Application Development

The purpose of software application development is developing a piece of software that has been programmed for a specific function and/or need. While all software developed using application development is technically custom, the difference is that packaged applications were designed with a general set of features to be used by a broad range of users. Custom application development is capable of producing practically any feature you may desire. Time and money are virtually the only limiting factors.

Quality planning and design is the key to successful Custom Application Development. It can give your site unique and valuable features, but make sure the return is worth the cost.

Our custom applications, offer your company an opportunity to develop a competitive advantage by using technology in a more productive or effective way than your competitors. Custom development does not have to be expensive. Our custom software solutions can become an efficient method for both industry leaders and small companies to reduce expenses and retain a competitive advantage.

We provide total flexibility in terms of Custom Application Development - the process is essentially "Client Driven". It is important to remember that a well-designed database should provide the end product that is tailored to meet both your professional and practical business needs and therefore serve its intended purpose.

We typically design our products using the ColdFusion. ColdFusion is a commercial, enterprise level, application server product from Adobe. ColdFusion is designed to be a high availability, rapid application development platform for web applications. By harnessing the power of ColdFusion, the team of ColdFusion developers at Wave Works Solutions can efficiently and effectively build a secure web site or web site application custom tailored to your business needs.

Why ColdFusion?

The Key Points

• Wide adoption (75% of Fortune 100 Companies)
• Independently recommended (Gartner)
• Award winning (CODiE, JOLT & Intelligent Enterprise)
• Tight integration with Flex/Flash/PDF/AIR/BlazeDS (Adobe technologies)
• Frequent releases
• Commercially supported
• Excellent Built-In monitoring tools

What does that mean?

It means that your web site is running on a commercial platform which can be easily scaled as your visitor numbers increase. As a Rapid Application Development language, development time is kept to a minimum, keeping your costs and timescale down.

You've heard that ColdFusion is an old language.

This is a common misconception. ColdFusion was launched in 1995 since then there have been eight major releases - that equates to a new version being released every two years. ColdFusion was purchased by Adobe from Macromedia in 2007 and is used by approximately 75% of the Fortune 100 companies. A Gartner report published in May 2009, recommended ColdFusion stating that:

"ColdFusion can provide unique value that is not addressed by any competing alternative technology. Most notably, ColdFusion is unmatched by any competitor for ease of use and technical capabilities"

PHP is everywhere, why not just use PHP?

An interesting point to consider is that the widely adopted free PHP application server, is not designed to run business critical applications, instead you should use the commercial version. To quote from the Zend web site:

"The community edition of Zend Server is a free, simple PHP Web Application Server environment that is ideal for running non-critical PHP applications or just for experimenting with PHP."

It is worth asking yourself if you want to run your web site on the cheapest solution you can find or consider it a sound investment to pay a little bit more. As a commercial product, ColdFusion has to be good to compete against what are perceived as the free alternatives.