Technologies
The range of technologies offered by Ascent is unusually wide, supported by our large developer team and by an emphasis on continuous research and development. As well as offering market leading technologies from Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, SAP and many others, we actively drive forward the development of technologies such as AI.
Technologies available are not limited to the list below, but these are some of the languages and platforms we use regularly:
Languages
- Visual Basic 6
- C# and VB.NET (2.0 and 3.5)
- .NET Development (WCF, WPF, Remoting, LINQ)
- Java/J2EE/EJB
- Javascript and AJAX
- ASP.NET
- JSP
- PHP and Perl
- Web Services
- HTML
- XML / XSLT
- PowerBasic
- ActiveX
- Silverlight
Servers
- Microsoft IIS
- JBoss
- Sun Application Server
- Apache
- Tomcat
- IBM WebSphere
- Coldfusion
Databases
- Microsoft SQL Server (2000, 2005, and 2008)
- MySQL (4 and 5)
- Oracle
- IBM Informix
- Firebird
- SQLite
Reporting and Business Intelligence
- Crystal Reports
- Business Objects
- Active Reports
Operating Systems
- Microsoft Windows XP and Vista
- Linux
- Unix
Methodologies, Modelling, CVS, Testing, and Project Management
- UML
- Enterprise Architect
- Microsoft Visi
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft VSS
- Prince2
- QA Test Complete
- Gemini Event Tracking
- Bugzilla
- DSDM and SCRUM
Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft CRM 4.0 (Installation and configuration)
- Microsoft CRM 4.0 (Add-on development)
- Microsoft Sharepoint development
ERP Solutions
- SAP Business One customization and Add-on development
Testing
- Test Director
- QA Test Complete
Special services
- Neural Networks applied to Industrial Applications
- Neural Networks applied to Data Mining and Forecasting
- Fuzzy Logic Control
- Optimization Techniques
- Support Vector Machines
- Expert Systems
- Genetic Algorithms
- Pattern Recognition
- Financial Arbitrage Algorithms
- Routing Algorithms
- Data Visualization
Others
- Adobe Photoshop
- CorelDRAW Corel PhotoPaint
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- Macromedia Flash (including Action Script)
- 3D Studio MAX
- MAYA
- MapInfo (including Spatialware)
- GIS
- DirectX 10 development






