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Robust Software Solutions
Harder Software provides custom software and development
services to businesses throughout Canada, specializing in
healthcare communications and related claims automation software.
We pride ourselves in our robust and maintainable solutions, extending
the life cycle of our products well beyond typical custom applications.
We do the hard stuff for our clients, allowing them to concentrate on
the things they do best.
Whether you wish to license or customize an existing product, have a new
product developed, or simply use our expertise within your own
development team, we can provide the tools and resources to suit your
needs.
Areas of Expertise
Is our company the right one to get your job done? If you have
requirements in any of the following areas, then the answer is YES!
Protocols and Standards —
If it's TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, SOAP, SMTP, XML, HL7, or any other protocol
or standard, you can count on us to understand and implement it.
Communications Security —
We can provide you with industry standard security, such as SSL/TLS
and X509 certificates to give you the confidence that data transmitted
across networks are secure from prying eyes.
Web Development and Hosting —
We use a custom framework to develop unique sites, with data-aware
backends. If it's possible to do we can do it for you. We can even
host the end result on our secure server.
Portable Application Development —
We can develop desktop or server applications in almost any environment you
wish. Because we use standard languages and libraries, we can easily port
these to other environments.
Technologies and Standards
We use open source tools whenever we can, as these tend to be most
portable across the various development environments. We adhere to
application and development standards wherever possibe.
Technologies and standards that we typically employ are:
Operating Systems —
Windows, Linux, SCO Unix, AIX/PACE, and other flavours of *nix.
Languages —
Specializing in C/C++, Delphi, PHP and other scripting languages.
There is no language we cannot master.
Databases —
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle.
Security —
Strong encryption using OpenSSL SSL/TLS, X509 certificates.
Standards —
POSIX, OSI, HL7, XML, CeRX, NeCST, etc.
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| Health & Tech News |
| Telehomecare project to improve delivery of services |
May 27, 2009 (Whitehorse, YK) — Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart today announced a telehomecare project to improve the delivery of services to homecare clients. |
| Research award granted to establish Canadian e-health observatory |
Recipient of new Applied Health Services and Policy Chair Award in e-Health named
May 20, 2009 (Toronto, ON) - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (CIHR-IHSPR) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), announced today Dr. Francis Lau, University of Victoria, as recipient of the Applied Health Services and Policy Chair award in e-Health. |
| "Government IT Expo" to Highlight Cloud Computing and SOA |
| SYS-CON Events announced today the latest event in its innovative series of real-world technology conferences, Government IT Conference & Expo, a two-day deep dive into the new wave of Internet-based technologies that are changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utilize IT. GovITExpo, which is being held October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC, builds on the success of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo, the fastest-growing conference anywhere in the world devoted to the delivery of massively scalable IT as a service using Internet technologies. Data storage, security and software services are among the major themes of the technical program. read more |
| Third Party Integrations Should Be An Integral Part of Product Plans |
| Security requirements of enterprises are varied, and contrary to the one-stop-shop movement, enterprises still buy security products from multiple vendors. While some enterprises do it as a part of an IT plan, most companies end-up with disparate products due to niche needs, acquisitions, etc. In this environment of multiple security products, the customer is typically left holding the 'integrator bag'. Most security products do not interoperate or integrate with others in the infrastructure, leading to operational nightmares, and may undermine the very problem they are trying to solve by creating security gaps.
All security companies, big and small, need to realize that they are neither the first, nor will they be the last security product in the customer environment, and make an earnest effort to use standards-based or published APIs to integrate and interoperate with other security and infrastructure solutions. (Also read recent blog "Security Teams Must Take Control of Virtual Networks.")
Initially at Altor Networks our own product features dominated the product plan. As we spoke with customers, we realized that the integrations they requested to address current pain would add tremendous value to both our own and our partners' products. The first integration we brought to market was the ability to extend the hardware IDP solution into the virtualized server environment. This benefited the customer in many ways — a) leverage customers' current investment in IDS systems, b) avoid bogging-down the virtual server with a resource-intensive IDS operation that slows down virtualized applications, c) re-gain visibility into the virtual switching layer that they lost with virtualization, d) ensure there are no security gaps since all intrusion detection and subsequent action work-flow operated seamlessly, e) bring virtualized applications back into compliance.
Building upon the success of the IDS integration, we added further integration points such as Netflow (Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR), Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) , NetQoS, and Q1 Labs) and Syslog export to deliver a comprehensive, centralized, view of the data center (Juniper, ArcSight (NASDAQ: ARST), and Q1 Labs).
In today's climate of aggressive product schedules and diminishing resources, companies that include 3rd Party Integrations as part of their product plan ensure long-term value for their customers' success by supporting a vision for cohesive security solutions. read more |
| 'Earth-like' snow falls on Mars: study |
| On Mars, snow falls in the early morning from wispy, feathery clouds that many Earthlings would recognize as cirrus clouds, a Canadian-led research team has reported. |
| Sonar finds car with possible link to missing men |
| RCMP in Barrhead, 120 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, are in the process of extricating a vehicle from the Athabasca River that could be connected to two men missing since 2004. |
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