Synergy Ingredients

The following list the ingredients of the synergy we create when crafting our magic. Without them, it would have been impossible.

Open standards

• HTTP stands for HyperText Markup Language and what makes the internet possible 
• XML stands for Extensible Markup Language is the revolutionary magic ingredient that solves interoperability and integration problems. The standard itself has lead to other standards such as UDDI, WSDL and SOAP which formed the birth of a new technology namely Web Services. Web Services simply encapsulate business functionality and expose it over the internet or intranet. Any client can consume it equally without having to conform to a specific platform, operating system or programming language. With it, we all speak the same language, sort of like a universal translator in Start Trek (although designed for machines, not people). 
• UDDI stands for Universal Description Discovery, and Integration. It serves as the yellow pages of businesses with details of the functionality they expose and the contracts of each transaction.    
• WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language. It describes the contract between the client application and the web service. When we consume a web service, we execute a method exposed by the contract in the WSDL file.
• SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol. It is what enables us to frame messages and send them from clients to web services or from web services to clients. By Web Services, we mean objects hosted on a server on the internet or over a local intranet that listen to incoming SOAP messages from client applications. The later ones could be hosted on a variety of machines like desktops, laptops, TabletPCs, iPAQs, SmartPhones, WAP Phones or any other Windows CE device that is connected to the network.

Cutting Edge revolutionary software development tools 

• Visual Studio.Net Enterprise Architect Edition: This is our heart and soul! This tool is the why of ptii's existence. We learned about the makings of it back at Developer Days '99 and have been specializing on it ever since. It is simply the best software development tool humankind has ever seen.
• Visio Enterprise Architect Edition: We use this tool for everything, from creating UML diagrams to document all we do, to creating the art you see on the web site as well. 

Frameworks

• .Net Framework: This is a collection of thousands of classes Microsoft created that work together with the Visual Studio.NET product. They encapsulate all the functionality the technology has to offer. They take care of the plumbing and of implementing the open standards listed above so we take less time coding. We simply glue them together to form a program. The trick is getting to know each and every single one of them personally, and there are over 23,000 of them. Each has their methods, properties, events, and interfaces. Only when we really understand how they work, and used them for the purpose they were designed for, we gain the highest form of synergy.
• .Net Compact Framework: A much smaller subset of the complete framework yet powerful enough to mean business.

Work Experience

• 24 years in the industry architecting business solutions to solve problems with technologies as varied as Mainframes, Wangs, AS/400s, Windows Servers and Windows machines.

Love and Passion for programming

• This is our special ingredient!