Software Consulting There are many software packages for small businesses -- some may fit your needs,some may not. Will the new package integrate with your present system? Can it meet your future needs and match your strategic goals? How much "tweaking" will be needed to get a new package to work for you? Can your clients reach this needed information from a new solution through your website? How much of this application will you actually use, 20%, 50%? We know how hard these questions are to answer. We have helped our clients answer these and other questions they wouldn't know to ask. Let us help. We perform detailed product analysis. Together we can construct a software plan that will best match your needs.

Full Featured Business Applications We build full blown, multi-user, database driven custom business apps that will run on any platform. Using the absolute latest design architectures, these rich client applications can run inter office, intra office, or over the web. Integration with web services and a web portal will put your business in the sweet spot of the very near future. Integrating your business data for real time access is a Beacon Software specialty. We can move your data over the web and save you the headache of hosting it yourself.

Database Driven Web Sites Keeping your business portal up to date should not require multiple edits of unwieldy HTML code. At Beacon Software we specialize in developing dynamic web sites built on the fly with each client access. We architect sites that are built on integrating your business data at its source. We also develop custom content management solutions to enable your staff to easily update areas of content quickly and securely.

eCommerce Solutions Providing the ability to purchase your products or services in a secure and dependable environment adds tremendous value to your web site. Following best industry standards, we provide a host of solutions for businesses to make use of this powerful ability from shopping carts to managing complex transactions.

Web Services Beacon Software can do much more than provide a well architected web site or business portal. We are committed to meeting your business needs in many new innovative ways. Business over the web is changing quickly. We can provide Web Services to enable you to publish important data in a way that until recently has not been possible. The "Holy Grail" of platform independence for Remote Procedure Calls has arrived and we're poised to bring that technology to you and your clients. Web Services can save on bandwidth costs by using the internet to provide complex automation of business processes.

Advanced Hosting We specialize in developing solutions for small businesses who want to implement complex systems but prefer not to spend thousands of dollars and hours of time maintaining web sites, databases, and application software. We provide hosting services that you cannot obtain from typical web hosting outfits like Web Services, Servlet Engines, and Databases all fully customized to your needs. We maintain these only for our clients at a state-of-the-art co-location facility.