We are passionate about performance and tuning, and offer a range of services to help you get the maximum speed out of your IT applications. Whether it's designing and developing new systems or improving existing ones, we find nothing more exciting than delivering high-speed solutions.

Design and Development

If you are starting a new development project then we can ensure your application is lightning-fast. With the application of a mixture of experience and best practices, you can be sure that your performance targets will be met.

For larger projects we can save you money by just developing the critical-path components, leaving your existing developer base to continue with non-performance-critical components.

Troubleshooting

We are experts at identifying and resolving performance problems with IT applications.

Issues are not always limited to just one part of a system, and in many cases can be very complex as they involve the interaction between any number of different components - this makes them harder to diagnose and resolve. Not only do we have experience and skill of dealing with individual technologies, but we are unique in having proven expertise in solving performance issues with systems as a whole.

No Gain, No Fee

We are so keen to get our hands on your software and make it run faster, that we offer a complete guarantee: if we cannot improve the performance of any part of your application by at least 10% then you pay nothing.

From single SQL queries, to entire complex applications, irrespective of whether you have a known issue or you just want your system to be faster, if we can't speed if up then there's no fee.

The investigation and analysis is free, the cost is fixed, and the result guaranteed. This means that you get no nasty surprises, and literally have nothing to lose. Click here to see how it works.

Technologies

Whatever your situation, we can help you achieve the best performance using any of the following:

• Web: HTTP, CSS, JavaScript, Apache, Boa, CGI, FastCGI, Servlets.
• Java: core, J2SE, J2ME.
• Databases: design, indexing, SQL, on-line transaction processing (OLTP), decision support (DSS), data warehousing.
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL etc.
• Database applications.
• UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux) development: C, Shell, Perl, AWK, etc.
• Inter-process communication (IPC) and networking (TCP, UDP).
• Message-passing / multi-threaded / asynchronous architectures.
• Mobile application architectures.
• Algorithms.
• Protocols and protocol design.
• Resource-constrained systems, such as embedded systems.

We can undertake all sizes of application, from single database queries to full multi-tier systems.

Emergency Call-out

We can provide short-notice and same-day services for the emergency resolution of performance problems, subject to consultant availability. If your system is eligible then the call-out is also covered by our unique "No Gain, No Fee" guarantee.

Education and Training

We can create and deliver custom performance and tuning training to your exact requirements: from one-to-one tuition and mentoring, to group seminars. This can be tailored to your environment, and in many cases can be as a follow-up to the resolution of a particular performance issue at your site.