xiion has targetted a core set of Microsoft technologies for delivering high value solutions to our customers. We do this because we believe that being experts in a few areas gives us an ability to deliver ultimate business value to our customers.
Smart Client Application Development
Smart Client Software development techniques allow system developers to provide customers with applications that have a rich and responsive user experiences and also allow the implemenation of extensible and reuseable application architectures build upon Web Services and other SOA technologies.
The xiion team has had extensive experience designing and implementing Smart Client based applications to a variety of customers. Focussing on the Microsoft Smart Client Software Factory as a base implementation, xiion has extended this framework so that it truly meets enterprise application development requriements.
Web Application Development, Silverlight and AJAX
Web application delivery technologies allow businesses to create and deploy applications that can be accessed on the intranet, extranet and intranet from virtually any platform. The xiion team are experts in online delivery technologies, and can provide a solution that meets even the toughest IT infrastructure requirements.
Mobile Client Software
Smart Phones, PDAs and other mobile devices are a key tool in today business world. xiion can provide experienced application development capabilities targetting Windows Mobile based devices, and by utilising web based technologies can target all other browser capable mobile clients such as the iPhone.
WPF, WF and WCF Technologies
With the release of the .NET 3.0 framework, Microsoft delivered to the development community three new and revolutionary technologies; Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). These technologies provide important new capabilities to application developers.
Microsoft Server Technologies
The xiion team has implemented solutions on a wide range of Microsoft based Server technologies including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Server 2000, 2003 and now 2008, Exchange Server and Sharepoint Server to name a few. We have the experience to deliver robust solutions that work with existing infrastructure, or can provide a full end to end program delivery that covers not only application development but also infrastructure procurement, setup, deployment and support.
Methodologies and Tools that we use:
Methodologies and toolsets are continually evolving. At xiion we use a variety of methodologies and tools for both our internal development activities as well as our external service provision. Having flexibility in our tools and methodology give us an ability to speak the customers language.
