Our comprehensive list of projects and testimonials illustrates our breadth and depth of real experience. It's this experience that makes us the right choice to help you with your project.

Axian provided professional Linux consulting services for RE/MAX Equity Group Realtors to migrate our key Windows-based servers to Linux. RE/MAX's Portland, Oregon server network consists of over 700 real estate agents with network access across more than a dozen Portland area offices. By using Axian to transparently migrate to Linux-based servers, RE/MAX has:

1. saved many thousands of dollars in licensing costs and fees
2. achieved far greater network server uptime and stability
3. been immune from the pitfalls of Windows-based viruses and attacks

Perhaps Axian's greatest achievement in our migration from Windows to Linux servers is that hundreds of RE/MAX realtors don't notice any changes—or if they do, it's that the network servers are more reliable and efficient.”

-- Ben Dalbey
IT Manager, RE/MAX Equity Group, Portland

Intel Web delivery server
Axian provided architecture, design and project leadership for a group at Intel that was responsible for developing a highly scalable Web-content delivery server for interactive TV. We developed product requirements with their marketing personnel, designed and implemented an object-oriented framework and led a 12-member implementation team. Axian used a diverse set of development technologies, including Java, Microsoft/C++, CORBA, JNI and XML, through successful product delivery.

We designed a supporting content delivery control script language based on XML, and implemented parsing, interpreting and editing tools. Our team also designed and helped develop a supporting multichannel client/server scheduling user interface and designed an administration/configuration tool. In addition, we helped specify and design a delivery preview user interface tool, and we fully documented the product in UML and standard software product lifecycle documents.

A sample of project results:

• The object-oriented framework helped manage a diverse team and maintain consistency throughout the product.
• Our product design resulted in high scalability, flexibility and extensibility, allowing it to be quickly adapted to ongoing changes in an evolvingmarket.
• The product successfully met industry standard protocols and integrated with receiving platform technologies.
• The project successfully contained development costs, significantly reduced defect costs and met all schedule milestones through quality designand creative choice of development technologies.

Large-scale ASP server system
Axian led a team that was split between two geographical locations in developing a large-scale server system that enabled an Internet Web technology company to productionize its core technology as an Application Service Provider (ASP). We also designed and developed the associated client/server user interface for both client and system administrator access. The system we helped develop offered:

• Complete system administration functionality, including system configuration, real-time monitoring of the highly distributed ASP deployment and dynamic addition of parallel system components.
• Secure client access to a complete environment, including user administration, integration with the core technology, current billing informationand custom usage and billing reports.
• An extensive remote user interface based on Java/Web technology that served both system administrationand clients by exposing only the functionality appropriate to the user's authorization rights.

Billing metric collection services
In this project Axian helped the product management team clarify, articulate and document their vision for both the middleware system and the user interface. For the server, we designed and developed an extensive middleware object-oriented framework, and then led the team in developing middleware components based on Java's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology and JDBC, using both BEA Weblogic and Oracle's server platforms. For the user interface, we designed and developed a Java swing framework and then implemented it using Java Swing and Web/HTML. Other accomplishments related to this project:

• The object-oriented framework helped manage a team located in two different locations and helped maintain consistency throughout the product development.
• Axian mentored employee team members, encouraging and supporting their professional and technical growth.
• We provided expert advice on development, documentation and source control practices.
• The product design resulted in high scalability, flexibility and extensibility.
• This project successfully contained development costs, significantly reduced defect costs and met all schedule milestones.

Nike diagnostics database
Nike Microsoft programmers developed a foot measuring and diagnostics tool in Visual Basic that included a number of custom controls as well as multimedia effects. This software was to run in up to 10 networked kiosks at each Niketown store, which were connected by a local area network to a single Windows NT server in the store running SQL Server. Each night, data from servers in each store was delivered to a SQL Server database in Nike's Beaverton Advanced Technology Lab by VPN over the Internet, where Nike corporate personnel could analyze the data. Axian was called in to assist with the following:

• Administering the SQL Server databases in both New York and Beaverton.
• Customizing the databases.
• Maintaining the Visual Basic foot analysis kiosk application.
• Customizing the Visual Basic foot analysis kiosk application.
• Issues relating to the local area and wide area network deployment.