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Small Systems for Business Specialising in providing user friendly MS Access systems for small businesses and organisations at very reasonable prices.

How It All Works           We usually start with a specification of your requirements. In an ideal world this would give us enough information to be able to quote you for the work but in practice we usually need to visit you, both to clarify what it is that you want and to let you meet us so you can be reassured that we are competent, capable and reliable. We then issue a fixed price quotation. This will define what it is that we will develop for you, what technical environment we expect to be developing for, what the costs and timescales will be etc. Once you have accepted the quote we will usually have a further discussion with you following which we will produce an initial system design. We then walk through this with you to ensure that we have correctly understood the relationships between all of the different data entities and also that we agree on the way the system will function. The next delivery will be a preliminary version. This will not be fully functional but will include a basic framework allowing you to fire up your application and to start seeing what it will look like. This will be followed by regular updates, each filling out more and more of the application. This iterative approach, which is a variant of the DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method) methodology has many advantages. It lets you see the application as it is developing, allows you to influence the design, enables us to correct any misunderstandings at an early stage, lets you check that we are keeping to the agreed timescale. Ultimately it ensures that the application that we deliver to you is the same or better than the one you were originally expecting! We then deliver to you the feature complete version after which you undertake your final acceptance testing before the application 'goes live' (i.e. starts to be used for real work). Inevitably some teething issues may occur in the first few weeks - which is why we include free support for the first month!