Intelligent design through domain expertise
Software architecture and design is fundamental to creating a great application, as well as solution design and architecture for pulling in pieces outside of custom application development to solve problems within a business domain. You, the business owner and/or subject matter expert know exactly what the problem is you are trying to solve. Let us take your domain knowledge and expertise and translate that into a working architecture and design that will help either your existing software development resources move forward in solving these problems, or allow us or any other custom software outsourcer to build the solution for you.
Our expertise in taking business domain knowledge, input from subject matter experts and deep rooted experience with a myriad of technologies, techniques and proven patterns in architectural design helps set us apart from most firms that offer software architecture services. We have a fundamental understanding of how budget, resources and time effect the implementation process and how an architectural design should be suited towards not just what’s new or cutting edge in the technology world, but what will work within the proper constraints of the project’s implementation timeline and budget. Designing a 100 story skyscraper for someone who needs a 2 bedroom house is a waste of time, money and energy, not to mention doesn’t make a lot of business or economical sense. The same is true for software and solutions design.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
SOA has definitely been the buzzword regarding connected applications for quite a while now. Because we consider ourselves experts in the field of web services, we also know when their use is appropriate and the many patterns and designs that a service oriented architecture may take to accomplish similar or disparate goals. Whether you have plans to create web services to expose line of business or informational resources to your customers, business partners or others or whether you are looking to integrate other web services into your own applications, there are different ways to accomplish this through intelligent design while keeping within the confines of practical architecture.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
There are many service offerings out there now that offer their software as a service to consumer and business applications. These providers often provide valuable platforms and resources as web services to their customers and business partners in order to provide domain specific services that would otherwise be self-contained and not easily integrated with the rest of the enterprise. Services such as Saleforce.com, Sabrix, Amazon.com, Google and UPS among others provide their software, configuration tools and web services as a subscription based service to their customers and business partners. Designing your software and solutions to be able to take advantage of these types of offerings gives you the upper edge in flexibility, lower costs for maintenance and quicker time to market for new features and functionality dependent on the functionality these types of services offer.
Cloud Services and Platforms
Interested in utilizing the cloud for more affordable, scalable and manageable hosted services, web applications, databases or even your line of business applications, Microsoft Dynamics applications, data storage solutions and more? Let us help introduce you to Windows Azure. Windows Azure is a cloud computing platform offering many different services on fully redundant, highly available, load balanced and versatile servers and datacenters throughout the world. By making cloud services part of your solution architecture, you are not necessarily stuck using the cloud by design, however we can help implement your architectural needs to utilize the cloud when and where appropriate using Windows Azure.