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The Bone Group provides business solutions that meet the individual needs of their clients. We specialize in development of custom software and design & installation of small- to medium-sized networks. Being a Microsoft Certified Partner, we have a wide range of development tools and resources at our disposal.

 

CUSTOM SOFTWARE

Custom software solutions are the main focus of The Bone Group. We can design and build software of varying levels of size and complexity:


Microsoft Office Integration
Automating tasks in Microsoft Office products can save valuable time and allow businesspeople to be more productive. For example, the process of creating a form letter in Word to be mailed to a list of contacts (perhaps from another Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet, or an Access database) can be done automatically at the push of a button or with a few keystrokes, thus freeing someone from having to spend time doing it manually.



Utilities and Tools
Many slow or repetitive tasks can be automated with the use of a custom-designed utility program.



Single-User (Desktop) Applications
For single computers, or for computers that are networked but have no need to share the data, a small standalone desktop application is perfect. Any data can be maintained on the useršs computer with minimal concern about security and no worries at all about network traffic and overhead.

EXAMPLE
A quoting and pricing system for a small office.

 

Departmental Systems For a group which needs a small or medium-sized system with the ability to share data, the answer is a distributed departmental application. The data will be centrally located on the network, and the users will have access to it through an interface on their workstation.

EXAMPLE
A multi-faceted system involving customer management, inventory, and ordering, perhaps even integrated with bookkeeping software.

 

Company-wide (Enterprise) Systems This type of system is similar in design to the departmental system, but it can be much broader in scope. An enterprise system is designed for company-wide use, rather than a department or division. The data are centrally located and able to be accessed from company networks in one or more physical locations.

EXAMPLE
An account-balancing system for a holding company with offices in Chicago, New York, and London.

 

Internet/Intranet Internet (and intranet) development has come to mean much more than just website design. New and emerging technologies allow the use of a browser (such as Internet Explorer) as an interface for a distributed system. By performing all the business logic and data processing on a central server, network overhead and traffic are reduced, data integrity is increased, and updates to the software need only occur in one place ­ on the server. The data can be viewed and updated through a browser on any workstation (with full security, if needed).

EXAMPLE
The quoting and pricing system from the Desktop Application example above could be designed as an intranet application. The user would enter basic required information and the server would calculate the pricing based on that information and display the results in the user's browser.

For software that makes use of data, the heart of the system quite often lies in the design of the database itself. The Bone Group will design databases in:

  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • IBM DB/2

The Bone Group is proficient in several interface-design tools:

  • Microsoft Access
  • Visual Basic
  • VB.NET ASP

 

 

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