Jacquette Consulting is an information technology (IT) services company that specializes in developing innovative software applications in scientific and high-technology settings. Headquartered in Malvern, PA, we provide our services to leading companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, communications, and Internet industries. We pride ourselves on the quality of our work and on being a premier employer for top-notch technical and business professionals in the greater Philadelphia region.

In each of the industries we serve, the timely and effective flow of information drives the success of the business. Our industry experience, built through years of developing complex systems for critical business applications, enables us to quickly and effectively understand that flow of information and how technology can help you improve it.

Whether providing an entire project team or supplementing your in-house staff, our professionals bring with them the benefit of Jacquette Consulting's experience at building robust systems. We achieve our successes through better people, better methods, and better technology.

Better People

The heart of any software development project is the development team: the software developers, architects, quality assurance specialists, technical communicators, and project managers that bring a new system to life. A weak team can doom a project to failure, while a strong one can overcome even significant obstacles and be successful. Every consulting firm claims to have the best employees, but we invite you to meet our consultants and compare them to others in the field; we're confident you'll find our consultants to be superior.

Each of our consultants is a full-time, salaried employee, not a subcontractor who disappears at the end of the job. We hire the best by ensuring that each of our technical employees has strong communication skills, multiple technical abilities, and relevant education and industry experience.

We retain the best by continually presenting our employees with new and exciting challenges, by providing opportunities for growth, and by giving each employee the opportunity to have part ownership in the company. Since its inception Jacquette Consulting has been employee owned, and we intend to keep it that way.

Better Methods

Jacquette Consulting recognizes that a single inflexible software development methodology is ineffective at dealing with the wide range of challenges in today's computing environments. We also recognize that despite the widespread use of project methodologies since the late 1980s projects continue to run over budget, over schedule, and even fail altogether. Therefore, we take a different approach to the process used to develop software.

Our S3^TM methodology specifically targets the two most complicated areas in software development: gaining an accurate understanding of the user requirements, and ensuring that the software itself has minimal defects.

To improve the match between the user community's needs and the software's capabilities, we use rapid prototyping and interactive development to demonstrate and refine software features. By presenting users with multiple working prototypes of the final system, we ensure that the user community understands the system and has the opportunity to correct our understanding along the way. And to help ensure that the end product is easy to use, every one of our developers is trained in user interface and usability design.

To reduce the number of defects in the final product, we turn the traditional software development process upside down: we design unit test routines first, then write the code that can successfully pass those unit tests. This approach ensures that each unit is thoroughly tested before it becomes part of the overall code, and because each unit test is developed as a standalone software module, the entire suite of unit tests can be executed at the touch of a button. The development team can test incremental changes to the system immediately, and because the time cost of retesting is minimal, the team will test each unit multiple times before the project is complete.

Even though we have an innovative approach to software development, our methodology is flexible enough to provide you with the deliverables you need during the life of the project, and works quite well in a regulated environment. We are also comfortable working with your own methodology. Whether you use the S3^TM approach or your own, highly trained Jacquette Consulting professionals ensure that your system will be delivered on time and on target.

Better Technology

Every Jacquette Consulting professional has multiple technical talents; and among those talents, we have strong expertise in mainstream technologies like Oracle, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server, C/C++, Java, Perl, Active Server Pages, and UNIX. Additionally, we maintain expertise in vertical market products, such as Documentum, and aggressively develop our skills in newer technologies, such as Linux, Python, Tcl/Tk, and PHP. We make it a priority to understand a wide range of technologies so that we can pick those that best fit your needs, rather than trying to apply a "one size fits all" solution.

And while Jacquette Consulting professionals are actively involved in developer partner programs and technical special interest groups, we maintain our objectivity by avoiding arrangements that require us to sell a particular vendor's products. By bringing a broad and balanced viewpoint to every project we ensure that you get the technology that works best for you.

Better Results

Our mission is to deliver the highest quality software consulting available, and with strong consultants, innovative methods, and the best technology the market has to offer, we position every Jacquette Consulting engagement for success. The difference between the work of true software experts and that of typical developers is truly astounding; call us today for a free initial consultation and let us show you how.