is our example in this. Ideally, we would like to work that way, but that is not always possible.

During the work there will be demos available frequently on our staging environment. This allows (our or your own) testers to test the functionality without affecting for production (live) environment.

Marketing

For online success is not only necessary to have many visitors, but it is often important to to receive the visitors who are looking for what you offer. Internet marketing is one of the the main components that allow scoring high in the search engine results based on suitable keywords. Therefor, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is already an important issue from the beginning. p> We can also help to measure the success of your website. This can be done using Google Analytics and similar solutions. In some cases, it may even be that an adjustment of for example the font has a positive (or negative) effect on the success of your website.

E-commerce

Since 2009, we specialise in e-commerce solutions built on Magento. Since that time we have implemented many different types of functionalities regarding Magento: p>

    
• complete design & implementation
    
• custom import
    
• use of API
    
• adjust the ordering process
    
• solving different, sometimes quite complex bugs li>     
• own extensions, we soon come with an extension for a link to PHPlist
    
• … and more

Offshoring

In collaboration with a Romanian partner we have access to Romanian developers. The quality of these developers is high because they are selected not only for their knowledge and experience, but also on the ability to cooperate in a team and the ability to add their own insights and solutions.

Starting a project with our Romanian partner takes longer, but once it runs there are two major benefits that have a direct effect on the cost and the duration:

• Price
  The price will be significantly lower than in the Netherlands, this can amount to a 75% lower price depending on the overall demand there and the desired expertise.
• Scalability
  In addition to the price advantage, there is yet another advantage which is mainly an effect on the overall duration: It is relatively easy to recruit new people because the IT labor market in Romania is very dynamic. This allows projects to scale up relatively quickly if necessary.