Mobilize Your Enterprise

OFS builds apps that let your customer, executives, and staff bring the enterprise with them wherever they go.


Webinar: iPad Apps for the Enterprise:
More Than Just a Clever UI

Time to Re-think Everything-Again!

Mobile Computing is the next generational transformation of IT: new capabilities, new expression.

All We Do Is Enterprise Software

OFS has years of experience building commercial software for the enterprise and we’ve transferred those skills to help mobilize your enterprise.

We all agree, Apple created an ergonomic masterpiece that is unobtrusive, lightweight, and equipped with a long lasting battery. The features of motion detection, location awareness, multi-touch, multi-cameras, microphone, and speakers, along with its cache and sleekness, make it the perfect business tool. But the real genius of the iPad is not only what is in it but what they took out in iOS 5—features that you never used anyway but that just made it more complicated. OFS can help you take advantage of the best features of the iPad to give you an edge over your competition.

The iOS 5 is enterprise-friendly; new hooks were added to the iPad to enable linking to MDM software and to allow for over-the-air provisioning, security monitoring, and problem resolution. OFS knows how to build apps that work well with your MDM software vendor. The iOS 5 has more robust e-mail and Calendaring integration with Outlook. Additionally, enterprise private app stores are getting very popular for avoiding Apple surcharges and for making it easier to control new software distribution to your staff. OFS can help you build enterprise-friendly apps and a private app store for your employees.

The iPad’s unique capabilities and enterprise-readiness means you can mobilize your workforce and provide critical information for your C-level executives and your teams by having all the enterprise data and applications wherever they go:

  • For Your Executive - OFS can build iPad apps that link to your corporate information systems and display real-time business intelligence (BI) data so they can monitor and direct the company while on the go—in meetings, in airports, hotels, taxis, etc.
  • For the Sales Team - OFS can build iPad apps that increase sales interaction time and close the response-time gap with the customer. Your sales force can demonstrate products, collect customer information, configure solutions and proposals, and do online transactions while being connected to your enterprise systems in the field.
  • For the Customer Support Team - OFS can build iPad apps that allow your support staff to increase customer satisfaction by identifying and diagnosing customer problems, by ordering additional products and services, and by gathering customer activity information that connects to your enterprise systems. All of this can be done in real-time and while on location with the customer.
  • For Your Training Needs - OFS builds iPad apps that provide just-in-time training using voice, video, graphics, and text for your employees when they need it--in front of new equipment they need to operate, in front of customers wanting answers on products you offer, or when trying to use features of a corporate ERP software package in the field.
We Don’t do Angry Birds™: We design and develop enterprise-class apps

Not that we don’t love to play, but enterprise apps are fundamentally different than consumer apps. Enterprise apps involve more than just building a clever UI. Other aspects must be considered, including:

  • Security
  • Enterprise Connectivity
  • Data Volumes
  • Software Provisioning

OFS has fifteen years of experience building enterprise software products. We use this expertise to help your business plan and develop the mobile apps you need in order to be competitive, to empower your employees, and to help you service your customers. At OFS, we earn your TRUST as our client by delivering quality software products that help your business succeed.

Our Customers Love Us

We’ve earned the TRUST and respect of our clientele by building reliable software products and by getting these products to the market on time and within budget. OFS has created a loyal following by serving and supporting our clients well. We work hard to build a trusting relationship that lasts, and that’s why we can boast that 100% of our clients serve as references for us. We would be happy to put you in touch with any of our customers, as they are our best sales people!

We Are a Little OCD about Project Management

When it is time to execute your project, OFS thinks there is no such thing as “going a little overboard.” OFS has developed a systematic approach to managing your project, which includes: a proprietary methodology along with a proven system of management tools and controls, all executed by a project team with onshore and offshore leadership.

Our proprietary methodology for managing your project consists of a hybrid of the best of Agile and Waterfall approaches. OFS calls it Brick, since the iterations stack up like bricks. The result is a balanced systematic approach with multiple check points along the way and deliverables at specific intervals that ensure we are on track and can release your software on schedule.

