Technologies

Hale Solutions is committed to making your business software more technologically advanced than your competitors’ software. Using cutting-edge technologies means that your business is can be more cost-effective. Savvy use of today’s technology can also save you time, so that you can put more emphasis on profitability.

As information technology industry experts, we at Hale Solutions stay informed about all the innovations and technology progress in software integration, application development, and technology consulting that appear every day. This means that we are prepared to help you with the latest advances in technology.

Microsoft .NET

The .NET Framework provides a comprehensive and consistent programming model and a common set of APIs spanning Microsoft platforms. From client devices like desktop PCs and smartphones, to the public and private cloud, .NET enables your business to build applications that work the way you want, using a common set of tools across software, services, and devices.

• Mission-critical business applications
  Many businesses count on .NET's powerful technology framework to provide the security advancements, management tools, and updates they need to build, test, and deploy highly reliable and secure software.
• Ready for multiple platforms
  .NET encompasses a set of technologies that spans many platforms, including mobile devices, desktop clients, and web services. This provides your business with broad reach across Microsoft platforms. In addition, open source extensions such as the .NET Micro Framework and Mono extend that reach even further.
• Public and private cloud support
  Enjoy the flexibility to build or extend your cloud app on your own hardware, or Windows Azure. .NET interacts with Windows Server and Azure AppFabric to deliver connectivity between custom applications and services, including hybrid applications running on Java or PHP.
• Developer tools designed for productivity
  .NET developers can leverage their existing skills and use common tools when building applications, which decreases ramp-up time by cutting down the learning curve. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is the premiere development environment for .NET with features to maximize productivity, helping your application get to market quickly. It also provides powerful ways to support scenarios involving advanced lifecycle management for development teams, as well as to incorporate open source libraries to your project with NuGet.

Visit www.microsoft.com/net for more information.

Telerik

Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Telerik's tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for Telerik's devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day.

• Presentation layer technologies
  RadControls, the industry’s leading UI component suites for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, WPF and Windows Forms and the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC
• Productivity tools
  The essential tools for code analysis, refactoring ,mocking, decompiling, and memory and performance profiling
• Reporting engine
  Telerik Reporting, the easiest way to create embedded and printable reports for all .Net platforms
• Data Access
  OpenAccess, a convenient tool for building powerful data layers for all popular databases through a visual designer

Visit www.telerik.com for more information.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive database server and information platform offering a complete set of enterprise-ready technologies and tools that help people derive the most value from information at the lowest total-cost-of-ownership. Enjoy high levels of performance, availability, and security; employ more productive management and development tools; and deliver pervasive insight with self-service business intelligence (BI).

A complete and integrated platform, Microsoft SQL Server brings it all together to get more value out of existing IT skills and assets, increase the productivity and agility of IT departments, and quickly build flexible, innovative applications.

• Complete information platform for applications of all sizes.
• Managed, familiar self-service BI tools.
• Support for large-scale data centers and data warehouses.
• Opportunities to build and extend applications in the cloud.
• Integration with the Microsoft Application Platform.

Visit www.microsoft.com/sqlserver for more information.

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com offers everything you need to transform your business into a social enterprise, so you can connect to customers and employees like never before. With no software or hardware to install, you're up and running—and seeing a positive impact on your business—quickly.

• Super-charge your sales with Sales Cloud and Data.com
• Join the conversation with Chatter and Radian6
• Extend your success with AppExchange and Remedyforce
• Deliver amazing service with Service Cloud
• Build killer apps with Force.com

Hale Solutions is a Registered Consulting Partner with Salesforce.com

Visit www.salesforce.com for more information.

Amazon Web Services

With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services–gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve. You pay only for what you use, with no up-front expenses or long-term commitments, making AWS the most cost-effective way to deliver your application to your customers and clients. And, with AWS, you can take advantage of Amazon.com’s global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s multi-billion retail business and transactional enterprise whose scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing infrastructure has been honed for over a decade.

Amazon Web Services delivers a number of benefits for IT organizations and developers alike, including:

• Cost-effective
  Amazon EC2 provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. You define your virtual Amazon EC2 environment with the operating system, services, databases, and application platform stack required for your hosted application. Amazon EC2 provides a full management console and APIs to manage your compute resources.
• Dependable
  Utilize a battle-tested, web-scale infrastructure that handles whatever you throw at it. The Amazon Web Services cloud is distributed, secure and resilient, giving you reliability and massive scale.
• Flexible
  Build any application you want using any platform or any programming model. You control the resources you consume and fit them into your application as you see fit.
• Comprehensive
  Don’t start from scratch. Amazon Web Services gives you a number of services you can incorporate into your applications. From databases to payments, these services help you build great applications cost effectively and with less up-front investment.

Visit www.aws.amzaon.com for more information.

Windows Workflow Foundation

Virtually all software used in enterprises today has the same goal: supporting business processes. Some processes are entirely automated, relying solely on communication among applications. Others—probably the majority—also rely on people to initiate the process, approve documents the process uses, resolve any exceptional situations that arise, and more. In either case, it’s often possible to specify a discrete series of steps known as a workflow that describes the activities of the people and software involved in the process. Once this workflow has been defined, an application can be built around that definition to support the business process.

Microsoft’s Windows Workflow Foundation was created to address these requirements. A component of the .NET Framework, Windows Workflow Foundation is a standard part of the Windows platform for developers. It provides a common foundation for building workflow-based applications on Windows, whether those applications coordinate interactions among software, interactions among people, or both.

SQL Server Reporting Sercies

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is a web-based reporting system that delivers richly formatted, up-to-date reports more efficiently by using a single, collaborative workspace and flexible options for publishing and consuming reports.

Create professional-looking, richly formatted reports by using familiar tools and interfaces and a comprehensive report design environment.

• Accelerate insight with intuitive and flexible authoring capabilities.
• Access and combine data from virtually any data source.
• Securely view and share reports directly from the web.
• Streamline collaboration and management by using integration with Microsoft SharePoint Server.
• Scale as needed.

Deliver valuable reports using a variety of methods and formats

• Deliver reports to a SharePoint library, through email messages or post them to a shared folder on your network.
• Enable users to subscribe to reports for delivery at a specified time/location.
• Automate large-scale report distribution through data-driven subscriptions.
• Render reports in many formats, including HTML, PDF, CSV, TIFF, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.

Embed reports into applications and portals

• Publish models, reports, and subcomponents to a shared location for quick, collaborative access, editing, and delivery.
• Use the ReportViewer controls in Visual Studio to embed reports directly into business applications.
• Take advantage of the ReportViewer web server control to host reports in ASP.NET projects.
• Publish reports to a SharePoint Server report library or PowerPivot report gallery.
• Embed reports directly into portals by using the ReportViewer Web Part for renderings in SharePoint Server.