There was a time when custom applications were a luxury. In today’s environment where customers, employees, and business partners expect added value services delivered directly to their desktops, PDAs, and mobile phones, agility and innovation are key to success. There are situations where the “buy” approach to delivering information solutions is appropriate. Based on sound architectural information, businesses can successfully install packaged solutions. However, in many cases, businesses simply cannot overcome the “gotchas” associated with packaged information solutions:

• Undesired impacts on business processes due to less than ideal “fit”.
• Costly customization of the package to improve “fit”.
• Loss of differentiation/competitive advantage.
• Loss of control to a vendor with conflicting objectives.
• Loss of agility in responding to shifting market trends and customer needs.

• Custom building tends to be risky, costly, and time consuming.
• Support and maintenance costs are prohibitive.

Standpoint Technologies provides a service and product combination that dramatically reduces the high costs, risks, and time to rollout normally associated with building custom applications, while retaining the “fit”, differentiation, and agility benefits of custom applications. We refer to this offering as our versatile application development service.

How does it work? We use a pre-built set of information solution components, and a platform to tie them together, to rapidly “configure” an application based on your needs. Standpoint built this technology, called VersaIT, to provide a solid Web-based platform for delivery of Web-based applications. We added robust components to handle classic features like access control, menuing, searching, event logging, etc. And we made the components and the platform flexible and configurable so that full-blown, robust, secure applications can be created simply by setting configuration options. Click here to learn more about this innovative technology.

Our versatile application development service using VersaIT technology provides the following benefits:

• Dramatically lowered upfront development time, costs, and risks.
• Decreased testing time and costs. Since the applications are based on pre-built, pre-tested components, the application testing process tends to be significantly abbreviated.
• Enhanced agility and reduced maintenance costs. The application can be easily modified by simply modifying the configuration options. These modifications can in many cases be handled by your non-technical staff.
• Reduced infrastructure needs. With the ASP option offered with VersaIT technology, it is possible to quickly and inexpensively get an application up and running with no infrastructure requirements at your site.
• More robust applications. Often businesses compromise due to costs and complexity and leave out non-essential but desired features in a custom application. With VersaIT, all features supported by the platform and pre-built components are easily included in your custom application.
• Vendor supplied technology updates. While the business functions of your solution are custom built and embodied in the configuration options, the technical infrastructure features and interfaces are a part of the VersaIT platform and components. Standpoint will provide periodic release updates to these VersaIT components, thus allowing your application to stay current with new system software releases, hardware platforms, protocols, etc.
  

Contact us to arrange an initial requirements definition meeting. In most cases, we can provide a firm price and schedule based on the gathered requirements. In those cases where the requirements are not well defined, we will provide an estimated cost, and a project plan for the tasks required to fully define the requirements.