The 55 Minutes advantage
Good programming talent is scarce. Excellent programming talent merged with a deep understanding of user requirements and business constraints is downright rare.
The 55 Minutes development team has the combination of strong programming and system architecture skills, wide technical knowledge, business sense, and an eye for good user interface design—all of which are important in making your project a success.
Our software development expertise means that your project will be of exceptional quality and delivered faster and at lower cost. Combined with 55 Minutes’ requirements definition and design services, your users will get exactly what they need, in a form that is intuitive and easy to use. And our commitment to open standards and thorough documentation results in solutions that can be easily integrated with your other enterprise IT systems.
Our commitment to excellent documentation and communication
Effective communication is critical to the success of projects in all disciplines. This fact is often overlooked when managing software development projects.
As a result, poor communication slows down projects and leads to software that fails to meet requirements. And when documentation is overlooked, even the most technically excellent software is unlikely to be well maintained or repurposed.
At 55 Minutes we recognize that software development is more than just writing code. It involves effectively managing constantly evolving requirements, providing training and support, and engineering solutions for ease of use and maintenance.
We are committed to open and clear communication during each stage of the project. Our iterative development process keeps you closely involved to ensure the solution meets or exceeds expectations. And our excellent documentation means that maintenance, training, support, and IT systems integration will be ongoing successes.
Our technology expertise
At 55 Minutes we believe in choosing the best tool for the job—that means weighing factors of technology, quality, long-term sustainability and business constraints.
Whether it be a server platform, middleware product or digital asset management system, we are continually evaluating which emerging and established technologies are best suited for our clients’ demanding requirements.
We embrace open standards to increase the value of our solutions within your IT infrastructure and to ensure they will be viable for the long term. And when appropriate, we leverage proven open-source software to speed development, improve quality, and reduce costs.
Here are some highlights of our technology expertise.
- Server platforms
- We prefer Linux for its cost, reliability and interoperability advantages, but we’re just as comfortable using Windows, Solaris and Mac deployment platforms.
- Database platforms
- We have database expertise in open source and commercial products: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
- Application development languages and frameworks
- We use Python with Django for small, agile projects, and Java with Wicket for larger enterprise applications. We choose the most appropriate tools given your goals and existing infrastructure.
- Open standards
- We believe simple, open standards lead to lower costs and higher quality results. That’s why we’ve invested our time in becoming experts in ReST, XML standards and semantic XHTML.
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