Microsoft .NET

Smartek21, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has expertise in delivering custom applications development using Microsoft technologies that includes all versions of .NET, WCF, WPF, C#, AJAX, Web services, Infragistics, Teleriks, Ideablade and REST. SmarTek21 delivered numerous web and windows based enterprise applications on .Net technology platforms through successful offshore-onshore model and agile approach.

MSNBC

Msnbc.com, a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC, is a leading news portal providing World, National and Local news on all categories. SmarTek21 provides Development and Integration support to the site from various news feed and sources like AP, Reuter and videos from MSNBC TV. We also support the framework and the platform built for the editors to create and publish articles with multimedia features enabled.

MyQuu Lounge

QuuLounge is radio's social network where users can share favorite songs, artists and radio stations with friends and discover others' radio experience. The Lounge Application can be viewed here – It requires users to register accounts on the site.

Smartek21 developed and implemented MYQuu Suite of products owning end to end responsibilities from documenting functional requirements, development, testing to production support. MYQuu suite was developed using .Net 3.5, Web Services, Ajax as well as developed Interfaces and UIs to mobile phones.

Humanity Interactive (HI)

HI creates online Avatar’s as Web Agents. HI Web Agents are built to deliver value all over the web site - Greet customers, Present key values, help customers on support pages, walk users through e-commerce process and ask questions. Its unique fully automated process captures the subtleties and nuances of human emotion and behavior in video and transfers these elements to the 3D character.

We built several applications for HI and one of them is “Web Self Service” Agents. This application allows HI clients to purchase this product and integrate with their site easily to provide online 24 x 7 customer support. The UI, Player and the back end are developed using .Net technologies to support configuration and Deployment with no dev effort. A version of Avatar can be launched from here which shows that Avatars and Self Service Agents can be launched from a page load or by the click of a link or button.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

SmarTek21 has a dedicated SharePoint practice to develop products and solutions on MOSS. The practice includes a team of highly trained SharePoint and .NET developers who have built some really complex web applications with extensive customization of SharePoint.

SAP Integration with SharePoint (Topaz Bridge)

Topaz Bridge extends enterprise investments in SAP by providing self-service applications to the employees in SharePoint. Employees can easily view and update SAP HCM data from familiar SharePoint interface.

SmarTek21 engineering team architected and developed the 3 tier solution. The solution consists of reusable SharePoint web parts which communicate to SAP thru a .NET middle tier based on BizTalk LOB Adapter. The system is completely configurable by a business user and support multiple languages and Locales.

Intranet Portal for a large Telecom company

The Intranet Portal is a single point entry for all employees of the company to get to any information about the company, about their benefits and their career and to get to other tools and resources. The new SharePoint portal replaced an old existing portal which was a collection of 100's of asp / html pages.

SmarTek21 team designed and developed the new portal on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and migrated all the content from the older portal into the new portal. We built an awesome User Interface and an easy to use Global navigation for quick access of information. We enabled the news publishing processes for the communications team and reduced the news publication from 3-4 days to a couple of minutes, and completely removed the dependency on developers to publish news.

Intranet Team Portal for Microsoft Partner Network Team

Team Portal for Microsoft Partner Network team is a place for the team members to collaborate, share ideas, share documents, share best practices. It is a common place for everyone on the team to find the relevant information and the relevant people. The portal is used by the team which is globally distributed.

SmarTek21 team developed the portal using the beta version of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010. The portal site was built with reusable web parts which included - Discussion web part, An Interactive web part with People Information, Enhanced Quick links web part, Enhanced Best Practices web part with Content Rating system. We leveraged the new features being shipped in MOSS 2010.

Microsoft Silverlight

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in powered by .Net framework, for creating the next generation of media experience and Rich Internet applications (RIA).

SmarTek21 is one of early adopters of Silverlight technology since the beta version, and our UI developers leveraged their .Net skills to deliver robust Silverlight applications using XAML, Silverlight Toolkit, JSON and Expression Tools to deliver UI Rich applications. We built a unique Silverlight video player for MediaJots using Markers, XLinq and LINQ to SQL integrating data sources for transcripts and using WCF for remote connections.

Ruby on Rails

Rails is an open source framework based on Ruby for developing web-based data driven applications. Rails is an MVC (Model-View-Control) framework on Ruby which also does ORM (Object Relational Mapping). The main feature of Rails is faster development of web applications by writing less code - Rails writes lot of the coding for us. Ruby supports AJAX in the view layer.

SmarTek21 has dedicated RoR practice team and delivered several applications that include Online Credit Card Application for a leading bank, MYQUU Portals, REST APIs for Tax calculations, Desktop Widgets and more!.

iPhone

There are several thousands of iPhone third party applications written for the Apple iPhone. These apps are specific software widgets that can be downloaded from iTunes App Store. Categories of these applications include Business, Games, Sports, News, Travel, and Entertainment and so on!

Smartek21 has developed applications for iPhone in the MAC environment using Objective C for our customers. One of the applications is to track the CashBack balance from Microsoft’s CashBack website. This application can be downloaded or viewed from here and this requires access to iTunes App Store like any other iPhone applications.

J2EE

Smartek21 builds high performance custom applications using Java, J2EE, Struts, JSP, Servlets, Hibernate, Swing, AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML & XSLT for Internet, Intranet & Extranet sites. We build and service web applications for a range of markets and companies.

Few of our projects done in J2EE includes "Instruments Technical Assessment Tool", "HR Management System", "Doctors Forum".