Is your business software ‘only just good enough’?
Are you using spreadsheets or clunky on-line systems that don’t exactly do what you need? Are you trying to tie together systems where you need to manually copy and paste from one to the other?
We provide software services to businesses of all sizes, from bespoke applications, contract programming inside or outside IR35, to fixing, updating and supporting current or outdated business-critical software and systems; offering support for current systems or helping to migrate to a newer system.
About Us
We’ve been providing affordable system support, programming and bespoke databases for businesses for many years: especially for smaller and medium-sized businesses who thought that custom systems would be too expensive for them and too complex for them to understand. The next time you are stuck with your paper system, or with that ‘one-size-fits-all’ spreadsheet that doesn’t quite do what you want, give us a call or drop us a line for advice.
Our customers have included:—
- Food Producers,On-line retailers
- Dentists, Opticians and other high-street businesses
- Universities
- GxP Regulated Industries
- Clinical Trial Sponsors, GLP Test Facility Operators, CRO Management
- Niche Service Providers, ISPs
- Industry Professional Associations
- Software and Hardware Developers
- Games Modders, Developers and players
You can reach us in various ways ways: the initial consultation is free, so what have you got to lose?
Products & Services
Need to turn an AI prototype into a product?
AI makes it possible for non-programmers to map out what they want, what they want it to look and to produce something useful and working, but there's a great deal of difference between a program and a stable, regulatory-compliant, secure and maintainable product. We can examine your program and help you turn that into a fully-fledged system.
Stability
Our systems have operated successfully and without stoppage for years. For example:—
- Production management system (1989 to present)
- Flight booking system (10 years)
- SOP Management system (SOPWatch: 20 years: 3 versions)
Ease of Use
Our systems usually work through a web-browser allowing access across all operating systems (one of our customers has a mixed system with Windows, Apple and Linux system along with Android tablets) but we can produce desktop programs where required.
Predictable Costs
For small and medium-sized systems, we don't charge per-user fees, so you can add and remove users as you require without additional costs (particularly important for businesses with seasonal peaks and troughs).
Flexibility
We can modify your existing applications — many of our customers have their own applications which they are entirely happy with but require modernisation or additional capabilities to be added. We’ve previously added web-based access, audit trails, 21CFR11 compliance to exisiting systems, added GLP Validation and design of a linear regression (Excel) spreadsheet, provided PDF reports from log-file analysis, etc.
It's Your Data...
Along with being robust, our products are designed to be open, so that you continue to own the data and can access from and extract it for use in other systems, should you need to.
…And Optionally Your Code Too!
We can also supply the source-code for your product, giving you the ability to modify it yourselves.
Scope
We work across many industries: we've previously designed and built applications for flight-scheduling, seat and boarding-pass allocation; multi-user GLP Master Schedule management; business management for a speciality food provider (prediction, stock control, deliveries, customer management); professional-society membership database; multi-user document management system, on-line support databases…
Contact Information
it@file-away.co.uk
Telephone
+44 (0) 7732 771 649
+44 (0) 1828 898 158
Registered Address
File-Away Limited 30 Church Street Newtyle Perthshire PH12 8TZ SCOTLAND
Registration Number
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC222086
VAT Registration
Number: 790 2793 04
GDPR Registration
ICO: ZA516534
QA Contact (HunterBirnie)
email: jvb@hunterbirnie.com
HunterBirnie is a trading name of File-Away Limited
Website (HunterBirnie)
Telephone (HunterBirnie)
+44 (0) 7720 446 015
Bits & Bobs
Articles, Posts and Odd Items
Excel-based Spreadsheet Validation (original)
A somewhat old article on validating spreadsheets (also applies to LibreOffice) and some problems with validation. Includes the example spreadsheet from a BARQA (now RQA) presentation.