We are truly a full-service consulting firm made up of industry specialists, experts in each respective field. Our development is all done by Vermonster team members, we hold quality control paramount and use quality people we know and trust. Our team is passionate and excited about our work, and take pride in what we deliver. When you hire us, you hire an agile and respectable team of professionals with a promise to deliver.
Agile Business Application Design and Development
We build usable and effective business applications. Our applications are simple, clean, usable and fast. Many of our projects are based on the popular Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework, but we also use similar technologies using PHP, Python and Perl (and the LAMP stack). We follow test-driven design (TDD and BDD) and take a SCRUM-like approach to managing projects (read more about our design methodologies).
We provide agile consulting services ranging from higher-level project and team management “best practices” to hands-on involvement with extra development bandwidth provided by our developers.
Marketing Services
Companies, organizations and individuals that need to simplify web presence come to us for creative designs that are work. They work not only because of stunning aesthetics, but are also bulletproof - or accessible to everyone, regardless of browser and platform. For the creative work product, we use our relationships with first-tier graphic artists, known in the industry for the work, talks and passion about web design. Then we provide the integration necessary for interaction and deployment.
Product Usability and UX (User Experience) Services
To make an application, website or any interface work properly, it must be usable. We offer usability and user experience (UX) services that help companies build products that feel natural and intuitive to their target audience. This could include both the strategy, design and development of the user interface and ties in nicely to our application development services.
Technology Consulting
Our foundation since we started has been open source and open standards. If you have questions or are considering implementing open source or following open standards, our consultants are ready and waiting to help.
Data Services
We have database lifecycle tools and techniques to provide “best practices” consulting as well as software expertise to aid in the transition process. We cover PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle and SQLite.
Deployment, Hosting and Lifecycle Management
Deployment on your own hardware or hosting in our first tier co-location center is a snap with Vermonster. We use structured deployment techniques and technologies that allow for future non-obtrusive updates. We also work with leading infrastructure providers, like Amazon S3, EC2 and Engine Yard.
We fully support most of the products and applications we help build. Our work is fully documented and fully tested and we are there and ready to be integral for the next phase, including features and functions and/or scalability of the product.
Legacy Modernization Services
We understand you have legacy applications that may need some refreshing. We have experience modernizing legacy applications, from creating new “Web 2.0″ front-ends that add new business logic to exposing key functionality as web services for SOA initiatives (e.g. REST, SOAP, JSON and other modern RPC-based protocols).