Client Recommendation

Jack in the Box

We would like to take this time to commend our consulting partner, Afterman Software. It has now been over a year since they started their work here at Jack in the Box. Over that time, they have brought multiple disparate third-party and in-house systems, that we utilize for employee and restaurant management, into one integrated system. With the assistance of the Afterman team, we were able to design and implement an enterprise .NET based solution utilizing WebAPI, C# 4.6.1, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and a multitude of .NET based open source projects, including NServiceBus. This design has allowed us to process a myriad of use cases and scenarios for thousands of employees every day, at high scale and in a reliable and efficient manner.

As the underlying architecture of the system is based upon a messaging architecture, the entirety of the project spans the enterprise, and has provided for easy extension, allowing for decreased development times and a more reliable system. In addition to these, the team has introduced us to a variety of best-practices, platforms, and other frameworks, including Visual Studio Online, TDD and unit testing, and the use of packages such as AutoMapper, NLog, and StructureMap. Since we were tasked with integrating multiple disparate systems, the base system utilizes SQL Server, but some components required access to Oracle databases. This is done through the NHibernate ORM with Afterman's own custom repository solution, nRepo. In addition to our core employment system, the members of the Afterman team have helped us develop solutions to assist in automating some of our operational procedures.

With regards to our recent adoption of Visual Studio Online, Afterman has also advised and has helped us tremendously with continuous integration, maintaining code coverage, and publishing our own NuGet packages; as-well-as automating deployments to our test environments and production servers utilizing technologies such as Octopus Deploy, where the deployment process to multiple servers was made very efficient and has saved us a significant amount of time.

Each member of the Afterman team has brought a level of expertise, knowledge, and professionalism that we can firmly attest to, and they have consistently assisted us in understanding and advocating further our usage of Microsoft Technologies in general. They have worked side-by-side with our team to design and develop a solution that will bring great value to Jack in the Box as we progress into the future.

As a result, we would recommend Afterman Software to anyone seeking a key partner in any endeavor utilizing all of the technologies listed above, and we welcome any further inquiries or testimonials you may seek in order to attest to their expertise and continued assistance in our business and technology needs.

Jack in the Box, Inc

Wade Cook

Manager Restaurant Systems

As a result, we would recommend Afterman Software to anyone seeking a key partner in any endeavor utilizing all of the technologies listed above, and we welcome any further inquiries or testimonials you may seek in order to attest to their expertise and continued assistance in our business and technology needs.