Heavy Lifting

Technology Solution

Challenge

Bad software is worse than no software at all

Building business software requires serious, professional software development practices and expertise. This does not apply only to the Oracles and the SAPs of the world. It applies to every custom web application that runs someone's business. These applications should be built by real software engineers, not by some design firm's "PHP guy."

Solution

Deep expertise and a highly tuned, efficient process: Carbon Five builds it better from the beginning

Carbon Five has been delivering enterprise software since early 2000. Our software services practice provides the "heavy lifting" development services for many startups and large institutions. We focus on the business software back end and partner with third-party visual design teams to provide complete software development and design solutions.

Our engineers come from traditional software backgrounds in companies including Sun, Netscape, Symantec and others. Because of this, we bring many of the best practices from the software product industry to the world of consulting, a place they are sorely needed.

We utilize an Agile Process in order to be as efficient as possible for our clients and have fine-tuned our process over the course of many large successful projects.

Many of our software solutions include a service-oriented architecture built with a toolkit of established open source technologies. We develop and release open source software ourselves when we see the opportunity to meet a new need. This approach enables flexible application integration using tools that are well-documented and supported by the development community.

Our Java development practice combines expertise in the standard Enterprise Java (J2EE) technology stack with the better, faster, lighter practices enabled by technologies such as Spring Framework and Hibernate.

Our Ruby on Rails practice combines our expertise building highly scalable systems with the rapid development characteristics of the Rails platform. We combine Rails applications with cloud-style hosting solutions such as Amazon EC2 and Engine Yard to achieve flexible and robust scaling.

Value

Robust, maintainable business software

Our focus on deep technology expertise means that our customers get best-of-breed solutions.

We provide high-quality enterprise solutions that directly address our clients' product requirements and that can be extended and maintained by in-house staff.