W & L Software Services Has Experience That Counts
IT Long Term Projects
Often the scale of a project is confused with its longevity. The principles
that work to provide maintainable large long term projects still need to be applied
to any business application that will be deployed for more than a year. Whatever
development methodology is used, whatever the size of the team, discipline is necessary
in creating, deploying, and supporting the project.
W & L Software Services LLC has experience in true, long term projects.
We invented a methodology for common engineering data and simulation software libraries
for General Dynamics that was deployed to over a dozen platforms. This software
is currently used by Lockheed, British Aerospace, and other firms. The system
has been of immense value to the aerospace industry over the past 16 years.
We have supported this engineering data management system with several contracts
over that period of time.
Multiple Database and Service Providers
W & L Software Services LLC has worked with the two major database systems on
the market today: Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. We scaled several customer
data systems for MetroPCS from Microsoft Access to Microsoft SQL Server. We
have also worked with SAP systems as a back-end for ECommerce websites. We
currently offer VistaDB as a very low-cost, performant embedded database for Web
and desktop solutions.
eCommerce for Small and Large Firms
eCommerce continues to evolve from its origins with the debut of the Internet and
the Web in the 1990s. W & L Software Solutions LLC recognizes that small
firms need to address the same customer concerns as large established retail ECommerces
Websites, yet at a reasonable cost of doing business. We have provided checkout
solutions for the JC Penney Internet Store, solutions for small retail shops, and
lead generation and order services for Lennox dealers. We know what is needed
for a wide range of eCommerce activity, what is needed for payment processing and
to meet current regulations, and how to provide solutions at competitive prices.
Upgrades of Legacy Visual Basic Applications and ASP Websites
Many firms adopted solutions based on Microsoft Visual Basic for the desktop or
Microsoft ASP scripting technologies for the Web. Although these solutions
operated well in the 1990s, Microsoft is already dropping support for Visual Basic
and ASP technology won't be supported much longer. Unfortunately, it is already
extremely difficult to find personnel that can maintain these applications.
The good news: W & L Software Solutions LLC has an established practice migrating
legacy applications to current technology such as Microsoft .NET languages and frameworks.
This is often more cost-effective than a complete new design strategy. Besides
the extension of application lifespan, we often discover that the legacy applications
lack maintenance documentation, so this is generated during the migration process.
That allows the revised application to be more effectively maintained and upgraded.
We have performed application upgrades of this nature for the Federation of State
Medical Boards, Internal Revenue Service, Conexis, and Centex Home Equity.
High Performance Computing
Performance is often totally overlooked in software applications until after deployment.
This is a bit like planning to back up the development code after deployment.
Both ideas are very risky. It is important to have the experience to know
performance bottlenecks from the start, and to have a performance testing plan to
assure the application can perform as expected. All business websites should
have performance metrics built in, as poor performance nearly always requires corrective
action. Customers from the U.S. Postal Service, to Lennox International, to
Sprint Nextel, have benefitted from W & L Software Services proactive approach
to performance design, testing, and management.
Although clients benefit from our capability to compose efficient and fast code,
as we did for Lockheed simulation software, today's hardware and operating systems
provide even more options for high performance. We can write solutions to
run on 64-bit servers that support large high-speed memory pools, multiple processors
and processing threads, and distributed computing architectures.
Government and Defense IT
W & L Software Services LLC has a great deal of experience working with Department
of Defense contractors and government entitities such as the U.S. Postal Service,
Internal Revenue Service, and the Chatham County (Georgia) Board of Education.
We are comfortable working with special security needs and environments.