A great idea is nothing if it's not implemented correctly. On the Web, implementation requires knowledge, foresight, and experience. SpireMedia's Development team embraces those core values and offers clients platform-agnostic Internet application development services that meet and exceed their business objectives.

Our Technical Leads are fully engaged from the beginning of every project. We internalize your business goals and project requirements and turn them into technical architectures and working applications that function flawlessly, smoothly, and responsively, while scaling to meet your changing internal and external needs. That solution may be completely custom, a customization of one of SpireMedia's proven enterprise products, or even an application built from an Open Source or COTs packages.

Whether you need Web-based content and asset management, a blog aggregation engine, an online markup tool, or an entirely novel Web-based application, SpireMedia works with our clients to pick the right technologies for a project based on several factors: in-house skill set, existing hardware/software resources, market availability of support, and more. We work with our clients' in-house teams to build a solution that best serves their business goals and technology needs. And, we provide all source code along with employee training and documentation, so clients can be confident that they will be able to manage and extend applications in house.

A Web site is often the first experience that customers have with a company's product or service and brand. And first impressions matter. SpireMedia believes that no company can afford to make a bad first impression.

SpireMedia offers Web design services to provide our clients with best possible visual representation of their company. But award-winning designs don't matter if the site doesn't work. SpireMedia provides full-service design and development offerings for clients who do not have the resources in house or who are just too busy doing their jobs to worry about their Web sites.

Our Development team creates accessibility compliant HTML, XHTML, and DHTML paired with best practices CSS to get your site up and running smoothly. We also offer Flash development services for clients interested in dynamic Flash-based applications or Flash marketing components on key pages such as a home page or product demo pages.

We can integrate your new site with any existing content management system, or we can offer our clients our own SpireESM - enterprise site management - to manage one site or 100 sites via a single, user-friendly interface. And for client's not sure what they need, SpireMedia provides technology consulting and package selection services to guide you through the whole process.

• as a Rich Fat Application that takes advantage of Cocoa Touch user controls and maintains data locally via SQLlite.
• as a Rich Fat Client, which uses Cocoa for presentation logic and accesses data over http via Web Services.
• as a Rich Thin Client that leverages Web Kit and/or Safari and is deployed as a pure Web application.

Effectively maintaining an organization's internal knowledgebase for staff and clients is one of the chief struggles for any CIO.

To build an intranet or not to build an intranet? SpireMedia understands that our clients grapple with this question daily. An intranet is just a fancy name for a Web portal that you keep private—for employee's eyes only. But it's not the show pony Web site. That's a dot-com site. An intranet is a company's workhorse, housing documentation, on anything and everything a company has to offer its employees from human resources forms to those pesky expense approval sheets and sales presentations. It also allows for communication between employees and automates numerous tedious taks.

SpireMedia offers our expertise in building secure intranets for document management, asset management, and user management in mind. We build in permissions structures so human resources teams can share new performance evaluation forms with the whole company and keep the profit sharing numbers to themselves. Marketing teams can keep logos and brand assets up to date. Technical writing teams can share the same current documentation to ensure they are always working from the latest drafts.

At SpireMedia, we believe your intranet can be a bit fancy too. Our Development team can implement wikis, discussion boards, chats—whatever tools a company needs to keep the gears moving smoothly.

And extranets? We do that too. We offer secure extranets with document and asset management, workflow management, and permissions management tools. These functions help our clients keep their clients, vendors, contractors, and sales teams in shape.

If you simply need credit-card authorization for a downloadable product or for collecting dues, we can implement any payment gateway into the SpireESM Platform. If you have an extensive product catalog with global customers and complex tax and shipping rules, we can layer our Information Architecture and Design services on top of best-of-breed off-the-shelf eCommerce packages such as Commersus, AbleCommerce, and Drupal/Ubercart to create a truly unique solution for your online business. SpireMedia can also work with clients to build revolutionary custom eCommerce systems that broaden the scope of the medium and allow for endless sales for an emerging company.

The SpireMedia development process is agile enough to accommodate organizations ranging from the funded startup to the 100 year-old global enterprise. Whether a 2 month engagement with a team of 2 on-site developers or a 2-year program of multiple projects and a release team of 20, the Spire development process incorporates best-of-breed principles of agile and iterative methodologies: capturing changing requirements, release-oriented sprints, scrum meetings, test-driven development, and constant risk analysis.

Each member of the SpireMedia development team is a specialist in either enterprise .NET, Java, component-based ColdFusion, Flex or Flash development. The SpireMedia team is extremely strong in popular open-source languages like PHP and Ruby. Our database architects are proficient in Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, and MySQL. SpireMedia Tech Leads typically have at least 10 years of web development experience.

For us, at the end of the day, it's not about the technology stack. It's about the methodology, the process, and the architecture. We leverage AJAX and Web services in a services-oriented architecture, building custom components or using commercially available components to create the best Web 2.0 applications every day.

SpireMedia has been developing and fine-tuning content management systems for over 10 years.

Our latest platform, SpireESM is a Web-based application that allows companies to easily create, manage and maintain multiple Web properties from a single platform. With SpireESM, all of a company's content and digital assets are stored online and, without the need for additional programming, are utilized on Web sites, portals, intranets, extranets, e-commerce engines, e-mail/online marketing tools or virtually any other type of Web system.

SpireESM simplifies the process of using the Web to meet business goals. No longer will the delivery of Web initiatives be dependent upon the limited resources of an internal technology department or an overextended vendor. Now, non-technical employees can easily implement projects independently, which saves money and increases productivity.

Along with SpireESM, we implement numerous third party and Open Source CMS solutions for customers with existing licenses or strict technology stack requirements. We implement and extend Microsoft's CMS and Sharepoint Portal server as well as solutions from Ektron, Adobe, Open-Source Drupal, Serendipity, .NET Nuke, and Mambo platforms.

Selecting the right platform from which to manage your Web-delivered content and assets can be daunting. There are so many products/platforms out there that it's difficult to figure out which is best. There are many great solutions both on the commercial market, and available via Open Source distributions. It's important to not only compare the features and price among the various packages that may be right for your business, but also the flexibility of those solutions as well. Your business changes over time and your platform should be able to grow with you. SpireMedia's experienced employees can become your virtual CTO or CTO and help make decision that shape the future of your company.