Who are we? We are a software company
We are an online development company who create bespoke Windows based systems for any enterprise. And that’s not all.
Headquartered in the beautiful and bountiful Tararua district, we provide global services in our online capacity and we can work face-to-face with you in any of New Zealand's main centres when that's needed.
Any enterprise?
Yes, by leveraging the expertise of our vast network of programmers with skills in pretty much every language and system.
We have BA, SQL, VBA, .NET (VB, C#), and BI skills in-house, and we operate as the conduit for development, working with your systems and subject experts.
Maintenance and routine work
We can maintain your systems when we developed them and we can probably maintain other systems for you too, though there must be source code available for that to work properly. Otherwise it’s re-inventing the wheel.
We can contract for routine work, e.g. outsourcing your less frequent jobs like reporting, data cleansing, form processing etc. We can help you with peak-time overflow.
Time is money
We specialise in saving time. Whether it’s automating an Excel workbook, bridging the gap between systems, or an entirely new way to run your business, we will quickly and effectively give you back your time to innovate, catch that opportunity and stay ahead of the pack.
Experts at the helm
With combined experience of more than 60 years in Supply Chain, Information Technology & Systems, Administration and Customer Service, it’s a wonder these guys have had time for anything else, but Alan is a great handyman and Michael is a walking encyclopaedia of Television History.
Multiple Industry Experience
We’ve been around. Our experience covers a huge range of industry, with emphasis on Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Inventory/Warehousing, Distribution, and Transportation. Spread across a variety of business models, small business to multinational corporates, local and regional government.
That’s the sort of transferrable skill and knowledge that gets the job done and gets it done the way you want it done.
Make the rules, follow the rules, break the rules
We love standards, ours are high. But moulds are meant to be broken! We know what goes into creating a great result, and we’re flexible too because you do things your way. We can and will advise when standards will achieve the results you seek. And we’ll revise those standards to suit what you need. No rigid work styles here, no!
Some of our work
We have been doing this for years (since 2001). Our systems include small automations through to systems that enable entire businesses.
Complete System to Bring Business Into the 21st Century
We are proud to have taken one Auckland manufacturing business from a paper-based production system to a database-driven system with automated checkpoints and updates that enables a real-time view of any order.
Their customer service went from painful to exhilarating. Clients no longer waited for a return call to know where their order was. The information was available at the click of a mouse button.
The database holds configurations that can be called up and added to an order, providing consistency and ease of use. The job cards for the factory went from hand written and often misinterpreted to consistently printed with diagrammatic instruction so even new staff could easily understand what was needed.
This business grew rapidly and expanded through the North Island and still grows today.
Automation to Save Time and Sanity!
Another of our customers has an extremely busy reporting and analysis department. They deal with millions of rows of information in multiple databases that deal with a nationwide chain of retail stores. Trying to find time to create new reports and develop new insights was more and more difficult.
We worked as an independent analysis group, looking for ways to help the team recover their lost time. We automated and consolidated many of their large number of VBA-code driven reporting systems and reduced the required input time from minutes per report to seconds. The sum of the time saved allowed the team to retain their sensibility and develop better, newer systems for the business.
SQL Server Reporting Services Development
We currently develop SSRS reports for a national logistics company and have developed their entire suite of reports helping them understand what is happening within their highly transactional business.
These reports take data from all of their systems and in some cases bring that together to create a holistic view of the flow of work from go to whoa. Subscriptions drive regular reports to their customers, subcontractors and to their managment and staff letting them focus on running the business instead of running the reports.
Fine Tuning the Big Guys
Not all large systems will manage every requirement and sometimes those requirements are unknown at the time of the exciting project that moves everything to one of the 'big player' systems.
When one of New Zealand's largest distributors to the Trade industry could not easily manage the unfortunate mistakes that sometimes happen, you know, wrong product sent, wrong size or colour, we created a system for them that 'tuned in' to their 'big player' system and enabled them to manage these incidents. Instead of many people working on resolving the same issue, specific teams or persons could be assigned to solve it. This reduced time wasted when one person could now do the work that sometimes up to five people would be doing.
The business liked the solution so much, they expanded the scope to include all of their Customer Services team and not just their Distribution team.