77 systems, by what they actually do

YumaPOS Back Office

YumaPOS UK

Back office for a cloud POS platform: inventory, item editor, employees, store management, customer and marketing modules, dashboards and reporting. Running in 100+ stores across the UK, India and Australia.

C# · ASP.NET Web API · AngularJS · TypeScript

YumaPOS Terminal

YumaPOS UK

Windows till software: order entry and payment, transaction history, cash drawer, X/Z reports, shift and break clocking, employee access control, second-monitor customer display.

C# · WPF · .NET 4.5

YumaPOS Customer App

YumaPOS UK

Native iOS and Android app for restaurant guests: store list, menu and ordering, payment processor integration, push notifications, profile and loyalty.

iOS · Android

Bleu quick-service POS

Cloud POS built from scratch for quick service: iOS terminal, web back office, customer apps on both platforms, and the POS core behind them. Client and server were shipped under full automated test coverage.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · Angular · Xamarin · Objective-C · Android · MS SQL Server

Grocery POS suite

IT Retail

Supermarket package covering checkout and back office: touchscreen cashier station, customer-facing displays with sellable ad windows, price and promotion control, register accounting, loyalty, and QuickBooks integration.

ASP.NET MVC · Entity Framework · MS SQL Server · SSIS · WPF · Crystal Reports · PhoneGap

LiveTable booking and POS

Table reservation and e-commerce system for restaurants: an embeddable booking widget, an interactive dining-room map down to individual tables, and an administrative application covering mailings, reporting and occupancy-dependent booking rules.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · Silverlight · Windows Azure · WCF RIA Services · MS SQL Server · Knockout.js

LIQ-Trax

Desktop POS for liquor retail: ordering and checkout, inventory, discounts, customers, employees and reporting.

C# · WPF · MS SQL Server

ggLeaps

POS for internet cafés selling PC time alongside food and drink: floorplan editor, live machine-state monitoring, shopping cart and statistics.

Angular 2 · ASP.NET Web API · C# · TypeScript

Coupon and voucher platform

Multi-tenant voucher system. Tenants design a branded widget, embed it in their own site, and sell vouchers through it. PCI compliant, integrated with European payment providers including PayUnity, Qenta, SaferPay and ConCardis.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · MS SQL Server · Knockout.js

Internet booking engine

Embeddable travel booking widget covering flights, hotels and packages. A separate offers service matches packages to search parameters and revalidates availability against live inventory before payment.

C# · ASP.NET MVC 4 · WCF · MS SQL Server · Entity Framework

Hotel room booking system

Room booking with resort, category and rate selection, per-room guest details and integrated card payment.

ASP.NET MVC · jQuery · MS SQL Server

Hotel chain iPhone app

Guest app for a hotel chain across the UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic: nearest-hotel lookup, room availability and rates, booking, and one-tap calling to a property.

Objective-C · Cocoa Touch · GPS

Hotel revenue forecasting

Forecasts revenue and occupancy a year ahead from prior-year data, weekday-aware. Supports manual override per date or bulk adjustment by period, weekday or segment, and keeps competing forecast versions side by side.

Flex 4.5 · ColdFusion · jQuery · MySQL

WealthScript

WealthCharts

The scripting language platform users write their own indicators and strategies in. Formulas compile server-side through an ANTLR grammar to Lua bytecode and execute in a WebAssembly Lua VM inside the charting library. 216 functions and 68 values, with the editor's completion and documentation generated from the compiler itself.

.NET · ANTLR · Lua · WebAssembly · TypeScript

White-label prop-trading platform

WealthCharts

Multi-tenant SaaS on which proprietary trading firms run their own branded business: evaluations, funded accounts, risk rules, payouts, affiliates and support. Each firm gets its own domain, branding and rule set off one codebase and one database under tenant isolation, with a stream-processing worker consuming live trading events to keep account risk and drawdown state current.

TypeScript · Express · TypeORM · React · WebSocket

WealthCharts broker integration layer

WealthCharts

One interface in front of seven live broker connections, each speaking its own protocol — binary protobuf over WebSocket, REST, proprietary SDKs. Capabilities are declared per broker, so a new one is brought online without touching the trading terminal. Handles subscription multiplexing, stream throttling and order-state reconciliation after a dropped connection.

Node.js · WebSocket · Protocol Buffers · REST

WealthCharts partner event stream

WealthCharts

Platform actions published to partner firms as message events over Redis streams — every firm served at once, each stream isolated so no firm sees another's activity.

