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As the decade closes, information technology continues its unrelenting march to miniaturization from the mainframes to the handheld devices leading to new challenges, now with the onset of Network Effects and the ensuing Big Data, which only Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computer with Deep Learning algorithms with Predictive Analysis can help alleviate the complexities of the task in the autonomous world.

Stride by stride, Silicon Interfaces^® continues to innovate and delivery solutions at the rim of technology, leveraging its historical and current strengths in providing services for the Desktop, Apps and Websites, be it a Browser-based, Client-Server and Cloud-based on Microsoft® .Net and Oracle® Java J2EE technologies and, into the exciting world of Mobiles and Devices, like Smart Phones and other Devices, running Microsoft®, Android, Apple® iOS, Microsoft®, Phone, Etc.

The bewildering array of options available is quite a paradox to the fact that fundamentally the device is the computer.

Silicon Interfaces provides responsive Custom Development services to help mitigate the difficulties involved with deploying applications in the increasingly complex devices, operating systems, cross browsers and cross platform environments, helping you speed new services to market, giving you a competitive edge.

The Company offers services to ensure that your applications run on Operating Systems - Windows, Android, Linux, iOS, macOS, Etc and Browsers IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Etc and Social environments, like Facebook©, Google+©, LinkedIn© and integrate with Twitter©.

So, if your application is Event Driven or Service Oriented, requiring Agile Modeling for vertical domains using Web Services, Ajax or Ruby-on-Rails, XML, SOAP and WSDL, internet, ecommerce or e-business, you will discover an all new company as a one stop solution to ensure that your Applications are ubiquitous in all environments and systems the customer is present in.

Be it a short term on-site services or off-shore projects, our aim is providing specialists that are proven to make a difference and positively influence the direction of your business.

Our Software Symphony

Service Oriented Architecture

Silicon Interfaces has been propagating the virtues of Service Oriented Architecture since early 2005 based on research and analysis of the markets in the year 2004. It was a natural move for a Company with extensive Web Services experience as well as undertaking spaghetti of Application Integration through the initial parts of the new millennium. If you are looking for a Company who has already undertaken extensive work on the following in terms of:

• Developing Open Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Identifying Business Process (BP) and implementing using Web Services
• Permitting free interchange of data with a robust Digital Model and addressing Interoperability issues based on XML, SOAP and WSDL
• Resolving Quality of Services (QoS) issues based on Security and Storage

and have the necessary Skills required for Open Source Sun/Oracle/BEA Servers and Tools in the J2EE, J2SE and J2ME as well as dot Net Enterprise Servers, Frameworks and Microsoft Tools and Technologies for implementation for SOA then please do consider our services in this domain.

Silicon Interfaces has found that using Service Oriented Architecture has many benefits including:

• Integration and Collaboration across enterprise boundaries opens a wide range of benefits including more efficiency, better decision making, reduced cycle time and seamless update of data across the network, consistency of processing etc.
• Cost Savings, Information needs to be entered just once
• Forward Thinking, Addition of new products and Businesses would just be a case of plugging in that process very efficiently into the SOA.
• Microsoft Biztalk with Host Integration Server
• BEA Aqualogic
• Oracle SOA Suite

Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD)

“Agile Development” is an umbrella term for several iterative and incremental software development methodologies. The most popular agile methodologies include Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Crystal, Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM), Lean Development, and Feature-Driven Development (FDD).

The Agile Manifesto, followed by Silicon Interfaces, is based on twelve standard principles

1. Customer satisfaction by early and continuous delivery of valuable software
2. Welcome changing requirements, even in late development
3. Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
4. Close, daily cooperation between business people and developer
5. Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
6. Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location)
7. Working software is the principal measure of progress
8. Sustainable development, able to maintain a constant pace
9. Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
10. Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential
11. Best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams
12. Regularly, the team reflects on how to become more effective, and adjusts accordingly

There are many specific agile development methods. Most promote teamwork, collaboration, and process adaptability throughout the product development life-cycle.

Quality focus

Specific tools and techniques, such as continuous integration, automated unit testing, pair programming, test-driven development, design patterns, domain-driven design, code refactoring and other techniques are often used to improve quality and enhance product development agility.

