
PageTrends Consulting is uniquely positioned to provide you with the highest quality web application software to meet your businesses needs. Our consultants have years of experience working with users to define and document business requirements, model data needs, and draw process and work flow diagrams. Initial requirements gathering and modeling of the data, process, and workflows is a step that all too often falls by the wayside with many smaller and less experienced consulting companies. By building the application without a complete understanding of the data, processes, and workflows involved consultants run the risk of building an application that either is usable but doesn't meet the companies needs, meets the needs but is unusable, or is unusable and fails to meet the companies needs.
Through an iterative process of interviewing, modeling, reviewing, and correcting those models prior to writing any code, PageTrend's Consultants will insure that what you are requesting will be built correctly.
PageTrends follows a System Development Life Cycle methodology that has been developed through the consolidation of other methodologies. Using a proven standard process, you will have a roadmap of your project and will understand who is responsible for what and the sequence of events in the process.
During the software development process, changes will occur. Business processes change, markets changes, new ideas are developed, and unknowns become knowns. PageTrends helps to mitigate the impact of these changes by requesting that a iternary of phases be set up in advance to cover any potential needs and to help prevent surprises. more
A Modular Application is one that contains several components that can be independently licensed. PageTrends has developed modular application technology into our development infrastructure.
Unlike monolithic applications, where all features are compiled into a single executable, modular applications typically have a central engine and a set of complementary feature libraries. Each library -- usually called a plug-in or a module -- implements a unique feature. When that specific feature is needed, the engine simply loads the module on demand, and calls the module to do the work. more
CONTENT MANAGEMENT IS THE NEXT STEP in separating structure from design. What began with Cascading Style Sheets and was furthered by XML, is exploding with the CM environment, where billions were spent last year and more billions are expected to be spent in the years ahead.
PageTrends specializes in many levels of CMS application design. From a very small web CM system enabling users to control content, to huge Internet . Intranet systems for a full solution to data management. All our systems development are based on the same idea: CM allows designers to focus on design by building templates. Subject experts build content in a separate environment. The server takes the content, inserts it into the correct template and sends it all, neatly wrapped up, to end users. If you are looking for CMS managment on any level PageTrends has years of experience in this field to help you. more.
PageTrends develops database-driven web base applications using MySQL, ModPerl and Mason. PageTrends will advise you on which combination is suitable for your web based application as well as provide full hosting support for MySQL, PHP, ModPerl and Mason. The combination of ModPerl, Mason and MySQL provides a fast, powerful and cost-effective development platform and will provide the dynamic aspects of website development that is quickly becoming the standard. more...
Open-source software (OSS) is software for which the source code is distributed or accessible via the Internet without charge or limitations on modifications and future distribution by third parties [17]. It is a phenomenon that grew slowly out of the BSD Unix and Free Software Foundation GNU projects during the 1980's, but it wasn't until the 1990's that the open-source software development truly gained momentum. The main reason for this is the growth of the Internet, which made collaboration between programmers possible on a scale much larger than was possible before. Perhaps not surprisingly, much open-source software is itself oriented to implementing the Internet infrastructure; as a result, it is now the dominant mechanism for providing Internet services. more.
Ecommerce Web development usually involves the development of your business functionality onto the Web. Larger business will require custom integration of e commerce capabilities PaqeTrends offers a complete line of custom e commerce software development packages to meet your specific needs.