Custom Software & Database Solutions

We know custom software development. You may need custom application software to increase your revenues, deliver a better return-on-investment, maintain a key competitive differentiator, meet a regulatory requirement, or to ensure a business work-flow that reduces costly errors.

Whatever the reason, we can help.  We will work with your team at any level, taking your ideas, creating business requirements, performing all development, provide test and training systems, training, roll-out, and ongoing production support and maintenance. We work with our clients for one or more of the following main reasons:

1. Full Development Service

We are a full development one-stop service shop for most of our clients, taking high level business requirements through to supporting the released software.  We utilize the current best set of technologies and tools, selected for each client given their business needs.

2. Highly Available Local Support

We are local, available, and friendly.   We respond to most client support inquires within four business hours.

3. Reduced Ongoing Development Risk

Reduced development risk by performing ongoing software development with a team of local developers dedicated to servicing your needs, instead of managing small teams of developers located remotely subject to transition.

4. Increased Return on Investment (ROI)

Utilizing a local company for outsourced development services, where we perform this work for many companies fulltime, ensures our clients have a much better return on their development dollar.  We provide qualified development personnel dedicated to delivering you features competitively, effectively, and utilizing best practices.  We provide tools, training, and infrastructure for our development team to constantly shine and to keep current, thus negating your own need for this type of ongoing in-house spending.

5. Full Breadth IT Coverage

Our development team’s services are augmented by our Business IT Division’s technicians, co-location business, server management, and custom software hosting experience.

6. Retained IP Ownership

Our clients own all rights to all custom software, and all developed materials.

Moving beyond normal custom software, we welcome customized development services including:

• supporting and enhancing legacy custom software;
• bringing abandoned custom software back to life;
• performing practical, effective peer review expertise for your in-house development teams;
• providing “occasional” backup support while your developer is not available.

7. Clients Need Determines Technology and Tools Used

Our Custom Application Software Specialists utilize best of breed technologies for new work; choosing the right technologies for each client.  For existing custom software, we maintain using legacy technology, using business cases when suggesting to migrate.  We are intimate with the following:

Languages

Databases

Web Servers

• Microsoft IIS
• Apache
• Tomcat

Reporting Tools

• Crystal Reports 
• MS SQL Server Reporting Services
• Adhoc Reports, MS Access, and more...

8. Competitive Differentiators

We are a long-term customer service focused company  providing ongoing support for years after we deliver applications.  We eploy practical people that produce results for clients.  Our people are excellent communicators, and collaborate naturally with other team members.  Other competitive differentiators include:

• extensive experience performing development and support work remotely and onsite
• extensive development work for large and small BC business and not-for-profit institutions
• extensive experience working with staff, unions, and management building solutions
• extensive and ongoing experience in developing web and client-server systems
• bill in fifteen minute increments at one division rate
• understand the importance of hosting, as we have a co-location space in the best facility
• each of us has at least fifteen years of experience
• access to our team on any issue will be quick, friendly, and effective
• We are local to Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island 
• operate as a private Canadian, locally-owned, employee-based peer partnership

Next Steps

Our wealth of experience will accelerate your business idea into your key competitive advantage.  We will perform all development work for our clients with the long-term in mind.  If you have a business process that needs refining or automation, or you have a current project in distress or that has been abandoned that needs rescuing, contact us.