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2010 the year of the Cloud?Despite a very challenging economy and market BC continued our steady growth with annual expansion of 15% year on year in 2009 and our start of year order book for Q1 '10 the strongest in the company's history.The BC core business has remained a mix of large and small development projects, consultancy engagements, and on-site technical resource placement. In our view the cause of our continued success is our high-quality and conscientious delivery of services to our clients while continuing to deliver excellent value through sensible rates for our expertise. The aim for BC in 2010 is to continue the steady successful development of the company. This growth will be achieved with an increased focus on our core services, further strengthening of our administrative, delivery and project management team, along with greater use of our offshore delivery team and passing these cost-savings on to our clients. Ballard Chalmers is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with a focus on and expertise in .NET software development, SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and BizTalk Server technologies. With over 20 years experience in delivering expert software development and system integration, Ballard Chalmers consultants and technical experts deliver client consulting, bespoke development and implementation expertise, combined with providing exceptional user and business support, training and managed hosting services. The Microsoft technology roadmap in 2010 for the technologies that we focus on is an exciting one with major releases for .NET (.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010), SQL Server (SQL Server 2008 R2), and SharePoint 2010. .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. These will enable us to continue to reduce the development process complexity and thus time and cost for the delivery of custom software solutions. SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers several breakthrough capabilities that will enable your organization to scale database operations with confidence, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable highly scalable and well managed Business Intelligence on a self-service basis for your users. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables organizations to connect and empower people through an integrated set of rich features. SharePoint 2010 facilitates business collaboration in the broadest sense and helps colleagues, partners, and customers to work together in new and effective ways. Ballard Chalmers is currently working with as part of the team delivering what will be the first major SharePoint 2010 public sector live system deployment in the UK. BC will remain at the forefront of these technologies as software development experts and our aim is to be the leading Microsoft partner in our sector in 2010. A key element of the future of software and computing is the Cloud and the Microsoft Azure Platform which we have written about in more technical detail in the associated articles. The Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing
and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centres. The Windows
Azure platform provides a range of functionality to build applications
that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes
a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. This is very important for our area of expertise in software development and BallardChalmers will be one of the leading 'Cloud' and Azure Platform software development company in the UK in the coming years. If you would like more information on BallardChalmers services in .NET custom software development, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, BizTalk server or to find out more about Cloud computing please contact us at andrew.chalmers@ballardchalmers.com or call 01342 410223. Related links
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