Wassily Kandinsky, Harmonie Tranquille, 1924

My Company

The company provides the services at customization of most popular applications like MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Access and others. It makes custom-fitted reports, forms, queries. The work is based on built-in languages such as VBA or other macro languages.

The profile of the company tells that there are a lot of small and tiny projects. So every project must be documented very well. And this means plenty of files, different files. To take care of all of those files we need a smart file management system (See Source Viewer).

In PC Magazine, May 27, 1997, Vol 16, NO 10, pp 93-94, in the article "The VBA Revolution : Quiet, Important" Jim Seymour wrote : "Over the past few years I've become intigued by the potential of many off-the-shell "shrinkware" products to be modified and extended into truly useful - and very different - tools. I'm conviced that this approach of using an existing, solid, off-the-shell product, which can be adapted and modified in many ways through built-in programming tools to produce a "new" custom application, is going to be a big part of our near-term future in business computing.

Starting a development project with a true, shrink-wrapped, off-the-shell product is a very different approach, with different economics and time lines, than traditional program development.

Microsoft has done a good job with Visual Basic on both the development and marketing sides. Visual Basic has become a lot more than the Common Man's Programming Language. It's a serious development environment now, and with VBA, Microsoft and its partners can deliver a complete development environment inside an app - offering a way of creating serious, customized applications without writing the truly hard stuff, and without resorting to an external toolkit.

...Ther's a lot of interest in this idea of extensible shrink-wrapped apps, especially among corporate developers who live with project deadlines that would terrify the rest of us. I don't envision people creating comemercial apps for resale with [a base application] and VBA, but I do see a lot of in-house development work migrating to this model.

However, keep in mind that not every programming job - in fact, not nearly a majority of programming jobs - are candidates for this kind of embedded VBA work. Many projects require far bigger and more complex program designs; they need the skills and tools available in, for example, the C++ world."

Rival companies or companies with interesting products

Rational Software Corporation

Pure Atria Corporation

IntraNet Solutions

Intra.doc Management System, a Web-based document management system targeted at small to midsize businesses. Going a step beyond the capabilities of standard Web servers, Intra.doc provides businesses with the tools to monitor and control the use of documents published on the Internet or on corporate Intranets, according to company officials.

The product allows users to control document revisions and to create a check-in and check-out procedure that tracks the availability of online documents and limits access.