Software + Services Consulting

 
 

Software + Services Consulting is your Source for Microsoft Solution Development.


Start-Ups

Are you a do-it-yourself entrepeneur? Do you have a list of questions that need answers? Is your product structured for team development, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and supportability? Do you need to improve the efficiency and quality of your delivery and upgrade processes?

View our Start-Up solution portfolio.

Small to Mid-Size Businesses

Are you a growing company whose technology needs or costs are spiraling out of control? Are you spending most of your budget on maintenance instead of growth opportunities? Is your in-house ability to keep technical pace with the business being strained?

 

 

View our SMB solution portfolio.

Fortune 2000 Corporations

Are your development and release management processes delivering for you? Do you need to cut costs? Do you need to migrate aging systems to a newer technical platform? Have you inherited someone elses mess and need to make sense of it all?

 

View our Fortune 2000 solution portfolio.



SOFTWARE + SERVICES CONSULTING is an experienced Microsoft Solution Provider. Our employees are senior-level software architects and engineers with implementation experience with the latest Microsoft servers and technologies. We provide a full range of Microsoft solution-based services. These include advice, best practices, architecture/design, implementation, and optimization of your software-based solutions.


Products and Services
  • solution development and support
  • .NET and SharePoint programming
  • business process modeling and analysis
  • enterprise architecture services
  • IT governance services
  • software development process improvement
  • resale, configuration and management of Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite
Clients (past and present)
  • Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)
  • Catalina Marketing
  • Certegy
  • City of Tampa
  • Eckerd Drugs
  • General Electric
  • Nielson Media Research
  • ProScript Documentation Services
  • Solomon Brothers Investment Bankers
  • Verizon

 

Collaborative Business System Experts

Business users create, manage, and use information in many forms. They also work as part of a larger team and need to collaborate on this information with other team members that can be dispersed across multiple locations and companies around the world. The systems that they use are distributed across all of these sites and into the software-as-a service Internet cloud. Software + Services Consulting is an expert in designing and building distributed, service-oriented systems.

 

Agile and Lean

We utilize an agile and lean process on all of our solution development projects that ensures high quality and low risk while focusing on the highest value activities and user needs.

 

Architecture and Governance

Are you cutting costs but still need to retain and attract customers? Do you want to decrease your information technology (IT) fixed costs? Do you want to improve your return on new system investments? IT governace and enterprise architecture are the keys to your success. However, you don't have to staff an expensive enterprise architecture team. We can provide the services that you need at a much lower cost; an investment that will quickly pay for itself.

 

Software Engineering and Management Processes

Are your current IT projects late? Have your IT project costs sky rocketed? Did your last IT project fail to meet the business's needs? Then your software development processes and practices are broken and need to be fixed. We can quickly analyze and diagnose the root cause of your problems and then fix them.

Things to Know

News

> The Microsoft Web Platform Installer is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform.

> Comprehensive IIS7 Technical Reference is now available online. (1/20/09)

> Microsoft Live Labs Web Sandbox technology preview is available. Web Sandbox is a solution for securing web content through isolation. It is targeted at Web 2.0 applications that incorporate 3rd party content.

> Microsoft will discontinue its PerformancePoint business intelligence product and will merge its function into SharePoint Server. (1/26/09)

> Jan 2009 CTP of Windows Azure Software Development Kit and tools for Visual Studio are available.

> Windows Workflow Changes Direction

> Salesforce.com Rationalizes InStranet Assets to Create Service Cloud.

> Announcing: Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3

> Study: Half of developers plan to work on SaaS in '09

> Consortium tackles cloud computing standards

> Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century. These are good ideas for areas where you can make a difference.

> Microsoft's Application Architecture Guide 2.0a is available as a free download on CodePlex.

> Now you can get Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications, and Office Live Meeting online on a subscription basis directly from Microsoft. [Microsoft Online Services]

 

Archived News stories.

Links

>Microsoft Online Services


Call Bill Fogg at (813)469-3388 to discuss how we can help you.


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