A New View

At VantagePoint Software, we fully understand what market forces and technology change can do. And undo. Competitive markets change and accelerate. Customer needs and wants continue to evolve. Shelf lives get shorter for products, ideas and processes. Shareholder and management demands grow more intense. As such, the need for systemic business solutions has never been greater. Solutions that span people, technology, trends, industry issues, systems and processes can take your organization to another level of performance.

Leveraging VantagePoint’s competencies in analysis and design, combined with deep implementation skills, we can help you transform change into a competitive advantage.

Partnership

When you select VantagePoint Software, our years of experience and development resources are put to work on your behalf. We don't operate in a vacuum. Or, for that matter, from an ivory tower. We partner with our clients and work step-by-step and side-by-side to respond quickly to their most demanding needs.

And we don't crank out cookie-cutter solutions. We take the best of our approaches, tap our extensive computer industry knowledge and design skills to develop the solution that's right for your organization.

Business Today

Two concepts highlight the connection between the world of business and the world of computing: business rules and business requirements.

Business rules encompass those practices and policies that define a corporation’s behavior. While often mundane, commonsense, and widely used across companies, business rules also generate those unique behaviors that result in a company’s competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Business requirements are constraints, usually self-imposed, that companies use to help them operate in their particular business environment. Business requirements often define a baseline for application requirements and provide guidance during the development process. In practical terms, these business requirements are goals that developers should strive to meet in their application development.

Together, business rules and requirements provide a context for developing applications that can help your company achieve its goals.

At VantagePoint Software we understand that these goals are unique to each company but can be generalized to the following:

	Access appropriate information in a timely manner
	Generate better business decisions
	Respond quickly to a changing market
	Improve communication, among workers and with customers
	Encourage innovation among employees
	Create a better return on investment

Business Rules and Computing

Computer systems play several important roles in realizing the goals of business rules and the benefits of a company’s interaction with the marketplace. Computer systems and business applications should provide the ability to:

	Store raw market data and processed information
	Encapsulate the business rules into software
	Quickly and easily change the rules to respond to a changing market
	Automatically act upon the rules

Application Development

Knowing how important business rules and requirements are, VantagePoint works closely with its customers when reviewing their current operations, future needs, and system requirements.

Over the last several years we have helped a number of companies, in a number of different industries, to develop and upgrade their business applications and systems.

VantagePoint Software has a group of consultants with years of experience in database design, operations, and application development.

Technical Expertise When You Need It

We are familiar with all of the latest technologies and approaches to application design and development including:

	Object Oriented Programming - Object design and implementation.
	Component Architectures including Microsoft's existing Component Object Model (COM) and their new .NET platform, Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and their Component Model (CCM) specification, and Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) using Sun Microsystems's Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE)..
	Component development - COM components, ActiveX controls, Managed Components based on the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) - CORBA and CCM objects - Enterprise Java Beans (EJB)..
	Structured Query Language - Dynamic SQL, Stored Procedures.
	Database connectivity - VantagePoint's dbObjects/mvServer of mvComponents, Microsoft's ODBC, OLE/DB, ADO, and ADO.NET, and Sun Microsystems's JDBC..
	Programming languages and development environments - Microsoft's Visual C++, Visual Basic 6.0, C# and VB.NET, Borland's JBuilder, IBM's VisualAge for Java, and WebGAIN's Visual Cafe..
	Application Partitioning and Distributed Application development - Client/Server, n-tiered application architecture.
	Distributed Application Services - Microsoft's COM+ or MTS, Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft's Message Queue (MSMQ), Apache Web Servers, OMG's CORBA, RMI/IIOP, and CCM transaction services.
	Multiple client presentation layer development - Client applications for Win32 or Linux, Microsoft Office application integration, Web applications.
	Web application approaches - HTML, DHTML, ASP or JSP, IIS or Apache, Web Services using XML-based Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
	Network design and management - TCP/IP and Netware SPX/IPX protocols.
	Application packaging and deployment, automatic client software configuration and management.
	Operating System environments - Win98, WinNT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX, and Linux.
	Relational database management system design and development including Oracle, Db2, and Microsoft's Sequel Server.
	MultiValue database management systems design and development including jBASE, D3, mv.BASE, mv.Enterprise, UniVerse, UniData, and legacy PICK-based systems.

An honest approach

We listen, consult and work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals and to discover new possibilities in emerging information technologies. These are our goals:

	Balance Creativity with Realism
	Honor Commitments
	Go beyond the Call of Duty
	Ensure a Fair Price

info@vpsoft.com