For Web application developers, issues associated with the deployment of applications – like long development periods, security complications, and lack of scalability – may ring a bell. But, these problems are becoming a thing of the past, thanks to .NET technology from Microsoft.
.NET (News - Alert) -- Microsoft’s premier framework for application development -- enables application developers to create powerful desktop applications regardless of the programming language. In essence, the Microsoft (News - Alert)-based environment effectively combines data, users, program systems and hardware so software companies can successfully obtain and take advantage of this information, whenever they need it. The result is a newfound ability by developers to build cutting-edge, complex and technologically advanced Web applications that businesses can rapidly integrate into their existing systems for the ultimate goal of increasing ROI and advancing collaboration and communication.
In order to combat many of the issues prevalent in application development, Microsoft wrote .NET from the ground up to consist of a re-useable library of classes, or small components that enable developers to create applications. The presence of re-useable code alone is now enabling developers to develop applications so easily and quickly that the ROI is almost immediate. Even more, the scalability, maintainability and reliability that automatically come along with the .NET framework is propelling it toward becoming the dominant architectural model for the future generation of Internet applications.
In a study performed by market research firm Pique Solutions, of the 782 companies surveyed, the majority had made a substantial shift in their development platform in the 18 months leading up to April 2011, when the survey was commissioned. For migrations from Java – an alternative programming language -- to .NET alone, nearly 1 in 5 of the companies had already done so, citing top business drivers like platform stability and reliability, vendor support, total cost of ownership and staff expertise. At that time, one study participant stated the .NET platform “is dramatically improving collaboration and creating leverage, leading to massive application consolidation.”
Since .NET forayed into the industry, developers have been leveraging the .NET framework to create application types like CRM, product/inventory applications, websites, and supply management. However, the .NET programming platform has been highly responsible particularly for the creation of telephony applications within environments ranging from the typical small business to the large-scale enterprise.
As a company specializing in telephony application solutions, Inventive Labs has become a resource for developers looking to build virtually any automated telephony application, from IVRs to speech-enabled dialers. Its premier voice application development tool, called Voice Elements, uniquely combines the .NET framework with a powerful SIP stack -- an application-layer control protocol -- in order to establish, modify and terminate multimedia sessions like VoIP calls.
For more information on Inventive Labs Voice Elements platform for the building of voice applications, click here.
Edited by Rich Steeves
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