At Esper Consulting Inc., we are proud of the quality services we offer. Our clients know that the excellence of our work is due to our highly skilled and knowledgeable engineers and analysts. Our main offerings are:
Custom Software Development & Project Management
Our expertise is software project management, development, and support. We adhere to proven project management methods based on best practices acquired from many years of experience working on large projects in the defence and aerospace sector.
We will analyze your needs, then design and build the system to suite your schedule and budget.
We are very comfortable undertaking fixed-price software development projects as well as providing services on a time and materials basis.
Areas of Expertise
Our specialty is building information systems using state-of-the-art technology. We have built information systems in support of air traffic management, tracking aerial training flights over sensitive environmental zones, and real property management. The technologies common to these systems include an underlying robust database management system with spatial data management and data security capabilities, geographic information systems for processing and rendering spatial data, and other system components for manipulating different types of data (e.g., images, video, and sound).
Our Software Development Facility
We have a fully equipped software development facility to manage small to medium sized projects. The facility supports development for UNIX and Microsoft Windows platforms and has tools for Configuration Management as well as software defect reporting and tracking.
Our personnel have complete access to development resources over the Internet through a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN), meaning that managers and developers have access to all project information and repositories from any location with access to the Internet.
Professional Services
We provide on-site professional services for customers who wish to use their own facilities but need to leverage our expertise.
Our consultants specialize in project management and administration, requirements analysis, software and database design, programming, software testing, user documentation and help systems, and system and database administration.
Turnkey Solutions
We specialize in the design, installation, and support of open source computing infrastructures for typical office environments and for software development facilities. We will analyze your needs, design a secure intranet, and propose solutions to meet your budget.
We also offer remote and on-site system, network and database administration so you don't have to worry about the reliability or availability of your system.
Office Automation Infrastructure
The configuration of an office computing environment can vary from a single server for file and printer sharing to a complete system featuring web and application servers, an email exchange server, database servers, file and printer sharing, and network-based applications. The extent and complexity of an installation depends on an individual organization's needs.
Software Development Infrastructure
In addition to the office automation infrastructure, a typical software development environment contains tools for software and document version and configuration management, problem tracking, tools for compiling, debugging, and testing software, information exchange and sharing, time sheet management.
Examples of Open Source Tools
| Operating System |
Linux (Fedora, SUSE) |
| Web Server |
Apache |
| Mail Server |
Cyrus IMAP |
| Mail Client |
SquirrelMail (web), ThunderBird (desktop) |
| Browser |
FireFox |
| Relational Database |
MySQL |
| Web Application Development |
PHP |
| Problem Tracking |
Bugzilla |
| LDAP Server |
OpenLDAP, Fedora Directory Server |
| Information Sharing |
MediaWiki |
| Software Version Control |
Subversion |
| Office Suite |
OpenOffice.org |
| Development Tools |
Eclipse |