We use several standard industry project management tools, such as Microsoft Project Planner (MPP), but we have extended these with our own templates and additional tools that help us quickly and uniformly build quality software codes on schedule.

Our Director of Delivery, Onsite Senior Level Project Managers, Senior Architects, User Experience & Interface Designers, Architects, Developers, and Quality Assurance Experts, comprise the multi-level onshore and offshore project team that is responsible for delivering your software. Team members meet daily, weekly, and monthly, and hold client stakeholder meetings to ensure that everyone has a complete understanding of the phases of the project and what issues need to be given extra attention.

Our Values Are Based on PORI

Our Mission is based on ETHICS and TRUST, and these values are inherent in our leadership team and our employees. The focus of our mission stems from the word PORI, meaning “Spark” in Tamil, the native language of our staff in India. For OFS, PORI means:

  • Predictability--We say what we will do, and we do what we say consistently.
  • Ownership--We take responsibility for what we do and for owning the deliverables.
  • Receptiveness--We are open to an exchange of ideas, including giving and accepting advice.
  • Integrity--Our personal commitment and trust are based on our strong faith.

Our goals are your goals: to provide an enterprise app that delivers results for you whether it is to help you close more business, move products more efficiently through your supply chain, or reduce your customer support costs.

Our Employees Stay with Us for a Long Time

Unlike other companies whose offshore employees often leave after a short time to pursue other opportunities, OFS has a long track record of very low employee turnover (only 6% per year). We keep our good people because we recruit them carefully, we make an active investment in their ongoing training and career growth, and we financially incent them to maintain client deadlines. Our employees work very closely with our clients for long periods of time, and it is not unusual for our clients to ask for our employees by name. Additionally, our top management has the collective experience of over seventy years in the software industry. They are seasoned professionals in both running software companies and in the ever-changing landscape of technology--some have been CIOs and CTOs themselves.

We Don’t Bill Hourly for Good Reasons

We have also earned the TRUST of our clients by the way we bill for our services. Over the years, we have found that it is best for our clients to receive a fixed monthly bill. Our customers tell us of experiences with other offshore companies that led to complicated billing; clients were unhappy because they never really knew what the total for the next bill would be due to overtime, billing for different skills’ sets, and an assortment of extra charges. We’ve solved that problem by setting up a pre-arranged monthly charge for the team working on your software. By doing this, our customers get the same bill every month; they don’t need to spend time reviewing bills, so we can collaborate in more meaningful ways. Our staff works a professional day and stays until the work is done.

Gain a Competitive Advantage - on iPad

As a leading automobile spare parts company, the client wanted an iPad solution to arm their
salesforce with a quick customer sales and product dashboard that could be reviewed with
the client while on site. Using the intuitive features and controls available with the iPad, OFS
designed a single dashboard UI that has the ability to drill down for more details including:
key contacts, recent orders, A/R balances, and KPIs. OFS also designed a clever, active sales
graph that users could manipulate directly with the iPad's multi-touch capability to see
growth rates at different intervals. In addition, OFS leveraged the iPad's location awareness
to provide GPS navigation to other clients using MapKit.

Build a Legal Document Viewer-on iPad

The client is a multi-billion dollar publishing company that desired to distribute their law books
on the iPad and thereby eliminate the costly and inefficient shipping methods for the original
and updated regulations each year. OFS designed a solution that offered a non-linear
reading experience for better searching and analyzing, enabled automatic updates of
regulations, and provided the ability to record the reader's annotations on a page and have
them applied to updated versions as well. OFS leveraged the base-level Apple API's to
improve speed, performance, and interactivity for very large documents (> 10,000 pages).
This new book format is now being adopted across many books in multiple divisions of this
large company.

