Agility's Goal
The Application Development department’s goal is to add value by providing application development services for clients that are in need of customized software that is not available off-the-shelf or customization of existing applications. Agility’s development department is focused on the same demographic as the Infrastructure department and looks to add value through business process automation, enhanced application functionality, enhanced end-user experience, etc.
 
Projects Large and Small

The following non-exhaustive list outlines various areas of expertise of our Application Solutions abilities. Click on the links for more information.
Custom Web Applications
 

 

 

 

 

Custom Web Applications

ASP.Net is the latest Microsoft programming framework that allows for the rapid development of powerful web applications. Agility Computer Networks has chosen ASP.net as the de facto technology for developing web application because of the number of advantages it has over other technologies.

Advantages of ASP.net

ASP.Net has many advantages - both for the programmers and for the end users. Four of the advantages that will most impact the owners of a web application are listed below as examples:

  1. Powerful database-driven functionality
    Like ASP (Microsoft's language preceding ASP.Net), ASP.Net allows programmers to develop web applications that interface with a database. The advantage of ASP.Net is that it is object-oriented and has many programming tools that allow for faster development and more functionality.
  2. Faster web applications
    Two aspects of ASP.Net make it fast -- compiled code and caching. In the past, the code was interpreted into "machine language" when your website visitor viewed your page. Now, with ASP.Net the code is compiled into "machine language" before your visitor ever comes to your site.

    Caching is the storage of information that will be reused in a memory location for faster access in the future. ASP.Net allows programmers to set up pages or areas of pages that are commonly reused to be cached for a set period of time to improve the performance of web applications. In addition, ASP.Net allows the caching of data from a database so your website isn't slowed down by frequent visits to a database when the data doesn't change very often.

    ASP.Net was tested and found to be over 10 times faster for the average user than Java's J2EE technology. While there have been some debates about the methods of the testing it is interesting to note that this has been done by independent software evaluation companies.
  3. Memory leak and crash protection
    ASP.Net automatically recovers from memory leaks and errors to make sure that your website is always available to your visitors.
  4. Multiple language support
    Programmers can actually write their code in more than 25 .Net languages (including VB.Net, C#, and JScript.Net). This allows programmers to develop your web application in the language they know best and it means that you can more easily find programmers to support the work on your site.


For an in-depth discussion of Agility’s Application Development services, please call our business development team at 312.932.0508 to set-up a meeting with our development team

 

  
 
 
 
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