Analyse This!

Data processing today, whether using off-the-shelf products, or bespoke systems applications, is a whole lot more flexible than it used to be. Application authors know that you want your output to be presentable in a variety of standard formats, and they're providing the means for export, analysis and reporting in some very impressive ways. Whatever your company has invested in (and let's face it, this software you use couldn't be called cheap!), the likelihood is that it does the job you want it to do, otherwise you wouldn't have bought it, right?

On occasions, though, you might be inspired with a concept that is simply not catered for, or anticipated, by the software makers. You have a whole load of data, and within that whole load of data is the information that would make a difference to your business processes, and thus, to the final result of all this computing activity. TechScope will be happy to discuss such a concept with you to see if there is a sensible way forward. There will be a need, within such discussions, to concentrate on, and refine, the target ideal, and weigh up the resources and assets at your disposal. The overall project aim is to address the logic required to use these resources to achieve the desired effect ~ TechScope's input involves a combination of skill, experience and imagination in order to make manifest the specifications established by the initial problem analysis. Any such project will be formally scoped, scheduled and documented, and may include a service contract for periodic technical support and software updates, subject to requirements and negotiation.

Automation Incorporated

It may also be that your business IT could benefit from procedural programming, along the lines of automation, to increase efficiency in routine practices. This may or may not include some level of pure data processing. For example, you may have been using standard MS Office documents as masters for a set of routines relating to everyday business documentation. These procedures might, ideally, benefit from some level of intelligent automation built into these master documents, and include not only more sophistication, but also greater ease of use, in the form of integrated help for your operators. The macro programming potential within MS Office holds the key to this new, improved scenario. TechScope can help you define and implement useful macros for your business, and get your computers to do more of the donkey work, whilst the output and creativity of your staff noticeably increases.

About Branding and Intellectual Rights

Whether you ask TechScope to produce a stand-alone custom utility, or a component of work for software integration, you will be offered the chance to make it your own by incorporating your business identity into the final product. Integrated products (such as macro development or email archive scripting), because of their nature, include source code as standard, which becomes your property as part of the deal, and as such, will be copyrightable by you, subject to legal scrutiny. Stand-alone products may be available as a source package, depending on the nature of the work they do and the specific tasks they are designed to carry out. This would be a matter of negotiation from the outset of any contract of work; however, although TechScope will apply fair discretion, we reserve the right not to include source as open for negotiation. This is because it is feasible that core functionality could be applied elsewhere in other deals of a similar nature. It really depends on the details of the specifics and the degree of special business areas as they relate to the software.