Services
Custom Application Development
Centare Group provides scalable applications that deliver reliable business solutions. We don’t subscribe to “band-aid approaches” or quick fixes that often prove ineffective shortly after implementation. Our consultants use their extensive experience in both .NET and Java technologies and combine that with the core concepts of “Agile Methods” to provide cost savings and innovative solutions that maximize a company’s return on investment.
Our custom-developed applications are tailored to meet immediate business needs and designed with future challenges in mind.
.NET and Java Experts
Centare Group uses the most recognized technologies available for custom application development. Within the industry, .NET and Java are widely seen as the leading scalable development platforms. Our consultants have an average of 6+ years of experience with one or both of these programming technologies. Let our experts increase your business’s productivity by utilizing our partnership with Microsoft and our experience with Java to your benefit. As a Microsoft partner, Centare Group has special training and advanced access to the latest .NET technologies. And our Java experts can leverage open source technologies to your advantage.
With our consultants’ advanced knowledge of .Net and Java, clients know that Centare Group’s solutions will offer interoperability between new and older applications,. By maximizing our various deployment tool-sets, consultants simplify the implementation of new applications and avoid interference with previously installed systems.
Our .NET-related proficiencies:- .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5
- WCF, WPF, WF, SilverLight
- Visual Studio Team System 2005, 2008
- Visual Studio 2005, 2008
- Web 2.0 Technologies
Our Java-related proficiencies:
- J2EE, JPA, EJB 3.0
- Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JUnit
- Hibernate
- Performance Tuning
- Web 2.0 Technologies
Agile Methods
Practicing Agile Methods streamlines project completion from start to finish. Agile Methods help businesses keep overhead low because valuable time and resources are not spent backtracking and addressing applications that are too far along in the process to be altered. Centare developers use Agile Methods to first segment the project into separate components. They then identify which components may be the most challenging to complete and prioritize them.
By addressing these uncertainties on the front end, our consultants remain flexible in developing alternative solutions that meet the project’s demands. This flexibility allows them to solve complex problems at the beginning of the project. If an integral part of the application doesn’t work, Centare consultants are quick to adapt, adjust and move forward.
As part of our Agile Methods, Centare consultants implement “Scrum” to help manage and control the software development process. Scrum is an Agile process that can be used to manage and control complex software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Many of our consultants are ScrumMaster certified and experienced. For more information regarding the Scrum process, we encourage you to visit: www.controlchaos.com.
Microsoft Success Story: Quad/Graphics
Utilizing Microsoft’s WCF and .NET 3.X, Centare Group assisted Quad/Graphics in developing loosely coupled business functionality while unifying existing customer and operational systems.
Java/J2EE Success Story: ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc.
Centare worked closely with the staff and management of ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc. to design and implement a web-based Java application that replaced and extended their current job costing capabilities. Centare Group used IBM WebSphere Studio Client for iSeries for application development and implemented an IBM Rational Application Developer to maintain the application.
The Principles of Agile Methods:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
- The Agile Manifesto (Agile Alliance)