Torq Software

Automate Processes

The largest cost in most modern businesses typically are labour costs. Hence it makes sense to automate as much of your internal workflows as practical. Off the shelf software that performs this automation task is ideal, but often there simply isn't an existing software product that meets your automation needs. We can develop software for your business which automates workflows that haven't yet been automated.

A typical scenario is the use of standard Office products such as Word, Excel, Outlook ...

Stop Doing Busy Work

There's nothing worse as a Business Owner or Manager than seeing Staff working hard but working on tasks that don't really achieve anything positive for the business. Its work that needs to be done but is repetitive and ideally should be automated. It slows your team down and stops them from working on tasks that provide direct value to you and your customers.

Stop doing this busy work by automating it. If you can't automate it using off the shelf software, an option is to get software developed ...

Differentiating Your Business

Differentiate your business by developing software systems designed specifically for your scenarios. You can highlight these advances to your Clients as a differentiating factor. It shows that you're ahead of the pack and have well performing internal systems to meet your Client's needs. We achieved this very thing with Insight Mercantile in the Debt Collection Industry.

Insight were using a Microsoft Access based debt collection based management system. It was based on older technology and was hav...

Controlling Payroll Costs While Growing

When an opportunity to grow comes your way, there is often a need to greatly increase your staff numbers. This brings a whole series of challenges including finding the right people quickly, training them up and keeping the good ones over the long term. Massive growth in staff numbers can easily hide gross inefficiencies. You can get into a money pit situation where the staff costs effectively de-rail the opportunities to grow. An excellent alternative is to keep the staff growth at a rate that yo...

Tailored Reports and Displays

Reports tailored to your specific business needs can make a huge difference in seeing how your business is really working and then acting on that information. We can develop reports or program displays that may not be able to produced be in your existing software systems or are a combination of information from multiple software systems. This can provide you with concise and understandable information that is needed to run your business on a day to day basis.

An example of a report tailored to th...

Automated Client Interaction

Except for areas where a personal touch is beneficial, automating interaction with your Clients is a win for everyone. It reduces your handling costs, improves the consistency of services supplied and makes it easier for your Client to do business. This translates to making it easier for your Clients to purchase goods and services from you. An example of this is the orders/instructions import facility of the Iris Debt Collection System .

It allows the user to simply drag an email attachment into th...

Integrate with Clients and Suppliers

Integrating your business workflows with both your Suppliers and your Clients provides advantages to all parties in the supply chain. It promotes the quicker and more efficient delivery of products and services. Often this integration can be achieved using off the shelf products plus some integration. When off the shelf products can't go the last mile, we can develop software that ties it all together in a neat efficient combination.

We have implemented systems that use a combination of Windows p...

Creating Long Term Repeat Customers

You can create long term repeat customers by developing internal systems that dovetail with your key customers. This is challenging and often can not be achieved using off the shelf software. We can develop software that integrate your business systems with your customers. A well performing integrated set of systems is a strong reason for your customers to do more business with you. Read more...

Saving Your Client's Time

Structuring your systems so that it saves your Client's time makes it easier for them to do business with you. Making it easier to buy and easier to work with you is a way of not having to compete on price alone. We can develop software so that it is easy for your client to purchase and then easy to follow up on the status of service or product delivery.

Finding Your Niche

Regardless of the business you're in, a means of competing against the "big guys" is to find a niche in the market and concentrate all of your efforts on the niche rather than trying to please a broader population of potential customers. The market size may be smaller but there is less of a need to compete on price. Finding your niche allows you to produce a product or supply a service that customers are willing to pay more as it serves their specific needs. We can help you carve out that niche ... Read more...

Leverage Your Industry Experience

After you have been in an industry for many years, the hard earned experience affords you a perspective and a deeper understanding of that industry which is a valuable commodity. One approach to leveraging this experience to work as a Consultant, which can be lucrative but still ties your income to the number of hours you work. Another approach is to build a product or service out of your hard won industry experience. We can help by developing software to support these products and services. Read more...

R&D Tax Concessions

The Australian Governments offers Research & Development Tax Concessions as an ongoing scheme designed to increase the level of research & development being conducted by Australian companies. If you're paying too much tax and want to invest in the future of your business, consider working with us to develop new software to improve the effectiveness of your existing business. Alternatively you may have an idea for a software product or product supported by software. Contact us to discuss the possibil... Read more...

Selling Software and Services

Selling low volume software products is not always a good business model unless you can charge particularly high prices. This can be a problem because software development is an expensive process. An alternative business model is where the software product sales are treated purely as an introduction to ancillary services. So if you have a services business and need some differentiation from your competitors, consider developing software product for your Clients which acts as a lead on to sell your... Read more...

Growth Through Technology

Are you looking to grow your business, but your existing workflow systems are too limiting? One of the first steps is to identify whether there are off the shelf software packages that remove those limitations. If the needs of your business are too specific for off the shelf software, have a look at the option of getting software developed specifically for your needs. This latter option is where have helped businesses expand through new technology.

One of our Clients attempted to expand from thei...

Integration with Accounting Systems

The Accounting Software is often one of the key components of a modern business. It records and presents the financial information of a business. In the majority of cases, the Accounting Software used is a general piece of software that is not tailored for use in your type of business, let alone your particular business. We can integrate multiple systems in your organization so that information flows automatically between these systems with manual labour involved.

We've worked with Intuit's QuickBo...

Partnering with Businesses

A strategy of Torq Software is to enter into long term partnerships with businesses to develop and maintain software products. The partner business provides the business domain expertise while we provide the software development expertise. Our strategic partners get lower software development rates and a long term commitment to the software products. We can then leverage software development resources across a number of business partners in differing business areas.

This approach has been taken w...

Taking a Product Approach on Projects

We are all about developing and maintaining software products at Torq Software. This means we plan and work for the long term and don't act like a body shop that disappear as soon as the initial development work has been completed. We take this same approach when working on any software development project. Our design and thought processes include allowances for both short term goals and the reality of maintaining software for the long term. So if you have a need to augment your software develop... Read more...

Rescuing Your Project

Large Software projects have a long dismal history of failures and many developers have experienced a "death march" project or two during their careers. We have had experience pulling software projects out of the fire and getting them back on track. Its a very difficult proposition and can be politically tough to achieve, but it can be done. We can bring a fresh perspective to your problem project tinged with an understanding that expectations of what developers can practically achieve can easily b... Read more...

Torq Framework

The Torq Framework is a set of .NET libraries and a base architecture that is designed to be re-used across a number of business software scenarios. Torq Software uses the framework as the basis for building new software products without having to repeat software development actions across multiple projects. It is currently being used as the basis for products in the MacroView Industrial Automation and the Iris Debt Collection software product sets. The bottom line is that the framework helps us build...

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