Custom Software and Web Applications

Custom software continues to produce productivity enhancements, cost effectiveness, and scalability for small and medium organizations that need robust support with flexibility for their growing businesses. Compared to off-the-shelf software, a well-managed software development project offers the opportunity for a just-right solution.

Our principals have been developing custom software since 1976, when we built what may have been the first realtime back-office system on Wall Street, back when overnight batch reporting systems were standard. Our team of experienced developers works in Costa Rica, where they produce Java and C applications for the web, smartphones, and the iPad. We offer local project management and spec writing, and on-site requirements gathering in the New York metropolitan area, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley.

Recent projects

Submit Patient Forms is an affordable Internet service that makes it easy for the patients of medical, dental and virtually all other health care practices to fill out their HIPAA forms, personal and insurance information, and medical histories online in the privacy of their homes before arriving for their appointment. Health care practitioners save time and money by eliminating careless clerical errors. Offices can validate the patient's insurance coverage and red flag any medical problems before they arrive. Labor costs will be reduced and net profits will be increased.

WaltKnowsGold (.NET). In addition to a public website designed to facilitate a customer's mailing in of his or her gold-containing jewelry, we specified and developed an analysis and database program that automatically recorded the weight of each incoming package and of each piece in the package on a USB-attached scale, photographed each weighing with a hi-res webcam and stored the photo, recorded the results of an x-ray diffusion analysis, calculated the gold, silver and platinum content of each piece and of the total package, calculated the amount to be paid to the customer, and cut a check for that amount, together with necessary management reporting. The client's requirement was to handle 10,000 packages a month with security and minimal clerical intervention, and to provide a searchable archive.

Unitville.com (ASP and .NET) is a web-based community for independent sales managers of Mary Kay to foster career development. The site included a content management system used by non-technical Mary Kay sales directors to upload images and pdf documents and to convert the documents to Word for editing; an extensive user-maintained library for sharing of content; a language translator; a newsletter editor with the ability to automatically download data from a proprietary Mary Kay corporate site, format and include it in an MS Publisher-created newsletter, and upload it through the content management system to the director's self-maintained web pages.

DealerPro Foreign Exchange trading support and risk management system -- binary options enhancements (C++). This set of enhancements -- specified, coded and tested for a major German bank -- added eight complex path-dependent exotic option models to a large-scale financial software application used by the foreign exchange departments of major banks. It was originally written as a cross-platform application for RS-6000, Solaris and Windows. The application is maintained by Prince Global for its client's clients.

Portfolio Simulator (.NET). This is an asset allocation program that analyzes thousands of historical financial prices and suggests the optimal mix of assets to achieve the highest return. Originally coded in 1990 as a DOS program, we were tasked with updating the program and making it commercially saleable.

Riskmaster for Coffee market simulation and training application (.NET). This software was developed for the New York Board of Trade to teach coffee producers and roasters in the US and Latin America how to use futures and options to improve their returns. The software was translated into Spanish and sold commercially through trade distributors. It was loosely based on the very first pc market simulation, the highly successful Comex the Game, which our predecessor company developed in 1985.

Consulting and Problem Solving

As technology consultants as well as developers, we are available to review process flow and procedures, participate in gathering user requirements, write functional specs, and propose solutions to improve efficiency and foster collaboration among customers, employees and partners. Changes in technology provide continuing improvements in productivity and lower costs; and make for rapid obsolescence and security vulnerabilities. We can advise you on a range of IT issues.