Consultancy
The Doric Approach
Doric's history started with
consultancy and it remains a core activity. We believe that the direct
experience which it gives us of the real issues facing customers in the
field is vital to the whole company if we are to maintain our primary
goal of satisfying those customers' real needs.
As such there are five key principles which, after twenty years, we still
apply to all our consultancy work :
- Analyze the real needs
- Design from the "data"
- Code for maintenance
- Project manage for delivery
- Deliver at all costs
Contact us to discuss your requirements.
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Data
Conversion
The unparalleled data access and manipulation facilities of our own
products
(covering flat e.g. COBOL files, indexed file systems e.g. MIDAS, and
other RDBMS e.g. Ingres), plus our in-house data analysis and
porting skills make us uniquely qualified as data conversion specialists.
This covers not only traditional data unloading, merging and reloading
between applications and desktop tools but also data warehouse applications.
The tremendous programmable search and structure capabilities of
INFO-Text mean that regardless of whether data is structured, text-based or both
we pick it up from wherever it is and deliver it in the format required,
including all necessary restructuring.
These services are not restricted to holders of product licenses as both
short-term leasing of products and complete off-site conversion are available.
Where necessary, e.g. data warehousing, we can offer complete turnkey
data conversion suites to run on client machines on a regular basis, with
the extremely low support and system administration costs that Doric always
ensure in both products and applications.
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Web Applications
Although development of World Wide Web applications is the only consultancy
area where we cannot claim a minimum of ten years experience, we are still
one of the most experienced in the field.
With a several years experience of working in the Web market, including design
and development of a major global internal (Intranet) system for a world
number 1 in its industry, we can safely deliver the tremendous power that
this new technology offers.
We find that the consultancy skills required to effectively deliver the
"thin-client", rapid deployment and low maintenance applications
which make the Web so popular, closely mirror our traditional work using
our own products.
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Product Application Support
In addition to our product support
services, we offer application support as a consultancy service.
This is available for all applications which use our products and may
range from a few days expert advice to taking over all maintenance and
support for a client, including end user support through our own support
desks.
Our unparalleled expertise in developing and maintaining applications
which use our products over an enormous range of application areas makes
it possible for us to quickly and easily move in to handle application
support safely, reliably and inexpensively.
Customers may free up their internal resources from on-going support of
stable applications and allow their personnel to move on to development
of new business-critical systems.
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Buying Consultancy
Our consultancy, both on or off-site, is tailored to be client specific,
whether it is a few days expert advice on complex technical issues provided
on a 'time and materials' basis or full blown application design and
development at fixed cost.
We are always happy to discuss any project with no obligation, even
those where the underlying objectives are barely clear let alone the
best approach. Even if we can't supply a solution, our enormous wealth
of experience from 20 years of consultancy and wide range of contacts
throughout the IT industry mean that we can usually steer you in the
right direction.
Contact us to discuss
your requirements with a true friend in the computing industry.
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