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Custom
Application Design
Nowadays,
each business is different. Everyone has to do
things just that little bit 'out of the normal'
in order to differentiate your product or service
from your competitors.
However,
most computer applications try and force you to
fit 'their' way of doing things, or just havent
got enough flexibility to do what you want it
to do.
This
is where we can step in and write an application
that suits your exact needs, and does exactly
what you want it to do, not what it thinks
you need to do.
We
have spent many years writing applications for
hundreds of different industries. We have gathered
together the best tools in the marketplace which
enables us to create the right program for you
with minimum time and bugs.
Just
have a look at our client case studies to see
the types of things that we can do:
Cash
Advantage
Liz
& Clem Weller run a local business called
Cash Advantage, which enable people to get short
term loans by bringing in their personal items
to exchange or sell for cash.
They
needed a program which would manage the loan contracts,
and inform them when particular contracts expired
or were up for renewal etc. We wrote their original
cash management program way back in 1994, then
we re-wrote everything in Windows for the GST
changeover in 2000.
The
system is currently in operation in both their
stores, and we are looking at integrating it to
their web site so that people can see what is
available in store whilst on line. (coming soon)
Buslink
Buslink
run probably the largest charter and school bus
operation in the NT. They needed several databases
to control the servicing requirements on their
bus fleet, as well as managing fuel consumption
and tyre usage.
We
sat down and wrote them an integrated suite of
fleet management applications to help them control
the cost of maintaining their fleet, as well as
ensuring that their buses were maintained to the
highest level.
PTM
Homes
PTM
is one of Darwin's leading building companies.
They have won a major government and defence housing
contract to provide maintenance services across
the top end.
To
this end, they needed a way to manage all the
maintenance requests incoming from the housing
department, and the defence department - then
they needed to project manage their contractors
to ensure that jobs were being taken care of within
the proper timeframes.
We
wrote a series of maintenance databases which
helps their contract co-ordinators to allocate
jobs to their contractors, and keep tabs on urgent
or routine maintenance operations which ensure
that they win more lucrative contracts in the
future.
Aboriginal
Benefits Reserve
ABR
are responsible for sifting through grant applications
from Aboriginal Organisations and seeing which
ones will be approved. Every year, they receive
hundreds of applications for various projects.
We
re-wrote an older dBase IV database that they
were using in order to make it Y2K compliant,
and in the process we improved a lot of areas
on the system.
One
of the common tasks that we used to perform for
ABR on their old system was modify or create custom
reports all the time. To this end, we designed
the report interface on the new system to be totally
customisable using the Clarion Report Writer module.
Now,
all we have to do is email the user a new report,
and they can 'plug' it into their software and
it acts like an internal report!
Arnhem
Highway Estates
Just
south of Darwin are a lot of blocks of land owned
by AHE. These blocks are available for rental/purchase
plans by tenants.
We
designed a custom program to track rental payments
from tenants and check whether they were ahead
or behind in their payments.
This
system links with MYOB for financial reporting.
It also prints out comprehensive reporting and
handles mixed rentals with and without GST depending
on when the contract was instigated.
Darwin
Turf Club
The
Darwin Cup Carnival is one of the premier sporting
events on the local calendar. Blaze Software is
a sponsor of the Cup, and we were also responsible
for writing an application to handle ticket sales
for the Carnival.
The
system handles bulk ticket purchases and tracks
whether the tickets are to be couriered, mailed
or picked up by the customer. It also warns staff
if tickets are oversold.
In
addition, we wrote a program to handle the bookings
of the marquees at the track during carnival time.
Queensland
Medical Labs
QML
needed a simple to use, quick and easy program
to print patient labels for their remote locations.
We
wrote a quick application which would print out
details on any standard, customisable label size,
and import data from a standard text flat file.
St.
Marys Football Club
Not
only football, but St. Marys also have a busy
social club with bars, restaurants, keno, bingo
and pokies. They needed a user friendly 'front
end' to collect all this data on a daily basis
and feed it into an Attache General Ledger system
on the back end.
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