Information Technology Consulting
Our Information Technology Consulting practice have been helping businesses since 2001. We can either manage and staff your entire project or work with your team to facilitate a successful project by providing additional resources with the specific skills and knowledge your project requires.
Our offerings include:
Application Architecture and Design
We have extensive expertise with designing large-scale web-based applications, and architecture designs that can scale to millions of users. Our highly technical staff can help you design and develop various types of web-based, n-tier, client server, multi-tenet and many more applications.
We work with you to help you determine the correct technology platform, whether is be VB.NET, C#, .Net, Java, Third Party Solutions or Open Source Solutions. We will help you find the right solution that makes sense for your budget and for your needs.
Extensive experience with customizing existing legacy applications or integrating new applications with the existing legacy system, enabling new application domains to be developed without re-developing your current systems, while maintaining a high level of integration.
Custom Software Development
We provide custom software development services for web-based and client server applications. We can develop complex application that integrate with your core applications. Our software development teams have on average over 10 years of experience with many Fortune 500 companies.
Database Scalability and Performance Service
General Blue Corporation has some of the best database administrators, data modelers and data base designers in the world. We have strong knowledge and ability to translate logical data model into high performance physical database designs, while maintain structure which are easy for your developers or software engineers to utilize in the development of their applications.
Data access layers are fundamental for the success of your development project. We have the experience and architecture experience to design and develop data access layers that are highly efficient while maintaining the integrity of your data.
Database Design (Relational, OLTP, Data Warehousing, High Performance Telco)
Designing a new application requires a lot of planning and requirements gathering. Once you have your requirements gathered, and you business goals defined it's time to start determining what type of data store you need to achieve your goals. This is where we can help, working with your business analyst and stakeholders, numerous factors have to be considers when determining the database design. Factors include;
- How many users?
- How much data will be stored?
- What type of reports will be produce?
- Does it require 24/7 availability?
- Time frame to go live?
- And many more...
We can work with you through all of the issues to determine not only the design, but the database platform that will make sense for your project. There are many database server platforms available including but not limited too; Oracle, SQL Server 2005, DB2, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Object Oriented Databases and Berkley-DB.
When it comes to picking the right physical database design our experts have the experience with helping you weigh the trade offs between different physical designs and what things are absolutely required to safeguard your important data. In some cases it may make sense to either have a hybrid design to accommodate your needs or maybe two or more independent database designs that are highly integrated but serving different functions. Making the right decisions are critical to the success of your project.
Web Services and XML
Web Services are a new and exciting way to share data through your organization or with your customers. General Blue has extensive experience with building highly-scalable web services that will integrate with your existing legacy or new systems. There are many issues when developing web services, such as security, scalability, integrity of data, and multiple data sources.
Extraction Transformation Load (ETL)
ETL projects are sometimes the most complex due to the numerous data sources and transformation that need to occur to load the data into your data warehouse or other system. There are numerous tools that we have extensive experience with including DTS, SSIS, IBM Ascential Data Stage.