Designing applications in today's environments require the use of many different tools, techniques, and concepts. Application Objects, Incorporated (AOI) consultants have experience of designing complex applications involving hundreds of processes and entities, using large-scale data repositories.
Paralleling these capabilities, AOI has been involved in data warehousing applications, as well as the more traditional transaction processing applications.
Overall, AOI tries to provide a balanced architectural approach to developing applications.
By taking this approach, customers can take better advantage of robust third-party products as they become available, without some of the problems currently encountered.
AOI consultants have been involved in application design using these heterogeneous and distributed environments for several years, providing technical specialists focused on designing the most appropriate environment to support the business needs.
Web technology skills include HTML and Dynamic HTML, Active Server Pages (ASP), VBscript, JavaScript, Jscript, Java applications and applets, Visual Basic, XML, CORBA, COM/DCOM, C++, CGI, Perl, and Tcl; web servers, application servers, directory servers, index servers, messaging servers, proxy servers and search servers; E-Commerce. AOI possesses knowledge in these specific packages: Microsoft IIS, Apache Group's Apache Server, Sun Microsystems Java Web Server, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Visual InterDev, and Macromedia Dreamweaver. AOI has been using these technologies to develop internet and intranet applications and continues a constant and rapid expasion into the arena of web development.
Client-side technologies include PowerBuilder, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms (and Designer/2000), VisualAge, Delphi, and Visual Smalltalk. These together with an extensive knowledge of how to integrate these different technologies, means that AOI has the capability of providing experienced specialists to develop the complex user interfaces, with embedded business logic included.
In the data warehousing arena, technologies with which AOI consultants are familiar include the Microstrategies DSS product range, Oracle Express, Ab Initio, HyperRoll, Informatica Powermart, and ETI Extract.
Server-side technologies focus around C++, together with third-party products to provide a complete solution to the development of server processes using transaction managers such as Tuxedo, CICS, and Encina, messaging products such as MQSeries, object request brokers, and commercially available class libraries. The extensive use of third-party technologies has enabled AOI to lead and implement applications to embed complex business logic to meet business needs.
Combining design capabilities with extensive administrative knowledge allows AOI to provide specialists who can support individual application development efforts as integral members of data teams. Following the deployment of applications, our database administrative capabilities enable our consultants to install, support, and administer production environments and the applications executing therein. Our experiences in DB2, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and Informix allow us to consider the best alternatives in the relational area.
Capabilities of AOI include:
- Data analysis, modeling, and implementation
- High-performance computing system design and development
- Delivery and deployment
- Application evolution and enhancement