Executive's Apps for Business Information (BI) App-on Blackberry
Playbook

The client is a foremost worldwide hotel group that wanted an app for the Blackberry
Playbook to enable their executives to view critical business information. Their set of
requirements included a dashboard to display different real-time statistics, such as average
occupancy rates and revenue per room across all their hotels. The app needed two different
levels of user access restrictions, both for corporate executives and hotel management, and
it needed to draw data from their ERP systems. OFS designed a highly graphic, intuitive UI
and integrated the client's existing software, security infrastructure, and used multi-touch
enabled features for comparative analysis.

iPad Apps for the Enterprise: More Than Just a Clever UI

App designs for the iPad/iPhone platform require a fundamentally new computing model that recognizes the unique capabilities of the device, the mobility demands of their users, and the special restrictions for provisioning apps properly and cost effectively. All of this requires the development and management of more sophisticated and broad based mobile strategies that seek to deliver functionally complex and rich applications.


 

ObjectFrontier (OFS) helps software companies and software-enabled businesses to design, develop, test, and maintain their software products and applications, whether they are hosted, licensed, or mobile.

Based in Atlanta and with offices spread across DC, New York, Philadelphia, India, and the Philippines, we have earned the trust of both large and small software firms catering to various industries including healthcare, financial services, and hospitality that have partnered with us for years. Our customers are Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and F1000 companies whose revenues are driven primarily by customer-facing software products.

We have a large and growing mobile apps division that is building mobile software for medium and large corporations looking to empower their workforce with the latest technology in iPad, Android, and other mobile platforms to help them interact with customers and systems in new and innovative ways while on the move.

OFS takes on the entire life-cycle of software product development, maintenance, quality assurance testing, and support, all while keeping the costs low.

To know more about OFS, please visit, www.objectfrontier.com

Contact Us

Main Contact:
Headquarters : United States
  • 1000 Windward Concourse
  • Alpharetta, GA 30005
  • Phone: (678) 218-5210
Philadelphia : Mid-Atlantic Region
  • 41 University Drive, Suite 400
  • Newtown, PA 18940
  • Tel: 267.757.8768
Washington, DC
  • 11921 Freedom Drive
  • Two Fountain Square, Suite 550
  • Reston, VA 20190
  • Phone: (703) 351-3396
New York
  • Harborside Financial Center
  • 2500 Plaza 5, 25th Floor
  • Jersey City, NJ 073113
  • Phone: (201) 633-4696


In August of 2012, New Jersey Technology Council nominated Object Frontier Software for the NJTC annual Large Company of the Year award.
September 26, 2012

The New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) has selected Object Frontier Software (OFS) as a finalist for its 2012 Large Company of the Year Award to be announced at its annual gala event on November 15th . The NJTC created this event to honor, celebrate and recognize leading technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region..

  

OFS, a trusted provider of software product development services, is honored to be acknowledged by its peers for the hard work and integrity it brings to all its customer engagements. OFS appreciates the recognition of a community of such esteemed business leaders and is inspired by them to continually strive further and work harder. Rich Napoli, CEO of OFS in the Americas, said that were not trying to be the biggest or most profitable, but rather to be considered the most ethical provider of software services in the US and elsewhere. Our progress towards this goal is measured by our performance, and its a real honor to be recognized by the NJTC for our efforts.

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OFS' COO, Rich Napoli will be speaking at ModevTablet - the Most Exciting Event to Date about Tablets on September 14, 2012.
August 31st, 2012.

Rich Napoli will speak on "iPad Apps for the Enterprise: More than just a clever UI" at 1:30 PM on 14th September at the ModevTablet event. He will also be one of the panelists of Enterprise and Government experts sharing first-hand experiences about developing complex mobile projects in their organizations.

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Rich Napoli featured in New Jersey Tech Weekly: Enterprise Apps Add Workplace Mobility, Increase Efficiency.
June 27th, 2012.

App developers are making more than just Angry Birds. They're also revolutionizing the workplace, an expert panel said during the New Jersey Technology Council Mobile Applications Forum at Princeton University on June 14, 2012. The panel discussed enterprise apps, which operate workplace-related software on mobile devices. Recently Gartner estimated the enterprise app market at $120 billion in 2012.

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NJTC Sends Rich Napoli, COO of OFS, as Business Ambassador to The Technology Council of Quebec (AQT) event by the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC).
June 5th, 2012. Newtown, PA

Rich Napoli, COO of OFS, will travel as the business ambassador for the New Jersey Technology Council to Le Bing Bang event in Montreal, on June 6-7, 2012. The event is the 10th sponsored by the Technology Council of Quebec (AQT).

