BEST PRACTICE CASE STUDY
DOMAIN SOLUTIONS
About INDEX
INDEX (Innovation Delivers Expansion) is a unique demand-led innovation voucher scheme led that invites Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to apply for a voucher to purchase academic support from one of the 13 Higher Education Institutions in the West Midlands. The project is funded by Advantage West Midlands (AWM), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
Innovation Vouchers allow SMEs to purchase academic expertise knowledge to develop their innovation and enhance their business.
The Innovation Voucher scheme aims to build links between Universities and SMEs to create a demand led approach to innovation.ABOUT THE BUSINESS: Domain Solutions
Domain Solutions Ltd
Malvern Hills Science Park
Geraldine Road
Malvern
WR14 3SZ
Telephone: 01684 578 875
Email: david@domainsolutions.co.uk
Website: www.domainsolutions.co.uk
Main Contact: Mr David Pilfold, Director
Domain Solutions was founded in 1995 to provide software automation tools and supporting professional services to dramatically increase software production efficiency.
Based on industry standards, Domain Solutions’ CodeGenie MDA toolset delivers proven reduction in software development costs and increase in levels of (model-based) software reuse.
INNOVATION
Innovation (5) Creative Industries/Digital Media/Software, Media and Communications
THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Domain Solutions had worked in the past with Birmingham City University on 'joined-up' software processes that enable other companies in the West Midlands to improve their IT implementations.
They applied for funded academic consultancy, to take this process further and developing a number of off-the-shelf tools e.g. for issue tracking, and customer relationship tracking etc.
This was specifically spent on Human Factors studies, whole lifecycle management, review of the implementation plan and integrations and extend to business aspects in terms of market surveys etc.
The application for funded academic consultancy for taking the code generation process further and developing a number of off the shelf tools e.g. for issue tracking and customer relationship tracking etc. This was specifically spent on human factors studies, whole life cycle management review of the implementation plan and integration and external to business aspects in terms of markets surveys etc.
WORK UNDERTAKEN
Survey on the model drive architecture market, namely
- Adoptioned and innovationed
QUOTE
“The INDEX voucher scheme enabled us to take a step back from the coal-face and look at new but relevant innovations and how we could capitalize on these”, David Pilford, Director, Domain Solutions Ltd
ABOUT THE HEI: Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University
Perry Barr
Birmingham
B42 2SU
ABOUT THE ACADEMIC
Nagaraj Konda Project Manager (DBE), Medici Fellow and member of the Knowledge and Technology Research Group
Nagaraj Konda has a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration. He started his career in 1989 in India with Tata Telecom Limited a leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer in India. Tata Telecom Ltd. is a joint venture between the Tata Group and Avaya Technologies. Nagaraj Konda was incharge for Sales and Product Management in the Southern Region of India and has been a winner of Best Sales award for three consecutive years.In 1996 Nagaraj Konda joined BPL US West Communications Ltd. one of the largest mobile services operator in India. BPL US West Ltd. was a joint venture between the BPL Group and US West Communications. Nagaraj Konda was incharge for technology strategy and value added services development. He was instrumental in first introducing successful value added services in the market such as pay-as-you-go services using intelligent networks, GPRS services, m-commerce, etc. He also was instrumental in building high quality and least cost GSM network.
In 2000 Nagaraj Konda joined Convergent Software and moved to Germany as a Consultant supporting their european software development operations and then to RVS Infotech in the UK. Currently, Nagaraj Konda is the Project Manager at Birmingham City University (BCU) for a state of the art IT project funded by the European Commission - Digital Business Ecosystem. The project will develop and deliver a complete Service Oriented Architecture for software services delivery in Europe. The architecture addresses some of the key emerging IT concepts: Model Driven Architecture, Business Modelling Language, Semantic Registry.