HostVentures offers consulting in the fields of software development, systems architecture, and project management.

We believe that a consultants job is to work him or herself out of the job! An effective consultant fills in critical gaps in skills while helping the client acquire those skills and become self-sufficient. Furthermore, a consultant is a "new pair of eyes" that suggests and guides and takes responsibility to ensure a project's successful initial delivery and long-term durability.

HostVentures' consultants have decades of experience developing large enterprise systems with tens of thousands to millions of users. No matter how small or large your needs are, we'll listen to what you need and provide you with the skills and experience needed to complete your projects.

Some critical success factors for information technology implementations include:

Project Management

Technical management experience and careful planning is crucial to the success of an IT project. A good manager must have excellent rapport with the design and development teams and understand all aspects of technology involved. This insight allows the manager to identify problems early and make plans to avoid potential issues. From past experiences, the manager knows what's coming well in advance and makes sure that nothing interferes with steady progress.

Application Architecture and Design

From the initial stages of scoping and analysis to detailed designs and optimization, HostVentures staff helps customers create extensible, scalable and manageable architectures to last for decades. HostVentures enterprise integration expertise and legacy system replacement spans mainframes, Unix and Windows servers. Technologies include J2EE, .NET, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Relational databases such as DB2, Sybase and Oracle, as well as CICS and Cobol.

Performance Tuning

HostVentures experts have achieved improved scalability and performance for countless high-volume applications. Consult with us to help increase the performance, stability and scalability of your systems at all levels including hardware, networking, software, databases, io and storage.

Software Development

Small teams of developers work better and are more productive than larger teams. Always opt for smaller teams of highly qualified people rather than large teams that inevitably produce lower quality results as communication deteriorates and inexperienced staff members reduce productivity of experienced ones.

HostVentures can provide staff with expertise in most technologies, including Java, J2EE, .NET, Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), WebSphere, WebLogic and other J2EE application servers, relational database development and design, C/C++, Visual C++ as well as Cobol/CICS.

Testing

Testing must be considered during the design and architecture phases of the project to ensure that the final system can be effectively tested. A testing plan must be tied to the requirements and the design and must include a combination of automated test scripts and manual validation. Planning must include a phase of load testing and application tuning. HostVentures can provide expertise in both the planning and implementation of functional and load testing.

Implementation Support

Once the system is ready for production there are many more considerations such as system health and availability monitoring, troubleshooting, failover and maintenance scenarios. HostVentures provides advance planning and support for the implementation portion of the project starting from the design phase and continuing through post implementation.