Our development team is always poised to seek new and innovative ways to use modern data-driven techniques to accelerate traditional business activities. The basis of this idea is always this: Time. If we can reduce the amount of time used to complete simple tasks, it will not only give employees more time for other business tasks, but more time to analyze the data required to improve the business overall.

This is the process we go through when working with our clients to craft a solution that meets their needs.

• Investigate. We work with you and your employees to determine the issues and inefficiencies that may be present in your business processes. The most prominent things that we look for are old-fashioned data input methods, lacking integrations between different pieces of software, and inaccessability of data.
• Diagnose. Once we have determined the different areas of improvement that we need to look at, we will work with our team to find a solution that best meets your budget and needs. We will discuss the benefits of different frameworks, platforms, and deployment options that allows you to seemlessly integrate our software into your workflow.
• Propose. Now, we will come to you with our proposed solutions, budget, and timeframe for the next three steps. Depending on the scenario, we may provide options for one-time-payment, or possibly a service option for smaller, monthly payments, and a plan for maintainence and improvement over time.
• Develop. Our development team will work non-stop to create the application of your business dreams. By utilizing Azure DevOps, we will give you the ability to give us direct input in the development promise, as well as the security that your code will be stored securely in the Microsoft Cloud.
• Test. At the final stage in development, we will pull in members of your team to test not just the functionality of your new application, but more importantly, the usability. We find this step truly vital to perfecting the process, since the end-user is the one who will be able to provide key insights into the effectiveness and appropriateness of many features.
• Implement. Once you are happy with the product at the end of the testing phase, we will deploy the service to you. The deployment method will differ depending on your needs and on-site technology infrastructure, though the flexibility that is offered by services like docker and virtualization mean that it is never too late to change your mind.

Why ASP.NET Core MVC?

After working with a wide array of different frameworks throughout the history of development here at Adirondack Technologies, Inc, we have come to the conclusion that ASP.NET Core web development best serves the needs of the vast majority of tasks required of businesses in the greater Adirondack region. An outline of the advantages we have found is highlighted below.

1. The C# Language. C# (pronounced C-Sharp) offers many benefits to other languages, but the one thing that makes it stand out is its universality. With its syntactical similarities to Java and JavaScript, it can easily be managed by a wide range of developers, ensuring that maintinence and occasional bug fixes can be done by nearly any firm.
2. Cross-Platform Deployments. Dotnet core is cross-platform, meaning you are not tied to any specific operating system (ex. Windows) when using and deploying your application. This also means that if Microsoft were to all of a sudden drop support for Windows, we could transition the application to a linux-based host and have you up and running again in notime.
3. Shared Code. The code that is produced when we develop applications in .Net Core can also be used in Android and IPhone apps through Xamarin. This means that if you wanted to add a mobile app for your employees later on down the line, we would be able to use code that was part of the original application, decreasing both cost and development time.
4. Accessibility. Although we have developed desktop-specific applications in the past, we find that the web-based MVC platform allows us to minimize management tasks while allowing access for users from anywhere on site. This improves deployment times (since we only have to deal with a single installation), and also allows for more flexibility, since it is OS independent.