   Mr. Napoli will be sharing valuable business insights as a speaker for the audience of Le Big Bang and establishing a formal partnership to promote business between Canada and the US through the collaboration of NJTC and the AQT. Mr. Napoli will also be meeting with CEOs on a one on one basis, that are planning on doing business in the United States, and signing a partnership agreement between AQT and NJTC.

   Mr. Napolis qualifications include key roles in IT for over 35 years, including CEO of several technology companies, and most recently, as COO of OFS. Currently, he leads both the commercial software development and the enterprise mobility group of OFS.

   At Le Big Bang, attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the three featured tracks: The Art of Selling Innovation, Go Global, and Growth Outside Quebec. The variety of topics will be discussed including: Cloud Computing and Business Models, Buyers Cycle, Outside Quebec Business and a variety of Sales/Marketing/and Customer Experience topics.

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Rich Napoli, COO of OFS, will be speaking at "Accepting Change in the Business Process" workshop conducted by NJTC's IT/Software Industry Network on February 13, 2012.
January 25th, 2012.

Accepting Change in the Business Process will feature two tracks: one on Mobile Applications and the second on Risk Management. Speakers, discussions, and workshops will focus on "critical issues, potential roadblocks and unintended consequences of corporate mobile apps and the hardware that supports them in the enterprise, and the failure of a poorly structured risk management methodology"(NJTC). Rich Napoli, COO of OFS, will be one of the experts speaking on how mobile apps transform the landscape and change the culture of business. Mr. Napoli leads OFS's expansion in the mobile space by developing multi-platform enterprise apps for F1000 companies in the US.

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Rich Napoli, COO of OFS, will be a panelist at the CIO Conference 2012 organized by New Jersey Technology Council on February 16, 2012.
January 25th, 2012.

The New Jersey Technology Council is hosting the NJTC 2012 CIO Conference exclusively for CIOs, CTOs, and IT executives. The event will take place on February 16, 2012, from 8:00 AM -2:30 PM. Dan Woods, CTO and Founder of Evolved Media, will speak on the topic "The Coming Crisis in Technology Leadership." Steve Emanuel, Chief Information Officer for the State of New Jersey, will be co-host. Rich Napoli, COO of OFS, will be one of the panelists of practitioners discussing "Mobilizing Your Enterprise." Mr. Napoli will share OFS's project experience in developing multi-platform enterprise applications for F1000 companies. An educational hands-on CIO Case Study, presented by Stevens Institute of Technology, will be part of the program. In addition, the CIO of the Year Awards will be presented honoring some of our region's finest executives. Sponsors for the event include: Oracle, Telx, Iron Mountain, OFS, and Bluenog.

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OFS will be one of the sponsors of "Mobility and the Future of the Enterprise" presented by Technology Innovations Committee and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
January 25th, 2012.

Listen to industry and government experts on the topic of mobility and the future of the enterprise, and examine the ROI associated with deploying mobile consumer devices securely. Speakers and a panel of experts will focus on tablets and smartphones that are consumer-owned and used in business; they will answer questions about the true value of and the future of mobility as a whole. Dr. Ryan Bosch, Chief Information Officer for Enova and Mark L. Cohn, CTO Unisys Federal System will be among the speakers. Sponsors for the event are Neustar, OFS, Sprint, Unisys Federal Systems, and Verizon Wireless.

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OFS and the IT/Software Industry Network of NJTC present: "Gamification" and the Enterprise - Perfect Together

Mar 14, 2013

Gaming strategies used in enterprise applications is one of the hottest trends in business today for activities related to human resources, training, loyalty & rewards, call centers, health and wellness programs, and branding. Experts believe that gaming techniques used in a non-game environment engages employees and customers and encourages learning and positive behaviors; both things that are extremely time consuming and/or are difficult to achieve. Join Rich Napoli, Chief Operating Officer of OFS, along with four experts in the field of Gamification and Technology and learn how this trend promises to transform the workplace for employers and employees and direct customer behaviors in order to achieve win-win situations for all.

