Datasouth

While cost savings can be the main driver of an outsourcing project, Datasouth Software Development strives to deliver value well beyond cost savings and enable your company to realise the full benefits of software development outsourcing.

Datasouth delivers value behind costs savings. We have a number of proprietary technologies to speed up your software development life-cycle. Datasouth applies industry expertise to build highly customised applications and components for Manufacturing and Logistics, Professional Services, Automotive and Educational and Research organisations.

Our development practices enable us to design customised software in stage by stage processes, allowing all nuances and possible hidden dangers to be taken into account, including issues which were not mentioned in the specifications.

.NET enables Datasouth to build integration between different systems. Datasouth .NET development provides faster project timelines for systems development and in turn this corresponds to cheaper development.

In today’s business environment decision makers are required to justify their IT investments through shorter pay back periods, positive ROI, and improved competitiveness before approving expenditure. Developers are asked to deliver faster, better, cheaper development in order to prove project viability and to keep clients happy.

The advent of Microsoft's .NET framework and the development tool set Visual Studio created a revolution in systems development. Companies employing .NET developers provide faster project timelines for systems development and in turn this corresponds to cheaper development.

For businesses this means

• Faster development of applications that work for businesses
• Faster performance for interactive transactional internet applications
• Easy deployment of the end solutions

This translates to

• Cheaper development - significantly less time is needed to develop applications within .NET compared with previous languages
• Cheaper deployment - deployment can be done through the browser
• Cheaper maintenance - if you are writing an ASP.NET solution, all you need is a Windows Server, running IIS. No additional costs are required

Datasouth employs a number of .NET developers working on a range of projects both small and large in scope.

The Microsoft .NET Framework provides a library of pre-coded solutions to common programme requirements, and manages the execution of programmes written specifically for the framework. The Microsoft .NET framework allows our developers to spend more time focusing on our clients' business issues and less time wrestling with the limitations of the technology itself. This alone is good news for our client’s IT Directors. Furthermore, .NET is at its best when it is being deployed against new business processes which take full advantage of today's interconnected world.

Figure 1 (below) shows that the entire Microsoft Windows server platform including the information infrastructure, application infrastructure, operations infrastructure and business applications as well as Microsoft Office are integrated via the .NET framework and Visual Studio .NET is the development tool specifically designed to work within this integrated platform. The .NET Framework allows for development in any programming language, and for the corresponding .NET applications to integrate with each other.

Fig. 1. The Microsoft Integrated Platform - click to enlarge

Datasouth takes this integration capability seriously. Our clients must have solutions that are easily extensible. This capability future proofs our client’s software infrastructure and provides for lower total cost of ownership. The ability to simply add on new software solutions to your system without incurring large development costs helps the client to incur a greater return on investment.

The .NET Framework was designed from the ground up to be an Internet computing environment. Its deep support for Web services gives unparalleled interoperability with non-Windows environments. Our web based solutions provide uncomplicated and highly accessible systems, with benefits such as remote access.