You can use the Microsoft Office Add-ins platform to build solutions that extend Office applications and interact with content in Office documents. One of our clients recently reached out to us to ask whether we could develop a proof-of-concept for a Microsoft Outlook Add-in that would be able to handle multiple single sign-on (SSO) implementations. We said “sure” and developed the Outlook Add-in that is pictured below.

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.

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.