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Modev East - a Mobile conference for navigating all Platforms

Nov. 30, 2012

MoDevEast is an annual mobile developers and marketers conference where dozens of leaders in mobile innovation share their insights on how they readied their organizations for the looming reality of 2013 when mobile devices are expected to overtake PC's as the most common web access devices worldwide!

Rich Napoli, our Chief Operating Officer, will be speaking on a panel of experts on November 30, 2012 at 1:15 pm on "Enterprise applications".

OFS will also be hosting a table at the event where companies can discover how to keep them ahead of the curve with a rapidly-developed prototype that will move their mobile strategy from the white board to their customers.

Please visit theevent website to know more about this event.

NJTC Awards Gala 2012

Nov. 15, 2012

The New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) has selected Object Frontier Software (OFS) as a finalist for its 2012 ‘Large Company of the Year’ Award to be announced at its annual gala event on November 15th . The NJTC created this event to honor, celebrate and recognize leading technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Click here to know more about this event.

ModevTablet - the Most Exciting Event to Date about Tablets

Sept. 13-15, 2012, Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA

Experts say we are in the post-PC era, and Tablets are in the forefront of the many changes that are taking businesses by tropical storm. Business leaders and their employees have rapidly adopted the Tablet as a way to stay connected internally as well as providing the services their customers want on these mobile devices.

So where do you get all the latest information and stay ahead of all the development changes for Tablet technology and mobile apps? A good place to start would be at the most exciting event to date about Tablets!! Guaranteed, you will meet 400 like-minded people at the cutting edge of the mobile frontier.

Highlights of the event:

  • More than 60 talks and workshops across all platforms
  • Development, UX / UI, marketing and management
  • MoDevLounge hangout and networking space
  • Over 400 of the leading authorities in mobile on hand
  • Pre conference workshops, Thursday Sept. 14
  • Hackathon, Saturday Sept. 15

Click here to register for this event.

Technology Association of Georgia’s Tech Talk with Tino Series

July 04, 2012

Things are different than they were just two years ago. Find out what's happening in the IT industry of today and tomorrow, plus Richard Napoli’s answers for many interesting questions on the latest changes in the IT industry in this 18 minutes podcast.

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NJTC's Mobile Applications Forum

Thursday, June 14, 2012 ; 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Building applications for wireless, mobile Internet and broadband services is one of the most exciting areas of development in the technology arena. The New Jersey Technology Council looks to foster this innovation in the region so that developers, entrepreneurs, market leaders and investors can come together to discuss strategic direction, showcase and share their ideas and connect with resources and partners. This event will present some of the best applications in development in the US.

Click here to register for this event.

Technology Association of Georgias Tech Talk with Tino Series

Things are different than they were just two years ago. Find out what's happening in the IT industry of today and tomorrow, plus Richard Napolis answers for many interesting questions on the latest changes in the IT industry in this 18 minutes podcast.

Click here to listen to this interesting podcast.

MoDevUX-Mobile Development, Design and User Experience Conference

Friday, April 20, 2012

User experience and design are two of the leading factors in determining the success of a mobile initiative. The first annual MoDevUX conference on April 20, 2012 will seek to establish the state-of-the-market for mobile user experience and design by bringing together the industrys leading thinkers and doers for a powerful day of ideas, methods, and the latest implementations to hit the market.

Click here to know more about the event.

NJTC's Bi-Weekly Technology Tuesday Webinar - Information Technology

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 ; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Presentations include:

Hot Topic : How to Use Google To Get Ranked - Teknicks

Product Presentation : “iPad Apps for the Enterprise: More than just a Clever UI” - ObjectFrontier Software

Special International Conference Opportunity in Costa Rica along with Research & Development updates, news from NJTC member companies and much more.

Enterprise Apps Add Workplace Mobility, Increase Efficiency

App developers are making more than just Angry Birds. They're also revolutionizing the workplace, an expert panel said during the New Jersey Technology Council Mobile Applications Forum at Princeton University on June 14, 2012. The panel discussed enterprise apps, which operate workplace-related software on mobile devices. Recently Gartner estimated the enterprise app market at $120 billion in 2012...Read More


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