Consulting

Project Scoping

Customers will often not have the necessary skills in-house to fully define the scope of an IT software consulting project. Soft Techs’ skilled staff are able to draw on the wide experience of their peers from all corners of the world to document the finest detail of your software implementation. The scope provides any easy to understand road map for all participants to follow, highlighting what is and what is not included in the project.

This is the foundation document for any implementation and although customers feel their business is similar to others, in many respect the peculiarities are what provide the challenge in any IT implementation. It is only by understanding these peculiarities that Soft Tech can take on significant projects and work with the customer to deliver a solution.

Our experienced consulting team specializes in software applications for Curtain Wall and Storefront Manufacturers.

Database design and Development

Soft Techs’ professional services team will assist a customers’ own staff on a project or alternatively work almost entirely on the database development with the customer acting as a guide. A team of dedicated staff work in this area utilising the latest software tools to gain access to Soft Techs’ knowledge bases irrespective of location.
Our consultants have implemented systems at numerous sites, so customers gain from their experience solving industry problems, often bringing new insights to their business.

We are often asked for an indication of how long it will take to develop a database and get the application running. Of course this is very dependent on he resources that the Customer can apply to the task and the depth and breadth of their business. In any event a Project Scope is an essential element of the database development, even if you intend to undertake the database development in house.

It doesn’t matter if you are specializing in Curtain Wall and Storefront manufacturing or the production door and shower enclosures. We at Soft Tech got the right software solution for you.

Report Writing

Soft Techs’ applications use either Crystal or Quick Reports (embedded) to provide user reports. To assist users our Professional Services staff can create reports to your specification, or conduct focused training courses. In some instance the customers’ staff are more at home with Microsoft Excel as a means to manipulate, format and report on data. In these circumstances the required data from V6 or Saturn is exported in a format ready for importation to Excel.

Macro design and development

The V6 configurator is capable of utilising a custom designed GUI. The GUI is written in Visual Basic (or similar) or Soft Techs’ own macro scripting language. The Professional Services team has the skills to design and develop these UI screens so that users of the V6 application closely follow their customary business process.
The macro language allows V6s’ native commands to be invoked by a user in a predetermined manner, this may be as simple as a database enquiry or enabling complex engineer to order products to be built within constrained business rules. Pictorial pickers may be used to replace product codes with user friendly symbols and logos, the scope is limitless.

Interfaces and Integration

To facilitate integration between Soft Techs’ applications and the vast array of ERP and Business systems the Professional Services team have several tools at their disposal.

1. In-built macro language. Within V6 applications it is possible to create Visual Basic like scripts to create output text files and if desired transfer data to other database.
2. Script driven Interface engine. Using ODBC sql scripts read information out of one database and into another. The Interface engine can be used as a persistent integration layer between any two ODBC databases, not just Soft Tech application databases.
3. Custom designed and developed interfaces can be created to achieve very high levels of integration and automation.

Interfaces to SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Visual Manufacturing, Syteline, Made to Manage, Friedman, Macola, and Kewill, have been developed and are in use by Soft Tech customer