Practices

Overview

Technical innovation drives successful engagements, and those engagements inform the work we do. We are technologists, visual designers, business strategists, and above all, innovators. We have spent more than a decade creating leading-edge digital solutions and use that experience to create a unified, elegant solution that meets your strategies and puts your users first.

Solutions Strategy

Whether you need help with a technology solution to break bottlenecks, want to reach customers via mobile ads, or would like to bring your web-based services to customers’ iPhones, iPads and Android devices, you start with a strategy. We help you create one that takes your challenges, opportunities, resources, users, and competition into account—and keeps you flexible enough to address change.

User Experience

User Experience is the full measurement of our human participation with technology. To this end, it’s our job as user experience design professionals to understand users’ needs, simplify complexity and offer them the ideal user experience across devices. Our User Experience practice encompasses the breadth of UX disciplines, from user research and testing through visual design, interaction design, and prototyping.

Technology

Known as an industry leader in technology services, our technology solutions power the experiences that engage customers across systems, platforms and devices. We’ve solved some of the toughest challenges, creating game-changing web and mobile applications, powerful enterprise portals and transforming legacy technologies into profitable productivity centers.

Delivery Management

Delivery Management orchestrates how all our practices work together—and how we work with clients. Our Delivery Managers are senior professionals that get involved in every step of every project we do, ensuring clear communication, advocating cross-practice innovation, and deftly managing your project with skills gained in account management, business analysis and quality assurance.

Offerings

We deliver deep digital solutions that meet your business goals, from better customer experience to improved efficiencies and even new revenue streams. While we have expertise in four practice areas, there are no silos here—many of our UX team members are technologists, our developers have a high regard for the value of design, and all our team members deliver against your business strategy.

Technologies We Use

iOS, from Apple, is perhaps the world’s most advanced mobile platform, having redefined what can be done with a mobile device. Originally developed for the iPhone^®, it now also supports other Apple devices such as the iPad^® and Apple TV^®. With the App Store present on every iOS device, and localized around the world, iOS is an extremely compelling mobile development platform.
The Android™ platform is an open-source software stack which delivers a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. It is licensed under one of the most progressive open-source licenses available giving operators and manufacturers unprecedented freedom to design, build and distribute their own products.
HTML5 is a Web development language, organized by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) community. Unlike older versions of HTML, HTML5 is designed to do more things, including media playback, without the need for processor-intensive add-ons or plug-ins. HTML5 also adds new interactivity features, like drag-and-drop, as well as offline storage for Web apps.
Sencha provides HTLM5-based app development tools and services for building universal apps that run on any device.
Built atop Adobe’s Java Content Repository CRX, CQ5, initially developed by Day Software, provides a suite of Web 2.0 content management applications: CQ5 Web Content Management, CQ5 Digital Asset Management, CQ5 Social Collaboration, CQ5 Marketing Campaign Management, and CQ5 Mobile.
Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite is a complete solution that lets media and business publishers create, distribute, monetize, and optimize publications for tablet devices.
Java™ is a technology that allows software designed and written just once for an idealized “virtual machine” to run on a variety of real computers, including Windows PCs, Macs, and Unix computers. Java can also be used to create small programs, known as “applets,” to be embedded in web pages.
The .NET Framework is a comprehensive and consistent programming model from Microsoft^® for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes.
Microsoft^® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device browser plug-in that helps companies design, develop and deliver applications and experiences on the Web.
The BlackBerry^® platform supports several different ways of developing applications, themes, rich mobile websites and widgets—HTML/HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, or Java—with easy connectivity and robust security. BlackBerry development tools also leverage industry standard development environments like Eclipse^® and Microsoft^® Visual Studio^®.
Building on the incredible power of the QNX operating system that’s uniquely suited for tablet computing, the BlackBerry^® Tablet OS lays the foundation for the future while preserving key investments that have made the BlackBerry platform so successful.
Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems by leveraging the Adobe^® Flash^® Player and Adobe AIR^® runtimes.
The Adobe^® Flash^® Media Server software provides powerful delivery methods that can save significant bandwidth costs and lighten network load to help deliver the best media experiences. Improved performance and quality of service metrics enhance playback quality, while prebuilt media players make using video for your business easier than ever.
Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite helps extend the value of existing back-end systems and makes it easier for people to interact with information through intuitive user experiences, improved efficiencies through business process automation, and enhanced customer service through personalized communications management.
Adobe^® ColdFusion^® application server and software enables rapid development of robust Internet applications for the enterprise. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse based IDE for efficiently managing ColdFusion application development from concept through deployment.
Adobe^® Flash^® Professional software is an industry standard for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution.
The Adobe^® AIR^® runtime enables developers to use HTML, JavaScript, Adobe Flash^® Professional, and ActionScript^® to build web applications that run as standalone client applications without the constraints of a browser. Support for Android™ BlackBerry™ Tablet OS, iOS, and TVs is also available.
Spring is the most popular application development framework for enterprise Java. Millions of developers use Spring to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code without any lock-in.
Adobe Experience Manager helps you organize and manage the delivery of creative assets and other content across your digital marketing channels, including web, mobile, email, social media, and video.
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. There are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform sites into almost anything.
Sitefinity supports online business with an extensive web content management platform. It is designed to be instantly familiar while providing a safe & predictable environment for multiple stakeholders to collaborate.