The teleconferencing business is increasingly a commodity business. Most market participants offer roughly the same services at roughly the same price points. Mike Swimelar, president of Advent Conferencing, understood that the only way to differentiate his company from the pack of competitors was through technological innovation. By 2006, he was already offering the very the latest in secure collaboration technologies with the best sound quality and richest feature set. Its audio conferencing network, bridges, and processes were the most reliable in the industry. But he was looking for even more of an edge. “I realized there was more we could do,” said Swimelar.
This case study reviews a recent CITYTECH engagement with one of the largest global foodservice retailers. As a JBoss Partner, CITYTECH was brought in to provide expertise and guidance around the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform product as well as to provide general JEE architecture advice as it related to the client’s global point-of-sale (POS) retail system. CITYTECH was brought in to solve two issues. One was to provide a migration from a JBoss Community version to the supported platform. The second reason was to resolve some critical performance issues the application itself was experiencing.
CITYTECH assisted a client in the decision process of leveraging a cloud computing paradigm for the integration, test and production environments for a large municipality’s multi-agency web application. The application provides data collection and work flow services to internet and intranet users which will replace an existing 100% manual process.