Node.js · Redis Streams

WealthCharts trading competitions

WealthCharts

Tracks trader performance across defined competition periods and drives public real-time leaderboards.

Node.js · React · WebSocket · REST

Ultrade

DeFi trading platform on the Algorand blockchain: limit orderbook spot DEX, swaps and leveraged perpetuals.

Python · Algorand · Blockchain

CertifID

CertifID

Identity verification for people, banks and insurers, built to cut the rate at which transfers are sent to fraudulent accounts. Back office with document management, individual verification profiles, and a hard personal-data security boundary.

C# · ASP.NET Web API · React · TypeScript

TranxPay

Mobile banking app for local and cross-border transactions: exchange rates, payment processing, real-time tracking and reporting.

JavaScript · PostgreSQL

Snap Networks

Merchant analytics: sales channel and operations tracking, customer relationship management, and chargeback trend control.

ASP.NET · MySQL · WebForms · jQuery

Document management platform

docSTAR

Content management for regulated industries — manufacturing, legal, insurance, healthcare, government, real estate. Capture by scan or import, workflow engine, full-text search and retrieval. In use at 6,500+ organisations across North America and the UK.

C# · .NET 4.5 · ASP.NET MVC 4 · Silverlight 4 · WCF · MS SQL Server 2012 · Backbone.js

OCR and field recognition engines

Antera Software

The two recognition components of an enterprise content platform. Intelligent Field Recognition classifies and extracts structured data; the OCR engine indexes every TIFF and PDF for full-text search automatically. Mass verification handles thousands of documents in one pass.

C# · C++ · .NET · MongoDB · Neural networks · Fuzzy logic

Quality process tooling

Granduk

QPT-web, a networked document management system allowing several users on one document, and QPT-connect, a helpdesk for locating stored information.

C# · WinForms · MS SQL Server

Enterprise search and analysis SaaS

Sign-up SaaS for searching and analysing a company's own data sources: search with autocomplete and spell check, plus analysis portlets giving at-a-glance overviews of company performance. Desktop, tablet and phone.

ASP.NET MVC 4 · AngularJS · Highcharts · HTML5 · Bootstrap

Software proposal portal (SWPP)

Bidding software for development firms: project breakdown estimation, financial quote and deliverables in one editor, a CRM module, role management, and PDF/DOCX generation of the finished proposal.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · AngularJS · SignalR · MS SQL Server · Entity Framework

Furniture and interiors portal

Design catalogue where each photograph is tagged by the furniture in it, so a visitor can search by parameter and buy an item straight from the tag on the slide.

Backbone.js · Marionette.js · Node.js · Liferay · MySQL

Causal biology modelling platform

Modelling system for pharmaceutical R&D that analyses how an organism responds to a treatment, from genomic data. Model setup and algorithm selection, tabular and graph views, model joining, and results across three species.

Flex · Java EE · Spring · Hibernate · MySQL

Medical courseware portal

MedStudy

Board exam preparation for physicians: animated teaching materials, a shared database of non-trivial clinical cases, a graded testing system and a question forum. Supports 1,000+ concurrent users across desktop and mobile.

Flex/ActionScript · WebORB · .NET · MS SQL Server

Adaptibar

Exam preparation platform: question and answer practice, per-user analytics, customised course tracks and an administration panel.

C# · ASP.NET Web API · Angular 2 · TypeScript

Learning management system

Administration system for an oil and gas certification body: courses and instructors, learners, job titles in the org hierarchy, geographic areas, departments, classrooms and activity reporting.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · Telerik · MS SQL Server

English preposition games

Three teaching games. PrepTris drops sentences down the screen for the learner to pick prepositions out of; a conveyor belt scores timed gap-fills; flash cards turn to show usage examples.

C# · Silverlight 4 · WCF RIA Services · MS SQL Server

Tutoring organisation portal

Performance tracking for educators, mentors and athletic coaches, plus the timesheet application: submission by educators, approval by managers.

ColdFusion · Model-Glue · MS SQL Server

Spiky

Tablet game for early-years development — motor skills, reaction, decision making — using multi-touch for simultaneous throws and a speedometer control for direction.

iOS · Objective-C · Cocos2d · Box2d

Groovato

Practice tool for musicians. Import and crop sample tracks, set tempo and volume per track, publish a groove, then record over it and export the result as MP3.

C# · ASP.NET MVC 3 · Flex 4.5 · ActionScript 3 · MS SQL Server

CalibrateHCM retrieval platform

CalibrateHCM

Retrieves HR and payroll documents on an employer's behalf from vendor systems that expose no API for them, driving the vendor's own web interface under the employer's credentials. Where a portal has usable internal endpoints, the run switches to them after sign-in. Checks a human must complete are handed to an operator through a live view of the session rather than worked around.

