Almost always, an organization’s most precious commodity is its intellectual property – the knowledge it possesses about itself, its clients or members, its suppliers, and partners, shareholders, its mission, financials, and so on. Too often, this data is neglected; disorganized and fragmented. With our knowledge of information management systems, we can convert data into information, and information into knowledge – so that you can leverage your investments and your competitive advantage. We provide advice on strategy, as well as providing solutions for the management of structured and unstructured data. Our skills run from enterprise database management to the smallest system. From Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix, etc through MS SQL/mySQL down to legacy desktop systems such as Access and FoxPro. We develop and manage for platforms ranging from handheld devices and the desktop, through local and wide area networks, to the Internet (including intranet/extranet) systems.

Hosting. We provide top-quality, reliable end efficient hosting for websites, wap sites (wap =wireless application protocol), intranets, extranets, file transfer and mail servers. We have UNIX, Linux and Windows servers with full CGI and SSI. The servers have load balancing, built-in redundancy, surplus capacity and extensive redundant Internet connectivity. They are fully protected with firewalls, the latest patches, etc, physical security and generator backup. They are maintained around the clock by qualified technicians. Our uptime is way in excess of 99.9%.

Email. We provide a full range of email options, providing you@yourname.com addresses, large mailboxes, email forwarding, auto-responders, web-based email, spam guards and virus checking.

Mail. Our email services extend into the printed word. We provide many corporate services including mailing list management, personalized mail shots and targeted distribution of personalized faxes or email

Strategy & Management. We’ll analyze your database needs and develop a database strategy for you. If necessary, we’ll build you a fully featured, user-friendly and secure database. It will be based on your existing working practices and workflow, with intuitive and familiar, easy-to-use interfaces – so your people can use it to maximum benefit with a minimal amount of training.

Custom development. Our databases include custom dialog boxes for data entry, data editing, and on-screen data analysis, customizable reports, full security, and they’ll output to your intranet, extranet or the World Wide Web. We’ll do our best to integrate them with your other systems; after all, to minimize the risk of errors, data should be entered only once. You can rely on our work. It is fully documented and we always provide for data to be extracted in a standard format so you can always use it, regardless of what happens to your systems. We’ll future-proof your data.

Data capture and encoding. We have experience with scanning, imaging, optical character recognition, keyboarding and encoding. We can digitize old documents (including land titles, plans, and a wide range of archive material) or encode new information including surveys, applications, correspondence, magazines and books, and so on.

Data verification. For repetitive tasks, we can automate data verification to help ensure accuracy. Also, depending on the nature of the task, we frequently specify that input and correction will be conducted twice, by two independent workers. Our custom software will then compare the two sets of data and highlight differences. We also subject data input to human inspection. As a result, we can guarantee the highest levels of accuracy.

Workflow automation, authorization and other processes.
We provide various solutions to assist clients with their own data input and checking. Our automated systems provide for the queuing of forms for approval, revision, release, further action, etc. They can automatically transfer data seamlessly between offices and continents using online and occasional-online systems. We provide multiple levels of authorization, full audit trails, encryption, etc. In order to enhance efficiency and reduce errors, data should be keyed once only, and as far as possible should reside in one location only.

Document conversion, recovery and repurposing.
We can recover electronic data from legacy systems (obsolete file formats, damaged disks, etc), convert between almost any formats (eg, Word DOC, PDF, XHTML, XML) and otherwise repair and recover data which you feared was lost forever.