Throughout its history, BHMI has created software applications in a variety of industries and disciplines; however, there have been common themes repeated across BHMI's efforts regardless of the client or type of application created:

• BHMI develops primary applications, which are critical to the successful operation of an enterprise. In this case "critical" means that loss of the application causes significant financial or commercial loss for an enterprise until it is restored. This is where BHMI operates.
  
  
• Clients select BHMI for those applications that are technically complex and challenging. Complexity can assume different forms – an application may have many functional components that have to seamlessly cooperate, it may have large numbers of links to independent external subsystems that must now be unified, it may require sophisticated data transmission protocols – and more. But this is where BHMI thrives – handling the difficult decisions.
  
  
• High levels of performance are required. This may be reflected in large numbers of simultaneously supported users, high transaction volumes, or tight processing windows with demanding service levels. In most cases, a variety of criteria have to be met that require exceptional and consistent processing capability. This is where BHMI stands out – where performance really counts.
  
  
• Robustness is a common requirement. Application requirements and demanding processing windows combine to ensure that software must be constantly available. Software in this environment has to automatically recover from abnormal, unanticipated conditions. This requires extra planning, design, data validation, and testing as part of the overall development process to ensure that the widest set of operating conditions have been considered and accommodated. This is all part of the normal BHMI software creation process – BHMI's software is the best choice when stopping is not an option.
  
  
• Scalability is an integral component of BHMI applications. BHMI's clients rely on their applications to build commercial success. They want their businesses to grow, and they expect the applications created by BHMI to accommodate that growth. That is BHMI's expectation as well – software designed to grow as your business grows.
  
  
• BHMI anticipates that clients' needs will evolve; therefore, the applications created by BHMI will have to evolve as well. Software enhancements need to occur without software redesign or significant recoding. That is why BHMI builds software with "plug and play" features. BHMI designs software so environmental dependencies are isolated – and this allows functional components to be added or replaced with minimal architectural changes. This process seems to work because BHMI has been maintaining the same applications for clients for decades – illustrating that BHMI builds software with a future.
  
  
• As operational circumstances and environments change, BHMI realizes that clients need to change the operational profiles of their applications. Applications need to be flexible to accommodate these changes without changing code. BHMI has been designing and creating software for decades and knows how to define execution parameters and options so the operating personality of an application can be modified without code changes. BHMI's software can change as your business needs change.
  
  
• It is a given that business circumstances will change. BHMI understands this need and designs software so application functionality is compartmentalized – allowing coding changes and resulting benefits to occur quickly. BHMI designs software applications so they can be maintained simply and without surprises.
  
  
• Your company's technical landscape is likely to change over time, so the hardware platforms hosting your applications must change as well. Unless an application has been written in a generic language, like Java, it may have to be rewritten to be moved to a new technical platform. And, if Java is the source language, performance can be impacted because the application is executed by a virtual machine, thereby losing the speed advantage of native execution. BHMI can create software that is platform-independent yet still retains the speed advantages of native execution. BHMI's software is designed to be portable without loss of performance and is ideal for users whose software applications are more important than the platforms on which they run.
  
  
• Ease of use is a critical factor for enterprise applications. As a result, most of the applications BHMI creates include an ergonomic browser-based user interface. BHMI employs the latest web technologies to design browser interfaces for its web applications. Using screen technologies like Grails and JBoss Seam, BHMI's ergonomic designers can develop user interfaces for your web application that are attractive, responsive, and intuitively simple to use. BHMI also uses a variety of web development environments to design browser-accessible applications that meet BHMI's standards for quality and performance. Service creation environments, including Java EE, .NET, Grails, JBoss Seam, and others, are all part of BHMI's web application development repertoire. Furthermore, to facilitate application portability, BHMI does not rely on any special features of supporting web servers. WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS, and Apache are all acceptable web server options for BHMI web-based applications. So take your choice – your web standards are BHMI's web standards.