ICT Consulting
- an independent judgement on the ICT means and usage in your company, or parts thereof.
- analysis or composition of an ICT business plan for new or existing business cases; experienced with integration of software, IT environments and applications (after mergings and acquisitions).
- independence of suppliers of hardware or software.
- always in mind our main benefits: reliability and efficiency.
- do not require maintenance of a software client which needs to be installed at the user premises, centralised administration of data and application.
- powerful database back-end (advantages: reusability, performance, consistency, backup, uptime, etc.).
- always taking care of security measures (authentication, firewall, patching, ruggedised code, URL filtering).
- possibility of interfacing with other applications (SQL, XML, Web Services, exchange via FTP, e-mail, etc.).
- structured approach in analysis and development.
- year-long experience with installation and maintenance of Oracle database (since v6), also on Linux installation (since v8).
- DBA availability for different customers via maintenance contract.
- extended experience with ETL tools (extract, transform, load), input/output in batch (sql*loader, batch scripts), SQL and PL/SQL tuning.
- specialisation: development of web-based applications written PL/SQL, using Oracle's "PL/SQL Web toolkit".
- technical info and external links.
- see pricing info.
- installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of servers with open-source Operating System: Linux (RedHat, Fedora, Knoppix,...) or BSD (OpenBSD).
- installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of open-source software, e.g.:
- mail: sendmail, postfix, squirrelmail/courier
- webserver: apache
- DNS: bind, tinydns
- proxy: squid, squidGuard
- file-server, centralised authentication: samba, OpenLDAP
- open-source firewalls, based on unix (Linux or BSD); also experience with closed-source like BorderWare, CheckPoint, Netscreen.
- web-scripting: Perl, PHP
- miscellaneous: radius server (authentication), ntp server, ftp server (proftpd), mrtg, shell scripting (bash), ...
- we believe in open-source not mainly for price reasons, but mostly because of the flexibility, maintainability and quality assurance of this kind of software.