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In a preceding post, I touchedbriefly on the speed, multilingual awareness, security and project managementpotential of porting over to the NET framework. Let's getdown to cases today and critically examine what happens when a MicrosoftCertified Gold Partner gets on the job.
At Nashua, NH, -based HyTechProfessionals (), ateam of system architects and developers with a track record of delivering over100 NET frameworkprojects each year took on the requirement of porting an employee relationssuite from Unix to the NET environment. The group had convinced the financial services client that there wereimportant gains to be had in accessing the relational database capabilities ofMS SQL Server and that NETframework modules afforded fairly painless development and deployment.
The team delivered in spades. End-users found much more intuitive UI's,integrated links to the bank's benefits administration program and flawlessintegration of third-party solutions that pushed decisions lower down theorganization. Reports came back moreswiftly over the web-based application. And the CIO liked it that HyTech Professionals had left certain NET framework modulesfuture-proof, capable of accommodating legal, corporate policy and benefitschanges with a minimum of new coding.
With careful planning, best of all,the HyTech Professionals team managed deployment down to the level of 850 supervisorand manager desktops in just one weekend. Indeed, an eminently satisfactory accomplishment but also cleartestimony to the masterful deployment tools available in the NET framework.