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You know your product/business better than anyone else. Working directly with your design and development team helps them to design and build specific features and functionality around your exact needs. When your business needs change, having software built upon a flexible foundation can allow your product to quickly meet the challenge, whether that’s scaling, increased security, or an entirely new integration or product line. By starting with a custom approach to your business’ software, you have full control over the direction and impact of your vision.

Released in 2002, .NET Framework introduced the world to the C# language and came to be a stable, productive foundation for many Windows-based applications, including web sites through the ASP.NET framework. A new cross-platform version of .NET (originally called .NET Core, and now just .NET) was released in 2016, which saw the lion’s share of investment from Microsoft. .NET Framework had its last major release in 2019 (version 4.8), with 4.8.1 coming in 2022. Knowing the level of attention given to the newer cross-platform .NET, why would teams in 2025 choose to start new projects using .NET Framework instead of using the newest platforms and libraries?

Join Engage Software quality specialist Kristen Palm on Friday, April 4, 2025 at StartupSTL Summit where she will present on Quality Assurance Testing. Learn about different types of testing tools and software, best practices for implementing testing plans and more!

How can you know how long a new initiative to build a custom software product will take? What’s a reasonable amount to plan to pay to get started turning your vision into technically excellent software that can go live and start producing value? Once an estimate of the effort has been created, how close should you expect the true cost to be?

We’ve been patiently waiting for the next major release of DNN, and it is finally here (DNN 10.0.0 Release Candidate 2 was published on February 26)! This update will be more disruptive than others in the past, as the maintainers have taken this opportunity to remove features that have been deprecated since DNN 8, going back to January 2016. In addition to clearing some accumulated clutter from years past, DNN 10 offers a number of improvements for both administrators and developers.

Investing in UX design is investing in your user base. Here are seven benefits of user experience design that can directly affect your project’s bottom-line and have your customers coming back for more.

DNN Platform (open-source) 9.13.0 is the latest stable version of the DNN CMS. It was officially released on Sept 26, 2023. Evoq is on 9.11.3, which was released on June 29, 2023 and is based on DNN platform 9.11.2.

Finding the right software firm to help you build and maintain your systems can be quite the challenge. Typically, it is who you know. "I know a guy who does development. Let me ask him if he can help/let me ask him who he'd recommend." But, what is the right method for evaluating whether your guy's recommendation is the right fit for your company?

As software developers, it is critically important to continually update the products our customers are using. Below are the latest release notes for Engage AMS, Engage Sports, and Faith Enroll.

On Sept 19th, Engage Digital Strategist, Kristen Palm, passed the GA4 Certification exam in one try with a high-flying 86%.

Engage CTO, Brian Dukes, is heading to the DNN Connect conference in Switzerland to join the panel of guest speakers.

Members of the Engage team are heading down South to attend GO! The Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference on Jan 13-14th 2023 to learn more about other Faith-based products and to educate others on Faith Enroll.