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Capstone Consulting has been in the business of building solid enterprise solutions
for more than ten years. We thought a lot about the phrase we would use to describe what we do, and
that's the one that bubbled to the top — "Solid Enterprise Solutions" — because it describes
perfectly what we do.
Capstone's expertise is four fold: Building Solid Enterprise Solutions.
1. Building: Capstone consultants are engineers
First and foremost, we're builders. Capstone consultants are trained and continually hone their
skills in creating software which delivers extensive value to the business. Whether they are
integrating off-the-shelf software into your existing enterprise or building software from scratch
leveraging powerful frameworks like rails, spring, or hibernate, Capstone can build the right solution to
meet your unique needs. Our architects, designers, and developers are well-versed in a number of
technologies and technology platforms, building software of all shapes and sizes in the Java/J2EE
world or on the Microsoft.NET stack. Capstone's roots are in the realm of distributed technology,
so our expertise is both deep in broad in application server technology, middleware, and
service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Here are some of the specific skills / knowledge sets in which Capstone specializes:
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Java, C#, ASP, VB, C/C++, PHP, HTML/CSS, and more |
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J2EE, .NET, LAMP, WebLogic Server, the WebSphere and Apache stacks, etc |
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Spring, Hibernate, Swing, Rails, and so on |
2. Solid: Capstone builds high-quality software
Software solutions designed and built by the Capstone team are stable, high-quality software products.
These are not solutions thrown together as fast as possible leveraging cheap labor and the latest fad
in rapid development. These are battle-ready, hardened software solutions, built on industry best
practice and hundreds of years of cumulative practical experience. Capstone knows the technology,
understands test-driven and behavior-driven development, and makes daily use of proven principles in
enterprise, application and data architecture ... all the ingredients for building powerful software
on which you can build your business. Not temporary bandaids to your problems, but new foundations
on which to build, innovate, and maximize your organization's potential.
Here are a few examples of the mission-critical systems Capstone consultants have built for our
customers over the years:
- Online trading systems for large financial organizations
- Enterprise network management systems
- Enterprise data warehouses
- Corporate web sites
- Advertising management software
- Telecommunications packages
- Cross-functional reporting systems, dashboards, and scorecards
- And the list goes on
3. Enterprise: More than just a simple piece of software
Capstone's focus is on the enterprise. When we're building software, it's never in a
vacuum. The infrastructure, configuration, and integration points associated with software
development efforts are just as important as the code that makes up the final result.
Capstone's knowledge of enterprise architecture is key in making sure that the environment
in which an application lives is the right one — ideally suited to support the system now
and into the future.
Because of Capstone's deep expertise, the systems we're asked by our customers to build are
rarely the simple ones. Capstone excels in taking care of the "heavy lifting" of software development
for our customers. So, rather than a simple
web application or management database, our solutions are usually enterprise-class, distributed
software. We routinely build highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, thread-safe systems for
thousands of users, and require proficiencies in capacity planning, performance management, large data
architecture, parallel processing, and others to make sure they're performing at peak efficiency and
effectiveness.
4. Solutions: On target software
The best software, even if delivered on time and on budget, won't do you any good if it doesn't
fulfill the vision, purpose and goals for which is was created. Capstone doesn't build what's cool
or new or trendy, we build what our customers need. We are experts in gathering, understanding and managing
requirements, coordinating changes and issues as they arise, and
iteratively delivering software
that advances the vision, goals, and needs of the business.
Not only that, but Capstone is also focused on the entire software lifecycle. You can trust our
expert development teams to take care of the entire process of even the most difficult software
development efforts — from
project management and
architectural services
to writing software, transitioning to production, training users, and even
managing the maintenance and support
of the finished product.
Writing great software is a discipline. It takes deep skills, proven techniques, and a project management
methodology that works. These are Capstone's core strengths.
It's an axiom in life: there's just no substitute for experience. All the reading and watching in the
world isn't the same as the knowledge that comes from doing it yourself. Capstone's consultants exemplify
this principle. Our Principal Consultants average 18 years of experience in consulting and information
technology. Our experience extends into many disciplines, countless technologies, and a variety of
industries. We have leveraged this experience in the development of enterprise software,
custom training, strategic mentoring, project management, and a host of other professional services.
Here are a few examples of the industries in which Capstone's software architects and developers
have extensive experience:
- Information technology
- Financial, banking, brokerage
- Insurance
- Agricultural
- Pharmaceutical
- Public sector (particularly state legislature)
- Telecommunications
- And many more
Capstone's team of expert software engineers has delivered hundreds of solutions
to dozens of customers all over the country. From simple quick hit solutions to
extremely complex multi-year enterprise solutions, Capstone has pretty much built
it all. But in every case, our focus is the same ... Building a solid IT foundation
for our customers, returning significant value to their business early and often.
Check out what Capstone's customers have to say about
software development excellence!
Capstone assists our customers with developing software in a number of ways. First, we can provide
staff augmentation
to supplement our customer's IT group with expert Capstone resources, whether for development
or project management. Second, we can provide architectural oversight on a project. This may mean
directly staffing the application architect role on the project (staff augmentation again) or by
mentoring an architect employed by our customer. We call this
"architectural oversight.
Our most common approach, however, to assisting our customers build complex software is with
full-lifecycle custom software development. In this mode, a customer "outsources" the construction of an
entire new system or the next release of an existing system to Capstone Consulting. Capstone manages the project,
gathers requirements, architects and designs the solution, builds it, tests it against defined user acceptance
criteria, trains the users, and transitions the system to production. Capstone consultants (the PM and technical
leader, a seasoned application architect) are onsite at the customer's office for the planning and design stages,
then the system is built mostly off-site at Capstone's development center. Then, training and production transition
occur again on site with the customer. Capstone can also support the application, including hosting the system
themselves as an ASP (application service provider) or support the system remotely while it lives in the customer's
data center or other hosting environment.
Learn more about
Capstone's Managed Software Services offering.
Most importantly, Capstone does not deliver software to our customers as a big bang. We will absolutely NOT lock
ourselves in a room while we devise and build a clever solution to a customer's problem. The process is iterative,
incremental, and interactive. Capstone leverages Agile principles in software development to ensure quality releases
that deliver real value to the customer every 30-60 days, not in months or years.
Learn more about
Capstone's incremental approach to project management.
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