Our Background and Experience

Since then, we've worked with many major companies including:

• BetaCORP Technologies Inc.
• Canada Computer Paper Inc.
• CANOE: The Canadian Online Explorer
• Chauhan and Associations, Barristers and Solicitors
• Claymore Inc.
• Conestoga College
• Croftward Publishing Inc.
• Eicon Technologies Inc.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp.
• Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publishers
• Granit Technologies Inc.
• Information Handling Services Canada Ltd.
• ITP Nelson Canada
• Matsushita Electric Company (Panasonic)
• Microsoft
• Moorshead Publications Ltd.
• Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
• Ottawa Researchers
• Public Works Canada
• Rogers Cablesystems Limited
• Scholastic Canada Ltd.
• Telemedia Canada
• The Canadian Department of National Defense, Photographic Unit
• The Canadian Secretary of State’s Office, Linguistic Services
• The Ontario Ministry of Education
• The University of Waterloo, Optometry
• Transactor Publishing Inc.

Specialized services that we can provide

• Analysis, software development and migration of legacy Informix RDBMS and AS/400 MSM data into Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) environment
• Analysis, development and maintenance of a data bridge between Siebel CRM and J.D. Edwards’ One World ERP environments. Bridge developed in PL/SQL for Oracle under UNIX.
• Analysis, development and maintenance of data bridges between Siebel CRM and Informix-based legacy order fulfillment environment
• Siebel CRM user interface and functionality customization, refinement and maintenance using the Siebel Tools product
• Analysis, design and development of a Java (J2EE) software bridge between Lotus Notes GWI and a custom DB2 data warehouse for reporting purposes
• Analysis, design and development and maintenance of Oracle RDBMS Pro*C, PL-SQL and SQL scripts and applications
• Analysis, design and development and maintenance of Informix RDBMS 4GL and SQL scripts and applications
• Software analysis, design, development, maintenance and port of commercial and custom applications in C, C++ and Assembler across UNIX, Windows, DOS, Macintosh,and OS/2 platforms
• Analysis, design, development and maintenance of HTML, JavaScript, Java & CGI applications
• Analysis, design, development and maintenance of Unix shell scripts
• UNIX (Sun/Solaris and Linux) system administration
• Administration and maintenance of Informix RDBMS
• Vertex Sales Tax and Use system deployment under One World ERP

Since 1987, we've developed thousands of commercial and custom software products on a wide variety of popular platforms. To follow are a few of the more notable projects we've worked on:

• Photon
  Analysis, design and development for this extremely high-speed, low-overhead, database search and retrieval system.

  Photon indexes have less than 15 percent of the storage overhead of comparable BTree indexes.

  Photon searches are 250 to 1600 times faster than comparable searches using BTree indexes, with minimal memory and CPU overhead.

  Photon is a web search engine used on Canada Channel and Time Machine, and is also the underlying search engine for several CD-ROM products including Termium and Canadisk.

• Canadisk
  Analysis,design and development of all processing, user-interface, search and retrieval, image display and reporting software for this multi-platform, multi-edition, bilingual CD-ROM product. The Canadisk CD-ROM, which was originally published in Canada by Encyclopedia Britannica, and later, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publishers, was a large collection of digital images, historical databases, historical documents and educational lesson plans.

• Termium
  Analysis, design and development of all data processing, user-interface, search and retrieval and reporting software for this multi-platform, multi-edition, linguistic mainframe database on CD-ROM. The largest table used to create this product contained in excess of 1,000,000 rows of variable-length, variable-field data. The source tables consumed just under 900 MB of storage. The custom indices contained approximately 29,000,000 unique entries and the largest of eight scrollable-lists contained over 1,000,000 unique entries. When complete, this multi-platform product was brought down to 550 MB of total data storage including all software, libraries and documentation.

• Eicon Universal Access
  Analysis and development of all user-interface, security, installation and viewer software required by Eicon Technologies Inc. for this commercial CD-ROM of LAN/WAN Connectivity applications and tools.

• Neutrino
  Analysis, design and development of all data compression and encryption techniques

• Executive Presenter
  Analysis and development of all software and processes used for this commercial Executive Information System.

• Midas
  Co-designed, co-designed and co-developed this dealer access system for Matsushita/Panasonic used remotely by all of their Canadian dealers, served over a Banyan Vines network.

• Skilbase
  Team leader, analysis, design and development for this commercial job skills and training database environment.

• SpaceTime
  Analysis, design and development for all processing software and translation aids for this Macintosh CD-ROM of historical databases documents, images and video.

• Columbus Day by Day
  Analysis and development of all processing software and translation aids for this Macintosh CD-ROM of historical databases, documents, images and video.