We create digital products
This cultivates into many things like web applications, IOT interfaces, enterprise solutions, and data management software.
Custom Development
Is at the heart of what we do
Developing custom software that creates a better experience for your customers is our mandate. We break down what needs to be done and prioritize to make this process more manageable. We start by sitting down with you and strategizing this process and aligning on what real problems need solutions.
We are focused on being agile which means involving you at important steps and getting what we build in front of you and your customers quickly and as often as needed to render useful feedback. We value extreme transparency and integrity; for us, this means we are always in front of the problems for success to quickly follow. If you are successful, we are successful.
Our focus is to make custom software development affordable and accessible to small and medium-sized businesses.
A list of our technical processes
Web Applications
Web Application (or web app) is an application program that operates in a web browser, as opposed to software programs that function locally and natively on the device's operating system (OS). This method of development ensures that software is locally abstracted from the machine's operating system, which has a number of benefits, including accessibility across devices for users, personalization for multiple devices, connectivity to other systems, elimination of maintenance headaches, enhanced flexibility and scalability, and data security, among others.
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Corporate System Integration
System integration is the method of linking all of an organization's IT systems, technologies, applications, and softwares so that they conduct business as a single system. It is employed in both internal and external applications and integrates the entire business architecture, allowing for interoperability among the various tools.
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Business Analysis
A process for identifying needs and developing solutions to business problems. Solutions frequently include software system evolution, but they may also include improvement opportunities, organizational change, program management, and policy development. Calico Business Analysts work across the organization to solve business problems in collaboration with business stakeholders. This service typically consists of investigating business systems and taking a comprehensive view of the situation. Examining organizational structure elements and staff development issues, as well as current processes and IT systems, may be included. Actions to improve the operation of a business system are evaluated. Ascertain that the business and its staff are on board with any proposed process redesign and IT system development.
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Mobile Applications
For mobile development, we've been working with the native SDK and it has been great for performance and responsiveness, but there is a productivity cost with this. Still, we feel this is a great approach to mobile development. For smaller applications we have been using both React Native and Native script for Vue. React Native is more popular, but we feel Vue is a framework that is easier to get right. Vue reduces overhead for developing and maintaining multiple code bases, but suffers somewhat from flexibility. We create fast and secure mobile applications tailored exclusively for your business goals using proven and popular languages used across the world for some of the biggest companies.
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Data & Data Management
Many of the projects we work on require a data persistence layer; naturally, this is a core offering of our services. We use a multitude of databases, but for the most part, we lean heavily on a SQL database. The choice of a database often depends on the actual project and client constraints. As a genuinely versatile framework, our recommendation is PostgreSQL, which is a remarkably full-featured database management system that has extensions for GIS and native JSON support.
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Enterprise Development
Java and Asp.Net are the leading stacks for large-scale enterprise clients. The flexibility of the .net infrastructure allows our experienced team to deploy and deliver deep routed enterprise level applications using C# and other related Microsoft technologies.
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Cloud Infrastructure
To get an application online, infrastructure is required. We utilize cloud-based deployment models for most cases but can make exceptions if the business case demands it. We are well versed in using third-party APIs such as Amazon Aurora that provides geo-replicates SQL storage. For our clients that already have invested in Microsoft infrastructure, we offer management for Azure deployments. This technology is a very robust platform with a broad set of capabilities for your needs.
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Web Applications
Web Application (or web app) is an application program that operates in a web browser, as opposed to software programs that function locally and natively on the device's operating system (OS). This method of development ensures that software is locally abstracted from the machine's operating system, which has a number of benefits, including accessibility across devices for users, personalization for multiple devices, connectivity to other systems, elimination of maintenance headaches, enhanced flexibility and scalability, and data security, among others.}