Expertise

• SharePoint Development SharePoint Server 2010 Development is the core expertise of our team. We have developed various projects with custom Web Parts, using the SharePoint Object Model, Web & WCF Services and integration scenarios, InfoPath & Forms Services, User Profile Service programming, Metadata Service, Business Connectivity Services, Excel Services and BI.
  
  Our dev leads have delivered SharePoint development trainings as early as the public availability of SharePoint 2007 Beta 2.
  
  Our dev team members are certified as MCTS: SharePoint Development.
• Silverlight Development We focus our Silverlight / WPF expertise on the business applications with advanced user experience requirements.
  
  We are extending the SharePoint out-of-the box grid & forms functionality with Silverlight for improved UX.
  
  Our team members are certified as MCTS: Silverlight Development.
• iPhone / iPad Mobile Apps We are pros in the development of iPhone and iPad applications. We base many of our applications on the MonoTouch framework. This allows us to reuse our existing skills in the Microsoft ecosystem, thus achieving greater productivity.
  
• SiteFinity CMS We have built several public facing SiteFinity web sites, featuring integration with iPhone apps and SharePoint intranet portals.
  
• .NET Framework Our .NET areas of expertise are ASP NET MVC, SharePoint development, Silverlight / WPF, Entity Framework, Win Forms, Word Automation. We complement our .NET skills with experience in a variety of third party control suites (Telerik & DevExpress) and using Team Foundation Server for team collaboration.
  
  Our dev team is certified as MCPD: Web, Windows and Enterprise Development; MCPD for .NET 4.0; MCSD.NET.
  
  We have a few .NET Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT), who frequently deliver .NET trainings and presentations for the community.
  
• Amazon Web Services We are avid users of the Amazon cloud platform and we have experience with the following components of AWS: Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), CloudFront, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), Relational Database Storage (RDS) and SimpleDB.
  
  We are experts in the API of Amazon Web Services and Amazon S3 in particular. We have built an innovative free iPad app for consuming the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and delivering a browsing capability on mobile devices. Check it out here.
  
• Social Platforms Within our apps, we are integrating with public social platforms for content aggregation scenarios and authentication. We have built business and mobile apps that integrate with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
  
• Third Party .NET Control Suites We are using the Telerik’s and DevExpress’s control suites for Silverlight, ASP.NET and WinForms to empower our .NET and SharePoint solutions. We have experience using Telerik’s OpenAccess platform for ORM.
  
• SharePoint Administration & Migration We have deployed and administered some of the largest SharePoint infrastructures in Bulgaria. Abilitics has migrated the SharePoint 2007 infrastructure to SharePoint 2010 for one of the largest Telecoms in Bulgaria. We have built various infrastructures ranging from highly-available NLB & Windows Failover Cluster infrastructures to geographically distributed SQL Server Log-shipping based deployments.
  
  Our infrastructure consultants have delivered the first SharePoint 2010 trainings in Bulgaria, part of the Microsoft worldwide Ignite early adoption initiative.
  
  Our infrastructure team members are certified as MCTS: SharePoint 2010 Configuration & Administration.
  
• SharePoint Information Architecture Abilitics team is skilled in defining the information architecture and information strategy of complex ECM SharePoint scenarios. We have defined information architectures of 100++ department sites for companies with over 1000 employees and offices in multiple countries.
  
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM We have experience integrating MS Dynamics CRM with SharePoint and third party business systems, building an MS Dynamics CRM infrastructure and migrating CRM 3.0 to CRM 4.0.
  
  Our team is certified as MCTS: MS CRM 4.0 Development and MCTS: MS CRM 4.0 Administration.
  
• Microsoft Excel & Office Many people claim to “know” Excel, but few do. We dare say that we are experts in Excel.
  
  We incorporate Excel spreadsheets and train companies about best practices and how to use Pivot Tables, VLookup formulas, Slicers & Divers, Excel as a front-end to BI cubes; Spreadsheets connected to SharePoint; Automating Excel with VBA and .NET; Excel Addins for Data Mining; the new Power Pivot technology.
  
  Our team members are certified as “Microsoft Office Specialists”.
  
• Team Foundation Server We are using Microsoft Team Foundation Server for work item tracking, source control and bug tracking.
  
• Windows Communication Foundation We have integrated various business systems using the WCFs and Web Services technologies. WCF services are our enabler for the Silverlight-based solutions that we create.
  
  Our dev. team is certified as MCTS: Windows Communication Foundation.
  
• Windows Workflow Foundation We have architected and developed WF-based solutions for a SharePoint workflow project, incorporating also InfoPath & Forms Services electronic forms.
  
  Our dev. team is certified as MCTS: Windows Workflow Foundation.
  
• Word & PDF Document Generation Frameworks We have created a framework for word document generation, based on the OpenXML framework. Additionally, we are experienced in generating PDF documents using the Adobe Acrobat template forms.
  
• Outlook Addin Development We have developed Outlook Addins which integrate with SharePoint and other document management systems for an integrated UX experience within the popular email client. We base our Outlook addin solutions on the “Addin Express” framework.
  
• SQL Server Database Engine & SQL We are proficient in SQL Server Infrastructure and we have deployed failover clusters, configured Log shipping and Database mirroring. We are often engaged to profile an application, read execution plans and optimize a SQL Server database for performance.
  
  Our team is certified as MCTS: SQL Server Implementation.
  
• SQL Server Business Intelligence & ETL Abilitics team has a unique mixture of skills, covering both the core SQL Server Analysis Services expertise necessary to build multidimensional cubes, as well as expertise in Microsoft’s front end technologies for BI such as SharePoint’s Excel Services and Performance Point Services. We are also experienced in building ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) SQL Server Integration Services packages.
  
• SQL Server Data Mining We use the Data Mining to create systems for predictive analytics, predictions, clustering analysis and cross selling. We have built systems for inventory predictive analytics using the SQL Server’s algorithms for Decision Trees, Neural Networks and Clustering.
  
• Algorithms We make use of Informatics algorithms in some of our solutions. We are fascinated by how concepts that we have learned at school & university such as binary trees, graphs, hashing, and security algorithms can be applied to the business world. We are “good friends” with the works of Dejkstra, Knuth, Euler etc.
  
  Our team includes a few champions in IT & Informatics competitions in Bulgaria, as well as present lecturers in universities and masters of Calculus & Artificial Intelligence.
  
• Telecom Domain Experience As the leading SharePoint vendor in the Telecom sector, we have built a comprehensive expertise in the telecom business processes. We have dealt with Number portability, FTTx-es, Sales, Support & Presales processes, Access Networks, Bundled services and many others.
  
• ITIL We are skilled in operating large IT SharePoint infrastructures following the ITIL best practices and methodologies.
  
  Our team members are certified as ITIL v3 Foundation.