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How long have we been in business ?
GPP Software was formed in the UK in 1983 when we released our first products called 'MicroAid' and 'LayoutControl'.
How can I check on your company ?
The Australian Government Department of Fair Trading maintains a register of all businesses in Australia. Any customer can call them to find out or make a complaint about any business. Your can search for our Australian Registered Business Name (ARBN) which is: NSW BN97944406.
We are registered with the Australian Taxation Office. Our Australian Business Number (ABN): 15 659 826 686
We are also a proud member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). All members of the ASP must comply with a code of conduct and a set of standards to ensure a high standard of professionalism and business ethics. The ASP also provides arbitration in the case of disagreement in the purchase of shareware products from members.
What is your company and product history ?
| 1983 | Release of 'MicroAid' developer tools and 'LayoutControl' model railway control software. LayoutControl incorporated full turnout, signalling and interlocking support as per prototypical UK interlocks of the time and also enabled multiple workstations via simple networking protocols |
| 1989 | LayoutControl migrated to Microsoft Windows |
| 1992 | Release of 'HelpBuilder', a tool for authoring Windows Help files |
| 1993 | Release of 'Setup Builder' software installer and 'Library Manager' source code version control system |
| 1995 | Formation of GPP Software development and consulting services in Australia |
| 1995 | Release of 'SpellChecker', an addon for HelpBuilder and a separate library for developers to build into their own applications |
| 1997 | LLLIB Licensing Library released. This is a toolkit which allows developers to build licensing control into their software.
'LayoutControl' upgraded and renamed as 'SSI Model Railway Control System' |
| 1998 | Release of the BR Steam photo CD collection |
| 1999 | Release of our 'Contact Management System' software which can be used by anyone involved in a sales team and managing a client database |
| 2000 | 'Check 2000' released. This product provided developers with a utility for analysing program source code for potential year 2000 date compliance problems. In April 1998 this product was renamed to 'SourceCheck 2000' and included the 'SourceScan' program for analysing Visual Basic applications. |
| 2002 | 'Contact Management System' re-written in C++ and utilising ODBC so that it can run with Access and SQL Server databases. In the process of the re-write, we made CMS a completely tailorable product such that the developer can reconfigure all tables, indexes, menus, screens, lists, reports etc by using the CMS Utilties add-on.
CMS has now become a comprehensive database application development environment aimed at the SME end of the market and can be used to develop any inventory, customer/contact/relationship, call centre or personal database application required.
Released a further add-on to our 'CMS' suite of applications: CMS Scheduler. This is an automated task scheduler, ideal for operations departments who want to schedule jobs such as file transfers, copies etc |
| 2004 | Released our 'SiteNet' website hosting system which enables customers to build websites within our hosting environment. This enables their sites to contain advanced functionality such as shopping carts and search engines as standard. |
| 2006 | Released Version 2 of our 'Presentation Manager' software, a product to replace Microsoft PowerPoint in presentation and performance spaces such as conferences, businesses and church services. |
GPP Software has built a reputation for solid reliable products based on the continual enhancement of our products to meet our client needs.
Our approach is to develop software which is simple (our development staff have been fully trained in modern software design and development technologies and methodologies), easy to use (our development staff have all been fully trained in user interface design) and works without any need for complicated installation and configuration (keep it simple). This provides the most cost effective solutions and significantly reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) for our clients while maximising our customer's return on investment (ROI).
Our Clients
GPP Software has sold its products to many well known major corporates worldwide including:
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AIRBUS INDUSTRIE
American Airlines
Arthur Andersen - OGS
Arun District Council
Atlantic Container Line
Bank of Montreal
Bell Helicopter Textron
BP Oil Deutschland GmbH
British Steel PLC
Burmah Castrol
Canada Life
City of Renton
Compaq Asia Pte Ltd
Compaq Computers Ltd
DataCard Canada Inc.
DataSmith Systems
Queensland Department of Main Roads
Dept of Energy
Dun & Bradstreet S.A.
Fairfax County Office of Finance, USA
Fujitsu Australia
Hewlett-Packard Company
IBM
Idaho State Library
Intel Corporation
Kent County Council, UK
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Kuwait Investment Office
Lanier Worldwide Inc
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Las Vegas Convention/Visitors Authority
Logica Uk Limited
London Borough of Bromley
MBF
Panasonic MCI/CSD
Pitney Bowes
Puffin Software Inc
Queensland Transport
Regional Railways (UK)
Reuter Nederland BV
Reuters
Sinclair Knight Merz
Snyder Oil Corp.
Sony BPE
Sprint/United Telephone
St Mary Regional H.S.
Stadt Mönchengladbach, Germany
Surrey Metro Savings
TAFE NSW, Australia
Telmaco Ltd
Texas State Auditor's Office
The University of Nottingham, UK
Transport Canada
Trinity College, Dublin
UK Nirex Limited
United Parcel Service Inc
UNRWA
VODAC Ltd.
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Our Development
Our development is performed using Microsoft Developer Studio .NET, Visual Basic version 5.0 and 6.0. We develop for all 32-bit Microsoft Windows platforms except CE. Web development is done using ASP and C# .NET
Our Quality Procedures
All GPP Software products are developed according to our quality procedures. Our developments all pass through a project life-cycle where requirements, specifications and designs are documented. All programming is performed using common libraries and standards which ensure that simple, yet reliable code is written. We use GUI design procedures designed by IBM, standard algorithms, standard coding methods and we use code naming conventions. All software is fully tested on a number of different machines and is virus-checked using the Symantec Anti-Virus product before release. Our programmers are professionally qualified with degrees in computer science and software development and are fully trained in formal management, design and development methods.
For any further information on any of our products or our software development and consultancy services, please contact GPP Software.
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