In addition to providing IT consulting services to clients, we are also involved in broader activities around our own software product, Mi5. We've also partnered with Saw Software on the development of their Vision KPI dashboard product.

What is Mi5®

 Mi5 is a web-based Marketing Process Management Software solution that combines the critical elements of process control, project management, cross functional alignment, collaboration, knowledge management and reporting. Its designed to improve marketing return on investment, mitigate risk and improve operational effectiveness and efficiency. Wow, that's quite a mouthful! But in simple terms, if you have business processes that you need people to follow that involves:

1. Projects of varying types
2. A timeline of when things need to get done
3. Collaboration on documents or tasks that make up a project
4. Review and Approval
5. Management Reporting

then Mi5 can help you. Whilst traditionally directed at marketing focussed organisations in the FMCG industry, Mi5 can be used across various industries and applications. Multilingual support, including double byte characters, is enabled.

Mi5 is undergoing a significant change to its architecture to provide open interfaces to other systems and devices. We are also targeting the Microsoft Windows Azure platform a flexible cloud–computing platform that lets you focus on solving business problems and not computing hardware, software or licensing problems.

If you are interested in more information about Mi5 or partnering with us to deliver Mi5, please contact us for further information or visit the Mi5 Web Site.

What is Vision KPI Dashboard

Vision is an enterprise wide Operational Risk solution. Vision helps financial institutions with real time risk escalation, trend reporting and analysis, suspicious transaction alerting and compliance reporting. The web-based dashboard measures and monitors Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) by identifying trade violations and anomalies for Over the Counter trading environments.

The solution addresses many aspects from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision working paper, titled Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk. Vision utilises some of the latest Business Intelligence software from Microsoft. This includes SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services for online analytical processing (OLAP), Integration Services for loading data from multiple trading systems, and Reporting Services.

Pay as you go Licensing

Some of our solutions use Open Source software which may not incur licensing fees. However others are based on technology that requires licensing. We have signed a Microsoft Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) through Software Products Reseller, NewLease. This means we can offer our customers a "Pay as you go" Microsoft software licensing model, removing the need for up-front software fees. Don't have the required software licenses for Microsoft based solutions? We'll take care of the paperwork. Customers can add and subtract users as required on an affordable month by month basis.