Broad Technology Base

 

At Beacon, we develop innovative, value-added customised solutions using a wide range of technologies including Microsoft, Oracle and Java.

 

Based on these world-leading technologies, we create advanced solutions for our clients and remain at the forefront of current thinking in the software field. Our knowledge, skills and expertise enable us to deliver applications which can bring real productivity benefits to your business.

 

Our success is based on multi-disciplinary teams working on projects at our offices or on your site using a variety of development tools and platforms.

 

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Introducing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a server application that is part of the Microsoft Office system. Your organisation can use it to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and provide access to information that is essential to organisational goals and processes.

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Transforming Home-Grown Applications into Enterprise Solutions

Our Delivery Manager, Nick Rogers, talks about the pitfalls of developing home-grown applications and how Beacon has worked with clients to overcome the associated issues.

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Microsoft's Connected Systems

Microsoft's Connected Systems provides an approach to organising distributed IT resources into an integrated solution, whereby critical business systems do not operate in isolation of each other. This enables the integration of information and process silos in order to maximise business agility. In the past, this has been accomplished either though time-consuming manual interventions, or through hard-coded solutions that are difficult to maintain.

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AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML)

During the past 12 months there has been a lot of interest amongst the web development community about the use of AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript And XML. With the recent release of the ASP.NET AJAX framework by Microsoft, this set of technologies is gaining mainstream acceptance.

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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

The latest release of Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features related to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). WPF is a next-generation presentation system for building Windows client applications with visually stunning user experiences.

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Creating a Dependency Solution

One of our clients is involved in the UK Defence Industry and required an application to be developed which would maintain a record of the dependency between vital software and hardware in use within their organisation. The main aim of this project was to provide a means of identifying the wider ramifications of losing business-critical software or hardware services.

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An Overview of Microsoft BizTalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Server has been around for quite a few years and now appears to have reached a level of maturity that makes it far more attractive as part of an enterprise-wide solution. The following then is a brief overview of some of the areas where BizTalk is commonly used and just a few of the things it brings to the table.

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An Overview of Grid Technology

What is Grid Technology?

“Grid Computing” is a term that covers several aspects of distributed computing; for sharing computationally intensive operations; sharing and managing data; or even sharing access to a physical resource such as a telescope.

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