Affinus Consulting Services is at the core of our business, delivering high quality solutions for our customers, many of whom are leading brands or household names.

We have built our consulting practice around Microsoft’s Windows Server System and have strong capabilities in the areas highlighted below. Not only that, but we understand that many customers require the concurrent implementation and application of more than just one product and need the assurance that complexity won’t weigh the project down. As integration and Microsoft technology experts Affinus are able to demonstrate this capability with integration, test-driven development and enterprise scale in our core competencies.

BizTalk Server Consulting >

Our BizTalk Server Consulting practice is a key part of our business. We have a great deal of experience not only designing and building complex enterprise class solutions using BizTalk Server but with one of our founders playing a key role in developing the BizTalk Server product itself - we really are the experts. Our unique blend of hands-on experience coupled with a deep technical understanding around the product is one of our key differentiators.

Our team has worked on solutions for many large enterprises worldwide, and are specialists in designing and delivering high quality solutions. We also provide architectural advice and guidance when needed and our close ties to the Microsoft BizTalk product group helps you to ensure you exploit the product to its fullest potential and deliver maximum value for your investments.

We offer:

Full development life cycle comprising design, development and testing, including all aspects of BizTalk including complex Orchestrations, custom adapters, custom pipeline components, BRE, and BAM
Architectural consulting
Design reviews
Performance tuning including high throughput and low latency
Production reviews
High availability

SharePoint Consulting >

Covering both Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) consulting, we understand the business benefits and optimisations that can be achieved through more effective use of technology.

We have experience in delivering SharePoint solutions that leverage out of the box features such as search, content management, workflow and Microsoft Office Integration including Excel Services, Infopath, Forms Server and more.

We see technology as an enabler to open up new opportunities and efficiencies and have successfully completed several large successful integration projects with MOSS 2007 and WSS.

We have the capability to extend SharePoint where necessary with customizations to search, Web parts and many other aspects to provide truly tailored solutions whilst adhering to the product architecture and roadmap.

We are currently building up our 2010 practice to offer solutions based on the next major release of SharePoint, offering even greater functionality and productivity.

We offer:

Full development life cycle encompassing design, development and testing, including custom web parts, BDC, Workflow
Architectural consulting
Design reviews

Advanced User Interface Consulting >

We have experience delivering innovative user interfaces helping organisations display large volumes of complex data. We focus on the development of intuitive user interfaces in order to maximize usability. Our Advanced user Interface practice has extensive experience with WPF, and Silverlight, and developing high performance user interfaces for displaying real time data.

We offer:

Rich thick client applications using WPF
Rich Internet Applications using Silverlight
Usability studies

Application Development Consulting >

Our Application Development Consulting practice focuses on the Microsoft development platform, developing enterprise class solutions for our customers. Our consultancy offering includes, architectural advice and guidance, full project life cycle, performance tuning and analysis. We are big believers in using Continuous Integration, and Test Driven Development techniques in order to drive predictability around our delivery as well as driving up the quality of the solution. We use iterative software development techniques such as SCRUM to ensure transparency in our delivery and like to work closely with the stakeholders to ensure that we deliver the right solution first time. Using this adaptive style of software development enables us to gather feedback early and ensure the solution meets the requirements and expectations of our customers.

We specialise in all aspects of the .NET platform, including:

Full development life cycle including design, development and testing
Advanced user interfaces using WPF and Silverlight
Distributed applications, server side coding, multi-threaded, low latency, high throughput architectures using distributed caching and CEP
Performance tuning
Architectural consulting

In addition we work with early versions of products in order to help our customers gain a competitive advantage by exploiting new technologies. Currently this includes: .NET 4.0, Dublin, StreamInsight.

Customer Care Framework Consulting >

We have experience architecting and developing customer solutions using the Microsoft Customer Care Framework (CCF), enabling enterprises to deliver a single aggregated view of their many disparate applications, from mainframes, databases, web services and web sites.

We offer:

Architectural and design consulting using the Microsoft Customer Care Framework
Delivery of proof of concepts
Full project life cycle using CCF
Extensions to the standard CCF