Area 51

Occasionally we feel inspired to share our thoughts and experience with anyone who will listen. This is where we do it. To avoid having us control your thoughts, we recommend a tin foil hat!

Best Practices In Smart Phone Development

Posted on 04/26/2012

If You Have to Build It

Despite our prejudice against native apps, the success of local apps over web pages continues to raise new questions in how to build optimum mobile apps. Depending on your perspective, local, rich client, native apps are a new development in the industry, but they really can…


Tags: mobile phone, android, iphone, smartphone, best practices, application development

Your Technology Issues for the Next Decade

Posted on 12/05/2011

You Are Being Left Behind

Technology is constantly reshaping the business landscape - it’s leaving you and the traditional business world behind. The pace of innovation, the divergent path of the consumer world from enterprise IT, and the bottleneck of top-down management are all slowing you down.


Tags: innovation, smart devices, tablets, big data, social media, cloud computing

Rogue Development; Are You Getting the Okey-Doke From Your Department Heads?

Posted on 07/10/2011

Not On My Watch!

If you think that rogue development is not happening in your company, think again. Most business units have some complaint or another about the IT department, and usually it includes some perception of "incompetence," nation building and outright claims of torture and sadism. And…


Tags: enterprise applications, application development, saas, it management

No Such Thang As Too Much Information...

Posted on 04/26/2011

It's Only 5 or 6 Percent

We all understand that information is the raw material of new products and services, smarter decisions, competitive advantage and greater growth and productivity. Okay, so maybe some missed that memo, but the evidence of a “data payoff” is found in new research from the Sl…


Tags: analytics, enterprise application integration, business intelligence

Get Your Social On...

Posted on 03/16/2011

Aren't IT buzzwords great! The latest seems to be "Social CRM" (as apposed to "anti-social" CRM?). But the point is that social media has really gained momentum in the realm of customer service infrastructure and CRM software components such that it now has its own nickname.

We mentioned the impo…


Tags: social crm, twitter, facebook, linkedin, customer service, call center

Microsoft

Microsoft for the Technology That's Right for Your Business

Microsoft offers the tools and applicaitons to share ideas and collaborate in a way that increases your productivity. More businesses rely on the Microsoft platform, applications and development environment. And our expertise in MS means you get a knowledgable team ready to hit the ground running. We've done it for companies big and small, and we're ready to help you.

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails For Sustainable Productivity

The Rails framework allows for rapid, enterprise development without sacrificing durability or scaleability. Our expertise in Rails means you get a solid application in record time. We've built applications from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and we can do it for you.

Java 2 Enterprise Edition

Java - The Platform for Enterprise Solutions

The Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), defines the standard for developing multitier enterprise applications. The J2EE platform simplifies enterprise applications by basing them on standardized, modular components, by providing a complete set of services to those components, and by handling many details of application behavior automatically, without complex programming. Java is in our blood. Call us about your next project.

Droid Pro

SmartPhone Application Development at idhra

iPhone, Blackberry or Android - we can develop Multi-Platform Applications simultaneously to give you greater market coverage for your application and faster time to market. Let us work with your in-house staff, training them on best practices as we build your application.

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