APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & MODERNIZATION
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & MODERNIZATION
Avalon turns a manual, error-prone process into a secure, working application on a platform the agency already owns, delivered in weeks, not years.
Avalon designs, builds, secures, and hands over applications on visual development platforms the agency already licenses, Microsoft Power Platform, Appian, ServiceNow, or Salesforce, replacing spreadsheets, email chains, and dying legacy forms in six to fourteen weeks.
THE PROBLEM & THE APPROACH
The Challenge
Our Approach
Mission-critical processes run on spreadsheets, shared-drive files, and email approvals, errors, lost records, no audit trail, and no continuity when staff leave.
Rapid Application Delivery builds a governed, role-secured, auditable application in the agency's own cloud tenant, typically in six to fourteen weeks.
Ungoverned 'shadow IT', hundreds of citizen-built apps with no DLP policy, sits alongside legacy form technology like InfoPath and SharePoint 2013 workflows, which reached hard retirement in 2026 and broke processes that were never migrated.
Platform Environment & Governance Setup stands up DLP policy, connector governance, and the Center of Excellence Starter Kit, and triages and rebuilds every dead InfoPath form or SharePoint workflow onto the modern platform.
Custom development backlogs stretch years and cost seven figures, while the agency is already paying for platform licenses it barely uses beyond email and tickets.
Avalon designs to the entitlements the agency already holds first, the marginal cost of a new application becomes services, not software.
The program can't respond to a new requirement, data call, or policy change because standing up any new system takes 12–24 months through traditional development channels.
A trained team assembles a working application from visual components and configurable workflow logic, no hand-written code, no multi-year build.
CORE CAPABILITIES
The core offering: a working, governed application built in one- to two-week sprints on the platform the agency already licenses.
The environment strategy, DLP policy, and operating model that keep citizen development safe instead of banning it.
Training and an operating model so the agency's own staff can build safely after Avalon leaves.
OUR PROCESS
Accounts, CAC/PIV sponsorship where required, environment access, and cadence set with the product owner. (1–2 weeks)
Process walkthroughs, data model, security model, environment placement decision, and a clickable prototype. (1–2 weeks)
One- to two-week sprints with a demo every sprint, integrations, and 508 checks built in. (3–8 weeks)
User acceptance testing, role verification, the 508 report, ISSO coordination, and production deployment via pipeline. (1–2 weeks)
User and admin training, knowledge transfer, defect warranty window, and sustainment handoff. (2–4 weeks)
WHY AVALON
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Federal Frameworks Addressed
Compliance-Forward From Sprint One
This work is correctly done by two to four senior people in weeks, Avalon's principals do the building. Most small LCNC shops are commercial-first and stall on GCC High access, DLP design, and 508 documentation; Avalon's security model and environment placement are the starting point, so the ISSO becomes an ally instead of a blocker.
The security model, environment placement, and 508 documentation are designed in from the start, not retrofitted before go-live.
Avalon recommends the platform the agency's licenses and data placement actually support, not the one platform a boutique resells.
HUBZone set-aside and sole-source pathways let a contracting officer award to Avalon in weeks.
A large integrator benefits when the 'quick app' grows into a multi-year build. Avalon's model is the opposite, contain scope, ship, and let the platform do the work.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Straight answers about governance, security, and lock-in.
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Federal Frameworks Addressed
For simple personal-productivity apps, you should, and our citizen developer enablement exists to make that safe. Paying Avalon buys what citizen developers reliably miss: a durable data model, least-privilege security, DLP-clean connectors, ALM so the app survives its maker's departure, and 508 conformance.
Only if built without governance, which is why environment strategy, managed solutions, and lifecycle policy are inside our scope, not extras. We'll also tell you when a requirement shouldn't be low-code and belongs in a custom build instead.
The licensing math is a design-phase deliverable, not a post-deployment surprise. We design to entitlements you already hold first and price premium capacity before building on it.
The major platforms operate FedRAMP High and, where needed, DoD IL5 environments; the real question is placing your data in the correct enclave and configuring the app to your baseline. That placement analysis is step one of our design.
This work is correctly sized at two to four senior people; you'll have named key personnel in the proposal, not a bench promise. Everything we build is packaged in your tenant, in standard platform formats, with documentation and training.
Keep them for the programs they're sized for. This is the fast-lane backlog they won't staff at this price point. Many of our engagements coexist with an incumbent prime without touching their lane.
The design document defines outgrowth triggers, transaction volume, integration complexity, custom-logic density, and the export path for your data model. If that day comes, nothing about the low-code phase is wasted; it transfers into a custom development effort.
Talk to Avalon about scoping a fixed-price low-code application build on the platform you already own.