Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Introducing Manusis Technologies

This is the first official blog for Manusis Technologies. So the first question that we asked ourselves before starting this venture. What differentiates us from other players in the web development field? I noticed there are two types of companies catering to the web development market. The big players that are too big to attend the small business, start ups and individual investors. And there are other players which are not that organized, get the work done somehow without worrying about the scalability or standards compliance. So there is definitely scope for somebody who caters to the small business and provide service with a quality that is usually reserved for big clients only.

Next question is how do we achieve this objective. Providing quality comes at a cost and higher costs will deter the small business or start ups from choosing us as a preferred vendor. Thats where Technology will come into picture. Our first step will be to automate the routine processes and work flows typical to a web application. The key is code once and for ever and to virtually eliminate the efforts spent on duplicating a particular functionality for multiple web applications. That coupled with the latest technologies will make it easy for us to develop enterprise web applications at lower cost.

I have spent a lot of time on figuring out how to make it work. Five years at E*Trade exposed me to a number of top class frameworks and programming languages. That exposure helped me understand the nuances of extreme programing and best practices to develop a good framework. The exposure to production environment and deployment practices for mission critical applications, the ones that deals with people's money, and there is a little chance to screw up, taught me what works and what does not in a real life scenario.