SOS has contacts we can call upon for expert advice in areas that are not our specialism,
and we can often recommend freelancers from within the group if we are unable to meet
a client's needs ourselves.
The Better Payment Practice Group exists to promote good commercial payment practice.
Supporting and advising businesses on appropriate payment terms, and on debt management and
recovery, members of the group have to abide by the group's guidelines on supplier payment
policies and practice.
and their carers and relatives, and raises funds toward
research into the condition. SOS make regular contributions to support their work.
what we do
We provide services to a wide cross-section of small and medium-sized enterprises across the world. The internet means we can work with clients in other continents as easily as we can with those in the next town, and time and again customers who were initially wary of remote working and support have found that the arrangement provides ideal flexibility for both parties. Our clients often find that requirements that were specified at the end of one business day are ready for testing at the start of the next!
Our assignments typically fall into one or more of the following areas (quite often there is a degree of overlap between them)
- Web-delivered applications - internet, intranet or extranet - running on IIS compatible web servers. Although we have strong DHTML, Javascript and CSS skiils, our expertise is around the functional aspects rather than in graphic design. We can however recommend some outstanding web designers that we regularly work with, who can take either an existing corporate image and implement it over a web interface, or work with you from scratch to develop a unique presence for your company or product.
- Desktop-based standalone applications written in Visual Basic, with or without a user interface, and often utilising a back-end database (SQL Server, MySQL, Access, or just about any other SQL-based relational database)
- Microsoft Office-based solutions, built using Visual Basic for Applications, templates, add-ins and other appropriate features of the Office suite.
We can either design and develop solutions from scratch, make enhancements to existing applications, or undertake complete re-writes or conversions. For some examples of the type of work we do, please see our client list.