Northridge Interactive software architects and business analysts work with clients to uncover, analyze, prioritize, and document business requirements. By leveraging our True North Methodology™ we organize the business requirements across a series of logical deliverables that enable a reliable and highly-visible application construction. For more information about our process, please read our True North Methodology™ white paper.
Nearly all server-based applications leverage a data repository for fast storage and retrieval of application information. Northridge Interactive has Microsoft-certified software architects and database administrators that design relational database models within Microsoft SQL Server to deliver high-performance data access. In addition to logical modeling, our systems infrastructure engineers architect highly-available fault tolerant SQL Server clusters that provide mission critical application availability.
Applications must be intuitive in order to drive end-user adoption and ultimately realize the original productivity and efficiency objectives. There are many technology consulting firms that can deliver the functional solution but don’t understand the critical importance of user interaction and usability. Northridge Interactive combines the left-brain of our engineers with the right-brain of our designers to deliver compelling applications that end-users are excited to use.
Northridge Interactive has been building highly-functional business applications for over a decade. Through hundreds of engagements we have nurtured our robust code library and software factories to help us consistently deliver reliable, high-quality solutions for our clients. Our software engineering team has been working with the Microsoft.NET Framework since its inception and we continue to work closely with Microsoft on the evolution of Microsoft’s software development toolkits including Visual Studio, Silverlight, Expression Studio, and ASP.NET AJAX.
Business applications are of little value if they don’t provide the business user and company management with insightful information upon which future business decisions can be made. This information is typically presented in the form of reports, charts, and dashboards. Northridge Interactive provides both traditional OLTP reporting solutions as well as OLAP reporting solutions within a data warehouse environment. For Business Intelligence solutions, Northridge Interactive utilizes SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and third-party front-end reporting tools and components. Northridge Interactive maintains a dedicated team of data warehousing and BI specialists that architect robust enterprise reporting solutions for clients.
Software testing must begin at the requirements analysis phase and should continue rigorously through the production launch of the business application. Northridge Interactive maintains a dedicated Quality Assurance team that is responsible for developing test scripts, completing full regression testing, validating builds for production, and releasing validated software into production environments.
Once an application has been developed and fully tested, it is then ready for its production home which is often one or more servers to house the application, database, and associated services. Northridge Interactive maintains Microsoft-certified systems architects on staff that appropriately size and design server and network infrastructures to meet application performance targets. By leveraging server virtualization with Microsoft Hyper-V and high-availability clustering, Northridge Interactive systems architects create runtime environments that deliver both performance and uptime. Northridge Interactive manages a highly-redundant data center infrastructure and gives clients the option of outsourcing the solution hosting and maintenance to us thereby removing the capital expenditure and maintenance costs of managing the solution internally.
The best software is generally developed in an iterative fashion such that users are provided with regular releases that enable new value-added functionality. Trying to pack all possible features into a 1.0 release of any application is a usually recipe for a very long development cycle and low end-user satisfaction. Northridge Interactive recommends that clients develop applications in an iterative fashion by regularly gathering feedback from users and incorporating that feedback in future releases. After delivering the initial solution for our clients we stay engaged and provide ongoing support and application evolution as needed. We integrate with the internal IT team of our clients and augment that team in a flexible manner by providing ongoing application maintenance and enhancements.