Consulting

Ripple Systems provides consulting services in a number of industries in the enterprise software space. Our project managers, architects, and principal engineers each have over fifteen years of experience serving the mission-critical needs of Global 2000 companies. We have been building Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based systems since the first XML-RPC specification.

IT Project Management and Implementation
From needs assessment to project management to full implementation and quality assurance, we can help you succeed. Our broad experience in both large-scale enterprise systems and web enabling those systems can ensure that projects are delivered in a timely manner. We have extensive requirements gathering, technology definition, data modeling, and business process modeling experience. While we have used and are comfortable with a number of different software development methodologies, we have come to standardize on a Model Driven Architecture combined with an Agile project management and development methodology.

Systems that we have deployed have supported millions of requests per day, and hundreds of thousands of users.

Java and J2EE
The founders of Ripple have been involved with Java since its birth in 1996. We were also among the first to deploy fully functional Java server-side systems at a major financial institution. Mr. Fromhein was the product director for the IONA iPortal J2EE Server and the founder of Watershed Technologies, where he brought to market one of the first commercial Object to Relational Mapping products (O/R Mapper), the Relational Object Framework, in 1997. From BEA Weblogic to IBM WebSphere to JBoss we have worked with all the major J2EE vendors for as long as anyone.

Microsoft .NET
Ripple Systems is a Microsoft Certified Partner. Ripple's founders have brought their deep understanding of J2EE and enterprise systems into our .NET consulting practice. We can help you understand the risks, integration points, and technologies needed to realize a Services Oriented Architecture and make web services interoperable between J2EE and .NET.

For server side business logic, we can help you make technology choices between J2EE, .NET Component Services, and Web Services. Our Impact Enterprise Persistence Broker provides a strong migration path from J2EE Container Beans to .NET Component Services Persistent Objects. We can help you build and deploy a rich set of business logic that can serve as the core to .NET Forms applications, Web Applications, and Web Services.

Business Integration
Our Impact line of Business Integration Servers allows our consultants to easily tie legacy systems into current state-of-the-art Web Services (SOA) solutions. Whether it is generating EDI from existing web services or adding EDI support to existing systems we can help integrate your disparate data sources.

HIPAA
With extensive experience in both traditional ANSI X12 EDI and web services-based ebXML, we can provide migration to HIPAA transaction support for your systems seamlessly. Additionally we bring many years of security expertise from the Financial Services sector to ensure compliance with HIPAA security. Deploying HIPAA-compliant solutions increases efficiency and saves money.