Software

Software is critical to the efficient running of your business. If it isn't doing what you need, or if you're bending business processes to fit in with inflexible or out-of-date software, you could be wasting costly hours every week or losing revenue through missed business, lost data or inefficient information management.

Sometimes just getting systems talking to each-other can be a headache that keeps one or more people in your business from doing the job they're actually good at!

Modern software comes in many forms, and we will work to support all the technologies relevant to your business, whether fixed desktops, mobile workers with laptops or smartphone users, all held together by a common server platform that can itself work with Microsoft Windows or Linux.

Customisation and Enhancement

Chances are you have already made a significant investment in computer software and just want to make things work better together or provide you with more meaningful information. Very often we are able either to customise existing software or to create small components that work with it to enhance its functionality. Doing this means making best use of software your users are already familiar with whilst relieving them and you of the stresses caused by its shortcomings, and this can be a very cost-effective solution.

New Software

Where your needs are very specific and off-the-shelf software to meet them is either non-existent or prohibitively expensive or restrictive in terms of licensing, we can provide you as much or as little as you need from a full software development offering:

• Needs assessment and functional requirements
• Functional and technical specifications
• Design
• Prototyping and/or full product building
• Testing
• Documentation
• Support

Technology

The choice of technology could well be important to you in respect of licensing, cost, interoperability with other systems or simply suitability for the job, and we will help you with the decision based on all these factors. We are non-partisan as an organisation and will often be able to make good use of open-source technologies to get the best possible result for the best possible price.

Depending on your needs, we will work with:

• Microsoft .NET for primarily Windows-based desktop applications
• Java for cross-platform or mobile applications
• C++ to meet specific technical requirements
• Appropriate technologies if a web-based solution is more apt

Talk to us about how your interests might be better served through web technologies.