Engineering and IT Solutions

Knowing how to do something can be harder than knowing what to do.

There is no lack of information, research, or experience to guide business leaders in creating successful strategies, or envisioning new products or services. Indeed clients often come to us with just an idea. But not every idea is golden, and that’s where we shine.

Because we’re involved daily with the latest business and industry changes, emergent and proven technologies, we know what is possible and what is not and can often suggest easier or more economical methods of achieving the same end result.

The Missing Link: Converting Ideas into Reality FutureWorks supplies the missing link. Our experts assist you in taking your vision and translating it into an achievable implementation plan.

Engineering and IT solutions include:

  • RF Development
  • Engineering Services
  • Application Management Outsourcing
  • Software Development and Integration
  • Consulting, and IT Staffing

Information Technology Solutions

The process of technology consulting begins with an assessment of an organization’s current IT environment and assesses the overall technology fit to the current demands and anticipated directions of the markets within which the organization competes.

Since computer systems and networking technologies are always changing, our clients will continue to need assistance in defining their strategies and operational roadmaps to deal with these changes.

Technology Planning and Integration

Understand the client’s business strategy, and develop process insight into how technology might support that strategy or create new strategic options. We design and implement enterprise-level technology hardware, network, and applications architectures including COTS and proprietary systems.

Our Results Oriented Consulting approach defines and maps investment opportunities to actual IT budgets and activities to maximize current and future IT return on investments.

Core Information Technology Services

FutureWorks delivers information technology (IT) services that provide real busi- ness value to our customers. Our fully integrated array of IT staffing, application design and development outsourcing and consulting, and industry-focused IT solu- tions is backed by a time-tested suite of formal methodologies, a database of best practices, and a wide range of strategic alliances and partnerships.

Our network of offices in North America and Asia is staffed by business and IT experts committed to helping our clients use IT to achieve their business objectives.

FutureWorks has fully integrated our solutions to closely parallel the changing landscape of business today, with services aligned to best serve clients in areas that include:

Staffing:

Impact42 uniquely facilitates IT staffing and resource management by creating custom supply chain models driven by e-business solutions.

Application management outsourcing:

Impact42’s application design, development, and management expertise encompasses the management of single or multiple applications, facilities management, and help desk.

Software development and integration:

Our full range of software development services include system design, coding, pro- ject management and system enhancement, conversion, upgrade, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

Consulting:

Impact42 consultants perform outsourcing, or infrastructure assessments and business and IT process analysis.

Technical Capabilities

Advanced speech processing, Digital Signal Processing, Intranet/extranet application design, construction and implementation, Large-scale server design and implementation, Object oriented design and programming, Project Management, Relational and object database design and construction, Technical Communications, Technical Documentation, Wireless applications using WAP and J2ME

Languages, Applications, and Environments

ActiveX, Ada, ActionScript, Apache, ASP, assemblers (various), ATL Com, C++, Clear Case, Crystal Reports, DB2, DHTML, Forth, FORTRAN, HTML, i2, IIS, Java, JavaScript, JD Edwards, Lingo, Linux, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Flash, MySQL, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Perl, Purify, SAP, SGML, shell, SQL, TCP/IP, Unix, VBScript, Visual Basic, VXML, Windows, XML, XSLT

FutureWorks – NC

FutureWorks- NC provides consulting and design engineering services to the consumer and commercial satellite, telephone, MMDS, and cable TV industries. We specialize in development of wireless communications and control devices making use of cost effective designs and the latest available technologies.

FutureWorks- NC has engineers specializing in:
Data distribution systems, Telephony, RF system design – Direct sequence and spread spectrum, Software Design, Embedded Firmware, Application and Test Software, Protocol Design for Wireless Applications, Analog Design, ASIC & FPGA design, Signal Processing/DSP, Consumer Audio, FCC / CE Certification, Compliance Testing, Production support, Post-production cost studies

Our design team has been designing wireless communications and complex engineered products for over 20 years. Products in- clude satellite communication receivers, cellular telephones, GPS-enabled devices, general avionics products and complete point to multipoint communications systems and software.

Many design companies can point to one or two fields that they have had success in, but our designs range from below the Earth’s surface to outer space. Our engineers are some of the brightest technical minds in the industry, and we’re proud of it.

Our success is no accident. From day one, we were hired to take on designs that others wouldn’t touch. We solve your problems. Our research and development team is made up of some of the most formidable minds in the business. People who insist on pushing an ide a farther than the industry says it can be pushed.

We wouldn’t have it any other way. We are dedicated to creating leading edge designs in the wireless controls and communications indus- tries.

Example projects

Our engineering team includes people that have designed spacecraft and ground-station antennas for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Voy- ager, NASA’s SkyLink and the Deep Space Network. We have been active in the consumer satellite market since its earliest days. Try to imag- ine anyone having to dash outside and reposition a satellite dish by hand each time the channel was changed. We couldn’t, so we pioneered the first automatic antenna actuators. Automatically aiming a ground-based receiver at anything at an altitude of 23,000 miles requires painstaking accuracy. We did it.

In fact, our latest actuator design for the tiny 18″ dishes requires only a single button push from stow to show. In the home satellite field, we first brought stereo audio, Dolby® noise reduction, frequency synthesized audio and video reception, the first infrared remote sensor, and the first Smart Remote®. Our MMDS cable-TV systems are in use in Mexico, along with in-house-designed scrambling equipment.

In the avionics industry, our engineers designed hand-held aircraft radios, LORAN receivers, GPS receivers, flight computers, and even active noise-cancellation technology. We’ve designed aircraft black boxes that perform a myriad of functions, and even complete flight automation systems for the Boeing 727.

In the cellular industry, our engineers designed one of the first hand-held cellular telephones to hit the market and we followed with ground breaking designs making cellular phones cost effective for every businessperson. Most recently we created a Wireless Local Loop System that eliminates the “last mile” of copper pair wiring. This system is capable of bypassing the local Bell and extending dialtone service out to a 20- mile radius. Our microwave data system, (wireless internet), provides an 11 Mbps data link that is currently serving more than 500 customers.

We look forward to helping you with our engineering and IT solutions.