August Schell’s software development service creates new, custom applications, providing full lifecycle support beyond delivery. Our customer receives the benefit of successful, high-quality applications without the hassles of staffing and technology learning curves. Using a four-phased approach, our experts define application requirements, analyze application characteristics, produce/implement the application and monitor performance during post-implementation support.

Through our best-of-breed talent and agile development approach, our customers gain access to intellectual capital and best practices while reducing development costs. Our customers realize an increase in productivity for application development projects while improving their business performance through changing demands in their marketplace.

When you choose August Schell, you benefit from deep technical expertise as well as strong partnerships and industry experience. In addition to extensive experience with a wide variety of open source and proprietary technologies, we have unique tools, frameworks and reusable code that enable us to accelerate application development in specific environments. Additionally, our agile development approach fits well within our customers’ development processes and allows us to react quickly to changing business needs while maintaining high deliverable quality and adhering to sound architectural principles.

Database Development

Stores of data and information can be the most important assets of an enterprise. We increase the value of large-scale databases through our expertise in data modeling, database and data warehouse design and implementation, and database administration. Our systematic approach to database design and selection of the most appropriate database management software and tools is well-suited to small, centralized database applications as well as large, distributed or replicated database applications.

August Schell has designed, built, and implemented major database systems for both federal government and commercial clients. We have extensive experience in the design and implementation of large, transaction-intensive applications that must meet customer requirements for performance and data integrity. We maintain skills with all major relational database vendor offerings including Oracle and SQL Server, as well as high quality open source database products such as PostgreSQL.

August Schell is committed to devising and implementing innovative solutions that suit our customer’s individual application needs.

August Schell has expertise in the following areas:

Digital Identity Management

• FIPS 201 Compliance - Consulting and Implementation
• Smart card selection
• Identification
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Single-sign-on to eliminate password proliferation
• Identity theft prevention
• Digitally Signed objects
• Performance Testing and Evaluation

Application Enabling and Development (Public-Key Enablement (PKE))

• New and Legacy Systems
• Guidance and Direction
• Framework Selection
• Toolkit Selection
• Secure Web application integration
• Integration of smart cards and tokens
• Cryptographic Protocol Selection
• PKCS#7, SSL, XML DSIG
• Revocation Checking Technology Selection
• CRL, OCSP, SCVP

LDAP Directory Engineering

• Directory Architecture
• Federated Architecture
• Replication
• Multi-Mastering
• Directory Mapping and Translation
• Directory Consolidation
• Load Balancing

Enterprise Application Engineering

• Structured Development Process
• Project Management
• Requirements Definition
• Software Architecture
• Web Applications and Web Services
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Identity Management Portals
• Customization/Upgrade of existing Applications
• LDAP Directory Architecture
• Relational Database Design
• Software Design
• Software Development - J2EE, Java, C/C++, XML, SAML, Visual Basic, Perl, ASP, .NET
• Quality Assurance
• Integration
• Configuration Management
• Deployment

Data center automation

• Design, development and integration of data center information systems
• Expert application of Opsware’s Server Automation Software (SAS) product to standardize and automate the challenges of administering a large network of data centers (allows easy updates/upgrades, patches, etc.)
• Expert application of Opsware’s Network Automation Software (NAS) product for remote management of thousands of infrastructure components (bridges, routers)
• Satisfy Sarbanes-Oxley requirements by controlling access to financial data from a central location.