The first step in any successful technology project is careful planning. At Cognitation, we take a consultative approach to help identify, clarify, and translate your key objectives into specific recommendations.
A crucial part of this analysis will be selecting a development process for the implementation of your project. A good process goes a long way to minimize inefficiency, save money, and make sure your project develops consistently in the right direction. Whether it's a traditional waterfall approach, an agile development process, or something in between, our team has the experience and expertise to help you make the right choice.
Our deep experience in an array of platforms, including both open source and proprietary languages, enables us to help you select the correct platform for your project. The selected platform needs to address your current technical and business requirements and needs to be flexible and powerful enough to continue to grow with your organization.
Whether it's the first step towards working with Cognitation as a development partner, or consulting services for an independent project, a good strategy lays the foundation for success.
Many businesses have unique processes and, when off-the-shelf technology doesn't offer an effective way to capture that information, custom software can provide the solutions you need. You'll need a firm that has demonstrable capabilities to be able to analyze your objectives and develop those into functional software.
For clients both big and small, Cognitation has provided just such results. We build on a range of common platforms, including both open source and proprietary languages. We talk with our clients in-depth to understand their unique needs. We then develop functional designs including interface, workflows, and use cases and match that up with non-functional needs such as security and scalability. Our Cognitation teams then work in close cooperation with the client to architect, build out, and deploy the completed software.
Many organizations choose to develop web-based software because it’s so accessible for clients/customers as well as internally. A web application can be a public facing system allowing you to reach out to new clients and customers or reconnect and solidify relationships with existing ones. Or it could be a private corporate database that centralizes critical information and helps members of your organization track, monitor, and be more productive. Whatever the exact features and functions, the web is a powerful tool.
Whether you need something developed from scratch or built on an existing software base such as Sharepoint, we can help. We have broad experience in developing on different web infrastructures, including open source technologies such as Ruby on Rails or Cake PHP and proprietary frameworks such as Microsoft .NET.
Our highly skilled teams have experience in the entire development lifecycle from database planning to interface design all the way through deployment. In addition, our experience with Systems Administration allows us to create web applications with a good understanding of the challenges of scalability, security, and speed.
In our increasingly mobile age, it's vital to have a development partner who understands the strategies, benefits, and challenges of iPhone application development. iPhone applications offer unique accessibility and powerful features such as geo-locating via GPS, which can be combined with usage tracking and reporting. And mobile applications become especially powerful when they connect back and augment the goals of the main organizational web platform.
Cognitation has experience with developing applications in Objective-C on the iPhone platform and keeps abreast of Apple's continually evolving platform and application standards.
A vital part of any successful web application is the infrastructure that supports it. Your web application needs to run smoothly and reliably and that involves careful planning and the technical know-how to address:
Security - The security of your web platform is a major concern for today's systems administrators. Through a combination of careful technical execution and strict access policies, your web application and its server infrastructure need to be protected from hackers and thieves both within and outside of your organization.
Scalability - Will your web platform face dramatic shifts and surges in usage? If so, you need a scalable server infrastructure that will be ready to meet the demands. By implementing a carefully configured collection of servers that are organized by role and designed to expand as demand increases, you can control costs and provide the necessary processing capability and power.
Availability - Your server infrastructure needs to include the hardware and processes to be prepared for individual server outages, maintenance, and data backup and restoration.
Please contact us for more information. We look forward to working with you.