Services | Cadent Computing Inc.

Architecture Consulting

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:10:39 -0700

Cadent can use the extensive backgrounds of its consultants (both in-house and third party) to assist new and growing high tech companies to craft architectures which achieve your desired requirements for both now, and for the future.

We can do extensive research for you:

Research all avenues of a prosposed technology or product.
Farm the internet for open source building blocks and tools to compliment a desired direction.
Do a competitive technical analysis.

We can analyze your ideas and architecture and recommend possible future avenues. This includes outlining what tools and building blocks you need to incorporate now so these avenues remain open to you at minimal effort/cost in the future.

We can audit your existing architecture to find areas of possible optimization. We can:

Recommend better use of tools/techniques.
Recommend skillset lists to assist HR hiring processes.
Recommend hardware/Software upgrades.
Isolate areas to give the biggest improvement for a given amount of effort.
Recommend performance enhancements.
Recommend partnerships and liaisons.

For investors (Venture Capitalists and Angels), we can:

Do a technical due-diligence analysis to determine if a technology has been properly thought out and planned for (i.e. is not just a marketing plan).
Work with Intellectual Property (IP) lawyers (ours or yours) to do an analysis of what can, and what cannot, be patented and to help ensure the proper use of open source software/tools.
Do a technical background check on entrepreneurs: 20 years of collective experience is not that impressive if it is spread over 5 people and includes time in university Co-op programs. We can get to the bottom of technical competence claims.

Development

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:54:42 -0700

Cadent's original mandate was to provide contracting services to high tech companies. This involved being on-site doing active development for a given project.

We still provide development services to clients on a stand-alone project basis where a specific piece of work is well defined and can be developed by us at our own site and delivered to the client upon completion. This allows us to retain control over the high level of quality/craftsmanship we have become known for.

Typical projects which are perfect for such off-site development include:

Prototypes for startups seeking funding.
Experimental prototype work to help determine future directions.
Plugin development.
Security audits of existing software.
Glue code to integrate existing commercial or open source components.
Utility development.

Please Note: Because we require well defined projects, Cadent will not participate in projects utilizing pure Agile Development techniques. We have tried this already and it did not allow for a predictable, quality delivery or a clear cut completion date (i.e. cost overruns).

Training

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:50:10 -0700

Cadent offers professional training in several areas of embedded/real-time development.

Security: VPN's (eg. IPSec, SSL, SRTP), and secure code development
Network Protocols (eg. ATM, Sonet, TCP/IP)
Real Time Programming
Embedded Design Techniques
High Performance Computing
Sustainable Software Development Processes - The Cadent Way.