Call The Consultant and it's employees have been providing software development services to other companies for over fifteen years, using a wide variety of platforms and languages.

For the last four years, projects have been focused on Client/Server, Internet and Intranet environments, including both distributed enterprise applications and backend server systems. Prior projects included product planning websites, consumer information websites, client/server call center applications and small business database solutions.

The staff of Call The Consultant includes individuals with a wide range of knowledge and skills, but the fundamental skills emphasized are those needed for development using the Microsoft products. These skills include extensive experience with SQL Server, and the Visual Studio Suite, including Visual Basic, Visual InterDev, Visual C++, and also the Microsoft Office Suite of products, including advanced Automation and Visual Basic for Applications coding within Access, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.

Win32 development, including Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 platforms, is a secondary skill set for the company. This includes a high degree of familiarity all necessary development features of each platform, as well as specific technologies associated with the Win32 platforms such as the Win32 threaded mechanism, MTS, IIS and COM. This background can often come in useful when transferring old client server based applications into newer web technologies.

Call The Consultant also features an extensive knowledge of and experience with all forms of data interfacing, including ODBC, ADO, RDO, DAO, and OLE-DB. This allows us to interface with all manner of back end data sources in a variety of efficient manners.

On the design level, Call The Consultant strongly believes in iterative development, refactoring, and the application of design patterns in projects, and considers a familiarity with these approaches to be essential for all development personnel.