Services For Independent Software Vendors
What’s holding up your latest project?
No staff available — too much risk — not enough time ?
Have you discovered a new market that won’t wait for staff to be available or hired? Mobile application or device integration project deadline slipping? When you need to get your product to market fast, our team can get your
project done in the USA quickly at competitive prices. Aton has the expertise to bridge the gap between hardware and software where the trickiest problems can occur.
Our staff can provide systems integration and software development services for business, commercial, medical and industrial products.
We will help you get reliable software to market faster. Reliable software and systems mean less maintenance, lower total costs, improved margins and more
satisfied customers who buy more products and services from you.
Are Any of These Issues Hindering Your Success with
Your Pocket PC (Windows CE) Project?
- Limitations in Compact Framework constrain what you want to accomplish? (Compact Framework is only about 15% of the size of the full .NET Framework, so much important
functionality is currently missing.)
- Connection Manager has your users frustrated, yet initiating and keeping wireless connections is a major consideration for your project? Or, do you need “over the air”
deployment for your application?
- Do you need a 'push' or a 'pull' scenario? Do you know which is best for your situation?
What do you do if your product’s XML data transfer has unacceptably slow response times?
- Are you facing difficult user interface choices? (Device screen size is smaller, hardware and
software keyboards are smaller and more difficult to use, and the stylus presents new ways to input data.)
- You want to know what it would take to expand your product to the iPhone?
You Can Solve These Problems And
Get Your Product to Market!
We have solved these problems for our own products and can help you solve them for yours. Aton International, Inc. has been developing for the Pocket PC since 2001 and
embedded applications since 1984. By combining our extensive experience in building software (our company was founded in 1981) with a few breakthrough ideas, we have been
able to smash through those apparent barriers.
- Limitations in Compact Framework? We figured out efficient ways to work around them with unmanaged code to produce robust “enterprise” class software that can also help to protect
your valuable intellectual property.
- Getting Connection Manger to play with a variety of devices and settings? Yes, we did. And, got it to work reliably in enterprise VPN scenarios.
- Making the device user interface work for a traditional desktop application? We developed a way to display a full screen in landscape mode on any Pocket PC – not just the newest
models with SE on them.
And, even though we have developed some unique proprietary techniques that run counter to conventional wisdom, our products have passed independent third party testing.
Aton’s Pocket PC products have received the Microsoft "Designed for Windows Mobile" logo certification — twice.
Achieve Your Product Goals Without
Shocking Your CFO!
Perhaps you have hired contractors at an hourly rate through a broker, but your CFO fainted when s/he saw the bill for the total cost. Or, you may have tried sending a project
overseas. You made lots of phone calls at midnight or even unplanned overseas trips. You got a result but it required more of your time to manage the project so other tasks had to slide.
With Aton’s Rapid Development Method, you get defined deliverables in a given time frame for a very reasonable predictable price. You can contract for a single project
module, several project increments, even the entire project -- whatever meets your unique requirements.
At Aton International, we apply agile software development techniques to overall project management by:
- breaking the project into manageable increments or modules, and
- using defined service packages for each project increment.
Software development is often iterative, meaning that information discovered later in the project can impact work done previously.
Agile software development more effectively deals with the reality that software projects often cannot be fully specified in the
beginning. Change is accepted as a natural part of the process. However, change, especially in the later stages of a project, can be expensive both in time and money.
Rapid Development to Control Your Costs
Each of Aton’s project modules span a small, one to four week increment of engineering time with a defined deliverable goal and a predictable cost
. At the completion of each increment, you have the option to choose the services of Aton
International, Inc. for the next project module, or a utilize a different resource such as moving the project in-house.
Knowledge gained from the completed work can be factored into the deliverable for the next module.
By managing the project through increments, you have both visibility and control over the overall direction of the project, while, at the same time, the outsourced
engineering resources are empowered to develop a specific, accountable near term result.
This method makes it easy to start work quickly, and add or change requirements as needed in later increments.
