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Sheffield software development company SkillsLogic and Musgrave Analytics are to develop ground-breaking new software that from September 2015 will be used to collect workforce information from the Further Education sector.

It can make sense to build a bespoke software solution. If you’re looking for an online solution that goes across different departments, or you’ve got some unique business requirements or you want capture data from large numbers of external users then you might find that a bespoke web application is more cost effective than an off-the-shelf system. Here are 5 things to consider:

Some of my recent consultancy work has got me thinking about the important things that clients need to do when they start to work with a software development company. The advice below is largely common sense but I think that for the non-technical client in particular, the process of commissioning and implementing complex bespoke software is challenging and it is often easy to overlook the obvious.

Audit Trail Technologies’ groundbreaking new online auditing system has been designed and developed by SkillsLogic.

Audittec.com will make it easier for organisations to meet the requirements of audit compliance and at the same time save money. Audit data is captured with a tablet app and then synchronised with a cloud based database. The data is accurate, it’s timestamped and it can be supported with notes and photographs. Non-compliance issues are automatically escalated and the system tracks issues that still need to be closed out. The savings on paper and printing costs alone can be significant.

SkillsLogic has developed the Saffron Allergen web portal for Sheffield based catering management solution provider Fretwell-Downing Hospitality.

During the last 10 months I’ve been lucky enough to work with 37 different SMEs across the city as part of Sheffield’s Digital Direction programme. They’d all applied for IT support from the programme and my role was go out and meet with them and do some initial IT consultancy to establish their exact IT requirements.

SkillsLogic and Musgrave Analytics have designed and developed the NHS Providers new web based data collection and analysis system. This new web based system makes it easier for NHS Providers to catalog, analyse and then report on the data they collect from their members.

Our Sheffield software development team is busy with new work and we're now recruiting again.

We have a vacancy for a PHP web application developer.

We're looking for good analyst developers who have strong PHP skills - our ideal candidate is someone who's comfortable working directly with clients and who's got a track record of web application development with PHP & MySql or PostgreSQL.

Please get in touch if you're interested. We're easy to find in the centre of town and we're always happy to meet people informally for a chat about what we do and the kinds of roles we have available.

In the past I’ve always planned software development projects with Microsoft Project - but only for producing nice Gantt charts to show tasks and the dependencies between them and never really for resource planning (I always found it over complicated).

If you got a nasty tummy bug back in the Spring then there is a pretty good chance that it was caused by a bacteria called Campylobacter. In 2010 there were more than 700,000 cases in the UK and it costs the UK more than £600m a year - that's more than Salmonella, Listeria and E.Coli combined. Campylobacter kills around 200 people a year.