Custom Software

A well designed custom software improves business efficiency, market competitiveness and increases revenue. As a Microsoft Solution Provider, OptiMicro has the knowledge and expertise to design and develop a custom software to meet the exact needs of your business.

Understanding Your Business

OptiMicro 's system consultants are qualified and experienced to understand the daily operations of your business and design a custom software solution by integrating today's powerful technologies, products and information with your business.

Custom Software Design and Implementation

OptiMicro specializes in the development of custom business applications and web-enabled applications for Windows 9x, Windows NT and Novell networks. Custom software is developed in industrial standard tools by our qualified software engineers including MS Visual Basic, MS Access, MS C++, Dephi and many other DBMSs. Implementation of custom software is always on time and on budget.

Responsive Support

OptiMicro offers responsive technical support to custom software clients. Training on custom software is also available.

Workflow / Groupware Solutions

Introduction to Workgroup Applications

Workgroup Applications (a.k.a. Groupware) are one of the most popular demands in organizations. The potential benefits come with a meaningful automation of many tasks in today's office environment. Workgroup Applications, by definition of what makes up a "Workgroup Application" is as varied as the applications themselves. Simply put, Workgroup Applications enable two or more people to work together to accomplish a common goal or function.

There are several examples of these types of applications. Some of the more common ones are listed below:

Information routing

Information routing applications include the functionality of document routing slips, information that needs to be sent from one individual to another, and so forth. Information could automatically be stored into your database once it is authorized.

Information sharing

This type of application is similar to routing except the primary focus of information sharing is to get information to people. This can also be referred to as a "broadcast" type message. An example of this might be sending out formatted lists, reports, and so forth. Please keep in mind, however, that with these types of items, they should be items that require your application to be useful to the recipient. Don't reinvent the wheel and send out tabular data that could just as easily have been sent in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet attached to a standard mail message.

Collaboration

This type of application allows several people to contribute to a final product. For example, if several departments are preparing information for the budget, you may want to have an application format and send last year's budget, along with some backup information, to each department manager. The department managers review this information, prepare their new budgets, and submit them back to you. Each of these budgets gets automatically (after you press the OK button) consolidated and inserted into your overall budget spread sheet.

Although each workgroup application may be quite unique for each business, there are certain basic components that are common to all groupware. They are the messaging engine, rule-based component, and custom application development tools. Based on the Microsoft Exchange Server technologies as the primary platform, OptiMicro provides custom groupware application development and support. We'll analyze the workflow of your business and propose a turnkey implementation of groupware deployment. By using this groupware technology, a group of people can work together more efficiently and effectively to gain competitive edge in the market place.

For more information about groupware or how we can help in your office automation, please contact our technical specialist at (905) 470-7016.