Yellow House Associates has the people and the experience to meet your most demanding software application development or Information Assurance needs. We efficiently leverage our core competencies in software applications and database development, information assurance and security, and user interface design to build superior solutions. We have the technical expertise to effectively deploy sophisticated information technology solutions that facilitate the continued growth of your organization.

System Design/Integration
"We take fragmented data and put it together into a correlated system that is greater than the sum of its parts." - Michael Schader, Yellow House Associates President & CEO

There are many system integrators (SI) out there, but few who understand the mission or business process of the organization they are working for. Yellow House Associates SI engineers are experts in law enforcement and intelligence, so we understand your mission and we understand why you want to integrate your systems. We've done those jobs ourselves.

Our SI engineers are technology experts, so we know how to incorporate the best-of-breed newest technology into your integration project in order to give you the best system possible. With our SI engineers, you can go beyond simply seeing all the data from all of your systems in one place, to automatically analyzing your data and providing you with a coherent operational picture on which to base your decisions. We normalize data, correlate pieces of information from separate systems, integrate all of your data into a coherent single picture, apply artificial intelligence to your problem-solving questions. All so you can spend your time accomplishing your mission.

Our system administrators and enterprise system managers work proactively. There are many entry-level system administrators, but few experts who implement sophisticated learning processes that constantly evolve and improve. Our enterprise systems managers do more than provide advanced Unix and Windows system administration. They perform proactive system monitoring using advanced custom tools, so you know about problems long before your users tell you. They deploy automatic agents to track system status, so you don't have to depend solely on attentive operators to spot subtle signs of trouble. They implement robust backup and failover schemes to protect your critical data against loss. Our experts know how to communicate with users, managers, and developers, pushing hands-on operational knowledge wherever it is needed. With our enterprise systems managers in your organization, your systems will transform from a weakness to a strength.

Knowledge Base Engineering
Turning data into knowledge is at the heart of what we do. We provide seasoned database administrators and data warehouse designers, but more importantly, we supply the experience and expertise it takes to succeed at knowledge base implementation projects. We've worked through tough, real-world issues like data quality, information currency, and access control policy. We know how to build value-added systems on top of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, and MySQL. We've deployed complex technologies like database replication and semantic indexing in challenging production situations. With our help, your knowledge base efforts can provide the true value every project manager dreams about.

Information Assurance
Security is at the top of every IT manager's list of concerns today and we can put your mind at ease. Our Information Assurance (IA) professionals apply in-depth knowledge of the evolving security environment with an understanding of the real-world constraints that all organizations face. We have hands-on experience in getting system accreditation for mission-critical systems. We conduct Certification & Accreditation (C&A) testing, as well as hands-on penetration testing using the "attack tree" methodology. We apply IA principles to system architecture and software design so your projects can have security baked in from the beginning. We configure and manage servers and firewalls to keep your environment safe, and use intrusion detection systems to neutralize threats. With Yellow House Associates you'll be able to scratch one more item off your list of worries.

Software Engineering/Application Development
Yellow House Associates has hands-on experience in software engineering for operational systems. Our tight development loop means that your changing requirements are integrated, tested, and deployed into working software faster than most companies can produce an initial study. At every point along the development process, from the first release to final implementation, you have operational software that your organization is actually using to accomplish its mission.

Yellow House Associates understands that requirements change. We adapt because you need to adapt.

We treat every project, regardless of its state, as on-going development because we know that systems need to change with the way you accomplish your mission. Your systems never go into "just" operations and maintenance (O&M), because your processes never go into O&M. Your systems need to change with your processes. By treating all systems as on-going development, your organization never falls behind the power curve, never has to play catch up, and never has to worry about what your systems can do. We help you focus on your mission.

To give you the ultimate flexibility, Yellow House Associates writes in Java so that you can run your systems on any platform you wish and never have to worry about future migration paths. We use open source software so that you don't have to worry about on-going payments for site licenses or updates. However, we will never hesitate to use what you already have in place or what your migration plan calls for, and we will never hesitate to recommend commercial products that are truly valuable.

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