Except for areas where a personal touch is beneficial, automating interaction with your Clients is a win for everyone. It reduces your handling costs, improves the consistency of services supplied and makes it easier for your Client to do business. This translates to making it easier for your Clients to purchase goods and services from you. An example of this is the orders/instructions import faci...
Reports tailored to your specific business needs can make a huge difference in seeing how your business is really working and then acting on that information. We can develop reports or program displays that may not be able to produced be in your existing software systems or are a combination of information from multiple software systems. This can provide you with concise and understandable informa...
The largest cost in most modern businesses typically are labour costs. Hence it makes sense to automate as much of your internal workflows as practical. Off the shelf software that performs this automation task is ideal, but often there simply isn't an existing software product that meets your automation needs. We can develop software for your business which automates workflows that haven't yet be...
Integrating your business workflows with both your Suppliers and your Clients provides advantages to all parties in the supply chain. It promotes the quicker and more efficient delivery of products and services. Often this integration can be achieved using off the shelf products plus some integration. When off the shelf products can't go the last mile, we can develop software that ties it all toge...
Selling low volume software products is not always a good business model unless you can charge particularly high prices. This can be a problem because software development is an
expensive
process. An alternative business model is where the software product sales are treated purely as an introduction to ancillary services. So if you have a services business and need some differentiation from your com...
When an opportunity to grow comes your way, there is often a need to greatly increase your staff numbers. This brings a whole series of challenges including finding the right people quickly, training them up and keeping the good ones over the long term. Massive growth in staff numbers can easily hide gross inefficiencies. You can get into a money pit situation where the staff costs effectively de-ra...
You can create long term repeat customers by developing internal systems that dovetail with your key customers. This is challenging and often can not be achieved using
off the shelf
software. We can develop software that integrate your business systems with your customers. A well performing integrated set of systems is a strong reason for your customers to do more business with you.
Structuring your systems so that it saves your Client's time makes it easier for them to do business with you. Making it easier to buy and easier to work with you is a way of not having to compete on price alone. We can develop software so that it is easy for your client to purchase and then easy to follow up on the status of service or product delivery.
The Australian Governments offers
Research & Development Tax Concessions
as an ongoing scheme designed to increase the level of research & development being conducted by Australian companies. If you're paying too much tax and want to invest in the future of your business, consider working with us to develop new software to improve the effectiveness of your existing business. Alternatively you may ha...
Regardless of the business you're in, a means of competing against the "big guys" is to find a niche in the market and concentrate all of your efforts on the niche rather than trying to please a broader population of potential customers. The market size may be smaller but there is less of a need to compete on price. Finding your niche allows you to produce a product or supply a service that custom...
Large Software projects have a
long dismal history of failures
and many developers have experienced a
"death march"
project or two during their careers. We have had experience pulling software projects out of the fire and getting them back on track. Its a very difficult proposition and can be politically tough to achieve, but it can be done. We can bring a fresh perspective to your problem project ti...
We are all about developing and maintaining software products at Torq Software. This means we plan and work for the long term and don't act like a body shop that disappear as soon as the initial development work has been completed. We take this same approach when working on any software development project. Our design and thought processes include allowances for both short term goals and the reali...
A strategy of Torq Software is to enter into long term partnerships with businesses to develop and maintain software products. The partner business provides the business domain expertise while we provide the software development expertise. Our strategic partners get lower software development rates and a long term commitment to the software products. We can then leverage software development resou...
The Torq Framework is a set of .NET libraries and a base architecture that is designed to be re-used across a number of business software scenarios. Torq Software uses the framework as the basis for building new software products without having to repeat software development actions across multiple projects. It is currently being used as the basis for products in the MacroView Industrial Automation an...
Torq Software has a long history of C programming language software development and maintenance. The core portions of the MacroView product are implemented in C. For new software development our preference is either a .NET based solution or using the C++ programming language. Of course there are always special considerations for specific development contexts such as in embedded systems.
