How many times have you found yourself doing a task that you have done the previous week or previous month, with new data or for a different time period. We all have these situations, and all fall into the same trap. A large amount of your valuable time could be saved by automating these repetitive tasks through customising your applications or creating a standalone application to provide the results with a single click.

Many of today’s commercial applications are embedded with vendor specific scripting languages which will allow the software to be customised or extended rather than building from scratch. Customisation of tools and menus can quickly increase productivity by placing the most commonly used commands and objects in a single place. Additionally, tailoring the user interface to contain the commands, menus, and palettes that are commonly used during daily tasks is another important key to improving productivity. The validity of this approach can be seen by looking at the latest release of Office 2007 where the ribbon toolbar provides a flexible user interface rather than structured menus and toolbars.

Some of the key benefits of customising commercial software are:-

• Improved user experience, via dedicated menus;
• Improved and consistent quality by implementing various routines;
• Automate repetitive procedures and reduce work timescales;
• Multitude of complicated steps can be combined into one task;
• Flexibility; and
• Reduce the need for training.

As part of our service we analyse your needs and business processes and offer practical and reliable customized solutions. Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, and ESRI ArcGIS are just a few of the commercial applications we have enhanced.

An increasingly viable option as a basis for providing a customised application or solution is the open source approach. Open Source software by its definition provides access to the source code so is more readily customised to meet the user needs and often the only requirement when developing software based upon Open Source projects is that the source code is supplied in full to the client and not restricted.

When in the future your software requires additional functionality or a particular function needs to be modified this can be done at a fraction of the cost in terms of time and money.
We also develop specialist standalone software in the event that commercial or Open Source applications do not meet the client requirements sufficiently to be tailored to incorporate the functionality that is required in a cost effective manner.

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