Projects and Voices

Thinktecture consultants regularly work with clients of various backgrounds and sizes: from single independent contractors, small and large ISVs and governmental organizations to some of the world's largest companies. The following is a list of projects which have been supported by one of our experts, Ingo Rammer, Christian Weyer, Ralf Westphal, or Christian Nagel.

Architecture Reviews

A European maker of hardware and software for remote collection of sensory data wanted to make sure that their application would be scalable and reliable enough to allow them to meet future requirements. Thinktecture's Ingo Rammer worked with their design and development team to ensure that this application scales up to processing tens of thousands of meter readings in each cycle, resulting in terabytes of data each year.
One of the world's largest research organization developed a highly secure system for document exchange for a Fortune 500 corporation. Thinktecture's Christian Weyer helped them to define the server-side architecture and possible means of communication to guarantee highest availability and scalability. One of the most important requirements was to achieve platform-independent collaboration based on open standards.
A European organization for skills certification redesigns their extranet site with ASP.NET. One of our consultants helps them with architecture, design and code reviews to ensure the necessary scalability to integrate the exchange of data with thousands of certification institutes.
A U.S. manufacturer of development technologies regularly invites thinktecture consultants to review the design of future technologies – in some cases, software that will be released no earlier than three to five years in the future.

Proof of Concept and Project Seeding

One of the most visited Web sites in Austria changed its implementation from ASP to ASP.NET. Thinktecture's Christian Nagel helped the team to kick start to .NET, and worked on the initial design of the solution.
An international investment bank decided to implement a new application using .NET technology. One of our experts helped them kick-start their project by improving their application’s design and by providing a framework implementation as a starting point for their developers.
A bank which focused on Java technology wanted to try .NET on a small project. The original project plan based on the Java technology called for a completion date within 30 days. With a thinktecture consultant's seeding support the project was done in 15 days with .NET technologies.
For creating a distributed architecture with a central application part for analyzing data in chemical engineering, a very big player in chemical industry built on thinktecture consultant Christian Weyer's knowledge in the realm of distributed applications architecture, design, and implementation.
A large insurance company decided to implement prototype for a document-based solution with .NET. A thinktecture expert helped with designing the prototypes which contains .NET Smart Clients as well as SharePoint Server and BizTalk Server.
A Canadian independent consultant in the medical-services business wanted a second opinion regarding his design. Thinktecture's Ingo Rammer helped him compare different solutions by providing an alternative design and prototype implementation from scratch.
A solution provider implemented an electronic toll system with a C++/COM solution. A thinktecture consultant helped with the design and implemented performance critical modules.
A solution provider implemented a Web solution for an election system. Thinktecture's Christian Nagel helped the team to get started with the .NET technology, and worked on the design of the solution including ASP.NET, Windows Forms and .NET Enterprise Services.

Mentoring and Coaching

A European independent software vendor for e-Government solutions decided to port their application from AS/400 and Powerbuilder to .NET. A thinktecture consultant has enabled them to improve their project's design and get up to speed on development.
A solution provider decided to port their large FoxPro solution with C++ components to .NET. Thinktecture's Christian Nagel gave the team a boost to the .NET technology, and regularly verified the design process as well as helped with implementation issues.
A European mobile communications provider decided to implement business logic components that would be accessed by Perl, PHP, C++, Visual Basic, a CRM package, and Java from Linux, Solaris, Windows NT and Windows 2000. Thinktecture's Ingo Rammer helped design and implement a Web Services-based framework to support this diverse environment.

Testimonials and Voices (Consulting, Speaking, Writing, Training)

First off, I have to tell you I think you are a real hotshot programmer! The depth of your knowledge is remarkable.
Thoroughly enjoyed your presentation last night! You challenged a few beliefs of mine, but they are now changed for the better I think. (Steve Mark, Chief Solution Architect, On-The-Mark Systems)
Your presentations were excellent, for me they were the best of the conference.
Many thanks for your time and effort. Your presence have been highly appreciated by the team and most of all by the participants.
Both talks were of the best quality possible on such an event. The subject was for real developers (not code slaves ;-)) and applicable on real-life projects. [...] If you'd be giving some .Net classes in Belgium I'd have enlisted right away!
Thanks [...] for letting me in on the Ingo Rammer talk in Zurich [...] "Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher". (Allan Nielsen)
Excellent!
I attended your 2 sessions on Tuesday in Belgium (Gent). It was really interesting and it opened my mind to try out new possibilities!
Give him longer time to show more of his interesting topics!
Glancing at some of the cool stuff that Ingo does every day is enough to stay inspired. (Steven Vore)
He does seem to always manage that extra bit of expertise that enables him to come up with solutions that go beyond what you would have thought of yourself. Good one, Ingo! (Patrick Verbruggen)
The session was VERY good!
Excellent overview of all the problems you can face
Thank you again for the great presentation you gave our group last night. You gave us a lot to think about. Please let us know when you will be available to speak to our group again. (Scott Hutchinson)
Your presentation at the LA DOT NET Developer's group was excellent. Many thanks for your time.
Just wanted to let you know how your talk about extensible applications alone made those two days worthwhile [...] Seeing creative funky stuff like that works really motivating.
Very cool presentation! Examples were extremely good, we don't need live coding :o)
I've recommended you to all my geek friends. Very good job, and thanks for the help.
The presentation of Ingo concerning the Web Services was inspiring, he has a very down-to-earth vision on Web Services. (Gerry Appeltants)
Ingo Rammer is The Man (Dave)
Very good presentation
I attended your presentation [...] in London - it immediately made me come back to work and correct the mistakes I had made with my existing code!
The final straw was Ingo Rammer - the high priest of Remoting - recommending a good look at ASMX Web Services for scenarios like ours. (Jeff Reese. Exceedio Corporation.)
I just wanted to compliment you on the best iSeminar I've ever attended
Excellent presentation tonight!!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and experience with us.
Good show, good content, even this late in a day...
I have your C# Advanced Remoting book and I must say it is worth its weight in gold!
Ingo has the amazing ability to take painful, mind-wrenching information, and show it in such a easy way. (A reader from Redmond, WA)
You've caused my knowledge of remoting to expand exponentially.
Ingo rocks (David Crawford)
Just wanted to say, thanks for your articles. Reading them has helped me a great deal on going with Web services or Remoting.