What do we do?

System implementation

Sarand has comprehensive experience in the specification, development, deployment and management of IT projects, focusing on:

• Helping the business and the system's users to specify their requirements and to understand both the costs and benefits that should be expected.
• Planning and control of the work that is required with regular user liaison.
• Selection of hardware, suitable reuse of legacy equipment and introduction of appropriate new technologies.
• Building practical prototypes to demonstrate functionality and provide a working solution in extremely short timescales.
• Technical design and development of the database and software.
• Testing, training and support during and following implementation.
• Preparation of documentation and support procedures to ensure that the system and users are as self-sufficient as possible.

Package enhancement

Every software package that you can buy and many that you may already have deployed can be enhanced to extend existing functionality and add new features. Often this can be accomplished by simply configuring the software to your own specification, but where this falls short of your requirements Sarand can help by:

• Where possible, add functionality and data content directly into the package.
• Implementing a simple application to sit alongside the package and provide your business with alternative views onto the data.
• Enhance the data content to more closely model your business by implementing a separate database that holds the additional information but that is automatically kept up to date with the core data.
• Build an application 'wrapper' around the original product to retain its underlying functionality while improving on the front-end, for example to make data entry more efficient.

We frequently help clients who rely on software whose original authors are no longer able to provide support for one reason or another, even where the original source code is no longer available.

We have built up a wealth of experience in providing enhancements to the Sage range of products, for more details click here.

Data management and publication

With information being generated and published in volumes that are growing at an exponential rate, Sarand can help you devise and implement a suitable strategy that provides the following:

• Data and document repositories that are designed to accept and publish their contents in a range of formats.
• Preparation and automation of process and workflow procedures.
• Flexible data maintenance through direct or remote access using local or web-based interfaces.
• Managed archiving and revival of older material in both electronic and paper formats.
• Interfaces to other systems and the web to publish and retrieve information.