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Products liquid piranha works with

We're quite happy to develop bespoke software and solutions where the need exists. However, a lot of the time an off-the-shelf solution can work well. Some of these solutions are open-sourced, others are proprietary; in all cases, we'll pick the best solution for your needs, not simply the option which is easiest to implement.

Some of the products we've recently worked with to deliver solutions to clients include:

  • Visual Studio 2005 - development solutions in C# and ASP.Net,whether the maintenance of existing products or the creation of new ones.
  • DotNetNuke - a content management system which is simple to use, yet immensely powerful, and can be extended for custom tasks with the addition of new modules either from a wide variety available online, or custom developed by us where a suitable module doesn't exist.
  • Microsoft Commerce Server - we have a wealth of experience of B2B systems and EDI, with staff drawn from some of the world's biggest users of EDI for automatic order placement, status updates and invoicing, including Fortune 500's.
  • phpNuke - similar to DotNetNuke, phpNuke is a content management system which offers similar features. Often the decision as to whether to use phpNuke or DotNetNuke for your CMS will centre around the server platforms you have available, with phpNuke being slightly more closely linked with linux and BSD-based operating systems.
  • zenCart - an open source online store solution which can cater for a variety of needs.
  • PayPal Merchant Tools - whether you're looking to integrate PayPal payments to process cards for you on an online store, send email invoices to customers which they can pay online, or simply to expand the range of payment methods you accept to include PayPal accounts, we're able to offer advice and expertise on implementation with a range of platforms.
  • Proprietary and industry-specific platforms - several of our clients have their own internal systems which we've successfully interfaced with or extended to add value or decrease the effort required to produce a result. For example, the UK's National Grid operate a Web Services-based API allowing gas and electricity suppliers to interrogate their system and send updates. We've built a variety of systems which automate various parts of these functions.
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & 2005 - one of the most popular databases on the web, and increasingly so since the release of the free SQL Express version which now powers a multitude of sites around the world. We've performed development and tuning services for several clients using data-driven applications to harness the best of Web2.0
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL - open source databases offering simplicity and speed, ideally suited to hosting open source applications and which run on a variety of systems.
  • Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office - extensions for both Office and Exchange to provide additional functionality required for particular reasons.
  •   Skype for Business - Voice Over IP solutions that can can help your business save money and enhance its communication and flexibility, offering services such as per-user billing, local numbers in different countries and free phone calls to remote workers.
  • BCS IT Job Describer - BCS IT Job Describer is a cost-effective browser based solution for employers to quickly produce IT job descriptions based upon the SFIAplus IT skills, training and development standard. With it, you can easily browse SFIAplus version 3, define the skills, training and experience of your staff and quickly prepare relevant job descriptions. It also provides a seamless upgrade route to BCS Skills Manager and BCS Career Developer.
  • BCS Skills Manager - BCS Skills Manager is a browser-based solution which allows you to accurately measure the IT skills within your organization using the IT skills, training and development standard SFIAplus. It is used to measure the current IT skills within your organization against the external SFIAplus standard, which will provide you with a complete database of your IT professionals against those skill sets. It will allow you to generate IT job descriptions and assess the IT competencies as measured against the SFIAplus standard. An easy and seamless upgrade path allows you to progress from BCS Skills Manager to BCS Career Developer.
  •   BCS Career Developer - BCS Career Developer is a powerful browser-based solution to help you define, manage and develop your IT professionals and to measure how closely their skills match your business requirements. It builds on the functionality available in BCS Skills Manager to enable you to develop your staff's professional skills to meet business needs and individual aspirations as part of a structured training and development programme. Doing so can provide a compelling case for Investors In People and ISO9000 accreditations, as well as leading to BCS Professional Development Accreditation.