Technologies

We use a variety of database products to produce our software. In 2004 we began the process of transferring to a new Rapid Application Development (RAD) data base called Cache, developed by Intersystems.

InterSystems Corporation is an established technology company with twenty-five years of experience providing reliable, high-performance software products that power over 100,000 systems, used by more than four million people around the world.

In 1997 it introduced Caché – a high-performance data management and rapid application development environment. Optimized for the quick creation of Web-based transaction processing applications, Caché is used by independent software vendors (ISVs) and organizations in healthcare, finance, government, and many other areas. It’s adoption by application developers has made Caché the leading embedded database in the United States.

Caché is a post-relational database that uniquely offers three integrated data access options: a robust object database, high performance SQL, and rich multidimensional access. Caché enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed, massive scalability, and real-time queries against transactional data – with minimal maintenance requirements.

 Caché is available for Windows, OpenVMS, Linux and major UNIX platforms and it is deployed on systems ranging from two to over 10,000 simultaneous users. Caché enables rapid Web application development, extraordinary transaction processing speed, massive scalability, and real-time queries against transactional data – with minimal maintenance requirements.

We have also utilized a product called @Net (using Cache) and written by Intraprend in Germany. It allows us to write browser based RAD systems in a fraction of the time normally required, resulting in huge savings for our clients.

 

Testimonials

Yes there was a lot of work getting it set up, but it was worthwhile, because when we went live, it was pretty smooth. Having Judi at our offices, checking and helping us was a massive help, and knowing we can just ring or Skype her and she will get straight back to us has been marvellous, and made a huge difference to the changeover being much better.

Andrea Funnell
Office Manager
Stevens Egan Johnston Pty Ltd
The processing speed is very fast, virtually instant. The customisation has been very useful, we got all the GL reports customised so we can look at P&L for each of our branches and in a large business, this means we are up to date on critical financial information. We are even looking at the cloud solutions now. The change-over support was wonderful, we did have some frustrations, but now we are finding it great, we just don’t have any problems. You wouldn’t know that the support staff aren’t just around the corner, the remote support is marvellous when we use it, which isn’t much these days, but the girls are very knowledgeable and get right back to you.

Elizabeth Couch
Office Manager
Paull & Scollard Pty Ltd
I’m a FAN! Can’t speak highly enough about it, it’s been great for us. Yes of course the change over process was difficult, because people are wary of change, once saleg8 was up and running and they could see it, it became obvious it was going to work well for us. I think it’s a very good upgrade of the old system. We didn’t mind the old system, which we’ve used since 1996. We use both the livestock sale processing and the accounting packages, we like to keep it all in-house.

Simon Westby
The National Livestock Administrator
Elders New Zealand