Giant Steps Networks specializes in developing Network and Element Management applications. Most NMS/EMS applications developed are Client / Server based and are used to manage a device or a family of devices using some management protocol. Most EMS/NMS systems have a GUI front end and there are 2 main categories of GUI systems:

In most NMS/EMS systems there is a local DB on the management server to store inventory information, events, faults and configuration information. The Database servers supported include: Oracle, MS-SQL, mySQL, Firebird, SQLite and any other DBS that has a JDBC interface.