We understand that driving the time and cost out of building the presentation layer is critical to enhancing developer productivity, and that consistent user interfaces are a key element of end user productivity and satisfaction. The presentation layer is literally the face of your application, and the functionality and usability of your application depend on it.

According to Mark Driver, Research Vice President at Gartner, Inc:

"(The presentation layer) is integral to each and every aspect of the development process. And because of that, we typically see anywhere from 25 to nearly 40 percent of the overall time and effort is somehow related to the presentation layer throughout the development process."

Software Development Lifecycle

The user interface is the one layer that figures prominently at almost every phase of the software development lifecycle. Often, user interface mockups are used in use case scenarios, story boards, and specifications, simply because a picture is worth a thousand words. As software progresses through proof of concept, prototype, analysis, design, and development, the user interface often undergoes the most frequent changes. Infragistics components thrive on change, with every aspect of our components configurable and able to be overridden. As your user interface evolves, our components will require the minimum changes in code to adapt.

Support for Standards

We have a long track record of supporting industry standards, because we believe that rigorous adherence to standards lowers your costs. Our Web controls are designed to be fully compatible with cascading style sheets (CSS), and can render using strict HTML 3.2, or leverage the extensive capabilities of up-level browsers. We lead the industry in providing .NET controls that make it easy for you to build Section 508 disability aware applications. Finally, we've ensured that our NetAdvantage toolset is completely Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) compliant so that you can fully utilize our components from C#, VB.NET, managed C++, or any other .NET language.

Source Code

As part of the Enterprise License Program, you receive the full source code for our products. This lets you dig into our architecture and see exactly how we implemented our products. Whether you use this as a learning tool, for difficult debugging tasks, or to make changes to the product itself, the source is yours.

Why Infragistics?

There are literally thousands of components on the Internet, many that are free. Why choose Infragistics for your presentation component strategy? At Infragistics, we pride ourselves on three aspects that are key to enterprise development: consistency, integration, and support.

Consistency

More than a bag of controls, our components are all built on our award winning Presentation Layer Framework. This ensures consistent behavior, look and feel, and performance. This also ensures a consistent developer experience across all our controls, providing a single intuitive learning curve for your staff.

Integration

Integration is key, and controls such as our editors are designed to work great stand-alone, or composed within grids and other complex controls. You'll find that our controls fit seamlessly with other Infragistics controls and Visual Studio controls. We also understand that the enterprise is a heterogeneous place, and we've taken every effort to ensure that our controls work well with other 3rd party products.

Support

We stand behind our products and are ready to fully support your staff as they design and build solutions. Our Enterprise Licensing Program provides you with priority phone support, and guaranteed ½ day response to on-line inquiries. A senior tech support coordinator is assigned to your organization and tasked with advocating for you, to insure that none of your issues go unresolved. In addition to our world class support, we provide extensive on-line resources, instructor led training and even full consulting services to get your team up to speed in no time.

Our track record of over 18 years has been one of supporting our customers' success with our products. We always support our products long after their release in accordance with our published product lifecycle. Rest assured that you can build your solutions on our components today, and still receive support for them tomorrow.