Digressoft

Analysis of operation log files.  Identify trending system faults across the fleet and worst performing locomotives.  Make recommendations for immediate actions and future maintenance.

This was a project more about data manipulation than software development. A local real estate agent was using a commercial application for tracking rental lease payments and had a separate home brewed Access database for managing late payers, task checklists and history of maintenance performed on a property.  They also had a few other spreadsheets around the […]

Fraser’s Livestock Transport operate in the remote regions of western Queensland where there are no maps.  Each customer might have several pick-up or delivery locations on a property.  They had an Excel spreadsheet with customer name, property/location name, and text directions of how to get there.  Built up over the years it was getting a […]

One of the local real estate agents had enough technical knowledge to tinker away at a Microsoft Access database to keep track of properties he had on the market.  However, he soon realised his limitations and called in Digressoft to clean up the mess and add all the features he wanted but didn’t know how […]

MESH is a job estimating system for an iron foundry. When Digressoft was approached for this job, the client already had many hundreds of job estimations each one in its own Excel spreadsheet.  These were quite complex spreadsheets containing over two hundreds cells to reach a bottom line for the job. They were happy to […]

This application was developed for a company manufacturing and fitting window dressings.  They needed a quotation system which sales staff produce quotations on-site at a customer’s residence. The client had a very specific idea of how he wanted the application to look.  He wanted it driven by a Word template which looked like an order […]

Stock Doctor is an existing application which analyses stock prices and keeps a history of a portfolio.  It is sold through a subscription system where the customer’s database is updated regularly with latest prices and expert comments and tips.  It was being supplied on CD but the owners wished to take advantage of the new […]

E.A.T.S. was initially developed for a steel fabrication company to streamline their job estimating process and produce quotations ready to send to the customer.  The costs of resources used in the manufacturing process are recorded so that the accuracy of estimations can be tracked.  It also interfaces with the Mind Your Own Business (M.Y.O.B.) accounting […]

This application developed in MS Access for a electronic game manufacturing company is for their Service Desk operators.  With it, operators log phone calls and assigns tasks for technicians to follow up on the reported problems.  There are also management reports for checking average length of call, number of calls for a particular game product, […]

This was a low-cost development for a very budget conscious, computer literate client.  Digressoft did the initial database design in Access and discussed the user interface design with the client who then did most of the work to put together the system.  We then came back and did the tidy up work and the tricky […]

Midas was Digressoft’s first independent project. It is a small Client/Consultant booking system developed using Microsoft Access used by receptionists to book consultant’s time to visit the client.  It also keeps track of payments and has reports booking summaries for the consultants, unpaid client accounts, etc.