Popular agile software development frameworks include (but are not limited to):

• Adaptive software development (ASD)
• Agile modeling
• Agile Unified Process (AUP)
• Crystal Clear methods
• Disciplined agile delivery
• Dynamic systems development method (DSDM)
• Extreme programming (XP)
• Feature-driven development (FDD)
• Lean software development
• Kanban
• Scrum
• Scrumban
• Rapid application development

Agile practices

Agile development is supported by a number of concrete practices, covering areas like requirements, design, modeling, coding, testing, planning, risk management, process, quality, etc. Some notable agile practices include:

• Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD)
• Agile modeling
• Backlogs (Product and Sprint)
• Behavior-driven development (BDD)
• Business analyst designer method (BADM)^[37]
• Cross-functional team
• Continuous integration (CI)
• Domain-driven design (DDD)
• Information radiators (scrum board, task board, visual management board, burndown chart)
• Iterative and incremental development (IID)
• Pair programming
• Planning poker
• Refactoring
• Scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective)
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Agile testing
• Timeboxing
• User story
• Story-driven modeling
• Retrospective
• Velocity tracking
• User Story Mapping

Tools

• CA: Agile is currently their biggest area of growth and have Clarity Agile product for Agile project management. This software heavily involves the customers in the development of the product, including inviting them to both demos and daily stand-ups.
• IBM: IBM had Rational Team Concert. Rational Team Concert is an all in one ALM tool designed primarily for developers. It was designed based on the observation that other ALM tools were used by Scrum Masters and project managers, but largely ignored by developers. The tool currently supports SAFe, DAD, Scrum, Hybrid, and Waterfall models to help organizations bridge the gap when transitioning to Agile.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

TFS (Team Foundation Server) is Microsoft's application lifecycle management server for collaborative development under Visual Studio.

AJAX and Ruby on Rails

An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.

Over the years, desktop applications tied to a specific operating system have become entrenched as the main way to work on a computer. AJAX, a set of development techniques standardized over the past eight years, could change all that by bringing more sophisticated interfaces to Web applications.

At the moment, Web pages are limited, compared with most desktop applications. AJAX frees Web pages from the restriction they suffer from by making them more interactive and so more functional.

Using AJAX, developers can create an interactive user interface that's comparable to what's available on desktop applications.

Further, a very common operation in web-based programming is querying an SQL database and returning the results in a way that is meaningful to the rest of the program. Silicon Interfaces utilized the Rails framework which includes a high-powered database access library called ActiveRecord that simplifies the process of using SQL databases from within an application. A few other common tasks for which Rails provides pre-written libraries include: form data validation, application templates, email sending and receiving, date and time formatting and manipulation, session and cookie management, and interactive client-side functionality in web pages with AJAX. Rails include an extensive library of AJAX functions that can be used without any Javascript knowledge.

Silicon Interfaces were early players in the market. Even as Google was releasing, a close to perfect implementation of Ajax in Google Maps, Silicon Interfaces Engineering and Technical teams were focused on delivering the world’s first Ajax Scheduler and Calendar for the Enterprise and Corporate world with extension to be the Diary to the Consumer segments for Doctors, Students and Clinics. Ajax permitted the application to have lesser call-backs to the Server and become a much quicker implementation. The Web has become a platform for Collaboration and Silicon Interfaces is ensuring a quick, early and low cost option for adopting Ajax technology.

BREW

End-to-End Is In
Using the complete BREW system, publishers and developers create applications in the language of their choice and offer them to BREW operators, operators use the BREW virtual marketplace to acquire applications and offer them to their subscribers, handset manufacturers use BREW tools to rapidly respond to operator requirements, and subscribers preview and purchase applications from their phone. Completing the solution, BREW facilitates subscriber billing and settlement to publishers, developers and their partners through the BREW Delivery System.

The BREW Applications Platform has been chosen by Silicon Interfaces for delivery to the mobile marketing place since

• BREW is thin.
• BREW is fast.
• The BREW platform sits right on top of the chip system software, enabling fast C/C++ native applications and easy integration of browsers, virtual machines based on Java™ technology and extensions such as 3D game engines, XML parsers, and video players.
• BREW is open.
• BREW supports other languages beyond native C/C++, including alternative execution environments such as Java, Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Flash.
• BREW is extendable, cost-effective and secure
A sample application which has been useful in the telecom and internet space, developed by us has been a Web Browser for the Mobile Phone using WAP 2.0 which is running on handsets using Java and Brew for Motorola RAZR and GPRS networks with support for Java MIDP 2.0. This Browser has been the choice of a host of Telecom Operators in Asia and competes effectively with Opera and Access, both not having the extensive Operator coverage.

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