Popular Projects
We occasionally see themes across our clients’ projects, here are two popular .NET development projects from 2008:
From Office to the Enterprise – Excel. Many companies develop financial models, marketing plans, and other crucial documents using Excel. Over time as more and more people want to use these documents (often at the same time), a pain point develops. People start e-mailing around the Excel file, “Do I have the right version?” is asked often, or file contention issues surface while trying to access the Excel file on a shared drive. Syrinx has helped clients move from linked spreadsheets to a .NET-based, enterprise-ready platform that allows scalability of both the number of simultaneous users and data storage/management.
From Office to the Enterprise – Access. Access is a powerful tool for developing and validating a home-grown database application, complete with data entry/edit/reporting. It is easy for business users to model their target process and build an application using Access. The limitations start to surface when people want to use mdb files simultaneously, or propagate application updates out to many users, or manage a distributed, standalone application as a single unit. Syrinx has helped clients “up-size” Access applications into ASP.NET and WPF applications, allowing users inside and outside the organization to access and manipulate data whenever they need to, while maintaining secure and centralized control over the application.