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"Helping others to have a future assures our own."
About NVTech
We harness technology to improve productivity. To contact the CEO, Kevin Loughrey, write to CEO@NVTech.com.auWe believe Open Source Software is a key enabler to achieving highly effective software applications for businesses as well as being the means by which the social and economic wellbeing of developing countries may be accelerated. Using www.aPerfectPC.com as its testbed NVTech successfully experimented with using Open Source Software to support small businesses in the Southern Sydney Region. Over a period of 9 years around 35 servers running Debian Linux were installed. None of these ever suffered an operating system crash, nor were they ever the subject of unauthorised entry or victims of viruses or other forms of malware. The total cost of ownership of these Linux installations was many thousands of dollars a year cheaper than equivalent sites that were compelled by their Head Offices' IT Departments to run Windows Servers in the interests of commonality of systems.
Our philosophy is based upon the following premises: 1. The first priority of managment must be to provide the workforce with small, simple-to-use, mobile systems; the role of which is to assist people better complete frequently performed, often time-consuming, worktasks. Because such systems benefit the users, the data captured will be accurate and complete. It is then a simple matter to "siphon" off this data, "in-background" for use in management decision making systems; largely consisting of report generating software connected to a "dumb" SQL database. 2. To support this approach, a distributed database topology is not only feasible, it is the only sensible solution; the operational workplace-located database being the "authoritative" version. 3. Centralisation of data dramatically increases the expense of operations and causes systems to be vulnerable to failure, deliberate damage and data theft.
We have developed an input form standard CAFE that not only significantly reduces user training but also reduces the clerical labour associated with data input. Using this form standard allows the engagement of the widest possible cross-section of contractors and thereby provides the broadest base of intellect focussed on process improvement.
In collaboration with Keyworks (Adelaide, Australia - www.keyworks.com.au ) and Matrics Ltd (UK) (www.matrics.com.uk ), and with the financial backing of Wran Partners, Sydney, we have conceived and developed the world's most advanced 2D Barcode system; specifically suited for demanding environments, such as the military. This technology is now being commercialised by dPId Pty Ltd (Sydney, Australia - www.dPId.biz )