Challenge Us

The experts at Frontiers have been providing best of class technology services for over 20 years. From embedded processors to Facebook apps to massively parallel databases, we've done it all. And we take pride in doing it well. We love a challenge, and take a certain joy in having completed numerous projects that were deemed "impossible" by others.

Our team can take you all the way from your first concepts through the implemented product, and offer ongoing support as well. We also have extensive experience in stepping into existing projects with challenges and making them a success. Wherever you are in your product cycle, we can help.

We utilize and believe in agile development processes and black box methodologies. The days of multi-year development cycles, monolithic architectures, and ten year product lifetimes are long gone. In truth, they were never sensible in the first place. To compete in today's world you have to be nimble and responsive to rapid change.

Have a challenge for us? We're all ears.

Cloud, SAAS, and PAAS Solutions

The architects at Frontiers have been developing and deploying cloud solutions for over a decade. We offer both SaaS and PaaS solutions to meet our customers needs. We can provide the complete turnkey solution for you, or instead provide you just a scalable development platform, or anything in between that meets your needs.

Our proprietary platforms for PaaS include a PHP offering which stresses simplicity, ease of use, and rapid development, as well as a C++ platform that offers unparalleled performance and scalability.

Software Development

Our staff can provide you a turnkey solution from the first idea all the way through finished product and beyond. The Frontiers team has software development expertise across a wide range of topologies, and a long and proven track record. They have rolled out everything from simple websites to the heavy lifting architectures for massive corporate data stores and high transaction websites.

The majority of our development in recent years is done with PHP, C/C++, Javascript, and Java. Our in-house tool chains allow us to be tremendously efficient in these environments. Typically we heavily utilize open source solutions and software stacks. Our in-house tool chains allow us to be tremendously efficient in these environments. We also have specialists in mobile development and Windows based solutions.

Don't see your solution here? Drop us a line- we've probably done it!

Staff Augmentation / Cloud Staffing

Just like cloud computing, a "cloud staffing" model is becoming more and more important for a business to stay competitive. Most businesses simply have no justification for having dedicated IT staffs any longer. Instead, it is far more efficient to have a virtual IT staff model. A model that gives you just the skills you need, only for as long as you need them. The result is a staff that is far better trained, much more nimble, and available to you at a fraction of the cost of your own employees. You can scale up and down quickly, change skill sets on a dime, and keep significantly more money for your bottom line. Leaving you far more competitive.

AI and Knowledge Management

Our proprietary artificial intelligence and analytical knowledge management systems are recognized for their speed and accuracy. We can automatically analyze, classify, and help you understand any volume of data as turnkey hosted solutions, or integrated with your own systems. Our solutions range from content classification to risk scoring.

Web Applications

We've built the serious stuff, like localized physician network search applications, as well as the fun stuff, like Facebook apps to organize your friends. From full blown browser native applications that manage tens of thousands of data points on async networks, to mobile device solutions that stream high quality video. We can get it done for you.

Business Process Automation

Re-thinking and automating your business processes can yield a significant competitive advantage. We have both the business analysis and technical expertise needed to make these projects a success.

Mobile Development

Is 2011 the Year of Mobile? Maybe. But what you can't argue is that mobile usage is skyrocketing. If you aren't supporting your mobile users look for them to go elsewhere. And mobile development takes special skillsets- there's no app for that. We can help get you mobile.

e-Commerce

We can provide you with a turnkey store that has a custom look and feel without an exorbitant price tag. Typically we start with industry standard platforms and customize only as much as needed to meet your needs. For more specialized or demanding requirements, we can instead start from our in-house platforms and provide any level of functionality.

Co-op Cloud

Frontiers is excited to announce our new Co-op Cloud venture. Working with our largest customers in the insurance and finance industries, we have developed a set of applications that together form the basis for complete cloud business solutions.

In a nutshell, many of the participants are able to bring a portion of a whole vertical solution to the table, for example a Premium Audit application or a services module, which they agree to open source. Frontiers then integrates and offers these solutions over the cloud as a complete solution.

In this way, the participants are able to have access to far better applications at a fraction of the cost of keeping them as proprietary in-house applications. Rather than maintaining large devoted staffs, they instead share just a fraction of the cost of ongoing development and support of the applications.

Here are a few of the reasons our customers find this model so attractive:

Products are much better quality due to more available resources.
No need to maintain dedicated in house development staff, R&D staff, QA staff, support staff, network staff, etc.
Participants can focus on their core business, and not be hamstrung by technology.
Low cost of entry into new applications.
Rapid deployment of new applications.
Much lower risk entering into new applications (no capital outlay).
No more computer and network hardware costs for the applications.
Costs of adding new features is a tiny fraction of in-house apps, often free.
Participants only pay for what they actually need & use.
Applications are available anywhere, anytime, through the cloud.
Improved ability to integrate and share data with vendors, government agencies, etc.
Products are far more up to date, automatically.
Much better and more secure technical infrastructure than is typical in-house.
Ongoing knowledgeable support is always available.
Products conform better to industry standards.
Vested interest by the vendor to ensure the application is top notch.
Tools that were previously out of reach are now available.

Web Promotion

We typically find our customers are surprised to find out they don't need a better search engine strategy. Instead they need a sales and marketing strategy, of which search engine optimization is just a small piece. Web promotion can take many forms, from simple SEO, to ad network strategies, to the organization and implementation of affiliate networks, even effectively using social media. Making money with the Web often takes completely rethinking your approach. We can help.

Support Services

Are you paying for your own technical support staff? Why? In today's world the vast majority of technical support is for off-the-shelf systems. Let us move you to a model where you are paying a fraction of the costs of dedicated support systems, and almost certainly giving you far better better support than in-house solutions. We can also accommodate any proprietary systems you might have.

Integration

The Frontiers staff has been providing integration solutions for clients since 1993. We have an in-house set of tools and methodologies that provide a lightweight "glue" layer that really facilitates tying together disparate systems. We often find these projects are seriously overcomplicated even at inception. Let us help keep things simple for you.

Revenue Generation

Using the Web as a marketing tool and sales pipeline is vastly different than conventional brick and mortar methods. Are you using affiliates? Effectively? What is your compensation scheme? What is the difference between the different ad networks, and which ones are right for you? How much should you be spending per conversion? How are you leveraging social media? How is your performance in the search engines? We have the specialists that understand using the Web to make money for your business.

Social Media

A company that just creates a Facebook and Twitter account usually ends up looking pretty pathetic. You don't want to be that guy. Just creating the accounts doesn't somehow make you connected. Social media actually presents several exciting new ways to attract and interact with your customers. We will help you build a strategy, a presence, and often a sales pipeline with social media.

Consulting

We offer a full range of services, from strategic planning to staffing solutions to development to technical support. Contact us to find out more about how we can immediately help you get your business humming.