What We Do

ISTA provides web-based systems and IT solutions service for home page design and development, HR recruitment, e-commerce, and multi-media contents for e-learning with the latest VOD/Live Streaming technologies for both commercial and educational purpose. In 2007, ISTA released CgeNa.com, the first and the best web-based commercial gadget in the Philippines for online marketing and shopping, product specifications and pricing, and up-to-date market and technical information for consumers. Capitalizing on state-of-the-art web-based IT technologies with substantial increase in financial returns on investment, ISTA has transformed to a full-fledged systems development and technology company in May 2009, expanding its business scope to include services for: legacy and ERP business application systems development and integration; off-site data files back-up; BPO to support business continuity and disaster recovery plans; and security solutions for systems, network, internet, and administrative control.

Website Design and Application

ISTA specializes in website design/redesign and development, website solutions for on-line marketing and shopping, B2B/B2C e-commerce, business branding for advertisement and logos, and CMS solutions for e-learning and e-book. ISTA's proficiency in this business area can easily be proven by visiting its proprietary CgeNa.com, the first and the best web-based commercial gadget in the Philippines. CgeNa.com has now grown enough to promote online sale of topnotch mobile phone products including Nokia N97.

Web Systems Development

For successful web systems development and customization, ISTA enforces its own in-house developed strategy and process. ISTA's strategy and process are simple. ISTA's team of caliber designers and developers always maintains its skills and expertise up-to-date, and employs the best-practiced storefront software solutions with powerful web development platforms and languages such as UNIX, .NET, Linux, Sybase, ASP, PHP, JSP and Oracle. Such development strategy is then embodied into well-defined processes for producing final web system product. ISTA's web development process begins with thorough analysis of RFP to fully elucidate what are wanted. Such RFP analysis can be further complemented with discussions, if needs arise, to produce a Prototyping Specifications Document (PSD). PSD is reviewed by clients for necessary corrections and refinements. Upon PSD finalization, web system development team undergoes detail development/iterative refinement processes until the final release of the web system product. To incorporate future changes and upgrades in business requirements, ISTA periodically conducts quality assurance reviews to ensure that clients are satisfied at all times.

Digital Print and Graphics

ISTA specializes in digital photography and print/graphic design services for signs, logos, corporate branding and brochures. ISTA's team of print/graphic designers is fully equipped with necessary expertise and up-to-date print/graphic design tools to boost your business. ISTA is proud of its print/graphic design team that always mobilizes its artistic creativity and cultural originality to produce the best print/graphics products. Taking full advantage of its own digital studio, ISTA can make your business and promotional campaign exclusively stand out.

Online Advertising

Online advertising is all about what you can do on the website to create awareness of the people who are interested in your product or service. Whether we like or not, we become accidental or target audience. This is how your product or service can best summon awareness of website audience, both accidental and target. In this web-information sharing business world, the need of online advertising for your business is more crucial than ever. If you were down to your last dollar, invest it on online advertisement. ISTA can play an important role in advertising your product and service on the internet with state-of-the-art techniques for contextual ads, blogger/banner ads, Rich Media Ads, pop-ups, and classified ads to convert your website audience to real consumers of your product and service.

Legacy and ERP Systems development and integration

ISTA plans to assist you in designing, developing, and implementing Mainframe-based legacy and network-based ERP systems for your business applications. ISTA identifies and recommends suitable software package solutions; and customizes or adds on to your existing systems when commercial software packages are inappropriate or not available.

Companies with medium/large organizational size and IS/IT infrastructure, business application systems are usually run and maintained either in Mainframe server or in ERP servers that are heterogeneous in hardware with incompatible databases, operating systems and languages. Systems and data in such legacy and ERP platforms often need to be integrated into other platform for operating efficiency and effectiveness. With proficient IS/IT specialists, ISTA can help you achieve your integration needs.

Systems and data file back-up

ISTA provides assistance in dealing with systems and data file back-up services to support your business continuity and disaster recovery plans. In the beginning, ISTA's assistance will be limited to provide secured electronic data storages on a "build-to-suit" basis to well-prepare for immediate recovery of soft-/hard-copy data critical to your business and organization. ISTA also provides service for routine off-site backup of your critical data. ISTA evaluates and recommends disaster recovery software, templates and solutions that could be tailored to your IS/IT environment. ISTA plans to serve for full-blown business continuity plan and management, and BPO at a later stage.

Security and Administration Control

ISTA specializes in systems, network, and administration security solutions. Security control services for either custom-development or built-in access control software solutions are provided to protect your systems and data from unauthorized access. ISTA evaluates and recommends the best-practiced and topnotch network security systems that comprehensively protect your network environment from viruses and spywares, securing all possible points of entry.

ISTA also provides third party software package solution services for administrative security control to safeguard your business environment. ISTA evaluates and recommends up-to-date hardware and software package solutions such as One Time Password (OTP) generator, LCD Radio Frequency (RF) module/USB, Memory Card (MC), or Integrated Circuit (IC) card with built-in security and access control algorithm to detect and protect your business and secured workspace from unauthorized access and entrance. For this purpose, ISTA maintains local distributorship agreements with world-class security software and card manufacturers.

Business Scope

ISTA has a wide range of business scope to help its clients achieve their business and organizational goals with state-of-the-art systems and IT technologies and the best-practiced industry standards:

• web-based systems/business processing solutions
• online marketing/shopping
• contents development for e-books and e-learning
• information systems development and technology solutions
• legacy systems integration and migration to ERP platform
• systems, network and administrative security solutions
• systems and data back-up and processing related outsourcing to support
• disaster recovery plan
• business processing outsourcing for business continuity plan