Core competencies

Scand provides software development outsourcing services. During our more than 10 years of being in operation we have been involved in projects dealing with many areas of IT, however, the best results achieved by us lie within the following spheres:

Web application development

Back to its establishment date Scand has been specializing in development of Web-based software, to be precise, the development of applications that work in any browser as if they were installed on a user's local computer. This kind of software is distinguished by complex user interface containing elements standard for desktop OS but non-standard for the Web (at least non-standard for the time period when we started to do that).
Since 2000 we have used Java, PHP, ASP, and now we also utilize .NET, Python, Ruby to implement server-side functionality and have been working really keen with such technologies as LAMP, Ajax, J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, WPF, Symfony, Grails, RoR, jQuery, ExtJS, etc.

Custom software development for Windows, Mac OS and Unix

Of course we frequently work on desktop software as well, including software for OS Windows, Mac OS, Linux. In this sphere we have managed to aggregate knowledge and experience at practically all levels - from low-level software development (for example drivers for Windows and Linux) to developing user interfaces with .NET, Objective C, Qt.

Database design, development and management

There are few enterprise applications that do not use DBMS for data storage and processing. We have gained an extraordinarily rich experience working with such well-known databases as MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, Postgresql, MS Access. We have lately worked a lot also with the so-called NoSQL engines like MongoDB, CoachDB.

Mobile software development

Lately mobile software development market has been booming and we also have made our contribution and continue doing this. Our specialists have developed dozens of applications for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and we are continuously expanding our client list in this field.

We make use of our experience and develop our own products, some of them are:

• PHP framework Phoebius is a toolkit making PHP programming easier,
• SkyRemote provides remote computer access via Skype,
• SVG Kit for Adobe Creative Suite provides support of SVG format for Adobe InDesign and Photoshop software products.

For more details about technical and business expertise please see Experience and Industries.