Python · Django · AWS · AWS Transcribe · noVNC

CalibrateHCM integration platform

CalibrateHCM

Declarative integration builder: a client integration is assembled from reusable steps — SFTP, S3, API — instead of written as a separate program each time. Tenant isolation, role-based permissions, managed secrets and separate environments throughout, because the platform holds one client's payroll data and another's credentials at the same time.

Python · React · Redux Toolkit · AWS · S3 · SFTP

Engineering services ERP

ERP covering HR and time tracking, item master and technical documentation, inventory and supply chain, CRM, data services and access control — integrated with QuickBooks and SolidWorks.

SharePoint Foundation 2010 · ASP.NET Web Forms · WCF · DevExpress · NUnit

Metering management system

Motla Utilities

Meter and service installation audits, utility account analysis, rate definition and monthly reporting. Rate calculation is automatic, and every addition, change and deletion is recorded in an audit trail readable from the management reports.

ASP.NET MVC 4 · MS SQL Server · Entity Framework · Kendo UI

Car tuning chain automation

Business automation for an ECU tuning chain: CRM, order management, and a link to engine control units through a purpose-built device — embedded driver work alongside the application.

C# · C/C++ · WPF · WCF · MS SQL Server · Sync Framework

Field activity tracking

Android tablet app for field engineers: browse and claim jobs by location, then complete the right registration form on site, capture the customer's signature and submit it to the server.

Android SDK · Java · .NET web services · Google Maps API

Task management with geolocation

Managers create located work tasks; employees are pushed the assignment and accept or decline with a comment. Progress is tracked by status and position on the map.

ASP.NET MVC 4 · AngularJS · PhoneGap · MS SQL Server · Google Maps API

Warehouse management app

Cross-platform stock-taking app that works entirely offline against a local SQLite store and batch-synchronises to the central database when it reconnects.

PhoneGap · Silverlight · Android SDK · iOS SDK · SQLite

Construction materials ordering

Windows Phone ordering app for construction materials with deep filtering by property, offline working, and conflict resolution on synchronisation.

Silverlight for Windows Phone · Sync Framework · MS SQL Server

Vendor administration

Vendor records and requirements, purchase order creation and tracking, invoicing and administration.

C# · .NET · AngularJS · BreezeJS · SignalR · Entity Framework · Kendo UI

9Rounds franchise portal

Portal set for a fitness franchise chain: new franchise openings, trainer management, franchisee charging, third-party POS integration and per-store sites, across several interconnected applications.

PHP · Yii · TypeScript

Goalscape

Strategic goal management that draws goals as a circle rather than a tree, so priority and progress are visible as proportion.

Flex 3.5 · AIR 2 · PHP · MS SQL Server

GetScorecard

CRM web application: customer list and cards, sales activity tracking, pipeline and scheduling. Built over more than a year.

PHP · Yii · JavaScript · MySQL

Agency P&L tool

Internal profit and loss calculator: stage breakdown, per-item prices and costs, copy/paste/sort, role management and version control.

ColdFusion · Model-Glue · MS SQL Server

Conference management platform

Allen & Company

Full event and staff management: employee records, document management, hiring support, electronic signature with two-factor authentication, lodging, internal messaging and a live dashboard.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · AngularJS · Breeze · OData · MS SQL Server

Conference guest sites

Allen & Company

Guest data, scheduling, postage delivery and email notification, reused across successive annual conferences including Sun Valley 2016 and Arizona 2017.

C# · ASP.NET MVC · AngularJS · BreezeJS · SignalR · OData

Interview application

Allen & Company

iPad app for running candidate interviews and recording the hiring decision: candidate list with search, daily schedule, profiles, resolution workflow and tiered access by staff level.

iOS · Objective-C · BreezeJS · MS SQL Server

Worklynk

Internal recruiting portal for large employers: vacancy search and posting, job seeker profiles, application tracking through interview, and a social layer.

C# · ASP.NET Web API · AngularJS · TypeScript

Corporate events app

iPad application for running corporate events: attendee profiles, live status of every participant, event process steps and staff administration.

iOS · Objective-C

AT&T U-verse Online Playbook

Internal reference site for AT&T staff covering U-verse products, channel lineups and pricing.

