Saigun has a .NET development center which focuses on different technology options available in .NET, developing tools / utilities to ease the application construction by performing proof of concepts and building internal / external applications.

The .NET development center focuses on different areas of .NET with dedicated team of experts doing in-depth analysis and research on specific areas. The .NET development center focuses on all facets of development activities to make the whole process of project development faster. The .NET development center thus has the following focus areas, namely,

1. Components
2. Methodologies
3. Tools
4. .NET Enterprise Servers
5. Proof Of Concept
6. .NET based Solutions

The center has a set of experts who have a long history of working with Microsoft technologies. The members in the center are certified as Microsoft Certified Application Developers for .NET (MCAD.NET) or Microsoft Certified Solution Developers for .NET (MCSD.NET). The center boasts of a Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) as a technical architect.

Components
The research and development of .NET components that will help application development on .NET is a continuous process. This includes components like XP Style Menus and toolbars, remoting components, layout management components, dockable windows etc.

Methodologies
Our .NET development center focuses on different methodologies that will improve the speed to market and quality of the application being built. It works with the tools group to create tools that will ease the use of different methodologies.

Tools
The .NET development center create tools that will help in the use of the component or in the implementation of the methodology. Tools like build tools, unit testing harness tools, remote servers etc. have been built by the tools team at the .NET competency center.

.NET Enterprise Servers
The .NET development center focuses on the different .NET enterprise servers that Microsoft has been releasing in the recent times and build competency on the same. This team has worked with servers like MS SQL Server 2000, BizTalk 2002, Commerce Server 2002, SharePoint Portal Server 2001. This group also look at upcoming servers like the Windows .NET Server etc.

Proof of Concept (POC)
Our group builds a number of sample applications for Proof Of Concept of various .Net technologies. We have various sample applications which implement, for example a B2B and B2C exchange. We can use Commerce Server 2002 for B2C and BizTalk Server 2002 for B2B operations. The entire application can be developed using the following languages and tools:

• C#
• ASP.Net
• COM components
• Commerce Server API
• Biz Talk API.

The businesses involved may use disparate systems, different business protocols and document formats. The BizTalk server 2002 is used to implement B2B integration between these two systems.

Amongst the many sample application, is a purchase order application. The application provides client independence in such a way that both Windows GUI and the Web GUI share most of the code. This is based on a methodology which offers GUI for thick client as well as the thin client for the same server application.

We also plan to develop our product Empxtrack on the .Net platform, with configurable work flows.

.NET based solutions
The .NET development center has provided a web-based solution to an Energy major based in India, which has received major accolades from the client. The center is also providing a string of .NET based solutions to the above major to create a new web based access to its legacy mainframe based data and well the existing ERP.