Our Specialty

Our teams are experts in a variety of technologies, with a focus on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), web-based application environments, SQL, and open source collaboration platforms. Our business focus is on financial and tax systems, and we add expert analysis of financial flows and systems problems to all our development projects. In short, we understand the corporate accounting and tax worlds, and know how to deal with, solve, and utilize the IT systems that these worlds depend on.

Why Open Source?

Yes, you'll see us frequently recommend open source solutions, even for corporate environments. Open source application platforms, such as Apache Tomcat, JBoss, and Zope, are proving themselves in a wide variety of business applications. Adopted not only for license cost reasons, open source environments offer high quality software developed openly and transparently by a large professional community. Good open source applications also create or adopt industry standards, thus ensuring compatibility with other businesses, a wide range of applications, and the future.

However, as an independent consulting firm, we find the best application environment for our clients and products, be it open source or commercial. We have allied with some of the best-of-breed commercial packages as well, and are active partners with such firms as Microsoft and Stone Bond Technologies.

Our Reseach Role

Agoric Source is on an active research and development project to produce the tools and applications necessary for enterprise-scale business collaboration environments. We are developing pieces of the open source puzzle that will address replacements for earlier-generation business collaboration environments, such as Lotus Notes, as well as full-scale workflow applications. Our research and development team boasts 10+ years experience apiece with financial systems, business process engineering, and software engineering. For more information, review our Research and Product pages.