Application and product development is about two goals: increasing operational efficiency and generating revenue. You accomplish the first through internal-facing applications that help your business grow. You do the second by selling products that consumers want to get their hands on. Each goal calls for its own approach.

Whether developing applications or products, Ascentium’s approach starts by understanding what you want to build and why you want to build it. We offer strategic analysis that helps you validate and refine your business case. Do you want your product or application to make money, extend your brand, or support your users and customers? All of the above?

Only with this strong definition in hand can we then apply the right mix of people, technology, and innovation to your time and cost considerations. Only then do we start developing.

When we develop applications, we embrace an agile approach that provides immediate value through incremental investments. This reduces your time to market, helps you work better with your IT staff, and bolsters your IT environment through a deep partnership with our IT professionals and resources.

When we develop products, we start by thoroughly mapping out what it is you want to create. Then we apply long-standing methodologies specific to product development, ensuring a sound, secure result that engages customers with a consistent, value-driven experience.

We understand that every piece of technology you put out there has your name on it in some form. So we ensure that your application or product works, that it exceeds expectations, and that we deliver it on-budget and on-time.

We back up our thought leadership in design patterns and hardcore architecture with a project portfolio that includes our work with the Prescriptive Architecture Group at Microsoft.

We have a proven track record in building non-trivial applications.

We excel at interoperability solutions that help large organizations collect and combine data from back-end systems and then put that data into formats that users can easily analyze and consume.

We excel at creating—as opposed to merely maintaining—sound and secure products that sell. There are long-standing methodologies that ensure success. We’ve used them for years on products you know.

We’ve developed products for Nordstrom, Microsoft, Ziggurat Software, EDS, and the out-of-box experience for Windows Mobile powered Pocket PCs and smartphones.

We work well with internal IT groups—collaborating to meet their needs and the needs of your IT environment.

Someone here has probably met a need just like yours before, whether as an application developer or a solutions architect. We may have even worked on some of your favorite games. The key takeaway is that we’ve worked across various verticals and roles—in product companies, enterprise organizations, and consultancies.

Our team has numerous technology patent holders—members of the Microsoft Exchange, Office, and SMS teams. Our senior leads are people with 10-15 years of deep software experience.

Our list of work includes: Rock-solid and secure banking systems “Mash-ups” of rich content and Web content features SOA programming Time and invoicing systems Solutions that talk directly to hardware Full enterprise integration of heterogeneous environments Custom applications for games deployed on DVDs