www.designHome.com.au was the first Australian production Web site powered by SQL Server 2000 and is Australia's leading Internet destination for the best home design products. It offers consumers the largest database of high-quality home design products such as furniture, appliances, lighting, fixtures and fittings, decorative accessories, bathroom - and kitchenware.
Rapid Application Development principles were applied during the development. We were under a lot of time pressure as we needed the live Web site to increase the acquisition rate of partners displaying their products, what is most satisfactory is that all the decisions taken under time constraint, such as using SQL Server 2000 Beta and a third-party ASP component, are still correct. SSW finished the development work ahead of schedule, under budget and with the required quality.
SSW was an obvious choice for us as Adam Cogan and his team displayed not only technical expertise, but further to that a business acumen rarely found with developers. We were also extremely happy with the knowledge transfer in the new Microsoft technologies, and will therefore continue to use their expertise for the further development of our venture.
Lukas Schelosky, Christophe Portenier
Addison Lloyd Group
Directors
We have employed Superior Software for Windows Pty Limited since 1999 to supply support, maintenance and enhancement of our legacy Metering Services data system.
The scope of the project was to understand the implications of the Contestable Energy Market deregulation in terms of Metering Services and alter the legacy database to suit the new market.
Superior Software has also enhanced and implemented a works scheduling and tracking system for field operations and customer billing of services provided by Metering Services. The support, maintenance and enhancement of legacy software systems are provided to a high level of professionalism by Superior Software for Windows.
Mark Ezzy
InfoMet Pty Limited
National Metering Services Manager
It gives me pleasure to provide the following testimonial regarding SSW and in particular Adam Cogan with whom I had the majority of my dealings.
Academy Tiles is a leading ceramic tile business, importing ceramics, marble and glass. We wholesale and also provide a unique architectural library of over 5000 samples for use by professional people. Our showroom and warehouse are located separately.
About 1995 we determined that our Dos based computer system was antiquated and would not allow us to survive and prosper. Our information needs were very comprehensive and growing. And so the search began. Academy Tiles commenced an Access database development with another eveloper. After some considerable work was done, I became dissatisfied with the work and approached Microsoft for a recommended Access developer to assist me in completing the exercise.
And so we were introduced to Adam Cogan and Superior Software. At this point we had a client and job database. We still required invoicing, purchasing, inventory and shipping.
I did not enjoy the first day's experience. Adam pulled no punches and was critical of the quality of the database structure and work to date. And he proposed to pull it apart and rebuild. I wasn't initially sold on the idea but after several days I could see a picture emerging of : structure, preciseness, integrity and efficiency. It was the system we had to have, regardless of initial cost and we have not looked back. Quite frankly without Adam's involvement we would have a clumsy inefficient system which was not easily modifiable I spent many days working with him developing our system and learning how to se Access. As a "partially" technical accountant I learnt sufficient to be able to readily modify and evolve our system. I have also dealt with others at SSW like Ibrahim Qutish and Ross Donald and they continue to support me with any code which is beyond me. In addition the free generic updates from SSW are a real bonus. The generic functions have extended my capabilities and minimised the amount of code required.
As an accountant I am very pleased to have the flexibility of periods that don't roll over. It allows us to adjust any incorrect invoices and re-issue with the need to create credit notes. This keeps the paperwork down to a minimum, reducing the confusion of an long paper trail. Queries are regularly rerun, accumulating monthly sales statistics etc. These also reflect any prior period adjustments.
We stocktake as many times as we wish, currently six monthly and roll stock into an opening balance. Because of this one precaution we build into prior "period" transaction alterations is to prevent these changes if they are dated prior to the last stocktake. The system is very flexible and can be run to suit any particular set of requirements.
It is also very user friendly and all our staff including management input their own work.
Our business could never have achieved the level of volume and success it has without our Access database.
And our Access database would not be what is without the involvement of Adam and his friendly professional and innovative team.
Without qualification I can state that their design work, desire to share and willingness to educate have made a substantial contribution to our business.
Joe Zeaiter
Director
We have employed SSW since 1997 to develop our software while keeping our legacy systems running. We have a work flow application based on Exchange Server 2000. The new system required integration with multiple servers. The software tools used for the projects have been Microsoft Access 2000 and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 on a Windows 2000 platform. Support, maintenance and enhancement of legacy systems and integration services are provided at a professional level by Superior Software for Windows and consequently we have continully returned to them for software support and further software development projects.
James Snodgrass
Director
Atom Industries specialises in the design and manufacture of outdoor power products. We have employed Superior Software for Windows Pty Limited since 1999 for the provision of data conversion services. Particularly providing a facility for importing and exporting data from MYOB files and Microsoft Excel and extracting the relevant data to a unique model in the purchasing and accounts division of our business. We would like to add that what was a very tedious and mistake prone task for our purchase office has now resolved itself to being an instant collecion of data all sorted out, model by model, and to individual orders and shipments both work in progress, pending and projected orders. All done in very quick time and accuracy. Even the shortage of one item, eg a one cent screw can stop production for weeks if it has to be imported so accuracy and quick follow up reporting features are very important.
Angelo Notaras
ATOM INDUSTRIES
General Manager
GEM Training Solutions specialises in computer training in database management, template development in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel, and other training related services. We have employed Superior Software for Windows Pty Limited this year for the provision of training services, particularly in database management. The software tools used for the projects have been Microsoft Access 2000 on a Windows 2000 platform.
Tailored developer training services are provided professionally, competently and satisfactorily by Superior Software for Windows and consequently we have returned to them for further software related services.
Louise Ridlen
Gem Training Solutions
Director
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