Technologies


Microsoft .Net Technologies
Swayam helps companies design, develop and integrate business solutions based on the .Net platform. Swayams Microsoft .NET team develops and delivers comprehensive solutions utilizing the full range of .NET functionality. Our experienced Microsoft certified software architects, developers, consultants as part of.NET competency team work with your business to understand your requirements and demonstrate the capabilities of .NET framework and develop the system to the requirements. Many of our current solutions focus on Microsoft .Net platform of products. We ensure that our technical skills remain at the forefront of the industry by investing in ongoing technology training.

Our broad range of .Net expertise includes:
  • .NET system design and application development
  • Managing upgrades and technical support for existing custom and packaged information
  • .NET Desktop and Web Application Development
  • Developing web services using the .Net framework and the SOAP toolkit
  • .NET Architecture and design evaluation
  • .NET Software Product Development
  • Web Services based .NET Application development
  • Migration of application to .NET platform



Microsoft Technologies
We provide customized application development services on the following Microsoft technologies / programming environments / development platforms such as:
  • C#
  • VB.Net
  • ADO.Net
  • SQL Server
  • IIS
  • Smart Client
  • XML
  • SOAP
  • Web Services
  • AJAX
  • ADO.NET
  • LINQ
  • MS SQL Server
  • Windows Mobile
  • ASP
  • MTS
  • COM+
  • MSMQ
  • MFC/SDK


Microsoft Enterprise Solutions
Accomplishing a competitive advantage through business agility has resulted in the giving more emphasis to integrate and extend business-critical applications, processes and data in the entire enterprise. But often, when systems are poorly integrated, the desired business results won’t reflect.

Microsoft Enterprise Solutions enable organizations to solve this problem by integrating the data synchronized with other business processes in real time.
Enterprise Application Integration is considered to be the top-most strategic priority for CIOs and CTOs and an enterprise-wide challenge for organizations simply because:

  • Crucial business functionality is spread across a wide range of custom and packaged applications.
  • Customers are increasingly demanding a single, customer-centric view into business, regardless of existing stovepipe systems.
  • Real-time B2B integration is placing additional demands on the automated execution of business processes across the enterprise

Eventually, web-based service solutions mature, organizations will inevitably turn their attention to ensuring interoperability between emerging Internet service solutions and existing EAI solutions; this is where Swayam play a crucial role BEAT.

Our Enterprise Integration solutions based on Microsoft .NET enable clients organizations to accomplish business agility through the convergence of systems, applications, processes, people and data. This convergence can be done through integrating fragmented business processes and disconnected silos of information.

We provide standard EAI systems with a broad list of services including:
  • security management
  • protocol management
  • data mapping
  • and other related functions

These services define the functionality and flow of data in the application. Our EAI solutions can benefit an organization by providing end-to-end visibility and control of business operations. This control improves interactions with partners and customers, increases responsiveness to business changes, enables new market opportunities, and makes captured knowledge more widely available.



Dynamics


Microsoft Dynamics is a line of business software owned and developed by Microsoft, though the individual products were originally created by other companies and known by various other names. We offer total support in implementing Microsoft Dynamics applications such as:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual Customer Relationship Management software package developed by Microsoft. Out of the box, the product focuses mainly on Sales, Marketing and Service (helpdesk) sectors but Microsoft have been marketing Dynamics CRM as an XRM platform and have been encouraging partners to use its proprietary (but dot net based) framework to customize it to meet many different demands.

Axapta
Microsoft Dynamics AX is one of Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning software products. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family.

Navision
Microsoft Dynamics AX is one of Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning software products. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family.

SL
Microsoft Dynamics SL is one of Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning software products. It is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family. Microsoft Dynamics SL provides businesses functionality in finance, project accounting, manufacturing, field service, supply chains, analytics, and electronic commerce and is primarily targeted for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.

GP
Microsoft Dynamics GP is a mid-market business accounting software package popular in North America that can run on a Microsoft SQL Server database. It is one of four accounting packages acquired by Microsoft that now share the Microsoft Dynamics tag.

Sharepoint


Microsoft SharePoint, also known as Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, is a collection of products and software elements that includes:
  • selection of components
  • web browser based collaboration functions
  • process management modules
  • search modules
  • document-management platform

SharePoint can be used to host websites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs. All users can manipulate proprietary controls called "web parts" or interact with pieces of content such as lists and document libraries.

