The key to successfully developing software is to employ a team who has a well-defined set of methodologies and processes, who understands the normal pitfalls of software development and how to navigate around them, and who can deliver products which can be deployed in myriad target architectures-from legacy such as web-based and client-server to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).

Our approach relies heavily on repeatable processes and leverages technology to automate and expedite key critical repetitive tasks within the software development lifecycle to provide high quality, high assurance software products developed within a compressed timeline. We accomplish this by integrating SEI's CMMI Level 3 principles, an Agile development methodology, and Software Assurance industry's best practices to build in a high degree of security, quality, and reliability while managing cost and schedule.

Up and Running (UAR) Inc. stands apart from other development firms; its proprietary methodologies and use of technology significantly reduces the cost of building and sustaining software systems. We have experience modernizing legacy systems, deriving the fully articulated business requirements from the existing codebase and refactoring them to meet modernization goals quicker and at a significantly lower cost. We also have experience with cutting edge technologies such as Business Rules engines implementation and SOA modernization. We focus on proper capture of customer requirements, validated by prototyping, storyboarding, and modeling. We build high assurance, high value systems within an expedited time frame and diminished cost by leveraging technology, proprietary methodologies, well-defined repeatable processes, and engineered to fit into the target architecture.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TO SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become the leading industry paradigm for software development. SOA-enabled software is inherently modular and reusable, with some profoundly beneficial qualities including: flexibility, agility and, above all, cost efficiency. To truly realize these benefits, however, companies must first implement the software infrastructure designed to enable and support SOA-based development.

UAR's approach to web service development is to use an architecture oriented around services. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is often pictured one of two different ways. One fundamental perception is that SOA is simply converting legacy functionality to web services. Another perspective sees SOA as exposing data as web services. Both of these have some validity, but SOA is more than expressing business logic as a web service or exposing data through Web Services Description Language (WSDL). WSDL is a model for describing web services which is an XML - based language.

As today's systems become increasingly reliant on software, the issues surrounding sustainment become more and more complex. Let Up and Running provide comprehensive technical, operational and product support for your organization, so you can focus on your core business objectives. Our sustainment services support every element of your systems and products for their entire life cycle.

Our capabilities include:

Reach even the most complex project goals with comprehensive project support and management from Up and Running. We offer project management services and consulting for projects of all types and sizes, including information technology project management and program management.

Up and Running’s project managers can assist with schedule development and review, constructability, cost control, risk management and training. Our extensive experience in short- and long-term projects afford you the ability to effectively maneuver through the intricacies of any project. Our project management process includes the communication, planning and attention to detail that help ensure success at every level.

Services include:

Our Instructional Systems Design (ISD) experts improve the quality and availability of professional development and workplace learning in your organization with tailor-made curriculum for traditional classroom, self-guided, or online learning environments. Up and Running provides business training and education services with customized interactive courseware (ICW). Our specialized trainers offer comprehensive active learning, hands-on applications, student self-study, guided online courses and classroom instruction options for your school or organization.

Train the trainer
Up and Running’s trainers can deliver the training in your environment, or prepare your staff instructors to address the content in their classrooms. Our experts help identify content and sequence it in a way that optimizes the learning experience for both the students and instructors. And our curriculum design helps instructors learn how to set high expectations for all students and implement effective instructional strategies to help their students succeed.

We offer deliver distance-learning courses around the world using BlackBoard technology.

Benefits of VoIP and VoSIP
VoIP and VoSIP combine voice and data networks onto a single network, creating an environment in which applications like email, efax and web conferencing are easily integrated. Benefits include cost savings, call clarity, reliability, security, flexibility and greater system features. Conference calling is enhanced, as participants communicate in real time, sharing presentations, documents and other files simultaneously between offices. VoIP and VoSIPcan also accommodate textual communication side by side with the verbal communication.
Installation
Up and Running will begin by conducting an assessment of your organization to determine your specific requirements. Whether you need traditional VoIP or a voice-over secured IP, our experts create and implement a customized plan for your organization. After installation of your new system is complete, Up and Running’s sustainment services ensure that you are receiving optimum value from your VoIP or VoSIP system.

We use Cisco, Vertical and Avaya telephone systems and can secure calls made over a public network or utilize a secure network, depending on your organization’s needs.
**Up and Running recently entered into a partnership that will change the way phone service is delivered to the Department of Defense (DoD). By moving to a secured VoIP phone system, the government will cut communications costs over 40 percent!

Meeting your staffing needs
When faced with staffing transitions and other workforce challenges, you need a healthcare staffing firm you can trust to select, screen and engage the talent you need to continue providing the highest caliber of patient care. As a qualified nurse, physician and allied (temporary and permanent), healthcare staffing agency, Up and Running offers specialized recruiting and consulting services with an industry-specific focus.
Achieving optimal staffing balance
Up and Running prides itself on being the integrated staffing choice for hospitals and healthcare facilities. We can supplement your temporary healthcare staffing needs during census fluctuations, openings of new units or hard-to-fill scheduling situations.

Our qualified staffing professionals can also recommend an optimal ratio of temporary to full-time staffing in order to accommodate regular and peak periods. By providing personalized, one-on-one consulting services and management expertise, our recruitment professionals can help you meet the unique financial, clinical and operational goals of your facility.

Up and Running’s Integrated Project Management Control System is a cloud-based collaboration and program/project management tool which allows you to streamline any project and maximize productivity by managing it online.
IPMCS is a holistic integrated management tool that covers the total life cycle of a program and project from inception to sunset. This tool will implement the core foundations of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 4, International Organization of Standards (ISO) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Integrated Project Management Control Systems allow project managers to create and coordinate daily work status reports in a web-based application, with automated email updates to ensure all stakeholders are well-informed of progress and milestone achievements. The IPMC System can be configured and customized in countless ways to fit your unique requirements.
- Auto generate CDRLs, daily, monthly, year-end reports- Auto generate PMI project plan for every project- Communication module that will notify any stakeholder via email with the latest status of the program or project
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Technology infrastructure includes the physical hardware used to connect computers and their users, (transmission media, telephone and cable lines, satellites, antennas, routers, aggregators, repeaters), as well as software and the unseen realm of middleware, protocols and networks that bind the computing enterprise together and facilitate efficient data flow.

In today’s increasingly technical operational environment, cost-effective procurement and implementation of computer and networking hardware and software is crucial. Up and Running understands that your organization needs flexible and dynamic infrastructure solutions for your data center architecture. We provide the foundational utilities, hardware, software, user training and ongoing sustainment services that ensure you receive the highest possible return on your infrastructure investment.

Up and Running specializes in highly-technical identification infrastructure including:
Biometrics
When security is of the utmost importance, Up and Running can assist your organization in implementing biometric methods to uniquely recognize someone based upon one or more intrinsic physical or behavioral traits.

Up and Running’s Fingerprint Authorization is potentially the most affordable and convenient method of identity verification. Fingerprint Authorization is a common means to verify identity, as it is the simplest, least-invasive and most reliable form of personal identification.
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
Improve inventory tracking at various stages of production with Radio-Frequency Identification.

RFID is an automatic identification method, which relies on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. RFID reduces cycle times through automation, lowers operational risks, improves return on investment and enhances customer satisfaction and loyalty.