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Custom Development

Often times the "last mile" in making your business computers really work for your business is a custom development project. Vanishing Clouds provides a wide range of development services to help our clients really leverage the investments they've made in their computer systems.

What makes our development services different than most other's is our focus on business value. That means we'll only propose a custom development if it has a demonstrable return on investment (ROI). We start any development project with a look at your business situation, analyze your workflow (the business process) and can help you estimate the likely cost savings/sales increase that the project should bring.

Some examples of development work we've done for clients includes:

  • Excel/Word macros to automate a variety of tasks, like:
    • Reformatting mailing lists downloaded from a web site.
    • Automatically import a "bounced check" report from corporate office
    • Perform complex "mail merge" operations involved in lengthy legal documents by picking out client information and pre-populating it into the document.
  • Database applications in Microsoft Access or SQL Server, like:
    • A complete "line of business" application for tracking customers, perform complex billing calculations and directly interface with their accounting package.
    • Track "projects" assigned by customers, including a web interface that lets customers submit new work and review the status of work in progress.
  • Simple "task tracker" applications, custom tuned to the business's requirements.
  • Drive customized web sites that provide "personalization" for its customers while requiring much less effort to modify when new products/suppliers are added.
  • Custom application, many utilizing Microsoft's new .NET programming model, like:
    • Administrative tools that simplify redundant tasks.
    • Communications tools that let users quickly access remote systems, etc.
  • Custom web development, utilizing ASP.NET, to provide benefits like:
    • Ecommerce sites that provide a shopping experience "like the big guys."
    • Personalization, so your visitors/users can customize the site to suit their tastes, so the site remembers their preferences, etc.
    • Link to "internal" systems, thereby keeping corporate data safely located behind your firewall but still letting web visitors use that information; for example, to track where their projects are, schedule an appointment, update their records, etc.
  • Workflow and business process engineering, like:
    • Identify opportunities to "triage" incoming work and dramatically reduce paperwork on the "easy 80%."
    • Develop workflow support systems that cut "time in process" work by over 85%.