Institute for Advanced Professional Studies (IAPS)
Technical Training and Consulting Worldwide
Training Services:
Founded in 1977, IAPS is a leading international training and consulting firm. We present advanced technology on-site training for a company's software engineers, programmers and technical managers.
IAPS understands the "business" of customer and employee training in addition to the instructional design techniques and organizational development considerations that make training effective. We work with organizations to assess specific or overall technical training requirements and assist them in selecting and implementing the optimal solution.
Consulting Services:
We provide technical experts to assist organizations with assessment, design and implementation of leading edge software for electronic products, complex IT systems and web sites.
IAPS also provides technical litigation support services on intellectual property matters in addition to technical training support services and education consulting.
Expertise:
The principal technologies covered in our current contracts include:
Enterprise Computing: Architecture, Technologies & Application Migration
Multi-tier Approaches to Integrating Business Applications with DCE, CORBA, COM+, XML, Microsoft.NET, Java, Web Services, etc. Design of B2B and Consumer-oriented E-commerce Systems, Databases, Middleware, Integration of Heterogeneous (Windows, Linux and UNIX) Systems, Directory Services (LDAP and Active Directory), Security, Disaster Planning, Heterogeneous File Systems, Internationalization and Software/Internet Standards.
Diagnosis and Repair of Website Problems (New Service Starting in May, 2007)
Coding, Usability, Availability and Response Time, Sales Lead Generation, Violations of Search Engine Content Quality Guidelines, Impediments to Page Crawlability and Search Engine Inclusion, Broken Links and Browser Compatibility, Performance Monitoring, and Other, Company-specific Concerns.
Computer and Information Security
Secure Programming, Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) and Performance Testing, Networks and System Architecture, Access Control, PKI, Product Evaluations and Security Policies.
Object-Oriented System Development
OOA&D, UML, Design Patterns, C++, Java and C#.
C, C++, Java and C# Programming
For All Computing Environments: Programming, Application Porting, Development and QA Tools, Embedded Systems and Real-time Programming, Client/Server and Distributed Computing, Multithreaded Programming (Linux, UNIX (POSIX), Solaris, Windows (Win32) on Uniprocessors, Hyper-threaded, Multi-core and Multiprocessors, Software Internationalization and Unicode.
Linux, UNIX, Microsoft.NET and Windows (Server, Vista and XP)
Server and Intranet Development, Performance Optimization, Systems Programming, Standards, Development Tools, Window Systems, Shells, Applications, Information Security, Network Development, as well as System, Middleware and Network Internals and Administration.