Microsoft .NET / SharePoint Center of Excellence (CoE)

Mantra has invested in training resources and development best practices for application development using Microsoft .NET architecture. Mantra’s Microsoft .NET team leverages this expertise to enable rapid, quality application development to provide specific business solutions.

The Microsoft .Net Team is staffed by trained, Microsoft Certified professionals with experience in applications development in Microsoft development environment. Currently our team focuses on development and enhancement custom applications built using C#, WinForms, Webservices, VC++ or VB/ASP on the .NET environment.

Offshore Microsoft Solutions Development
Mantra has developed internally Microsoft technology based frameworks that enable a developer to jump-start into development right away, without worrying about the intricacies behind database connectivity, File I/O, error handling, session and application management.

These frameworks encapsulate implementation level details of repetitive code in ASP and COM components. The framework is created to help speed up development time and build web applications with fewer complexities. Using these frameworks, majority of our efforts is focused on business logic or functionality implementation.

.NET Solutions Offerings

• Migration of applications to .NET

• Performance Tuning

• .NET Architecture and design evaluation
• .NET custom control development
• .NET Desktop and Web Application Development
• .NET Software Product Development
• Web Services based .NET Application development
• Mobile applications based on .NET Compact Framework
• Migration of application from .NET
• Languages: VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET
• Technologies: DHTML, ASP, ASP.NET, IIS6, MS Server Suite, VSS, Web Services, AJAX, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight
• Framework: Enterprise Library, Smart Client Software Factory, Object Factory
• Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005, My SQL 4.x/5.x, Oracle 8i/9i/10g
• Programming API: COM, DCOM/COM+, Win32, .OLE, OLE Automation, ActiveX, Microsoft Application Blocks, AJAX

Microsoft Sharepoint Solutions
Microsoft SharePoint is a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration, file sharing and web publishing. Microsoft SharePoint Server is composed of three major tiers and Mantra has experience in working with all these tiers:

• Web Front End role which processes HTTP requests to the Server;
• An application layer which provides such features as Search and Excel Services;
• A dedicated Microsoft SQL Server data storage.
• SharePoint Quickstart
• Migration to SharePoint 2010
• CRM Integration
• ERP Integration–Navision, SAP and others
• Dashboards & Intranet Portals
• Document management, workflow and collaboration Custom Solutions using SharePoint.

Microsoft SharePoint Designer is a specialized web page editor for designing SharePoint sites and end-user work flows for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation sites. SharePoint Designer also allows developers to manipulate data from SharePoint or external sources (such as Microsoft SQL Server) without coding directly against the .NET Framework. SharePoint Designer 2010 is the successor to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, although the two versions are not compatible.

Case Study: .NET Product Re-engineering and Optimization Domain – Banking / Financial Challenges – Customer needed to – find the hot-spots within the application, re-engineer and re-write those, improve the product quality, quickly port to the next generation of .NET framework, provide facelift to the application for better usability and get this all done in shortest amount of time. Mantra’s Solution – Starting with domain knowledge and understanding Mantra established technical leadership in offshore teams, worked very closely with management and IT teams, worked round the clock for effective time management, set increasingly harder timelines and met all those, improved code quality and application dependability. Value Addition Better end-user experience Improved code quality and stable production release Established monthly release cycle with set of features rolling in every month. 100% increase in customer base within 9 months. 8 hour turnaround time on level 1 and 2 defects in old application. Team Size: 6 Developers, 2 QAs and 1 DBA Technology: Microsoft .NET, C#, ASP.NET

Software Testing solutions
Strategic Testing	Functionality Testing	Regression Testing
Security Testing	Localization testing	Testing Automation
Integration Testing	Offshore Testing Overview

The Mantra team utilizes a range of different tests depending on the type of application or product that is being reviewed. In addition to our standard array of assessments, we can develop custom evaluations to meet your unique needs.