e-nvention ag is a software company with its core business in development of user-programs, server-applications and web-solutions.

On 1st of March 2003, the former A&F Computersysteme AG software department was outsourced resulting in an independent company named e-nvention ag. e-nvention ag is managed by Reto Gähler and Toni Kaufmann.

e-nvention ag acts as a strong technology provider for end users as well as for other software development companies.

Our business philosophy follows the saying "Eat your own dog food", meaning that we are using our own products in-house wherever this is possible. This helps us to considerably increase the usability of our own software!

e-nvention uses the latest technology and applies the most modern and proven software development processes. This includes

– Agile Methods
– Nightly builds
– Unit testing, Automated GUI testing
– Software Factories
– Service oriented architecture
...and more

– C#, .NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET
– C/C++/ObjectiveC
– Java
– XML, XSL, XML-Schema, Regex
– MSSQL Server, Oracle, mySql
– Linux, Windows, MacOS
– QuarkXPress, QuarkXPress Server, QuarkDMS, InDesign, InDesign Server, EMC documentum

.NET is e-nvention's preferred development platfrom. Being programmers for the Apple and Java platform for many years required hard facts and strong arguments to move over to a Microsoft platform.
 

.NET advantages:

– .NET and OS are tightly coupled, CLR is implemented by the OS vendor 
– Easy integration of MS Office into .Net Application
– The CLR is standardized through ECMA
– Huge market for tools and components
– Steep growth rate. There are currently more new web sites implemented in .NET than in any other technology
– App server built-in in Windows Server; no additional costs
– .NET is easier to learn than J2EE
– Much easier deployment than with J2EE
– Powerful development tool: VisualStudio (see below)

VisualStudio

– IntelliSense in C#, HTML, XML, CSS, SQL, ...
– Integrated Version Control System
– Enhanced testing: UnitTest, deployment tests, GUI tests, code coverage
– Support for backup checkins, code reviews
– Integration of modeling languages