Application Design and Development

Custom Development
Cosairus provides end-to-end service for the production of custom, enterprise-scale business systems, from specification and design through to deployment and on-going support. We can take responsibility for every aspect of a system, including integration with existing packages and infrastructure. We bring the benefits of the very latest technology and processes to our clients, and we typically take on significant delivery risk. Cosairus teams have successfully delivered many full lifecycle application development projects for scores of clients across diverse industries.

We deliver on-time and on-budget.

Cosairus excels on projects that are critical to our clients' business and which present a high degree of complexity from factors like integration with legacy applications, diverse and disconnected groups of stakeholders, demanding time-scales, or strict performance requirements.

Web Applications
At Cosairus, we constantly are working to provide you with the best design and development practices for creating or maintaining your web based application. Whether you are a startup or large company, we work with you to develop the best product available.

In the past few years, custom software applications have begun a move towards web-based development. With this transition evolved better development tools and technologies. At Cosairus, we stay ahead of the curve by implementing proven technologies that speak for themselves. As a Microsoft Gold Partner our preferred web-development environment is based upon a frontend Microsoft operating system platform acting as a webserver with a backend database engine utilizing a variant of SQL Server. However, many of our consultants also work with a variety of open-source products and operating systems where the usage of Microsoft products may not be applicable.

Microsoft Technologies

• ASP.Net - ASP.Net is Microsoft's language platform for developing website applications. It is a high-performance productive framework for the development and delivery of database driven websites.
   
• SQL Server Database - SQL Server is Microsoft's enterprise level database platform. We use it as the preferred back-end database component for all websites we develop. This ensures the best level of availability, security and scalability of your web site.
   
• AJAX.Net - Microsoft AJAX is a set of extensions for ASP.Net that allows AJAX effects to be easily integrated into a website.

Other Technologies

• JSP - JSP is a Java technology that allows for developers to add dynamic data and control to a website based upon a user's request.
   
• Apache Axis - Axis is an open-source XML Web Services project that is used to transfer data between two endpoints. Axis allows developers to create interoperable distributed computing applications.
   
• PHP - PHP is a programming language designed to generate dynamic web page content. It utilizes server-side scripting capabilities to allow processing and manipulation of data based upon user's requests.

Windows Applications
While the number of software applications produced in a web-based model continues to increase, there are still many environments the business requirements call for a traditional Windows application. A Windows application executes on the user's computer and typically involves a rich user experience with very quick response times to user actions, and a common Windows user interface.

The Microsoft .NET framework has emerged as the development platform of choice for developing Windows Applications. Being a Microsoft Gold Partner, Cosairus leverages the power of the .NET framework during the development process. The .NET framework enhances the ability to create managed, maintained, and robust applications more quickly than ever before. The .NET framework also allows simplified interoperability between other software components that exist outside of the application. For organizations looking to utilize the power of the .NET framework, Cosairus provides end-to-end services for custom Windows application initiatives including strategy, architecture, design, development, integration and testing. If your organization requires the development of a mission-critical Windows application, Cosairus can help you deliver an industry leading solution that meets or exceeds each business requirement while keeping the project within its budgetary constraints.

Windows Presentation Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides developers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media and documents. The WPF development platform is built on a core programming system, which is extended to support a broad set of application development features, including the application model itself, resources, controls, graphics, layout, data binding, documents, and security.

Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. This typed programming model (called the service model is designed to ease the development of distributed applications and to provide developers with expertise in ASP.NET Web services, .NET Framework Remoting, and Enterprise Services, and who are coming to WCF with a familiar development experience. The service model features a straightforward mapping of Web services concepts to those of the .NET Framework common language runtime (CLR), including flexible and extensible mapping of messages to service implementations in languages such as Visual C# or Visual Basic. It includes serialization facilities that enable loose coupling and versioning, and it provides integration and interoperability with existing .NET Framework distributed systems technologies such as Message Queuing (MSMQ), COM+, ASP.NET Web services, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), and a number of other functions.

Open Source Software
Cosairus recognizes how open source software can be paired with agile development techniques that can enable clients to improve the effectiveness of their organizations. Cosairus will help your organization assess the economic benefits of open source software and determine if and where it is appropriate throughout the development life cycle. There are classes of applications that will require full-featured commercial products, but open source could be an option during the development and test stages of the lifecycle.

Mobile Development
With the proliferation of wireless and connected PDA's, enterprise handheld applications provide opportunities for cost-savings and efficiency. Cosairus has successfully implemented a number of mobile solutions across various industries. Our mobile solutions enable users to capture data electronically in the field eliminating process bottlenecks. In addition, our solutions allow users to retrieve information from the field enabling them to operate their business in real time.