HMB Application Development

Your applications are the backbone of your business. You rely on them to empower your staff, to drive your business processes, and ultimately to create your competitive advantage.

Our solution teams have deep expertise with the Microsoft .NET platform, and we leverage it to consistently deliver high-quality applications that fulfill our clients’ business objectives.

Our Application Development services have been a core capability at HMB since our beginning in 1994.  From many years of successful solution delivery to a wide variety of client industries, HMB has gained a rich collection of repeatable and proven assets ranging from reference architectures and design patterns to project delivery methods.  We can help you create innovative solutions that offer:
  • Reduced time-to-market
  • Pedictable results and reduced risk
  • Lower overall cost of ownership
  • True business value


Offerings

  • Custom Application Development
  • Application Integration
  • Cloud Computing
  • Application Migration
  • Mobile Applications
  • Software Development Process Improvement


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Architecture Assessment

HMB conducts architecture assessments in two scenarios. First, as a prescriptive process to ensure that an architecture design satisfies the quality attributes that are determined by business goals. Second, HMB conducts the architecture assessment as a quality assurance exercise to ensure that a preexisting architecture satisfies the quality attributes identified by the business.

architecture assessment model
Identifying Business Goals Business goals represent the desires of the stakeholders on the project. By focusing this entire exercise on the customer we ensure their needs will be met.

Determining Quality Attributes The exercise of determining quality attributes allows HMB to identify the preferences of the organization. HMB assembles an Architecture Score Card that identifies the quality attributes’ critical level.

Determining Architecture Once quality attributes have been identified, the architecture can be designed or evaluated depending on the scenario in which the assessment is being conducted.

 Satisfying Quality Attributes
By having the quality attributes as the determining factor for the design or evaluation of the architecture, we are ensured that the architecture has direct traceability back to the quality attributes that have been identified.



Supporting Business Goals
Because the quality attributes are identified from the business goals, we can provide direct traceability between the quality attributes and the business goals.
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Distributed Telemedicine Implementation

Local Healthcare Startup

Background/Overview
A local healthcare startup organization was looking to invest in a significant software effort to provide a visual telemedicine experience that would revolutionize healthcare by making healthcare more readily available, more affordable, and significantly easier to access. 		The Challenge
This healthcare organization needed to quickly build a robust, extensible, service-oriented architecture that provided a suite of visual tools to give a patient a secure, pleasant experience while communicating with a physician over video conference. This unique, revolutionary challenge came with requirements to be scalable to thousands of concurrent users and providing a robust RESTful API for third party software integration.
 
  		 
 
The Solution
HMB assembled an agile team of software development and software process experts to plan, design, implement, test, and deliver a suite of software packages that addressed each of the specific requirements of the business.

HMB leveraged the Microsoft .Net stack including ASP.Net MVC, C#, WPF, and SQL Server to create a cohesive system that is able to grow and change with the business. By leveraging the best of breed Microsoft technology stack, HMB was able to deliver this solution quickly, accurately, and to every specification identified.
The Result
In less than twelve months, this healthcare organization was able to successfully deploy the hardware and software solution and begin seeing patients. The time to market strategy was successfully balanced with the long term interests of the organization and a maintainable, flexible system was delivered quickly and efficiently.


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Video Resume Service

Local Company

Background/Overview
A technology based service company that connects job seekers, recruiters, and employers with state-of-the-art digital video profiles had a rock solid business plan but lacked the technical expertise to implement the technology side of the business. 		The Challenge
A technology based company offering services to staffing firms, prospective employers, and prospective employees had limited personnel resources to implement the necessary technology pieces to record, host, search and market video resumes. They needed a technology partner that they could trust to implement a flexible, maintainable, high performance, website and video resume recorder. While the business was planning on starting small, it expected to grow very quickly and needed an infrastructure that was scalable with that growing business.
 
  		 
 
The Solution
The client engaged HMB to design, implement, and deliver their website, video resume recorder, and administrative management system. HMB utlilzed the Microsoft technology stack to serves as a flexible, dynamic platform for a fast growing business.

HMB leveraged a robust cloud computing platform, a stack of best-of-breed application development platforms including Silverlight, WPF, WCF, ASP.Net MVC, SQL Server 2008, and a robust framework of HMB best practice foundational elements to deliver the robust, flexible solution that client needed to grow and quickly react to their changing business.
The Result
Iteratively, HMB released the client’s website and related software with new features and functionality as the customer base demanded it. By incrementally creating the new features, our customer was able to advertise the changes quickly. This proactive approach led to a strong relationship with these early adopters.

HMB’s ability to quickly get the minimum set of functionality to market quickly allowed their client to capture a dominating market share by entering the video resume service market before any legitimate competitors. By reducing their time to market, HMB played a pivotal role in expanding their market rapidly in a faster-than-anticipated timeframe.


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Architecture Assessment

Local Real Estate Investment and Management Trust

Background/Overview
HMB was engaged by a real estate investment trust that has several software packages and manual processes to manage the lease generation and execution process for their retail properties. 		The Challenge
This organization has a legacy database system that manages the lease generation and execution for short term leasing. The system had become very difficult to support and the lack of flexibility began slowing the business processes down and impacting their growth goals.
 
  		 
 
The Solution
Through the HMB Architecture Assessment, HMB was able to methodically and accurately identify a robust, flexible architecture that addresses the growing needs of the business. The HMB Architecture Assessment does this by emphasizing that the business goals will identify the highest priority quality attributes of the system. By taking these quality attributes into consideration, HMB is able to identify an architecture that specifically satisfies all of the quality attributes that were generated as a result of identifying the business goals.
The Result
As an outcome of the HMB Architecture Assessment, the client was able to see a proposed architecture that was used to create a set of development deliverables and a rough estimate of effort for implementation. Additionally, HMB’s Architecture Score Card identified the prioritized quality attributes that were developed as part of the process.


Technology Focus

  • Microsoft .NET
  • SQL Server
  • WPF
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Windows Azure
  • SQL Azure
  • WCF


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