Custom Software Development

Services Overview

Poplar ProductivityWare develops specialized software applications, concentrating on analytical and modeling software and applications that run on Palm-powered hand-helds. We can optimize, debug, and add features to your existing application, or start from scratch to design a completely new program. Poplar ProductivityWare develops applications using C/C++, Java, Perl, prc-tools/PilRC, DLLs for Excel, VBA, and S-Plus, on Unix/Linux/Cygwin, Microsoft Windows, and Palm OS. We also do web programming and web databases.

Palm OS Applications

Hire Poplar ProductivityWare to create a mobile text-based or graphical application for:

• In-the-field data gathering
• Viewing information in remote sites
• On-site verification, analysis, and receipts
• Education

Whatever your needs, the application we create will conform to Palm standards and be optimized to work well within the size, memory, and other constraints of a hand-held device.

View a list of our previous Palm OS projects below, or contact us today to get started!

Other Custom Software

Hire Poplar ProductivityWare to:

• Implement the models your company has developed as software, so that you can fully explore their implications under various input scenarios.
• Analyze your data, or automate your data analysis procedures in software.
• Add modules or DLLs to an existing software tool, such as S-PLUS or Excel, for added functionality.
• Create a custom stand-alone application.

View a list of our recent projects in this area below, or contact us today to get started!

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Recent Projects

Palm OS Applications

• Re-developed and improved a Palm OS application for use by drivers of newspaper delivery trucks. The application downloads daily delivery list from a server, records adjustments and previous-issue returns, and uploads the completion, adjustment, and return information to the server at the end of the day (C, prc-tools, TCP/IP, XML).
• Added features, improved flexibility through better database usage, and improved usability of an existing Palm OS application, which allows employees of a weekly cars-for-sale magazine to note features of the cars they are photographing for the magazine (C, prc-tools).
• Our free downloads and articles contain additional examples of software we have written for Palm OS and other platforms.

Other Custom Software

• Reviewed documentation for a Java-based software development kit, and verified its completeness by developing four sample communications-related applications (Java/Servlet/UDP).
• Created software that measures regulatory compliance for a telephone company, including non-compliance penalties, and collects the results into reports (S-Plus/Excel/VBA).
• Developed software that calculates the optimal times to turn generating plants on and off, for an electric utility (Excel/VBA/C/DLL).
• Added to the time-series analysis capabilities of an existing statistical software package (S-Plus/C).
• Created project budget tracking reports for an architecture firm, which combine payroll and direct cost information from the firm's accounting software with project completion status information from the project managers (PeachTree/Access/Excel/VBA).
• Developed a commission-tracking report for a real estate company, which reads information from multiple commission spreadsheets, and calculates office and agent statistics (Excel/VBA).
• Created a software application to calculate buy/sell signals for a complicated stock option trading system (Visual Basic).
• Investigated and reduced speed bottlenecks in financial report generation software (Java/JSP/EJB).
• Our free downloads and articles contain additional examples of software we have written using various platforms and languages.

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