MediaRica is a brand of Object Insight, Inc., founded in 1997
With extensive experience in requirements gathering and defining specifications we are in a position to offer fixed price contracts. We will employ a methodology right sized for your needs, from projects where designing a model before building software is appropriate to more agile approaches. We can also offer software and systems administration support services on a retainer basis.
Background
Object Insight is the Software Engineering Company Behind MediaRica. Dr. Ron Suarez founded Object Insight in 1997 after selling Arbor Intelligent Systems, which he founded in 1988. The focus of has been based on Object Technology and grown into managing and moving media across the Internet. Arbor specialized in Smalltalk technology in manufacturing, financial and telecommunications for Fortune 500 companies. Object Insight released one of the first UML modeling tools for Java programmers in 1998 and in recent years has delivered consulting, project management and software development services that are robust and scalable. Object Insight’s methodology is based on Dr. Suarez’ experience at the cutting edge of technology since the 1980’s.
Specialized Services
Podcasting - We have launched podcasts for business - Michigan Technology News and music labels like Apehouse in the UK.
Web Services Integration - enhance your web application by integrating web services from other providers or partners.
Amazon Web Services Integration - Amazon has has made the cost of growing your infrastructure a commodity with services for computing power (EC2), cheap storage and bandwidth (S3), ecommerce with flexible payments systems (FPS), and messaging (SQS - move data between distributed application components performing different tasks, without losing messages or requiring each component to be always available).
Java Performance tuning - improve scalability using various caching technologies.
Content Analysis for Ad Placement - manage and analyze web site content to determine ad placement.
Web Based Communication Tools - from social software to corporate intranets, open source modules can be integrated and enhanced to meet your requirements.
Digital Asset Management - from text to music and video, employ web based administrative tools requiring various authentication/ authorization schemes.
Technologies, Tools, Methodology
Enterprise Development - J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Echeche, Lucene (indexing and search technology), JavaSpaces, J2ME, JBOSS, JSP, JDBC, Struts, Eclipse, RMI, OOAD, UML, Rational Rose, JVISION (created by Object Insight), Oracle
Content Management Systems - Drupal, Python/Zope/Plone, custom Java based CMS
Blogging Tools - Movable Type, WordPress (including custom plug-in development), custom Java based Blogging Tools.
LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySql, Perl, and general UNIX Systems Administration
Web Application Development - PHP, Ruby on Rails (e.g. see Toolshed.biz), custom Java based systems