SharePoint Solutions
We provide total support for clients to develop application and solutions on SharePoint. We support architects and developers design and build applications that are both flexible and scalable. We help developers how to provide users with the information they need to maintain those applications and diagnose problems when they arise.

The two reference implementations illustrate how to solve many of the common challenges developers encounter. One reference implementation addresses basic issues such as creating lists and content types. The other addresses more advanced problems such as how to integrate line of business services, how to create collaboration sites programmatically, and how to customize aspects of publishing and navigation.

Our SharePoint Solutions use a library of reusable components helps the client to adopt techniques used in the reference implementations. We also provide total guidance for testing SharePoint applications, such as how to create unit tests, and documents experiences with stress and scale testing one of the reference implementations.

CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a set of methods that companies use to interact with customers. The methods include employee training and special purpose CRM software. There is an emphasis on handling incoming customer phone calls and email, although the information collected by CRM software may also be used for promotion, and surveys such as those polling customer satisfaction.

CRM Initiatives often fail because implementation was limited to software installation, without providing the context, support and understanding for employees to learn. Tools for customer relationship management should be implemented "only after a well-devised strategy and operational plan are put in place".

Other problems occur when failing to think of sales as the output of a process that itself needs to be studied and taken into account when planning automation.

From the outside, customers interacting with a company perceive the business as a single entity, despite often interacting with a number of employees in different roles and departments. CRM is a combination of policies, processes, and strategies implemented by an organization to unify its customer interactions and provide a means to track customer information. It involves the use of technology in attracting new and profitable customers, while forming tighter bonds with existing ones.

Our CRM applications include many aspects which relate directly to one another:

Front office operations
We can provide CRM applications to support clients’ Direct interaction with customers, e.g. face to face meetings, phone calls, e-mail, online services etc.

Back office operations
We can offer support to maintain Operations that ultimately affect the activities of the front office such as billing, maintenance, planning, marketing, advertising, finance, manufacturing, etc.

Business relationships
Our CRM applications help clients to interact with other companies and partners, such as suppliers/vendors and retail outlets/distributors, industry networks (lobbying groups, trade associations).

Analysis

We can provide customized analytical application to capture key CRM data to analyze in order to plan target-marketing campaigns, conceive business strategies, and judge the success of CRM activities such as market share, number and types of customers, revenue, profitability.

Azure & Cloud Computing
Azure
The Windows Azure platform offers an intuitive, reliable and powerful platform for the creation of web applications and services. The Windows Azure platform is comprised of:
  • Windows Azure: an operating system as a service
  • SQL Azure: a fully relational database in the cloud
  • .NET Services: consumable web-based services that provide both secure connectivity and federated access control for applications

We provide full range application development on Azure platform to give our clients:
  • A familiar development experience
  • On-demand scalability
  • Reduced time-to-market for your applications

Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is Internet based development and use of computer technology. In concept, it is a paradigm shift whereby details are abstracted from the users who no longer need knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports them. It typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources as a service over the Internet.

The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on how the Internet is depicted in computer network diagrams and is an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it conceals. Typical cloud computing services provide common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on the servers.

We provide applications and IT service based on Cloud Computer technologies. We provide our support for all the following categories of Cloud Computing services:
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Utility Computing
  • Web Services
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
  • Managed Service Providers (MSP)
  • Service Commerce
  • Internet Integration.


Google Apps and Amazon Solutions


Google Apps
Google App Engine is a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.

We provide Google App integration support in a fixed environment, based around the Python language, the Django development framework, Google’s BigTable database/storage system and Google File System (GFS). At present, GFS offers developers with 500 MB of storage and compute power for up to about 5 million page views per month for free. Google has also announced pricing for more active sites.

Because this has been built so closely around Google’s own operating environment, it should be relatively easy for developers who know those frameworks to get started.

Amazon Web Services
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.

It is one of the most mature solutions in the market today. It offers basic cloud infrastructure required (compute power to run virtual machines, storage, communication queues, and database) and allows you to fully control your virtual machines and run your LAMP- or Microsoft-stack applications any way you like.

