As the cost of application development continues to be a concern, maximizing on the intellectual and physical property available within an organization is vital. Combining this with the growing amount of infrastructure and components available through third-party sources begins to provide companies with real opportunities for reuse, thus increasing the return on investment necessary to develop the frameworks.

Application Objects, Incorporated (AOI) has had success on several projects with identifying and building frameworks that support a component-based development approach.

The power of frameworks that cover not only the core technical infrastructures, but also cover vertical industries, and best practices, are very powerful implementation strategies for organizations.

Some of the recent rapid development efforts have been the result of frameworks developed, or purchased, by corporations. AOI's skill in architectures, component-based development, and framework development have enabled our customers to leverage the significant capabilities of new technologies, and internal knowledge.

Frameworks encapsulate the best practices for technology and industry into sets of reusable components and business objects for use in as many subsequent application efforts as possible.

Specific services and capabilities of AOI include:

• Framework definition, evaluation, design, and development
• Mentoring and knowledge transfer