The Oracle platform provides different tools for development of applications. This presents a challenge for most customer environments, in that, a proper choice of the tool to be used to achieve a specific business objective needs to made. This requires that a certain level of technical depth be available to make judicious decisions to not only choose but develop and maintain applications on an on-going basis.

VA Associates appreciates covers application development in what is currently called the Oracle Internet Developer Suite but also covers other non-Oracle development tools. VA Associates uses the appropriate methodology and the best practices to deliver custom developed applications using the following tools.

• Oracle Forms
• Oracle Reports
• PL/SQL Web toolkit
• Application Express (formerly HTMLDB)
• Oracle JDeveloper
• Oracle Designer
• Oracle Software Configuration Manager
• Oracle Discoverer
• Oracle Warehouse Builder

• PowerBuilder
• Cold fusion
• Microsoft Visual Studio

VA Associates integrates the needs of the customer environment for custom development and helps transition from legacy mainframes to J2EE/.NET as well as integration using Web services.