The one offering, that gets the most attention in AWS is called the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), a web service that lets you assign your application to as many “compute units” as you would like, whenever you need them.

The Amazon platform’s basic advantage is simple: you can just use the amount of storage you want, when you want it. The platform itself seems to be very low-level and very flexible. Amazon provides lots of “machine images” with various operating systems, databases, application development environments, etc. so that you can pick the one, suiting to your needs.

The following matrix compares the features of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web services and Google Apps Engine:

Feature
Microsoft Azure (Azure)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google App Engine
Availability
Early private CTP
Yes, commercially available
In public beta
Computing Architecture
Provide .NET code for front-end and back-end servers which
Microsoft then runs on Windows 2008 virtual machines according to your
environment specifications (how many machines of each kind you need, and so
on.)
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows you to upload your XEN virtual
machine images to the infrastructure and gives you APIs to instantiate and
manage them.
You write your web application in Python or Django with a specific
set of limitations set by Google and submit the application code to them.
Load balancing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Storage
Yes
Application storage and SQL Data services
Yes
Simple Storage Service (S3) and SimpleDB
Yes:
Database Datastore APIs (Big Table)
Message queuing for machine communications
Yes
Queues in Windows Azure storage
Yes
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
No
Integration with other services
.NET services:
Access control services, workflow service, service bus. Live Mesh
Various Live services (contacts, mail, maps and so on.)
No
Yes, with existing Google services: authentication, mail, base, calendar,
contacts, documents, pictures, spreadsheets, YouTube.
Tied to the vendor datacenter
Yes
Yes
Yes
Development tools
Yes, integration into Visual Studio, support for any .NET languages,
Not applicable. Amazon simply runs your virtual machines and does not
care which development platform you are using on top of the base OS.
Yes, have basic editing, local simulation, and deployment tools.
Language selection limited to Python and Django.Application-level tools such as Google Web Toolkit (GWT) do not seem
to have any integration with Google App Engine.


Surface Computing

Surface computing is the term for the use of a specialized computer GUI in which traditional GUI elements are replaced by intuitive, everyday objects. Instead of a keyboard and mouse, the user interacts directly with a touch-sensitive screen. It has been said that this more closely replicates the familiar hands-on experience of everyday object manipulation.

Early work in this area was done at the University of Toronto, Alias Research, and MIT. Surface work has included customized solutions from vendors such as GestureTek, 22MILES multi-user multi-touch coffee table, Applied Minds for Northrop Grumman, etc. Major computer vendor platforms are in various stages of release: the iTable by PQLabs, Linux MPX, and Microsoft Surface.

Applications
Surface computing is slowly starting to catch on and is starting to be used in real world applications. Here is just a sample of what surface computing technologies have been used.

The Microsoft Surface is starting to pick up popularity and has been used in various places and venues. AT&T became the first retailer to use Surface to help their customers purchase phones. Customers could place the phones on the Surface and receive full phone specs, as well as pricing. It has also been used in a wide variety of locations which include hotel lobbies, Super Bowl XLIII to help police organize and monitor the event in great detail. It is also starting to gain use in the broadcasting industry and has been used by MSNBC during the 2008 US Presidential Elections. However, USD $15,500 (device only) is still considered expensive for most business.

Surface computing is also being used to help educate the young minds of tomorrow with the use of the SMART Table. The SMART Table allows children to work together on different ready-made activities that teach them the basics of reading writing, and counting. This innovative new way of learning provides an exciting new way for children to pick up the necessary reading and writing skills they need.

Surface computing is also picking up around the world with a handful of companies producing their own brand of the surface. There are other new and innovative surface computing applications that are still being developed, one of which is from the MIT Media Lab where students are developing wearable computing systems that can be used on almost any surface.

FaceBook, Iphone, Andriod Applications

FaceBook
We can build branded applications for social networks on FaceBook development platform. We empower brands, publishers and agencies with custom applications, branded pages, Facebook Connect Integrations, iPhone applications and tools needed to easily control and monitor them.

We can design applications using Facebook Connect. Through this, we can help clients to connect their websites to Facebook quickly. We can plug it in to any part of the website, allowing users to access their Facebook account in a trusted environment. The users have complete control over the permissions granted.

