Overview

Universal Mind clients all have something in common: their businesses rely on web-based applications. These applications typically:

  • Are crucial to the success of the business
  • Are based on Adobe technologies
  • Require low-latency, high-performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
  • Are architecturally complex
  • Require fast access to backend data
  • Are customized implementations of off-the-shelf products
  • Require high availability and performance

Our clients tend to range from mid-size or large organizations, often (but not always) with established in-house IT departments. In addition to Universal Mind, they may also be working with other outside consultants (e.g., web designers or systems integrators).

Organizations call in Universal Mind to complement the skills of these other resources. They recognize that making complex multi-tiered web application perform well is a different problem than designing the look and feel of these applications or solving more general kinds of IT integration issues.

Engagements vary in scope, length, and complexity. Very often an engagement consists of one Universal Mind consultant (or small team) working onsite for a few days. Other engagements are more extended, involving multiple consultants over longer periods. We may develop an application from scratch — or mentor your team to complete a project, building on the expertise you already have. In all cases, the end result is a solution you can support long-term.

Universal Mind brings critical insights that save valuable time and development resources. In one case, Lenox Collections, we isolated within a few hours the key problem causing its core customer-facing web applications to crash under load. Because of our experience with ColdFusion, and the behavior of the Lenox Collections application itself, we simply knew where to look first.

Or take the case of New Era Cap — the largest seller of baseball caps in the world (and sole supplier to Major League Baseball). Because we fully understood the potential of Flex working in combination with ColdFusion, we were able to define a function set the company might not have otherwise considered — simply because it was not aware of the available opportunity.