Microsoft Office Customisation

Unleash the power in your existing software!

Weather you use your Office Investment a little or a lot, an extra investment in ‘Forms’, ‘Reports’ or just ‘automating’ work can help to increase productivity by freeing you and your staff from tedious, but necessary jobs so that you can spend more time on the activities that make your business profitable.

• Data entry can be made faster by the use of ‘user friendly’ intuitive forms.

• Regular reports or Graphs can be automated.

• Did you ever wish you could take the good parts of Excel and Combine them with Access or Word?

• Unleash the customer database that you have in your Outlook ‘Contacts’

• Did you know that ‘too successfully restore Outlook’ 3 separate items need to be backed up?

Historical Data Capture

From paper plans, legacy software systems, old Tapes, disks, reports.

Levels of validation and verification can be designed for your projects needs or legal requirements.

Data can be provided in any digital format, database, Excel, AutoCAD, MapInfo etc

using data entry, scanning, digitising technologies depending on data and data format.

Data Modelling / Software Design / Analysis and design / Useability Analysis

Full analysis and design with interview, data gathering, questionnaires, video, still photography Joint application Development.

Preparation of Geological models / GIS / Archaeological Data

using Gemcom, MapInfo or AutoCad software.

Custom Application Development

using Visual Basic, VB.NET, Python, C++ or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or Microsoft access.

Data validation and verification

It is a sad case, that many organisations assume that once data is in the 'computer' it stays in a state of perpetual correctness forever. However, very rarely is there good validation and verification when data is entered, nor is data checked or corrected. Data that is not secured decays over time from inadvertent error. The type of error staff accidentally make, while they are doodling on the phone or drinking coffee. This is different from malicious and wilful damage to data. The rate of change for error is directly proportional to the activity a data set experiences and the length of time since it was originally entered. (even id originally correct)

Some organisations now must ensure on a regular basis that their data is true and correct and that a suitably qualified person signs of that this is so. For example the Mining and Exploration industry in Canada must now ensure compliance with the National Instrument 43-101

Skandus can;

• design a manual data validation and verification program with certified signoff on a data set
• design initiatives to ensure data is entered correctly
• review existing software, protocols and practise to ensure data is correct from data entry and is secured after entry and validation / verification has taken place.