Our goal is to come up with innovative ways of saving you time and money by making your company more efficient and more connected. To realize this goal, we use the best programming tools available to create stream-lined applications that integrate easily with your current office software.

Efficiency

In today’s new economy, the most efficient offices are paperless offices. For example, we have created various types of electronic forms (eForms) for several very different clients. To use eForms, a respondent simply inputs information, which then gets automatically stored in a database. By using a database rather than a traditional filing system, the information becomes easier to search, easier to retrieve and easier to compile. For clients already using databases, we have eliminated the redundancy and potential data entry error of having one person fill out a paper form, and another input the information. The versatility of eForms allows them to be run from a web page, as a separate application, or even from a cellular phone.

Connectivity

Since most of our clients have been multi-national or international in structure, “global networking” to us is much more than a theoretical idea. Whether they use Internet or Intranet capabilities, all of our applications are designed to be accessible wherever they are needed. For example, for one international client that needed to keep track of evaluations of employees around the world, we created a database that was globally accessible, but also flexible enough to accommodate users who could not always be connected. The main database was stored on servers in the company’s central location. We then allowed users to pull “mini-databases” that would cache pertinent information locally. The program would automatically detect when the user was next online and synchronize the information.

Integration

In order to provide you with the most cost-effective solutions, one thing we won’t do is duplicate existing programs. If you already have applications that are doing part of the job for you, we can integrate those legacy platforms with new applications to maximize your previous investments. For example, when one client asked us to automate part of their payroll system, we took advantage of pre-existing databases of employee information to automatically fill out pertinent fields of our electronic pay forms. This eliminated the cost of writing a new database program, or alternatively, the time it would take an employee to manually search for and insert the information.

Current Office Software

One of the best ways to accomplish our goal of making your company more efficient, is to modify your pre-existing programs to enable them to perform more functions. For example, when one of our clients discovered that their employees were spending a lot of time duplicating their peers’ work with certain research questions, we modified their e-mail system to automatically store research-related e-mail in a database. Now, someone with a similar research question can easily pull any relevant e-mail with a simple keyword search.

To read a more in-depth example of what we do, click here for one of our case studies.