Custom application solutions can give your company a powerful competitive advantage by providing unique, integrated ways to drive business processes and data. But designing and delivering specialized software can often take a drain on capabilities and budgets of IT teams, who must focus on managing existing software applications.

Building custom enterprise applications based on the Microsoft cost-effective .NET Framework is our core competency. We have helped hundreds of customers worldwide, across industries, design and deploy .NET-based applications that increase business agility. Our continuous investments in .NET enable our teams of Microsoft Certified Solution Developers to accelerate time-to-market, dramatically reducing enterprise application development costs.

Our application development expertise, proven methodologies, tools, and best practices enable Axxend to deliver custom applications that offer seamless interoperability, improved reliability, simplified management, and lower total cost of operations (TCO).

Business growth can sometimes have an unexpected down side: a portfolio of soon-to-be obsolete and legacy applications on disparate platforms that burden IT budgets and stretch maintenance resources.

If this describes your IT environment, Axxend Application Portfolio Planning experts can help your IT team develop cost-effective strategies for managing current resources while planning a phased migration to today’s best enterprise application platform, Microsoft .NET Framework. First, we’ll analyze your application portfolio and create an application maintenance plan for older mission-critical software and code bases that optimizes their functionality, supports existing business processes, and scales to support future application portfolio growth. Next, we’ll work with your IT team to rationalize, re-architect, and migrate your applications to an integrated, reliable, and adaptable environment based on the .NET platform.

This is also an excellent opportunity to evaluate a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach, which can increase the functionality of current applications while reducing maintenance costs, and to consider outsourcing application development and management, which can cut costs and free investment funds for use on strategic initiatives.

In the next-generation workplace, highly mobile employees need interactive software, constant connectivity, and seamless access to mission-critical data and applications to stay productive and maintain a competitive advantage.

Axxend can help you create the right tools to meet their needs. Our Rich Client Application solutions build on Microsoft technologies to help you create multi-platform, scalable, cost-effective software solutions that integrate seamlessly with your existing line-of-business applications. Our solutions leverage the capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint® Server and Commerce Server, as well as cutting-edge technologies such as Windows® Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight™, and Microsoft Surface.

To keep IT budgets under control, managers often look for ways to reuse legacy software rather than replacing it. However, incorporating key features into larger business management processes can be challenging, especially if the software was originally designed as a standalone application.

Axxend can help your company extend its investments in existing systems through Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), an application model that promotes the reuse of software by exposing the functionality to other applications; these services can then be configured into new composite systems. Our enterprise SOA solutions can streamline your business operations and increase the agility of your enterprise, so that you can react more quickly to regulatory demands and competitive pressures.

Axxend has the proven expertise, tools, and best practices to help make your SOA effort successful. We’ll work with you to assess your current environment, identify existing application features that could be leveraged more broadly, and prioritize those opportunities that are most beneficial to your business. With a well-defined implementation plan executed in a timely, cost-effective fashion, we’ll help you reduce IT costs, improve business operations with automated processes, and enable your organization to respond more quickly to changing business needs.