Solutions - IVERTEX

Whether you need Design, Development, Support, or Advanced Hosting Services, Ivertex has the experience to assist you on two major software platforms and in multiple operating system environments.

Our experts daily use both the Microsoft and Java platforms, and they are both very viable options for enterprise quality solutions. We view both platforms as tools to accomplish our customers' goals. We are not a hammer and everything is not a nail. We are also very good at integrating open source technologies, such as Perl, Linux, Apache libraries, and more, into a larger solution. Our approach is to analyze your business requirements and recommend a solution that is appropriate to achieve your goals in the most cost effective way. We will assist you in selecting the tools based on your company's background, current skillsets, resource availability/cost, and your goals for the future.

Also, we would like to point out that the Java Platform is viable on Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. We are not a Microsoft Java shop. You can certainly build a very high-performance Java environment on Microsoft Windows servers, and that may be a great choice depending on your company's programming, networking, and system administration resources. Our advice: Don't fill your tool pouch based on popular buzzwords. Use your business requirements to drive tool selection, always!

Microsoft Platform
If you are seeking a high-performance implementation for delivery in a Microsoft-only environment and integrating with Microsoft-only systems, then the Microsoft Platform is your best option. Microsoft solutions have a very competitive cost for performance ratio. Interoperability and portability among different systems and languages is not a high priority on this platform, and mixing vendor products in this platform can be a hazardous and not very cost effective scenario in the real world.

Java 2 Platform
If you have to deliver your product to both Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments, or integrate with multiple technologies, then the Java Platform is probably the best choice. Java favors portability and interoperability. Java is a very vendor-neutral solution for the most part, with a steadily growing pool of technical resources. Performance of server-side Java is very acceptable for any application, and the scalability provided by Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and Jini architectures is very well thought out and based on years of experience in transaction processing and network programming.

Microsoft Platform

Database-driven web applications
Active Server Pages, COM+ components, and Windows 2000 Server make a solid foundation for web applications that need to be dynamic in nature or integrate with company databases. There are some real tricks to getting it right the first time, especially if your development effort needs a team of programmers to coordinate their work. Contact us today to find out more. We can also help you with performance metrics and show you how to take advantage of Windows 2000 Advanced Server's load balancing and clustering features if you have a high-volume environment.

Distributed Component Architectures
The component technology possibilities are COM, DCOM, or MTS/COM+ architectures. While the three are very similar, there are vast differences in the underlying implementation and your deployment and support scenarios. We can fit you with the appropriate component technology depending on your business needs, and provide developers with experience in Visual Basic, C++, and Delphi languages.

Commercial Distributed and Desktop Solutions
Most firms that provide programming services are currently focused on building internal business applications and e-commerce sites. Everyone seems to have forgotten how important commercial, including both desktop and server, applications can be.

We'd love to show you how a turnkey, commercial solution can be a server-side solution with zero-dependency and distributed component technologies. You can dramatically lower your support costs compared to typical desktop applications, and make it easier to do future versions of your software at the same time.

Java 2 Platform

Web and Desktop applications
Java Server Pages and Swing/JFC technologies make user interface development a breeze in the Java platform. For larger systems adding JBoss, Jini, and Apache technologies will give you an enterprise system that is super easy to maintain and has awesome performance.

Distributed Network Solutions
Java's network support is unequalled by other platforms. Sun's Jini technology is also revolutionary and makes complex distributed and parallel programming almost child's play. If you are wasting money on an n-tier solution, you owe it to yourself to consider other distributed approaches, including hub-and-spoke, and peer-to-peer style programming using Jini, SOAP, XML-RPC, or EJB technologies.

Since January 2000, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) has cornered 76-90% of the application server market. J2EE software was developed in response to enterprise customer demand for faster solution development, freedom to choose among compatible products, and simplified connectivity within the enterprise and with external systems. J2EE is a stable and secure cross-platform development and deployment environment, designed from the ground up for both the Web and demanding enterprise solutions. Faster time to market with J2EE is continually a praise from software developers regarding the Java Platform.