We can also provide our services for the Facebook API live stream, which enables you to share deeper, richer content, including: images, flash animations, embedded links and user generated content. Users interact directly with your site on Facebook and return to learn more, increasing your traffic.

iPhone Applications
Swayam has total expertise in iPhone Application Development, iPhone Game Development and Custom Mobile Application Development. We also specialized in Websites, Graphics for iPhone Mobile.

We can conceptualize, design, develop and deploy successful applications for iPhone and iPod Touch. We can provide iPhone Applications for diverse industries. Our expert team who approach iPhone application development in a planned way. We coordinate with clients, right from scratch. We work with them through the Prototype and Graphics Designing for the Apps. Our concept development process involves research and analysis on the scope of the Mobile Application, its USP and its target users.

Android Applications
Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. The Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.

We provide total support in developing the following Android applications:
  • Email clients
  • SMS programs
  • Calendar Applications
  • Maps
  • Browsers
  • Contacts and many more



Ajax, Silverlight, WPF and Flash development

Ajax
Ajax (shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript + XML) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. The use of Ajax techniques has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages. Data is usually retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object. Despite the name, the use of JavaScript and XML is not actually required, nor do the requests need to be asynchronous.

SilverLight
Microsoft SilverLight is a web application framework that provides functionalities similar to those in Adobe Flash, integrating multimedia, graphics, animations and interactivity into a single runtime environment. Initially released as a video streaming plug-in, later versions brought additional interactivity features and support for .NET languages and development tools.

It is compatible with multiple web browser products used on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Mobile devices, starting with Windows Mobile 7 and Symbian (Series 60) phones.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
The Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications. WPF was initially released as part of .NET Framework. Designed to remove dependencies on the aging GDI subsystem, WPF is built on DirectX, which provides hardware acceleration and enables modern UI features like transparency, gradients and transforms. WPF provides a consistent programming model for building applications and provides a clear separation between the user interface and the business logic.

WPF also offers a new markup language, known as XAML which is an alternative means for defining UI elements and relationships with other UI elements. A WPF application can be deployed on the desktop or hosted in a web browser. It also enables rich control, design, and development of the visual aspects of Windows programs.

It aims to unify a number of application services:
  • user interface
  • 2D and 3D drawing
  • fixed and adaptive documents
  • advanced typography
  • vector graphics
  • raster graphics
  • animation
  • data binding
  • audio
  • video

Flash Development
We provide full range of flash development support. Using flash we also offer a host of fast-paced multimedia presentations on the web. We have the rich domain expertise to offer clients a full range of flash development services.

We can create interesting product demos or describe a process in a more interactive and interesting fashion.
Our services are not just limited to the creation flash webpages, we also ensure the optimization of flash files for their quick loading time. We believe if your pages do not have quick load time, a user will move to some other website within few seconds.

Swayam offers a number of flash development services. We have a highly competent team of flash developers who are proficient in different applications of flash development. Our Flash Development services include:

  • Widget development
  • Animated banners preparation
  • Online Advertisement preparation
  • Screen savers
  • Flash animations
  • Flash presentations
  • Flash games
  • Flash e-learning solutions


Other Technologies

Oracle
Oracle, AS 400 and Sybase Databases

Development Frameworks
We undertake application development on .NET Framework 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5:
  • Windows Workflow Foundation
  • Windows Presentation Foundation
  • Windows Communication Foundation

Languages
  • C#
  • .NET
  • VB.NET
  • VC++
  • C++
  • T-SQL
  • VB
  • JavaScript

Other Development areas
  • Distributed Computing
  • Remoting, Web Services, DCOM, WinSock, RPC
  • Application Platforms/Tools
  • MS Exchange, Active Directory, VSTSk
  • Development Platforms
  • Vista, Win 2008 (Longhorn) and predecessors
  • MVC, Ruby on rail, PHP, MySQL
  • MS Office based Solutions
IT Consultancy
IT consultency
Swayam is a growing Software/IT Consultancy firm pioneering in technology and offshore software development
IT Solutions
IT solutions
Swayam offer the complete range of IT solutions with special emphasis on customizing them according to the needs of valued clients.

Technologies
Technologies
Swayam helps companies design, develop and integrate business solutions based on the .Net platform.