We've built solutions for ambitious start-ups, mid-size companies, and Fortune 500 stalwarts in a wide variety of industries. But when you get right down to it, it's not your industry or audience that shapes your application—it's a balance that's struck between competing, or even contradictory, pressures. What's required of your application? What are the demands of your business environment? Which technologies are appropriate?

Finding a solution that works means coming at your project from all three directions: requirements, environment, and technology. Whether you require a digital media infrastructure, an online teaching system, or a complex workflow; whether your business environment demands reliability, security, tightly controlled costs, or a fast development effort; whether your application is based on Java and Oracle, ASP and SQL Server, Flash or a wide combination of technologies, TechEmpower unites the three aspects into a cohesive system. Every project has unique demands (and that's the way we like it). Until we've talked, you won't know if TechEmpower is a good match for yours. In the meantime, take a look at the ten challenges that we hear about most often from clients when they come to us. Chances are, some of these will be familiar. And be sure to check your "innovation quotient" with the "Are you an innovator?" Quiz (requires Macromedia Flash player).

• "We have a variety of technologies today. And we aren't sure what the right path is. I don't want to keep building these silos."
  
• "I want my system to start small—but I don't want it stay small. Every six months I'd like to add features and functions. How do I plan for that?"
  
• "Our site will have only a few users at first, but we expect a rapidly growing user base. Eventually we'll have millions of users with tens of thousands on the system simultaneously. We'd like to keep costs down initially but don't want to throw money away on a solution that won't work later."
  
• "Every time the site goes down, I'm going to get called. At the same time, I have to live within a budget. Where's the balance between reliability and affordability? It seems like I can't win here."
  
• "My system's going to house important data. I want to make sure that only certain people have access to it. It doesn't need to be Fort Knox, but I have to protect sensitive information and make sure it doesn't get seen by the wrong people."
  
• "We're focusing on the U.S. at first, but eventually we are going to roll out overseas, in 19 countries and 11 languages. What can we do now to make things go smoothly later?"
  
• "My users are going to be on everything from a laptop in a hotel running over a modem, to a high-speed connection just down the hall. I want to make sure that my system performs well for both kinds of users."
  
• "What about connections to multiple databases? I have three different databases to pull data from. Each one stores the data in different ways. Eventually I may need to connect to a hundred databases stored around the world."
  
• "We're going to have separate installations that need to run independently, but they also need to share data. How do you deal with distributed applications like mine?"
  
• "We need a variety of specific applications but we don't want to start from scratch each time. Can we build a base system that can be customized for different applications?"
  
• "We have some specific hardware that we need to connect with. For us, integration with specialized hardware is critical."

You may be facing one of these challenges, a combination, or a highly unusual set of circumstances. Whatever your problem, we'll make sure we understand it, identify the challenges, and work with you to determine whether TechEmpower's capabilities are a good fit for your project—all before we proceed. If we go forward, we'll bring your idea to life in a way that makes sense for your business.

Think TechEmpower may be right for you? Want to ask us a lot of tough questions before you make up your mind? Let's talk.