Services

Technical Consulting

Technical Design, Implementation and Audit

Just as code deliverables should be proven using well designed tests, so too precursor artifacts such as application models (CASE, UML, XML Schema), application architectures, and system designs must be challenged by walkthroughs and inspections.

Even the sharpest Extreme Programmers, delivering well defined products under the watchful guidance of the best user, can discover that they are beautifully crafting the wrong thing. Incorrect or missing assumptions can completely undermine an otherwise well executed project.

Expert external technical audit – planned in at key milestones in your project - offers your team the best chance of recognizing and avoiding all sorts of potential pitfalls. The outsider looking in has a more detached perspective, and can very quickly separate the wood from the trees to identify both issues and solutions.

Preferisco Limited particularly focuses on Oracle-based applications, running under J2EE and on platforms including Linux, Windows and OpenVMS.

Performance tuning

Your application's data services layer is typically the source of the worst performance problems. As it becomes easier for programmers to use data layers that handle the relationship between application and data (ODBC, JDBC, object/relational mapping, and complex data caching) so it becomes easy for them to miss critical data access problems. Preferisco Limited can advise on database design, data and process-led application tuning, and Oracle database performance tuning and management.

Market Research and Analysis

Competitive Research and Product Positioning

Growing out of the news digest and its associated knowledge base is an ever developing appreciation of the relative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats offered to the market by vendors, products and technologies.

We can offer off-the-shelf or specifically tailored research and analysis to help your product architects, marketing and sales teams.

Technical Writing

Preferisco Limited offers a range of technical writing services. Whether it is for your web site, whitepapers and articles for the trade press, product collateral for your brochures, marketing and pre-sales presentations, or in-depth documentation for your developers and end-users, we can work with your domain experts to develop clear and concise copy that will be a credit to your organisation.

We can either develop material from scratch, or work to improve the impact of your existing written material. We can also review and audit material you have produced in-house, offering an independent point of view on its accuracy, clarity and completeness.

Material can be delivered in a range of formats. Excludes graphical design at present.

Lynton Research Digest

The Lynton Research Digest was active from 2002 to 2004, but has been put on ice due to pressure of other work. Previous articles can be found in theLynton Research Digest archive.