Overview of Sonjara
Sonjara, Inc is a small, woman-owned and operated Virginia consulting company specializing in bringing modern internet technologies for social benefit. Our goal is to marry our considerable technical expertise with a deep understanding of the challenges, problems and opportunities that are unique to social assistance.
Download our Capability Statement January 2008 (PDF 77k).
Services Offered
ICT Strategy Formulation- Web and other information technology strategies
- Knowledge management and business engineering processes
- Technology integration into current business processes
- Online collaboration strategies
- Full-lifecycle software development
- Web, desktop and handheld software development
- Software Quality Reviews
- Architectural Reviews
- Training, documentation, user support
Project Management Solutions
At Sonjara, Inc. we pride ourselves on a strong project management process. Before even starting to discuss the details of a task, we ensure that the overall mission, vision, purpose, and objectives have been identified and agreed to by all relevant parties. This step helps keep us on track during the development process and gives us an ability to measure its success when the project has been completed.
Using our project development process, we work with clients to determine the goals of the project, and then flesh out different methods of achieving those goals. We work closely with our clients to ensure they are fully involved in the design and development process and give our clients access to design documents and development versions of the project at nearly every stage of the activity. We also help clients bring in other stakeholders within and outside of their organizations as we understand that no project can succeed without political and institutional support.
Whenever appropriate, we will work with clients to identify the long term management process for the project, often by integrating the project into clients’ ongoing business processes so that the project will be sustainable after we have delivered the final product.
Development Platforms
At Sonjara Inc, we are platform agnostic. Our primary focus is to develop a technology solution that will integrate with your infrastructure and be maintainable and financially sustainable. We can build custom applications or find appropriate off-the-shelf applications, dependant on the needs of the project. We have direct expertise with the following platforms:
Web Application Platforms
PHP, Java, JSP, J2EE, ASP.NET, Perl/CGI, ColdFusion, XML/XSL, RSS
Relational Databases
Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Access
Operating Systems
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Programming Languages
Java, C++, Perl, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, XML