New demonstrations: Avatars, Browsers, SAML, SMS, and Vehicles

We’ve had some extra time on our hands during the current COVID-19 crisis, and we’ve taken that opportunity to add some new technology demonstrations to our demo web site, demo.finitewisdom.com. These include avatars, human-readable browser information, single sign-on using SAML, sending and receiving text messages, and vehicle lookups using information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Play to Your Strength

At Finite Wisdom, our strength is programming — we develop compelling functionality for web applications. Our strength does not lie in user interface design. That requires a skillset that emphasizes a strong aesthetic sense. The good news is that there are off-the-shelf user interface templates that one can buy for a mere pittance. We then blend our custom functionality with a user interface template that’s been selected in order to deliver a completed solution that is compelling in both its functionality and its visual design.

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PROBLEM SOLVED: Replacement for Authorize.Net

One of our clients is switching from an in-house, home-grown ERP to NetSuite. Although their home-grown ERP supports Authorize.Net, NetSuite does not. They are therefore looking for an alternative solution for credit card processing. The alternative must work both NetSuite and the e-commerce software (a.k.a. “the system”) that Finite Wisdom has developed for them.

This is a review of potential replacement payment processors for Authorize.Net from a development perspective. It is in consideration of a change to a payment processor with a built-in integration to the NetSuite ERP. This review takes the approach of comparing the way these payment processors could work as compared to the way the current integration with Authorize.Net works.

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