ColdFusion · Model-Glue · MS SQL Server

Pledge drive automation

ACD Direct

Call centre software for charity pledge drives: call handling, donor record entry, the gift catalogue tied to donation levels, one-off and recurring payment models, and agent scripts editable per drive and per partner.

Flex/ActionScript · Mate · ColdFusion · MS SQL Server

Automated call distribution with CRM

ACD Direct

Caller queuing and distribution by the programme a caller is responding to, with the caller's CRM record surfaced in the agent's workspace as the call connects.

Flex/ActionScript · Mate · ColdFusion · MS SQL Server

Call centre reporting

ACD Direct

Report generation over event and pledge drive activity, parameterised by day, month, partner or drive, with an administrative interface for adding new report parameters.

Flex/ActionScript · Mate · ColdFusion · MS SQL Server

Pledge drive scheduler and gift selection

ACD Direct

Two companion systems: one standardises the schedules partners submit in a dozen different formats, the other lets partner organisations choose and order the donor thank-you gifts, with two levels of account access and reporting.

Flex/ActionScript · Mate · ColdFusion · MS SQL Server

Field donation app

ACD Direct

Offline app for door-to-door pledge drive staff on Kindle Fire, recording each visit, donation amount, frequency and comment.

Flex/ActionScript · Adobe AIR · ColdFusion · MS SQL Server

Online video sales platform

Pay-per-view and rental platform. Users buy or rent videos, upload their own for rental, and share free access to friends by coupon. Separate audience and critic ratings.

ASP.NET MVC 3 · HTML5 · Entity Framework · MS SQL Server · Telerik

Fuzd

Messenger and social platform with live chat translation, voice and video messages, and free calling. Past a hundred thousand downloads at the time of the legacy write-up.

PHP · Yii · PostgreSQL · Objective-C · Android

Vmail

Short voice messaging that reaches recipients who do not have the app — delivered by SMS or email — plus text, photos, map locations and Dropbox backup.

iOS SDK · Objective-C · Android SDK · Java · SQLite · PHP · MySQL

PatternAI

Cloud platform for training machines on everyday business problems: sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, discussion review, clip sharing and private messaging.

Python · AWS · Docker · Machine learning · SQL

Mobile social network

Interest-based social network: profiles, messaging, groups, chat, search and filtering.

iOS SDK · Objective-C · Android SDK · Java · PHP · MySQL

Zvooq for Tizen

Music streaming app built for Tizen: track lists, personal playlists, subscription, profiles and social sharing.

Tizen · AngularJS · Ionic · HTML5

Illustration gallery app

Mobile companion to an illustrators' agency site, presenting the represented artists and their portfolios.

iOS SDK · Objective-C · Core Data · PHP · WordPress

Race tracking app

For triathletes and endurance runners: searchable race database, countdowns, automatic personal records from past results, split and pace statistics, and result sharing.

Objective-C · Cocoa Touch

MageFight

Arcade game, built in-house.

Objective-C

Data centre management platform

Automation across a large estate of jointly managed data centres: health-state monitoring of physical and logical objects, bulk Active Directory changes, group policy and rights assignment, and remote PC access from any browser.

C# · ASP.NET · SCOM · Active Directory · Exchange · PowerShell · SharePoint · MS SQL Server

Cloud backup service

Five applications around a hosted backup product: the public site and package selection, a reseller portal for partners leasing storage on, an affiliate referral portal, database administration and reporting, and the desktop backup client.

ASP.NET MVC 3 · VB.NET · Entity Framework · MS SQL Server · jQuery

PCmover

Laplink

Migration utility moving programs, files and settings from an old PC to a new one, with selective user profiles and an undo that reverses the transfer.

C/C++ · Windows Forms · WMI

Browser-based remote PC access

Laplink

Remote access to a PC from any browser on any device: remote desktop, file explorer and forwarding, favourites, and access to Outlook mail, contacts, calendar and tasks.

C/C++ · Windows Forms · WMI

PutMe

Internal folder synchronisation across hundreds of networked machines, with a command-line client and a server that tracks file state and handles transfers over a gigabyte.

ASP.NET Web Services · C# · MS SQL Server

SilverRAD

Scaffolding framework that generates a working line-of-business application from an existing database and regenerates it as the schema changes, with role-based security, search forms, validation, printing and attachments built in.

C# · Silverlight 4 · WCF RIA Services · Entity Framework · Visual Studio SDK

Multiplayer game server

Custom server system carrying more than 1,000 simultaneous players, with the anti-abuse features a cash-prize platform needs, plus the arcade titles that run on it.

Flash · Flex/ActionScript · MS SQL Server