Advantage IT believes in providing customized business solutions that makes sense. We understand that some businesses may require end-to-end technology solutions while other business may require our experienced technology professtionals to support their in-house IT presence. Our wide range of services aims to provide your business with a one-stop shop to meet your business objectives.
Businesses today require software applications to facilitate their business objectives. While there are many off-the-shelve application used for word processing, accounting, viewing various document formats, business require custom software applications to speed up their time-to-market in order to remain competitive. Imagine a mobile phone company customer service center fielding a few thousand calls a day. A customer management application provides the customer service agent with the tools to serve customers with new service activations, mobile phone and accessories product purchases, customer account management inquiries, product information inquiries, specials and offers inquiries, fielding customer complaints, etc. Through applications travel agents are able to interface with their travel partner's systems to book a flight, hotel, or a vacation package for their customers. Popular restaurants, with the aid of queueing software, are able to more efficiently seat customers and estimate customer wait times.
While once the competitive market spawned a slew of business applications built using proprietary technology, today business applications are becoming increasing customized to the specifications of each business. The technology employed has standardized significantly making applications more customizable as the application's business components become more standardized. Business applications have also converged on the Internet as most business applications are now web-based applications. Our team of application developers employs the following technologies to develop your business applications:
- Web - HTML, CSS, CGI, JSP, ASP, PHP, VBScript, Javascript, Perl, XML/XSL, SOAP
- Java - J2EE, JSP, EJB, Struts, JSTL, Servlets, Java Beans, Websphere, Weblogic Castor API, JAXP
- Microsoft - .NET, ASP, Visual Basic, C#, COM+, Visual Studio, MSXML
- Database - SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, T-SQL, PL/SQL, DTS
Our application development team consists of technologists with vast practical experience. We specialize in the most commonly utilized technologies as we believe that there is no better technology, but there is a technology better for you, given the size and existing technology infrastructure of your business. Our approach is sensible yet simple because we believe in using smart technology to solve your business problems, and not use your business to re-invent technology.
Project management is a difficult skill to master and hardly anyone does, as it requires a well-rounded individual. We believe that the most successful project managers are those who are first and foremost software developers or system administrators, as the experience is irreplaceable. We also believe that project managers should be a good judge of character while being able to effectively interact with people. The successful project manager will also possess the following attributes:
- the ability to solve problems
- a quick learner
- organize realistic schedules
- manage team roles and responsibilities effectively
- contributor to the team
- delegator and rarely the bottle neck
- technology-speak translator
- respected by peers, team members, and upper management
- business knowledge
One of the biggest challenges of project management is to curtail bureaucracy while still being effective at the job. Our project management team here at Advantage IT are experienced professionals with full lifecycle development expertise without bureaucratic burdens. They possess the necessary technical expertise balanced with business and administrative experience. Every project has its obstacles and challenges from time or budget constraints to dependencies on external systems. Our team consists of persistent implementors with the focus to meet these challenges.
