ASIG
Software:
Professional Software Services for the UW Agriculture and
Life Sciences
Why Use Us?
Why contract with ASIG Software? What sets us apart from other programming options like student programmers, outside consultants, or DoIT's consulting services?
As a customer for software services, you have a right to expect:
- Professional developers with domain experience. With today's tools, anyone can write programs. But our experience and iterative practices ensure that you get the right program: what we deliver is as close as possible to your vision. In addition, our training in biology and other ag related sciences means we start with a better understanding of your needs.
- High availability. Our close proximity on the UW-Madison campus means we work face-to-face with our customers. We stay on track; you get a better product.
- State of the art practices. We employ agile, iterative development techniques to help manage risk, cope with changing requirements, and deliver high-quality products. Our model is to deliver a working prototype as quickly as possible; from there, you decide what features go in when.
- Developers that understand your needs. Our experience has taught us to take into account the special needs of our university clients, in particular the need for code and data longevity, maintenance, and product migration under soft (short term) money and tight budgets.
- No more write-only programs! Maintenance always happens. Whether it's new features, bug fixes, or performance improvements, someone is going to have to work on the code after it ships. Since that someone is usually one of us, we've learned to be kind to our future selves, writing clear code, simple architectures, and enough documentation to find our way back inside. When it's your turn, you'll be thankful we did.