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2014-10-17 12:00:00

Zumero Professional Services

Building mobile apps is really hard.

Building apps for mobile devices involves a dizzying array of technologies and tooling. The explosion of mobile offers more ways for software projects to fail than ever before.

Zumero would like to help.

We can build your app for you. Or we can assist or advise as you build it yourself.

Both New and Old

Zumero for SQL Server is the best solution for syncing SQL data with mobile devices. Now we're looking ahead to providing more ways of helping developers build great business apps for mobile devices. We have additional products in the pipeline, but it is already clear that Zumero Professional Services is going to be an important piece of our story.

To some degree, we are formalizing what we are already doing for our customers. They're building apps to solve business problems, and they're constantly experiencing the reality that mobile app development is really, really hard. We often get involved in ways that go beyond the use of our product, helping with issues like concurrency and integration with native code.

So yes, Zumero Professional Services is a new thing for us. We see this as an opportunity because of the explosion of business apps being built. But it is also an old thing. We've done this before.

A number of years ago we did a lot of custom software development on mobile devices for companies like Motorola. This was back when smartphones weren't actually very smart. We built stuff that was burned into the phone's ROM, with CPU and memory constraints that make an iPhone look like a supercomputer. We had things like massive test suites with high code coverage.

We got out of that market, but now we're back, and even though the mobile industry has changed dramatically, many of the core technology challenges are still the same. This feels like a return to our roots.

Our place in the world

Specialties Solid competencies Brussels sprouts
(We are especially excited about stuff in this column.) (We can provide reliable execution and high-quality results using the technologies and practices in this column.) (We actively avoid stuff in this column.)
Apps that change your business for the better Apps that solve business problems Games (unless we're playing them)
Tough technical issues Apps that integrate with existing systems Photoshop
Offline-capable apps with sync Networking, REST Data exchange via CDROM
Xamarin Objective-C, Java, PhoneGap Adobe Flash
Azure, Amazon Web Services Integration with on-prem backends Apps that don't let people interact
iOS, Android, Windows Phone Windows, Mac OS BlackBerry, PalmOS
SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server NoSQL FoxPro
Helping companies use mobile apps to make their business better Building great apps that people like to use Guessing what the next viral app will be

Interested?

Email me or sales@zumero.com to explore possibilities.