Internet Application Development
Software development is our core business. Today's technologies
offer amazing opportunities for empowering users in ways that were impossible - or too expensive - only
five years ago. It is an exciting time to be working in the IT sector.
Our focus is on meeting the needs of the diverse audiences of today's
organisations and strategic partnerships by uniting key features of knowledge
management, content management and resource management. Our solutions are
designed and built to provide support for interoperability via web services and support for
national/international metadata standards such as Dublin Core, e-GMS
and the GCL.
For more information see our Case Studies.
Technical innovation is a key feature of our approach to projects. By following standards but being
innovative in their use we can maximise the cost-effectiveness of our solutions. We invest in in-house technologies to reap the
greatest benefit from existing standards for our clients.
For more information see our Technologies page.
Often the information being gathered from users must conform to strict
data or metadata standards but needs to be collected from users who are not themselves
experts in these standards. Our wizard technology ensures that users are shielded from
any underlying complexity and are guided, step by step, through the input process,
rather than being presented with a single, perhaps daunting, input form. Of course,
we use the same technology to provide intuitive, simple-to-use tools for site management.
For more information see our Case Studies.
We see every project that we are involved in as an opportunity to innovate and showcase
what can be achieved. We aim to deliver "best-of-breed" solutions in all cases. We are
used to working on fixed price contracts and recognise the importance of careful planning
and up-front analysis to balance requirements against budget, and to ensure that we
deliver the best value for money to our clients.
Our software development process employs best practice in specification, design, coding,
testing and deployment to ensure the quality of the end product as well as smooth and timely
delivery. We are so confident in our software development process that we undertake to
fix any bugs in our software free of charge.
Our team of highly-qualified software developers have extensive experience of working with technologies such as:
- Microsoft’s .Net Framework in general, and ASP.Net for the development of internet applications and web services.
- Database technologies, such as Microsoft SQL Server and
Transact-SQL, Microsoft DTS, Microsoft Access, MySQL, etc.
- Data exchange and manipulation technologies such as XML,
XSLT, SOAP,
RDF/XML, and standards such as
e-GMS and e-GIF.
- Web technologies, such XHTML,
DHTML, CSS, JavaScript,
ASP, etc.