It offers you flexibility and control over your outsourced engineering efforts. You remain in control of the overall project.
We do all custom development on a “work for hire” basis so you own the end result.
Our company provides both services and project management, freeing you to focus on defining the desired result. You can forget about the day to day tedium of detailed project management.
Our onshore team is readily accessible when you have questions. We’ll keep you posted on the progress and deliver on time for the cost we quoted you. Why risk sending
your valuable intellectual property overseas? Our techniques work.
Concentrate your resources on your core activities. All work is performed in the USA by Aton International senior engineers and consultants. By utilizing services from Aton
International, you can focus your management and engineering resources on the core value of your product. You need not be distracted from your project goals by the hiring process. And,
you can rest easy knowing that your valuable intellectual property remains in the USA.
We can also guide you through the process of receiving Microsoft certifications for your application. You can take advantage of Microsoft's substantial Partner Program to
generate new sales and increase recognition for your solution.
When you need to get your product to market fast, our team can get your project done in the USA quickly at competitive prices. Aton has the expertise to bridge the gap
between hardware and software where the trickiest problems can occur.
Services We Offer
Our experts can provide systems integration and software development services for business, commercial, medical and industrial products
. We will help you get reliable software to market faster. Reliable software and systems mean less maintenance, lower total
costs, improved margins and more satisfied customers who buy more products and services from you.
- Integration with Existing Systems: Reduce time to market with assistance on part of a
project. We can handle the difficult interfacing issues involving custom I/O devices, data communication protocols, and legacy mainframe and mid-range systems while your staff can
continue with the remaining work directly associated with your core competency.
- Upgrade old, inflexible client/server architectures to the newer, more configurable and
maintainable web browser or smart client / server based solutions. We can help you move legacy UNIX based solutions onto the modern Windows .NET platform.
- Port Desktop Products. Do you have an important product that is still based on old DOS,
Win16 or OS/2 based technology? We can help you move it onto the Pocket PC or other Windows CE device, or a web browser / server solution installed on customer equipment, or
even convert it to a full ASP.NET solution hosted by or for your firm.
- Systems integration and/or stabilization of ‘broken’ projects. Have some of your key
technical personnel moved on to other opportunities? Are continuing project schedule slips telling you that you have a system architecture problem? Aton can help you locate the
problem and make forward progress again.
Add Embedded, Mobile & Wireless Devices
To Your Enterprise Solution
What features would you like to add to your solution? We have helped companies successfully integrate these types of devices devices into their products:
- Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0 (Pocket PC and Smartphone),
- Biometric scanners (fingerprint),
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS),
- Process controllers for SCADA systems,
- Optical storage,
- Image processors,
- Digital cameras and frame grabbers,
- Bar code scanners,
- Electrical power control RTU equipment,
- Automatic teller encryption devices,
- VSAT spread spectrum telecom systems,
- IBM mainframe channel adapters, and
- Custom communication processors.
Because our core competencies include development of embedded systems as well as networking in Internet and client/server environments, we understand how to
merge devices into networked solutions. We work with firmware, too. Our experts can design the architecture necessary to efficiently communicate the data end to end between
the mobile device and the host application as well as integrate the hardware with the mobile device.
Types of Applications By Industry
- Manufacturing and Supply Chain
- Medical Instruments
- Business
- Education
- Government
Let us know what data connectivity you need to accomplish. We’ll tailor a solution that
is just right for the needs of your market. Outsource all or just a part of the software development for your project. Aton provides both services and project management, freeing
your staff to focus on defining the desired result. You can forget about the day to day tedium of detailed project management. Our onshore team is accessible when you have questions.
It’s Easy To Get Started
 It’s easy to get started with a phone
call or e-mail. We can offer you the experience we have developed in building applications and having them
successfully certified by Microsoft. Let us help you achieve your product goals faster and more cost effectively.
Please phone us at 1-800 833-0835 in the US and Canada Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pacific Time or contact us for assistance.
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