Our choice of architecture

Solutions, from intranet to Internet.

Thin-client architecture
Our custom applications take full advantage of your network's connections. Thin-client architecture provides our clients with maximum flexibility and accessibility, regardless of platform or location, because the application is stored on a secure server.

A few benefits of thin-client architecture:

• Platform independence - Thin-client architecture frees your organization from the constraints placed on the machines that will use it. Thin-client architecture will work for any operating system, any chipset, and needs nothing more than a web browser to use the applications.
• Centralized maintenance - With standalone applications, a lot of time and effort can be spent on managing the upgrades, security fixes, and other patches on each computer. Thin-client architecture provides a centralized solution. With QuadraTech thin-client applications, you can deploy one upgrade and have every client upgraded automatically. This removes the burden of patch management and the risks of incompatibilities.
• Global access - Thin-client applications can be restricted to your organization's intranet or can be expanded to the Internet with no modification to the application. This means that the office can be extended to your employees and clients no matter where they are.

Our MVC/P framework
Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a popular concept for adaptable applications, but it is sorely lacking definition of a final "module" - Persistence (i.e. how your data is stored). Many development firms, while aware of MVC, fail to properly understand its importance. As a result, they are often left without a robust data storage solution.

There are many benefits of the new MVC/P paradigm:

By using MVC/P, QuadraTech is able to provide solutions to businesses that alleviates the headaches associated with choosing a database system. Because the data storage and the business logic are decoupled, this leads to other gains in productivity and flexibility.

First consider what would happen if you purchased an application from us and you had Oracle running as your main database system. Everything would work fine, because all of QuadraTech's applications work on Oracle systems. Now, suppose you decided to cut some IT costs, and chose to implement the MySQL database. Switching database systems is one of the top costs to an organization. Because of our infrastructure, QuadraTech is able to provide a seamless swap to most major databases (and the list is growing), all at no cost to you.

In yet another example, let's assume that you now need to do some data manipulation, and you'd like to have the data output in XML to bring into another system that you already use. Using MVC/P Migrators, we can quickly provide customized solutions to take data out of the application's database, and migrate the data to many other formats, such as XML, Excel, and others.

A white paper on MVC/P will be coming soon with more development details, and will be released to open source via all major channels.