Chipping IT

Software Design can be anything from a simple script to perform a very basic task to highly complex software that performs many vital tasks for major corporations. I specialise in the small to medium scale software.

My skills are centred around Microsoft's Visual Basic development language and SQL Server. The tools at my disposal allow me to create very user-friendly software that is tailored to meet your specific needs. Many businesses use MS SQL Server to house important databases. I am able to develop software that harnesses these databases and produce tools to help save vital time. For example, a recent project of mine was to develop a quotation system that took product information from an existing database and produced a PDF with appropriate images and product details, cutting quotation times down from several hours or even days to just a few minutes.

I can also work very well with Microsoft Office - especially Excel, which provides a wonderfully simple way to produce all kinds of reports (again using the power of your existing databases). With a simple interface, producing a sales report based on specific criteria becomes a breeze instead of a time-consuming headache. Excel also allows for user-defined functions. These functions expand Excel's features and enables you to have easy access to your data - for example, imagine you have some columns for Product and Account and wish to add another column to show when that account last ordered that product - a simple function (for the sake of argument, call it: LastDateOrdered) can query your database for just that information.