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Services

Services can be undertaken on-site as a contractor if your location is within commutable distance of north Leicestershire, or at Sci~T with regular client visits as required by the project.

Custom Software Development or bespoke components for existing applications - for the complete development life-cycle or just part: Analyse requirements; create functional specification & documentation; iterative design and development; testing; deployment and support.

Algorithm Design & Development Previous examples include neural networks for forecasting; nonlinear programming (optimisation of a nonlinear system using mathematics) applied to minimising leakage in a network; bespoke algorithms for helicopter surveillance software;

Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). A modern GUI experience can be applied to tried and trusted legacy systems by developing a separate layer or 'wrapper' that leaves the core of the proven underlying system untouched.

Database Applications. A large number of client systems are data-centric. Microsoft Access provides a cost effective development environment for bespoke data-based applications with easy reporting and connectivity to Microsoft Office applications. Alternatively, Microsoft SQL Server provides a more 'heavyweight' database solution that enables internet or intranet deployment. Projects include: HSE Inspection form database with management reporting; Questionnaire database with configurable reporting; Appliance testing databases

Prototype Software. Microsoft Access with VBA is also a popular environments for the rapid development of prototype or demo software.

Simulation and Modelling. The process of creating mathematical models of a physical system and encoding them within a computer program, to predict or simulate their behaviour.

Reverse engineer Legacy Code. Many technical, engineering and/or scientific applications contain custom modules or engines that were originally designed and coded many years or even decades ago. Limited documentation is available and the in-house expertise no longer exists. Sci~T uses the source code to reverse engineer back to the analysis phase. New functionality is implemented from this stage and/or the application migrated to modern operating systems, development environments and languages.

Decision Support Tools and Business Modelling with System Dynamics. Model, Understand and Communicate complex business processes through the use of System Dynamics modelling. Create Decision Support Tools or Management 'Flight Simulators' that allow the consequences, and the sensitivities, of different decisions to be judged and strategies designed for greater success.