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Technology
Whether it's building a simple marketing Web site, developing an online community, developing mobile marketing solutions that work or building rich, scalable online presences, we have a senior team of architects, developers and project managers that will help you deliver.
Web Development
What is Web Development in the world of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web? There are a lot of buzzwords out there... that often serve to confuse rather than clarify things for those who are trying to accomplish their business goals. We believe that Web Development is about leveraging Web-oriented technologies to achieve business goals. Whether it's building a simple marketing Web site, developing an online community, developing mobile marketing solutions that work or building rich, scalable online presences, we have a senior team of architects, developers and project managers that will help you deliver.
Our process has been honed over hundreds of diverse Web initiatives. We specialize in solving the problems that people say can't be solved. ThoughtMatrix senior team members will help solve your toughest technical challenges—including the selection of the right technology, be it be Java, Ruby on Rails or PHP—and we'll deliver your project with expert execution. Experience and talent are what matters when trying to hit deadlines or blaze new trails online.
Mobile Site Development
The introduction of 3G—and now 4G—networks, Wi-Fi and GPS in mobile devices has fueled tremendous growth in mobile Internet use. Mobile phones, smartphones and, most recently, tablets have become the primary interface to the Web for many users. Users not only expect to interact with your brand on these devices, but also form brand perceptions, loyalty and even transact on their mobile devices. To effectively reach these users, companies must broaden their Web presence through optimizing their existing Web sites for mobile and creating mobile-only event programs, multimedia downloads and other immersive mobile experiences.
ThoughtMatrix offers a comprehensive set of mobile site development services to ensure a robust experience for your mobile users. We focus on understanding your target audience, contextual relevance and overarching business requirements to create an optimized mobile site that complements your existing Web site and enhances your users' experience with your company. Our expertise in all the major mobile browsers and their underlying toolkits allow us to build a compelling experience on any platform. Our deep technology experience ensures we can create a seamless integration with even the most complex back-end systems. With our team's passion for mobile, we have created many cutting-edge mobile Web sites for a variety of clients, all the while adhering to the latest industry standards for mobile Web development.
Community
Everyone today wants to build an online community or be a part of one. The challenge with building communities... is figuring out how to truly differentiate with the wide variety of options available. We have launched communities for many customers, and we have found that the tools in the marketplace are not only limited, but also the integration of those tools is difficult and costly. However, customers have come to not only expect certain features and functionality, they also expect a level of usability and sophistication that they get from the top Communities they associate with (such as Facebook and LinkedIn).
ThoughtMatrix has addressed these unique issues by creating a new platform for quickly developing and deploying new online communities and social networks. This platform is RapidSocial. RapidSocial provides components for:
- Member management
- Member directories
- Forums
- Blogs
- Q&A
- Calendar
- Group invitations
- OpenSocial integration
- Open source ad server integration
- Facebook integration
All of these components are integrated around a unified customer registration model. Rather than trying to cobble together open source components or being reliant on a hosted solution, we can leverage RapidSocial to help you focus on new ways to differentiate your community and integrate your business logic. Contact us today to learn more.
Systems Integration
Systems Integration is one of the most challenging of all disciplines, especially when it comes to integration with end customers on the Web. The marriage of enterprise business systems with those that are exposed outside of the firewall is an extremely complex endeavor. Our senior architecture staff brings a great depth of experience with systems integration in large enterprises to the table. Our team has delivered deep and complex integration projects for companies such as Symantec, PayPal, American Airlines, Walgreens and many others.
ThoughtMatrix provides a wealth of engineering discipline and process to integration efforts and projects. Please contact us today to find out more.
Portal Development
If you ask ten different people what a portal is, you are likely to get ten different responses. We think of portal development as the development of Web-based solutions that bring together disparate elements of your business and enable your customers, employees or other users to have the view of content, tools, systems and/or data in the way that you need.
Whether the portal is a traditional portal leveraging Websphere Portal or JBoss Portal, or you are building solutions based on custom Java, Ruby on Rails, .NET or PHP, we can help. We will aid you in defining your users, their needs, their behavior and the content and tools that will help them accomplish those tasks. If users need to customize their view of their world as it relates to their interaction with you, we will define the working models and build something intuitive and scalable.
Mobile App Development
While the use of cell phones has become pervasive, text messaging is much more prevalent than Web browsing... on mobile devices. However, with richer phone experiences from Palm, Blackberry and the iPhone, true convergence has begun. Our team has been passionate about mobile since the early days when we launched the first event-based Mobile Experiences at 3Com Park in 2000.
Today, we work with a variety of mobile companies on the development of cutting-edge mobile applications. From mobile marketing using text messaging to handset application development, we do it all. Our experience with and passion for mobile and mobile solutions, combined with our depth in creative, technology and online strategy, uniquely positions us to create mobile solutions for our clients.
Platform Selection
Whether you are embarking on an initiative to build a new and innovative Web site, develop an eCommerce site..., upgrade your back-end content management system or integrate search, choosing the right technology platform is a critical decision to establish the baseline foundation. Selecting the wrong platform could become costly and complex to switch, or even upgrade, and could potentially inhibit future growth for your company.
At ThoughtMatrix, we maintain an unbiased, vendor-neutral view on all enterprise and open source options. Instead, we focus on solving your complex technical challenges and business requirements. We leverage our extensive research and combined experience to identify the most applicable technology platforms that will most effectively achieve your objectives.
Database Design
Information exists in every part of your organization—simply consider sales and marketing..., product management, finance, manufacturing, eCommerce and other critical areas of your operation. How you harness and analyze this information can determine how successfully you grow your business and establish a competitive advantage.
The ThoughtMatrix team of database architecture and development experts can help you systematically harvest your valuable data and present it in a customized, well-packaged fashion that will enable your organization to make more informed decisions. We will work with you to evaluate your business requirements, create detailed database schema and develop a comprehensive, scalable database design and implementation plan that is tailored to your specific needs.
Leveraging the latest database management systems—including Enterprise databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, and open source systems including mySQL, Ingres and Postgres—our team can help you solve the most complex business problems. Our extensive background includes successfully engineering, designing and implementing some of the largest databases in the world. These databases can now successfully endure the many application updates each company experiences along with the constant evolution of each company's business needs.
Our team can help you with all phases of database projects:
- Project planning
- Database schema development
- Custom database development
- Database-driven application development
- Reporting and business intelligence
- Data warehousing
- Data migration
- Post-implementation review
