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Consulting
What We Do
Some of our clients don't want us to create any software at all, or a
web site either. They want advice: should we do this or that? Which
product is best for us? How should we manage the migration to a new
tool? We've been providing advice and consulting for two decades, and
because we don't sell software or hardware, only our own services, you
can trust the advice we give you. After all, you pay for it directly, so
you don't need to worry that we're overcharging for anything else to
cover the free advice. Why not get in touch
and see if we can help? If you think you need advice on a sporadic or
regular basis, check out our Mentoring
services. Which Microsoft technologies are worth adopting? We
enjoy a delightful relationship with Microsoft, employing a Regional
Director and MVP, participating in multiple betas, alphas, and so on.
Our staff attend and speak at all the major Microsoft conferences
including TechEd and the PDC. We know what's coming next, and we've
already started working with it. We can save you from investing a lot of
time and work learning a technology without a future, and we can speed
your learning of the new one, too.
What would be the best architecture for this project?
There are so many ways to put software together. Should you write a
Windows or a Web application? What is ClickOnce and how can it minimize
deployment pain? Do Web Services come into this? Will SQL Reporting
Services save time on this project? How can you support both SQL and
Oracle data stores with the same code base? How can you reuse your
existing C++ code and bring it onto the .NET Framework without porting
it all to C#? We can help you tackle these questions and many more.
We've been through it before and we can share our experience with you.
(If you want help getting it implemented, we are do-ers as well as
advisors.. check our Programming and
Web Development offerings.) Should
even you have a website? We love talking to people who aren't even
sure if they should be providing information on the Internet or not. Many
don't need to. Others have a great deal to gain, and we really enjoy
showing those people the opportunity that awaits them. For large
companies, or smaller companies that are geographically widespread, an
intranet (using Internet tools like web browsers inside a company network)
can save up to 90% of the costs of delivering internal information such as
policies, procedures, and announcements. Programs to generate HTML from
company databases are quick to write, and documents stored in word
processor format can be converted to HTML as well. There's no need to
write multiplatform applications to search the database or present the
documents -- freely available Web browsers take on that task. Mailing
lists, news, ftp, and other Internet tools are similar time savers. Our
mission for general consulting clients is to help clients decide whether
this technology will be worth adopting this year.
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